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Sean Hollister

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    That’s no Valve VR headset.

    Valve Prism: the standalone Valve VR headset we’ve been waiting for? This convincing-at-first-glance site shows a chunky, heavy (850 grams!) headset with Vision Pro-caliber Micro OLED displays and claims of untethered PC-like graphics performance.

    A quick jaunt into the site’s HTML code, though, repeatedly suggests the name of the company is “VaIve.” As in Vaive. As in, it includes a sans-serif letter that rhymes with “eye.”

    The website also claims it offers “50-point lips, jaw, teeth, and tongue tracking.”

    Update, 7:30PM ET: “Nope, this is NOT us,” Valve confirms.

    Screenshot of the fake Valve headset with “FAKE” in big red letters, all-caps.
    Here we have a shockingly-impressive (and definitely fake) Valve VR headset.
    Image: Wes Davis / The Verge
    It’s time for Microsoft to build an Xbox Steam DeckIt’s time for Microsoft to build an Xbox Steam Deck
    Sean Hollister
    Sean Hollister
    Say it with me: 3D-printed chocolate.

    I’ll have a bit more to say about this printer later in the week — but I wasn’t going to miss showing off the Cocoa Press for Valentine’s Day!

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    Sean Hollister
    Is your Facebook... chirping? Here’s how to fix it.

    “It’s not you, it’s us! And it’s an unfortunate technical error that we’re in the process of fixing,” writes Meta’s Andy Stone.

    In the meanwhile, here’s a stopgap:

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    Sean Hollister
    Your Core 2 Duo and Athlon 64 might not run Windows 11 anymore.

    Originally, Microsoft made it hard — but not impossible — to install Windows 11 on older machines. That’s reportedly changing. Bob Pony:

    So HUGE discovery found in Windows 11 Version 24H2, since build 25905.

    A CPU with the instruction “POPCNT” IS NOW REQUIRED!

    “That effectively bars mid-2000s Intel Core 2 Duo systems and early Athlon 64-era PCs from booting Windows 11 at all,” writes Ars Technica.

    Windows 11 24H2 goes from “unsupported” to “unbootable” on some older PCs

    [Ars Technica]

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    Sean Hollister
    SpaceX will dispose of 100 orbiting Starlink satellites because of an undisclosed glitch.

    [T]he Starlink team identified a common issue in this small population of satellites that could increase the probability of failure in the future. The satellites will follow a safe, circular, and controlled lowering operation that should take approximately six months for most of the vehicles.

    It’s a small fraction of the 5,828 Starlink sats in orbit, and SpaceX says it’s deorbited 406 sats previously. Unusual to decommission so many at once, though.

    “Commitment to Space Sustainability” (pdf)

    [SpaceX]

    Amazon Prime Video drops Dolby Vision and Atmos unless you pay extraAmazon Prime Video drops Dolby Vision and Atmos unless you pay extra
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    Sean Hollister
    I guess we’re about to test the Infinite Monkey Theorem.

    Sam Altman, ChatGPT’s master and would-be chip czar:

    openai now generates about 100 billion words per day.

    all people on earth generate about 100 trillion words per day.

    Lego’s next limited-edition sets could include an Elven Castle and this Sushi RestaurantLego’s next limited-edition sets could include an Elven Castle and this Sushi Restaurant
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    Sean Hollister
    Ubisoft won’t increase VR investment after Assassin’s Creed disappointment.

    Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot:

    We have been a bit disappointed by what we were able to achieve on VR with Assassin’s Creed, it did okay, and it continues to sell, but we thought it would sell more, so we are not increasing our investment on VR at the moment, because it needs to take off. We have been very impressed by what Apple came with, and we think it’s fantastic hardware, but we continue to look at this VR business as something that we have to look at but not invest too much in, until it grows enough.

    Totilo’s right: no publisher has supported VR like Ubisoft. But it reportedly canceled Splinter Cell VR, and now this...

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