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Acer participates in the development of VR headsets, targeting large-scale VR theme parks

According to foreign media reports, Acer is working with game studio Starbreeze to develop a high-end virtual reality helmet for amusement parks and theme parks. Starbreeze has been showing off this helmet called StarVR for the past year, and in the future, StarVR will be developed jointly by the two companies.

The standout feature of StarVR is its wide field of view, which is considered closer to the field of view of a person in real life. StarVR's field of view is 210 degrees, which is much higher than the 110 degrees of Oculus Rift or HTC Vive.

Working with Acer will give Starbreeze a partner more savvy in hardware development, which is necessary to quickly and efficiently produce the virtual reality headset it is developing. Acer is also designing desktops and laptops to provide the processing power for the StarVR headset.

Although Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PSVR have been launched on the market, customized head-mounted display devices such as Star VR may be more suitable for larger VR experience facilities, as we can see from the Rapture head-mounted display (which also uses multi-screen splicing technology and has a 180° field of view) that The Void theme park insists on developing on its own. However, for some offline experience stores of average size, the lower-cost HTC Vive may be the first choice for more people.

Netizen comment: I haven’t heard from Acer for a long time. How are you doing?

ASUS updates two game consoles, and the threshold for 1% VR life is lowered a little bit

ROG GX700

Recently, ASUS updated two desktops, belonging to different product lines, one is the affordable game console Flying Fortress G11, and the other belongs to the professional game sub-brand ROG G20. They have one thing in common - VR Ready. The sixth generation Core i7 - 6700, NVIDIA GTX 970, and the lowest price of 8999 lowers the threshold of VR life circle.

Among them, the entry-level G11CD and G20CB are equipped with GTX 970, 4GB video memory, and the sixth-generation Core i7-6700; the high-end G20 is equipped with GTX 980, 4GB video memory, and the sixth-generation Core i7-6700 processor. The specific parameters and configurations are shown in the figure below. G11CD is already on sale, priced at RMB 8,999, and G20CB will be officially released on May 23. It is now available for reservation on JD.com, and the prices are RMB 12,999 and 17,999 respectively.

In the media's overwhelming publicity and popular science, you already know that NVIDIA GTX970/AMD290 or higher graphics card configuration is a wall between PC and VR. On this side of the wall is the dead present, and on the other side of the wall is a thriving future. However, only about 13 million PCs in the world meet the VR hardware standards, accounting for less than 1% of the world's 1.43 billion PCs.

Netizen comment: BUT I still can’t afford it

Google Maps is going to develop indoor 3D maps to provide virtual reality experience

According to foreign media reports, Google's parent company Alphabet plans to enter the indoor map market, relying on 3D technology to increase the accuracy of maps to the inch level, and using virtual reality technology to explore more monetization methods.

This project will be managed by Google's Advanced Technology and Engineering Department and will be included in the Tango project dedicated to the development of spatial and dynamic mobile devices. In other words, Google will focus on the Tango project in the field of architecture this year to create 3D indoor maps, which will also bring new advertising opportunities to Google.

Unlike most current virtual reality systems, Tango does not require external equipment to digitally reconstruct the world. Unlike current Google Maps, Tango does not require additional data sources to obtain spatial information.

Through the Tango project, Google will display the geographic location of indoor buildings in 3D, map them, and provide virtual reality experiences. According to people familiar with the matter, Google will focus on this project this year, and Google's recent job openings and updates to Tango developer software also confirm this from another perspective. At the I/O developer conference starting tomorrow, Google will showcase the latest progress of the Tango project.

Netizen comments: Baidu Maps covered its face and cried!

19-year-old boy hacks Pornhub and sells access for $1,000

In the afternoon, a 19-year-old hacker named Revolver announced on Twitter that he had hacked into the server of the porn website Pornhub, and then sold shell background code and command injection permissions for $1,000.

Revolver told CSO Online that he could upload a shell, essentially a control panel, that could be used to send any command to Pornhub's servers. If what he said was true, he could completely control the porn site's servers. Revolver said he exploited a vulnerability in Pornhub's "user profile script for processing image uploads." In addition, he has sold the site's server permissions to three people. He also said that Pornhub has contacted him through Twitter, but he ignored it.

Revolver is already well-known in the hacker community. He helped Snowden discover a blind cross-site scripting vulnerability on the website of the Freedom of the Press Foundation he founded. In addition, he also recorded recent hacking activities on Twitter, such as Naughty America, the Los Angeles Times control backend, Telegram, SourceForge, the New York Times, Outlook.com, the US Army, NASA, etc.