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Startups will play important role to help India be 3rd largest economy: CEA
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Startups will play important role to help India be 3rd largest economy: CEA

Startups will play an important role in helping India become the third largest economy in the world, Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) to the Union government V Anantha Nageswaran has said. Nageswaran said that tier-2 and 3 cities, including Kerala's capital, have become game-changers in helping startups flourish in the country due to improvements in infrastructure and supportive policies of the government, according to a KSUM release. The CEA, during his Leadership Talk on the concluding day of the Huddle Global 2023 organised by the Kerala Startup Mission (KSUM), said that India was the fifth largest economy on course to become the third largest in a few years. "In fact, I will say 7-in-7 is the buzz slogan, that is 7 trillion USD economy in seven years. Seven tri...
The Best Meta Quest Games You Can Play Right Now (2023)
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The Best Meta Quest Games You Can Play Right Now (2023)

Before you can actually play, there are a few things you need to do. Here are some tips for getting everything set up, because the Quest interface is not always the easiest to navigate.Set your boundary. The last thing you want while playing is to run into an object in your room while essentially blindfolded. Your Quest will guide you through the process of setting up your boundary. Roomscale lets you draw a play space to move freely, Stationary when you're standing still. But what if you move locations? Or want to play a game sitting down instead of standing up?To change your boundary, press the Oculus button on your right controller (it's the one just underneath the joystick). This pulls up the menu at the bottom of the screen (you only have to do this if the menu isn't already showing ...
Meta Quest 3 review: A bit of mixed reality makes for better VR
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Meta Quest 3 review: A bit of mixed reality makes for better VR

The Meta Quest 3 proves that the Meta Quest 2 was just an impossibly good deal. When that VR headset arrived for just $300 three years ago, it was the perfect gateway to VR for most people. You didn't need to hook it up to anything, you just flipped it on and stepped into virtual reality. But then Meta raised the price to $400 last year, and the entire VR industry just started to feel very stale. It's no wonder the $1,500 Meta Quest Pro completely flopped – VR was already struggling, and few people actually needed something so expensive. ProsSharp new screens and lenses More compact than Quest 2 Faster performance Mixed reality cameras make it easier to see the real world Adjustable for glassesConsMore expensive than before Only 128GB of storage to start No battery life improvementsThe $...
U2’s The Edge on The Sphere’s Opening Night: ‘This Is Definitely Working’
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U2’s The Edge on The Sphere’s Opening Night: ‘This Is Definitely Working’

Are you a fan of Las Vegas, the city?I find it confounding but fascinating. It’s sort of America writ large—incredibly imaginative, ambitious, audacious. But it’s also a place with so many sad stories because of the gambling aspects. You’ve got this litany of amazing artists that have spent a lot of time—Elvis to Frank Sinatra and the whole Rat Pack era. But there’s also the Atomic City phase, where people could come and see the bombs being tested in the Nevada Test Site in the ’50s. These were televised events. So it's a very crazy place.Paul McCartney was at the Sphere show. Did you get a chance to talk to him afterward?We did for a few minutes.What was his reaction to the show?Well, he loved it.Another thing that was unique about your performance was that your bandmate Larry Mullen, Jr...
Meta Quest 3: Zuckerberg unveils mixed-reality VR headset
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Meta Quest 3: Zuckerberg unveils mixed-reality VR headset

New York CNN  —  Meta is moving forward in its efforts to dominate the AR world with the new and improved Meta Quest 3. Unveiled by CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the company’s virtual Meta Connect event Wednesday, the headset starts at $500 and is a complete redesign of earlier models. The Quest 3, first announced in June, offers improved performance, immersive new mixed-reality features and a sleeker, more comfortable design. With a much stronger processor, higher-resolution display, revamped Touch Plus controllers and a 40% slimmer physique, the Quest 3 is a big step up from its predecessors. The Meta Quest 2 allows for strictly virtual reality, while the Meta Quest Pro has advanced passthrough cameras fo...
Immersive Tech Obscures Reality. AI Will Threaten It
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Immersive Tech Obscures Reality. AI Will Threaten It

Last week, Amazon announced it was integrating AI into a number of products—including smart glasses, smart home systems, and its voice assistant, Alexa—that help users navigate the world. This week, Meta will unveil its latest AI and extended reality (XR) features, and next week Google will reveal its next line of Pixel phones equipped with Google AI. If you thought AI was already “revolutionary,” just wait until it’s part of the increasingly immersive responsive, personal devices that power our lives.AI is already hastening technology’s trend toward greater immersion, blurring the boundaries between the physical and digital worlds and allowing users to easily create their own content. When combined with technologies like augmented or virtual reality, it will open up a world of creative p...
Smell Your Way Out of the Uncanny Valley
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Smell Your Way Out of the Uncanny Valley | WIRED

In the summer of 2016, teenagers Anastasia Georgievskaya and Ivan Novikov were walking along London’s South Bank, picking their way past the food stalls lining the Thames, when they caught an aroma of fried doughnuts that instantly reminded them of childhood.At dinner that night, the couple started to wonder: If one of them hadn’t been there, would there have been a way to digitally recreate that doughnut smell and transmit it to a distant device—to share in that moment, even if they were miles apart? “At the time, we couldn’t find anything doing it on the market,” explains the now 24-year-old Georgievskaya. “We kept coming back to the idea over the years. Eventually we realized we could do it ourselves.”Georgievskaya is now CEO of Scentient, a UK startup aiming to integrate smell into vi...