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Facebook is selling its 3D virtual reality sculpting tool Oculus Medium to software giant Adobe.   The social media giant bought tech and VR firm Oculus for $2billion in 2014 and launched Medium two years later.  Oculus Medium operated separately from Facebook, which pumped large amounts of funding into the app that allows users to sculpt, model and paint in an immersive environment. The app, used to create films and video games, works exclusively on the PC-based Oculus Rift headset.  Terms of the sale have not been disclosed, but both Medium and Adobe expressed excitement over the deal. Facebook is selling its 3D virtual reality sculpting tool Oculus Medium to software giant Adobe 'Adobe is one of the world's leading creation software companies, and they’re committed to providing best-in-class 3D and immersive tools for artists, including Adobe Dimension and the Substance tools suite,' Medium said in a blog post announcing the sale on Friday.   … [Read more...] about Facebook sells 3D virtual reality software Oculus Medium that allows game and filmmakers to model and paint in an immersive environment to Adobe

THE WHOLE history of fiction shows that alternative realities are an attractive and profitable idea. So back in the 1990s, when electronics had arrived at a point where people could build headsets that blocked off actual reality and replaced it with a virtual version created inside a computer, it looked as if something world-changing might have arrived. Games companies were particularly excited, and Nintendo, Sega and Virtuality duly piled in. The world, however, stubbornly refused to be changed. It might have put up with the low-resolution images, the choppy scene transitions and the poor controls, for these would surely have got better. It might also have put up with the price (the headsets in question could cost up to $70,000), for that would surely have come down. It could not, though, accommodate the dizziness, nausea, eye strain, vomiting, headaches, sweating and disorientation that many of the technology’s users (more than 60%, according to one study) complained of—a … [Read more...] about Virtual reality continues to make people sick

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Advertisement The term “virtual” has been co-opted in so many ways that it’s now more vague and confusing than ever before. Virtual reality. Virtual RAM. Virtual schools. The virtual keyword in programming languages. But the most unclear? Virtualization in the context of PCs.Virtualization (AKA the use of virtual machines What Is a Virtual Machine? Everything You Need to Know What Is a Virtual Machine? Everything You Need to Know Virtual machines allow you to run other operating systems on your current computer. Here's what you should know about them. Read More ) is when you take one set of physical resources, like CPU and RAM and hard drive space, and allocate them into discrete chunks that are each seen as separate systems. But they aren’t “real” systems. One computer could be divided into many “virtual” systems.The easiest way to do this is to use the free VirtualBox software. But the biggest question is… why? … [Read more...] about 7 Practical Reasons to Start Using a Virtual Machine

Strictly's newest judge Motsi Mabuse has revealed she understands the Strictly curse - after she broke off her 11-year marriage to be with her 'best friend' and dancing partner in 2014. The former Ballroom and Latina dancer, 38, married her first love Timo Kulczak, 42, when she was just 22 years old. But 11 years later the couple called it quits when Motsi realised she wanted to be with her dance partner Evgenij Voznyvk, 36, who she wed in 2017, as she told The Sun: 'Three years later whoosh! And then I was married'. 'Whoosh! And then I was married!': Strictly Come Dancing's Motsi Mabuse revealed she understands the Strictly curse - after she fell in love with her dance partner South African-born Motsi and Evgenij, who is Ukranian, won German Latin American title in 2013, before retiring after a final Rumba on Germany's version of Strictly. She said: 'We stopped and it was then that we realised that we wanted to do more than just dance together.' RELATED ARTICLES … [Read more...] about ‘If you work in this sort of world, adult things happen!’ Judge Motsi Mabuse, 38, admits she ‘understands’ Strictly Curse… after breaking off her 11-year marriage to wed her pro partner