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Daily Roundup: The Pixar of VR, Apple Watch ship date and more!

In today's Daily Roundup, we look at Oculus Story Studio, the new film-innovation lab creating cinematic content to take advantage of VR devices. Meanwhile, Apple continues to crush it and announces when the Apple Watch will ship, and we learn more about how a drone landed on the White House grounds at 3 AM. Head past the break to get your fill of today's technology news.

Oculus Story Studio is the Pixar of virtual reality

Oculus Story Studio is the firm's new VR film-innovation lab and it recently showed off what it's been working on at the Sundance Film Festival. Are virtual reality films here to stay? Find out.

Tim Cook expects to ship the Apple Watch in April

Apple absolutely crushed analyst expectations this past quarter, selling 74.5 million iPhones, a 50 percent increase over last year. One nugget of information that Tim Cook shared during the quarterly earnings call was that the Apple Watch would ship this coming April.

'Tron'-like Glow headphones pulse to the music and your heart

The photo you see above doesn't just show any old pair of glow-in-the-dark earbuds. This new type of headphone uses embedded laser light to achieve this stunning effect.

A drunk intelligence worker crashed that drone near the White House

When you heard that someone crash-landed a drone on the White House's grounds at 3 AM on a Monday morning, did you suspect that the pilot was hammered? Well, you're right.

Justice Department is reportedly spying on millions of US cars

Law enforcement agencies across the country have long used license plate readers to track vehicles within their jurisdictions. However, the data from these various agencies was never unified in a common network, until now.

Boeing and SpaceX schedule crucial safety tests ahead of ISS trips

NASA's Commercial Crew Program continues to slowly move forward. Both Boeing and SpaceX unveiled their next steps under this initiative. The goal is for a manned trip sometime in 2017.

Xbox One gamepads are getting updated, again

According to a Major Nelson blog post, it looks like the Xbox One controller is getting a new software update to fix various stability issues and improve performance. Preview members can get their hands on the update now, just in case you can't wait for the official drop date.