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Funny or Die makes a fart joke in VR
The news itself sounded like a joke: Funny or Die, the irreverent comedy video site created by the likes of Will Ferrell, among others, was to premiere its first-ever virtual reality short at the Sundance Film Festival. Except this wasn't some Onion-style spoof headline; it was very much true. The piece, Interrogation, debuted last Friday on Gear VR at Samsung Studio, a pop-up VR lounge the company installed in Park City, Utah, for the duration of the festival. It stars Paul Scheer and Rob Huebel, faces better known for their work on FX's The League, as two cops trying to get to the bottom of a heinous crime. It is, in essence, an extended and immersive fart joke.
Here's a new Last of Us multiplayer mode, please don't hurt us
Inquisitive players of The Last of Us will soon find a free new multiplayer mode in the game, which is in the process of being patched to version 1.03. (See the full list of corrections here.) "Interrogation" mode is a four-on-four competition in which each team strives to take a peek into the opposition's lockbox and pilfer their supplies. This can only be done after the box's location has been determined in light of five successful interrogations. It gets darker: an enemy must be shivved or crippled before they'll spill a piece of information, obtained by pressing triangle near them. With that in mind, remember to update your modern control schemes: X to Jason, Triangle to torture, Square for light attack and Circle to back out of the DLC shop.
EEG headware probes your neurons, shows interrogators your cranial contact list
You might pride yourself on your poker face, but there would be no way to hide from a skull-probing EEG helmet being developed by Veritas Scientific. The device takes advantage of a well-known medical response called P300, which causes your brain's voltage to drop a split-second after you put a name to a face or object. Simply by showing you a slideshow of different images, interrogators could tell whether or not you recognize a particular individual -- or maybe that LTE-connected railgun hidden in your trunk. The company is pursuing military contracts and hopes to have a prototype ready in time for this year's war game exercises, but meanwhile you might want to start thinking of a way to install that tinfoil hat inside your skull.
