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Oculus Touch controller bundle for Oculus Rift will be available on December 6 for $199; pre-orders open on October 10 — The Oculus Touch will be available for the Rift on December 6th for $199, the company announced today. Oculus's Input API works with three different devices … | Roberto Baldwin / Engadget: |
For room-scale VR tracking, you'll need to add a third sensor to Oculus Touch for $79 — At Oculus Connect 3, the VR company announced room-scale support for its upcoming Touch controllers. To enable the feature users will need a third sensor in the room for an additional $79.
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New Oculus firmware bolsters frame rates, enables VR on lower-spec PCs and laptops; $499 Rift-ready Cyberpower machine announced — Engineering advances allow for high-end VR with a $500 PC — Brendan Iribe, the CEO of Oculus, announced today the the company's VR system will now be compatible with much cheaper, less powerful PCs.
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Report: Snap Inc., formerly Snapchat, is planning an IPO for March 2017 that could value the company at $25B+ — The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Snap — the now-parent company of Snapchat — is working on an initial public offering for as early as March that could value the company at $25 billion or higher.
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Verizon reportedly pushing for $1B price cut on pending $4.8B Yahoo deal after recent report of 2014 hack — Verizon may not have bailed out of its deal to purchase Yahoo for $4.8 billion, but amid a growing case of bad news at the search engine company, the telecommunications giant …
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FCC to vote Oct. 27 on broadband privacy rules, requiring users to opt in on sharing sensitive data like location, children's information, and browsing history — Pay-for-privacy plans won't be banned, but ISPs face new opt-in requirements. — The Federal Communications Commission plans …
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LG's V20 flagship phone available in US on October 28 for $830 on AT&T; preorders start October 7 — Following an announcement from T-Mobile earlier today, AT&T has now confirmed that preorders for LG's new V20 flagship smartphone will kick off tomorrow Oct. 7 ahead of a launch on Oct. 28.| Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
Sources: Facebook in talks with US government and wireless carriers to launch Free Basics-like service in the US, for low-income and rural Americans — Facebook has been in talks for months with U.S. government officials and wireless carriers with an eye toward unveiling an American version …
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US Consumer Product Safety Commission opens investigation into Galaxy Note7 that forced evacuation of flight — Federal regulators are moving quickly to investigate the replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 that caught fire on a Southwest Airlines flight today, with the US Consumer Product Safety Commission …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey was absent from the Connect 3 keynote, as other top executives appeared on stage — Oculus co-founder and Trump troll financier Palmer Luckey was conspicuously missing from the keynote stage at today's Oculus Connect 3 conference in San Jose, CA.
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Sources: Apple to move services teams, including Maps, Siri and iCloud, from separate campuses to One Infinite Loop in attempt to improve services — Cue to move cloud service engineering teams to single campus — Company continues shifting services to its own infrastructure
| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Sources: BitTorrent fires its co-CEOs and an unknown number of staffers, is closing its Los Angeles production studio and Now streaming service — BitTorrent has fired its two co-CEOs Robert Delamar and Jeremy Johnson and laid of an unknown number of staffers, Variety has learned from multiple sources.
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