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Valve’s new virtual reality headset, the Steam Frame, has officially been released – but it comes at a high price.

The theory is that Meta took faces out of Facebook and Instagram, converted them into biometric identifiers, and used those identifiers to train both its image generation models and the face recognition system it had been preparing for its AI glasses. The proposed class period opens on September 4, 2021.

A hobbyist 3D printing and VR enthusiast has developed a new method for triggering 3D model printing while in VR: virtually throwing his models at the printer in passthrough mode. Although somewhat gimmicky, anything that lowers accessibility barriers between the real and virtual worlds is likely to make mixed-reality activities more useful and

“The same technology that can help us detect fraud, identify unusual activity, improve compliance, and make regulatory processes more efficient can also be used to make fraud more sophisticated and harder to detect,” Fernandez said during the CiG iDEA Summit at Hilton Manila in Pasay City.

Apple may launch its first iPhone gaming controller under the Beats brand instead of its own name. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports Apple has developed two controller models for mobile gaming. The project has continued for more than a year, with Beats executives leading product development. Leaked macOS code also revealed model numbers T6502 and T1057…

A Spanish developer, Emilio Cano Pérez, has just released the SDK for his CanoFlash, a small box built on a XIAO ESP32-S3 that plugs into a Game Boy Advance’s Link port. This requires no modification to the console, and no soldering iron either (cool!), and once plugged in, it lets the console get the Wi-Fi…

Tokyo Game Show 2026 is shaping up to be one of the most interesting gaming events of the year for sim racing hardware. MOZA Racing is preparing to show its first PlayStation 5-compatible hardware, Fanatec will bring products that are still in development, and FlashFire will debut a new 5 Nm Direct Drive wheelbase and…

Graphics card prices have risen sharply in the United States during the second half of 2026, making a new GPU considerably more expensive for sim racers than it was only a few months ago. Several NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Series cards have suffered particularly large increases, while AMD’s Radeon RX 9000 range has generally remained…

Bloomberg News has hired veteran entertainment journalist Dawn Chmielewski as an editor in its Los Angeles bureau, adding an experienced Hollywood and media reporter to its entertainment, California and national news coverage.

Exhibition booths during the Entertech, Seoul 2025 event / Courtesy of Seoul Metropolitan Government