Samsung Electronics, a global provider in advanced memory technology, announced the 990 PRO, the company’s high-performance NVMe SSD based on PCIe 4.0. Delivering lightning-fast speeds and high-power efficiency, the new SSD is optimized for graphically demanding games and other intensive tasks — including 3D rendering, 4K video editing, and data analysis. “With continuing innovations in…

Samsung Electronics announced the launch of Samsung Space Tycoon, a virtual playground built inside the global metaverse platform Roblox. Space Tycoon is a virtual space where users can create and play games and share experiences using Samsung Electronics’ products together with alien characters in space, taking design and functionality cues from the business simulation ‘tycoon’…

Brought to you by ESL Gaming and Qualcomm Technologies, the Snapdragon Pro Series welcomes players and fans to the “Era of Everyone.” Both aspiring mobile gamers and veteran esports athletes from around the world are invited to compete in the three tiers of competition: Snapdragon Mobile Open, Snapdragon Mobile Challenge, and Snapdragon Mobile Masters. “The…

STMicroelectronics, a global semiconductor provider, has announced a new family of high-resolution, Time-of-Flight sensors that bring advanced 3D depth imaging to smartphones and other devices. The 3D family debuts with the VD55H1. This sensor maps three-dimensional surfaces by measuring the distance to over half a million points. Objects can be detected up to five meters from…

During the annual Snapdragon Tech Summit, Qualcomm Technologies showcased its expanded portfolio of solutions for Always On, Always Connected PCs, with the introduction of the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 compute platform, designed to deliver the performance and exceptional experiences users deserve in premium ultra-slim and fanless laptops. To strengthen the entry-tier Windows PC and Chromebook ecosystems…

Intel announced its 12th Gen Intel Core processors — previously code-named, “Alder Lake” — during its Intel Innovation event in San Francisco last month. The 12th Gen Intel Core family will include 60 processors and more than 500 designs. The 12th Gen’s offer three key features: 1. Hybrid architecture: A new performance hybrid architecture successfully integrates…

Qualcomm Technologies, together with key ecosystem partners, is set to redefine wireless expectations for latency-sensitive gaming, productivity, and learning applications on Window’s 11 PCs with Qualcomm FastConnect systems. Wi-Fi Dual Station designed using Qualcomm 4-Stream Dual-band Simultaneous, harnesses multiple Wi-Fi bands and antennas concurrently, to outperform traditional single band connections. By simultaneously using the 2.4…

MediaTek announced the launch of its Kompanio 1300T, a SoC designed to power incredible experiences across computing devices. Built on the leading 6nm process technology, the chip is bringing premium performance to tablets with advanced 5G, multimedia, AI and gaming technologies for a premium user experience. Kompanio 1300T allows OEMs to build powerful, lightweight and…

Diodes Incorporated is adding to its extensive linear ReDriver IC portfolio via the introduction of two new 3.3V-rated multi-lane active demux devices. These advanced ReDrivers address the demux needs now being set by the more graphically intense functions of mobile workstations, gaming PCs, and display dongles. They’re also fully optimized for the latest industrial computers…

A pair of new demos running GeForce RTX technologies on the Arm platform recently unveiled by NVIDIA show how advanced graphics can be extended to a broader, more power-efficient set of devices. The two demos, shown at the recent Game Developers Conference, included Wolfenstein: Youngblood from Bethesda Softworks and MachineGames, as well as The Bistro from the Open…

If you have ever visited a video game parlour to play a video game, you definitely would have used a JOYSTICK. Originally invented for flight controllers and motion simulators, they gained acceptance in number of systems, ranging from video games to industrial systems.   Millions of video game enthusiasts, crane operators, etc. would owe a debt of gratitude to the inventor of this wonderful device, a joystick, though the inventor of this device is not quite known. The word ‘Joystick’ was used first by Robert Loraine and was cited in the Oxford English Dictionary, though he didn’t invent the device. Mr. Robert Esnault – Pelterie is also mentioned to be an originator of this buzz word. A E George along with Jobling used a stick for the first time when they flew an aircraft and this stick gained popularity as Joystick. 

Go…Go….Go…Roger FIRE in the hole!….Fire in the hole!!!….Two down…TWO DOWN…one more one more… YOU LOST!!!While pressing the keys of your keyboard or keypad to convert the lost games to last moment victories the chances are you have encountered the virtual reality in your life. These games involve you with the characters or objects and with the amplification of the involvement, one feels a part of this virtual world. By using 3D imagery with a head mounted device (HMD) and high quality surrounding sound equipments, these games creates more involvement in the virtual world and consequently shut down the cues of real world. This is what is called virtual reality, which has applications far beyond gaming.Virtual reality can be defined as an upcoming technology that makes users feel in a Virtual Environment (VE) by using computer hardware and software.