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emergentfutures: Oculus Primed: Meet the Geniuses Who Finally Mastered Virtual Reality The Rift is the brainchild of a 19-year-old tinkerer and VR enthusiast named Palmer Luckey. A collector of old VR headsets, Luckey was all too familiar with the shortcomings every system had faced—small fields of vision, unwieldy form factors, horrific resolution. He was also…
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nprplays: Museums Give Video Games Bonus Life, But The Next Level Awaits Video games, like other digital media, present a host of challenges for preservationists. The hardware and software used to run and play any particular game eventually becomes obsolete or breaks. Storage media like DVDs, flash drives or hard drives can become corrupted over…
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One day you are putting numbers into spreadsheet cells, and the next those numbers feed into budgets, and the budgets turn into requests to Human Resources, which turn into postings on Stack Overflow and requests to outsourcing placement firms in Estonia or Mumbai, and these turn into human beings doing things, sometimes in Offices, or…