Last summer we reported that some enterprising modders were trying to make Sony’s PlayStation VR2, the company’s second-gen headset for the PS5, work with standard Windows PCs. It turns out that modders weren’t the only ones with the idea. Sony itself is working on allowing PS VR2 owners to plug into a PC and play virtual reality games, no console necessary. The announcement was made on the official PlayStation blog, with availability later this year as a goal. “We’re pleased to share that we are currently testing the ability for PS VR2 players to access additional games on PC to offer even more game variety in addition to the PS VR2 titles available through PS5,” says Gillen McAllister, Sony Interactive’s manager of content communications. “We hope to make this support available in 2024, so stay tuned for more updates.” The footnote in a longer blog post was spotted by The Verge. It’s a surprise move from a company known for being rather insular with its hardware and software integration, but not out of line with Sony’s broadening gaming strategy. Sony’s publishing arm has been focusing on bringing its most lucrative franchises to the PC for the last couple of years, with staples like Spider-Man, The Last of Us, and Horizon: Zero Dawn being well-received by PC gamers. Sony’s latest exclusive Helldivers 2 launched day-and-date on the PS5 and PC and is currently number one with a bullet on the Steam charts. Since virtual reality gaming is still an... Continue reading at 'PC World'
[ PC World | 2024-02-22 17:20:59 UTC ]
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As you may have heard, the cookbook sensation of the season, if not the decade, is Modernist Cuisine, a six-volume magnum opus on contemporary cooking principles that will set you back roughly $500. Self-published by Nathan Myhrvoldthe genius founder of Microsoft's research division,... Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Written By: Barbara Casassus Publication Date: Tue, 22/03/2011 - 16:45 Hachette Livre and the French National Library (BnF) have signed a print-on-demand agreement for the publisher to sell through bookshops out-of-copyright works from the BnFs online library Gallica. An initial 15,000 titles... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Tue, 15/03/2011 - 09:07 Simon & Schuster has brought forward publication of its first tie-in titles to the Octonauts CBeebies television series from the summer to the end of March. The publisher had originally signed a deal with Chorion to publish... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Wed, 02/03/2011 - 18:05 Random House US is introducing 17,000 books to the iBookstore, several days after it announced it had moved to agency pricing. At this afternoon's Apple iPad event in San Francisco, Apple c.e.o. Steve Jobs said users have... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-03-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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By Joe Wilcox, Betanews Last week, DisplaySearch joined Canalys classifying iPad as a personal computer. Canalys claims that iPad lifts Apple to third place in global PC market share. DisplaySearch puts Apple No. 1 in the United States by similar reckoning. The Apple fan club of bloggers and... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2011-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Apple has reportedly rejected Sony's reader app from the App store for selling content within the app and letting customers make purchases outside the App store (such as within the Sony Reader Store, according to The New York Times. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Borrowers can create a wish list queue of books they would like to read and lenders earn 1 credit for every 5 books they list on the site as available for borrowing. Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2011-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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