Tech Guru

March 6th 2015

A couple of months ago there was a big fuss about Google’s self driving car, many saying it was unstylish and a little silly. Well no more small cars travelling at 40 km/h, Audi demonstrated their brute force when it comes to cars, driving across America in an auto piloting car to get to CES, not only is it just as stylish as you would expect from Audi, they also found that it works at 190M/h. They don’t quite have all the kinks worked out yet, only being able to let it drive on its own on motorways, needing a human to control it in residential areas.

Nvidia is one of the kings of chips. Not like lino’s or Henry & rose, like chips in computers and phones. This CES they made a huge announcement, showing off the next-gen X1 mobile chipset. You might be thinking “what difference does it make” “I can watch videos and play whatever I want on my 700 euro Iphone”. Well to you I say this. A chip smaller than a man’s thumb, which will be put in your phone, can handle pc and console like graphics. Remember how good that thing looked on your Xbox or Play station, these new chips are going to look just as good, while being powered by your phone battery. “But I can see those at home on my pc” yes, that is the point, while you may not want a phone that has a 256-core Maxwell GPU, but the market does, and guess what this does. Pushes the other markets along.  It pushes Microsoft, Sony, everyone to improve. Because you can guaranty that they want their 400 euro console to do more than you 200 euro phone (

 (Nvidia CEO Jen hsun huang holding the tegra x1)

 

 

Ac Unity, the final child of the family that the parents just don’t quite care about. Smothered in hatred over the first month of its release, it is still just being terrible. But what else can a game that thought it could substitute epic boat battles for French people do wrong?

Break the game even further. That’s right, the latest patch for the game on pc, released on DECEMBER 16, has caused all of the water textures to glitch out. You might think this couldn’t be so bad, but let’s just say there are more flashes than a disco from the 1990’s playing techno.

Ubisoft has been making progress though, as they spend time making DLC for the game instead of fixing it, luckily they made this free, as it should be.

You may or may not be familiar with the Oculus rift. If not, It is like a mini TV you strap to your head, in order to put you in a ‘Virtual Reality’. While similar devices have gained more and more notice in the past few months, such as Google cardboard and Sony’s Project Morpheus, Oculus is still king. But will it be for long?

Valve, Creators of portal, Half Life and Team Fortress, Owners of the PC video game platform steam, have unveiled their knew “Vive” VR partnered with HTC. The reason this could take Oculus’ place as the highest used VR device? Valve has almost a complete monopoly on PC Games. It’s only competitors being Uplay, for Ubisoft games which can be bought through steam, and Origin, EA’s PC platform which is infamous for slow downloads and terrible connectivity issues. So this means that Valve could easily make close to all PC games Compatible with their VR, while Oculus still have to work third party. This could give them huge advantages, especially if it is compatible with the Steam machine, Valves widely anticipated entry to the console market, speculated to be released at the same time as Half Life 3. So we will have to see if Facebook made a mistake by buying Oculus. Judging by the specs released, they most surely did.