You have until 12/31/23 to save your Stadia Controller by converting it to a Bluetooth gamepad — and devs can rescue its more exotic buttons, too. Today, Google’s showing even web games can listen for the Capture and Assistant buttons using WebHID.
Fingers crossed Valve is adding the Stadia pad to Steam Input so we can configure it ourselves; that seems way better than hoping web devs do.
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Is it coincidence that the biggest champions of mobile VR both formed AI startups after their projects got squashed? Probably! But I’m connecting dots anyhow for fun.
John Carmack (Gear VR, Oculus Go) = Keen Technologies
Clay Bavor (Google Daydream) = Company name TBD
Max Cohen, former Facebook VP of Mobile VR, got while the getting was good: he runs a healthcare startup now.
When you join the new Microsoft Bing waitlist, it claims you can get the AI tool faster by installing a browser extension. I did — and now Google and Microsoft are fighting in my web browser.
Microsoft didn’t livestream its surprise AI event, so you might not have seen: the new Bing chatbot can look a lot like ChatGPT.
Here’s what the welcome page says, as captured at Microsoft’s live ChatGPT + Bing + Edge event:
Let’s learn together. Bing is powered by AI, so surprises and mistakes are possible. Make sure to check the facts, and share feedback so we can learn and improve!
You can easily cross-reference, though: Bing is putting chat and search side by side.
From Sony’s new PSVR2 Ultimate FAQ:
Yes, similar to the thousands of tiny PlayStation symbols we added to the surfaces of the PS5 console and DualSense controller, we also included tiny PlayStation symbols to the front and back bands of the PS VR2 headset. This adds a texture for a tactile feel for you to enjoy.
We put those tiny symbols under the microscope — literally! — in 2021.
