As the battle between the Rift and HTC Vive rages on, Oculus has announced in a blog post that all pre-orders have now shipped out, and anyone can buy a headset with just a two to four day wait time.
The Oculus Shipping page elaborates on those terms. Orders made from North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand will generally ship within two days, while parts of Asia may have to wait as long as four days. The shipping page also mentions that retail partners like Amazon (where the only Rifts are currently sold by third parties for above sticker price) will have different shipping and delivery times.
The Rift’s release earlier this year was marked by delays, a fact Oculus hasn’t been shy about apologizing for. The team took one more opportunity here to thank pre-order customers for their patience and support over the last few months. Now that those orders are fulfilled, Oculus is starting to roll out more headsets to retail and on-line partners, with new demo stations at Microsoft Stores starting in July.
“We’re on track to launch Touch and introduce true hand presence along with an amazing lineup of games and experiences later this year. We’ll have lots more to share about Touch and the 30+ launch titles at OC3.” That statement is, unfortunately, about all the blog post has to share about the upcoming Touch controllers. We reviewed both the Vive and Rift and found the lack of proper motion controllers really sets the two systems apart, so those Touch controllers could be the missing piece of the puzzle.
That’s not all. The post also served as the official announcement for Oculus Connect 3, the company’s annual developer conference. With Touch controllers looming ever closer on the horizon, the term “hand presence” will likely be thrown around quite a bit at this year’s talks.
After five years with Apple silicon, from the original M1 MacBook Air to the M5 MacBook Air released earlier this year, I've watched these chips mature not just on the spec sheet, but in real-world workflows and overall efficiency.
The new M6 chip might sound like a routine generational upgrade, but it's the company's first chip built on a 2nm manufacturing process, which brings meaningful improvements over previous Apple chips.
Gemini Notebook’s mobile app now has a built-in recorder for capturing lectures and meetings as sources. You can record directly where you’ll use the material, skipping the separate recording app and the file upload afterward.
Google announced the feature on X, highlighting classroom lectures and team meetings as potential uses. It also works for capturing your own thoughts, so you can talk through an idea and bring that explanation into your notebook while it’s still fresh.
In 1950, Alan Turing asked whether machines can think. Rather than argue over definitions, he turned the question into a party game, where an interrogator trades typed messages with hidden players and tries to work out who is who. Since then, chatbots have gotten so good that they have already fooled humans in modern versions of the test.
So, four researchers from Paris Cité University asked the obvious follow-up question in a new study published in Computers in Human Behavior Reports: can AI at least catch its own kind?