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In a fragmented VR market, one company wants to unite them all
Virtual reality is a mainstream phenomenon these days, with major headsets like the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive now increasingly in consumer hands. There's even a flourishing market in the lower-end, with Samsung's Gear VR and Google's DayDream leading the way. But with so many different platforms, the VR market is getting increasingly fragmented.
Daily Roundup: Google aquires Nest, SimCity goes offline, Mark IV hands-on and more!
You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours -- all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.
UK gets first all-gaming television channel, Ginx TV
Ginx TV, a media company responsible for the production of the casual-oriented Gameface program, announced earlier today that it would soon have its own video game-centric television station in the UK. Ginx CEO Michiel Bakker explained during the Edinburgh Interactive conference, "video gaming is the only massively mainstream entertainment genre without a dedicated channel. My ambition here, is to do for gaming what MTV did for music." If we understand Bakker's sentiment correctly, then that means we can look forward to a few good years of video game coverage, and then an endless parade of terrible reality shows starring terrible people doing terrible things. Wonderful!
Photographer captures game faces
New York based photographer Phillip Toledano has a gallery of photos online capturing the faces and expressions people make while playing video games. The resulting pictures are funny, creepy and slightly disturbing. It'll make us think twice about what our face is doing the next time we game. Maybe the Xbox Live Vision Camera isn't such a great idea after all. If we look like this, we don't want people laughing at us.Or is it too late?
