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Dermie and Jason look at another big week of videogame news: - Peter Dutton is blaming Grand Theft Auto for sexism - Ghost of Tsushima is getting a movie - Among Us is coming to GamePass - Cancel Culture is after Six Days in Fallujah, but Dermie reckons everybody is looking in the wrong direction - EA Play now part of GamePass PC - Which games got an FPS boost on Xbox Series S & X ? - Will Pikmin AR succeed where Minecraft AR failed? - One day in the future when your PS4 battery dies your games will die as well (forever) - BAFTA Game Award winners #newsgameplus lots more
00:56 - Qualcomm news! XR1 Chipset details announced https://venturebeat.com/2019/05/29/qualcomm-enables-xr-smart-viewer-augmented-reality-smartphone-apps/ 6:24 - NReal AR https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/30/18646160/nreal-light-ar-xr-qualcomm-snapdragon-sunglasses-consumer-price-shipping-release-5g 10:50 - MR Rokid Vision https://www.gizchina.com/2019/05/29/mr-glasses-rokid-vision-shown-at-awe-2019/ 12:58 - Facebook AR/Speaker Patent Filing https://mashable.com/article/facebook-ar-glasses-cartilage-conduction-patent/?europe=true 15:25 - Leap Motion Sold Off https://www.wsj.com/articles/leap-motion-once-a-virtual-reality-high-flier-sells-itself-to-u-k-rival-11559210520 18:44 - Google Shuts Down Jump VR https://vrscout.com/news/google-shutting-down-jump-vr-program/ 22:23 - Google Glass Returns https://mobile-ar.reality.news/news/hands-on-heres-augmented-reality-google-search-works-0198193/ 24:15 - AR Google Searches https://mobile-ar.reality.news/news/hands-on-heres-augmented-reality-google-search-works-0198193/ 25:21 - Minecraft AR 27:38 - Lightning Round
This week’s episode brought to you by Sidekick Media Services, Slice on Broadway, and Alex Kahrs Design & Media! Professor Buzzkill joins Sorg and Chilla as we talk this week (and this century) in tech: Chilla is sharing his Pixel 3a as his Awesome Thing of the Week. Sorg was able to attend the AlphaLab Gear Hardware Cup event to experience it up close and personal behind a live stream rig as his Awesome Thing of the Week. Sorg had an opportunity to check out Yodel Labs and their AR positioning as part of the Hardware Cup. Sorg is sharing some updates from Vital Flo and Algenair from the Hardware Cup. Want to do your own canning? No, not like your grandmother's beets, more like your grandfather's adult beverages with Equals Can. Professor Buzzkill is sharing the black-and-white setting on his iPhone as his Awesome Thing of the Week. For most things in tech there are previous ideas and predecessors in history. Professor Buzzkill is sharing some of that evolution with us. No Awesome Thing of the Week is dumb as long as it's awesome to you - like Brian's sweet standing desk. Microsoft and Sony are partnering for gaming and cloud services? Schell Games is having a friends and family event. You can all thank Sorg for the new MacBook Pro release from Apple. Pittsburgh is bringing back the magic with Liberty Magic. Chilla is giving us all the details. Sorg was in Hollywood - and of course he found the Museum of Selfies. Professor Buzzkill is questioning bathroom selfies. Minecraft AR is coming. Sorg can't wait to compare it to Angry Birds AR. After the show remember to: Want to support our friends at Postindustrial? Check out their Kickstarter. Eat at Slice on Broadway (@Pgh_Slice) if you are in the Pittsburgh area! It is Awesome! (sliceonbroadway.com) Want to be part of our studio audience? Hit us up at awesomecast@sorgatronmedia.com and we’ll save you a seat! Join our AwesomeCast Facebook Group to see what we’re sharing and to join the discussion! Follow these awesome people on Twitter: Professor Buzzkill (@buzzkillprof), Sorg (@Sorgatron), and Chilla (@chilla) Have you seen our AwesomeTips videos? You can support the show at Patreon.com/awesomecast! Remember to check out our friends at the River’s Edge (@RiversEdgePGH) and The 405 Media (@The405Radio) who replay the show on their stream throughout the week! Also, check out sorgatronmedia.com and awesomecast.com for more entertainment; and view us livestreaming Tuesdays around 7:00 PM EST
This week’s episode brought to you by Sidekick Media Services, Slice on Broadway, and Alex Kahrs Design & Media! Professor Buzzkill joins Sorg and Chilla as we talk this week (and this century) in tech: Chilla is sharing his Pixel 3a as his Awesome Thing of the Week. Sorg was able to attend the AlphaLab Gear Hardware Cup event to experience it up close and personal behind a live stream rig as his Awesome Thing of the Week. Sorg had an opportunity to check out Yodel Labs and their AR positioning as part of the Hardware Cup. Sorg is sharing some updates from Vital Flo and Algenair from the Hardware Cup. Want to do your own canning? No, not like your grandmother's beets, more like your grandfather's adult beverages with Equals Can. Professor Buzzkill is sharing the black-and-white setting on his iPhone as his Awesome Thing of the Week. For most things in tech there are previous ideas and predecessors in history. Professor Buzzkill is sharing some of that evolution with us. No Awesome Thing of the Week is dumb as long as it's awesome to you - like Brian's sweet standing desk. Microsoft and Sony are partnering for gaming and cloud services? Schell Games is having a friends and family event. You can all thank Sorg for the new MacBook Pro release from Apple. Pittsburgh is bringing back the magic with Liberty Magic. Chilla is giving us all the details. Sorg was in Hollywood - and of course he found the Museum of Selfies. Professor Buzzkill is questioning bathroom selfies. Minecraft AR is coming. Sorg can't wait to compare it to Angry Birds AR. After the show remember to: Want to support our friends at Postindustrial? Check out their Kickstarter. Eat at Slice on Broadway (@Pgh_Slice) if you are in the Pittsburgh area! It is Awesome! (sliceonbroadway.com) Want to be part of our studio audience? Hit us up at awesomecast@sorgatronmedia.com and we’ll save you a seat! Join our AwesomeCast Facebook Group to see what we’re sharing and to join the discussion! Follow these awesome people on Twitter: Professor Buzzkill (@buzzkillprof), Sorg (@Sorgatron), and Chilla (@chilla) Have you seen our AwesomeTips videos? You can support the show at Patreon.com/awesomecast! Remember to check out our friends at the River’s Edge (@RiversEdgePGH) and The 405 Media (@The405Radio) who replay the show on their stream throughout the week! Also, check out sorgatronmedia.com and awesomecast.com for more entertainment; and view us livestreaming Tuesdays around 7:00 PM EST
An unexpected mobile Minecraft AR game approaches, Nintendo drops some spicy Mario Maker 2 news, Sony and Microsoft team up to stay ahead of Google and Nolan reviews a game from Japanese video game developer Nippon Ichi Software that may be its last. All this more on episode 6 of The Emerald GamesCast, a weekly industry news show featuring Emerald news reporter Nolan, and his friends Alex and Andrea. Sources: Nintendo: "Mario Maker 2 Direct" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPNS1Fb1l8c) The Verge: "Microsoft and Sony form cloud gaming and AI partnership" (https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/16/18628090/microsoft-sony-cloud-gaming-ai-partnership) Minecraft: "Minecraft Earth: Official Reveal Trailer" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYKxBKj29dI&feature=youtu.be) Famitsu: "Nintendo Switch has surpassed PlayStation 4 in lifetime sales in Japan" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYKxBKj29dI&feature=youtu.be) --- The Emerald GamesCast is a weekly video game news and discussion podcast from the Emerald Podcast Network with an industry focus. Hosted by three best friends, each episode will provide the listener with a week's worth of gaming headlines and conversation about current releases. Guests welcome, scripts discouraged and passion essential. Episodes come out Tuesdays. Podcast producer Danny Latoni produced and edited this podcast. Graphic: Regan Nelson/Emerald. Theme music is "Flamingo (Azureflux Remix)" by Kero Kero Bonito (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kero_Kero_Bonito/Bit_Bops/04_kero_kero_bonito_-_flamingo__azureflux_remix), modified under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).
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China schon vor den Shadow Brokers im Besitz von Hacking-Tools der NSA Mutmaßlich chinesischen Hackern in Staatsdiensten ist es offenbar gelungen, der NSA Hacking-Werkzeuge zu entwenden und diese gegen Ziele in Europa und Asien einzusetzen – schon lange vor der aufsehenerregenden Versteigerung des Tools durch die Hackergruppe Shadow Brokers in 2016. Das jedenfalls behaupten Sicherheitsforscher des US-Softwareunternehmens Symantec. Wenn es dem chinesischen Staat tatsächlich gelungen sein sollte, NSA-Werkzeuge abzugreifen und selbst gegen Ziele einzusetzen, würde das sehr deutlich machen, welche Gefahr von staatlichen Hackern auch in westlichen Demokratien ausgeht. Microsoft verspricht Verbesserungen beim Datenschutz Microsofts Datensammelei in Windows 10 und Office steht in der Kritik. Nun will das Unternehmen Änderungen hinsichtlich der Telemetriedatenerfassung vornehmen, um die Transparenz sowie die Kontrolle der erhobenen Daten durch die Nutzer zu verbessern – allerdings nur unter Windows 10 und Office 365. Unklar ist, ob diese Maßnahmen ausreichen, um die europäischen Datenschützer zu beschwichtigen. Journalistenverband moniert Minister-PR im Internet Der Deutsche Journalistenverband ist besorgt darüber, dass Kabinettsmitglieder ihre Außendarstellung und politischen Botschaften immer mehr über soziale Medien steuern. "Pressestellen verbreiten selbstproduzierte Inhalte über die sozialen Netzwerke, in denen Minister grinsend Hände schütteln und Vorzeigeprojekte besuchen", sagte DJV-Chef Frank Überall der Neuen Osnabrücker Zeitung. Zugleich würden die Pressestellen zunehmend ihrer Auskunftspflicht nicht nachkommen; Anfragen von Journalisten versandeten oder würden nur ungenügend beantwortet. Überall hält diesen Trend für äußerst bedenklich. Minecraft kommt aufs Handy Microsoft veröffentlicht Minecraft als AR-Handyspiel. Das hat das Unternehmen auf der Entwicklerkonferenz Build angekündigt. Bisher gibt es vom Minecraft im Pokemon-Go-Stil nicht mehr als einen kurzen Teaser. Darin ist zu sehen, wie die Klötzchen-Grafiken auf dem Bildschirm in den Kamera-Feed der Umgebung eingebettet werden. Weitere Details will Microsoft am 17. Mai bekanntgeben – dann wird Minecraft zehn Jahre alt. Diese und weitere aktuelle Nachrichten finden Sie ausführlich auf heise.de