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How Google’s Daydream mobile VR system will work

Edit Venture Beat 22 May 2016
With Google Daydream, introduced earlier this week at the annual Google I/O developer conference, people will be able to do so much more than just sit back and watch YouTube videos. As Google VR head Clay Bavor explained during Wednesday’s keynote, there are three parts to Daydream ... But that isn’t the only thing that distinguishes Daydream from Cardboard....

Opportunities and Hurdles with Google's Daydream VR Vision

Edit Newsfactor 22 May 2016
Upcoming virtual-reality headsets based on Google's new Daydream VR system won't be as sophisticated as Facebook's Oculus Rift ... Daydream headsets will work with a range of phone brands. Gartner analyst Brian Blau says he believes the Daydream-powered devices could prove to be a "thorn in the side" of both Samsung and Oculus, which teamed up to make a similar VR headset , called Gear VR, late last year....

Beast and Ursula were good company before Disney World

Edit St Louis Post-Dispatch 22 May 2016
Walt Disney's universe sets Bill to daydreaming ... ....

Hey, hey, it’s the Monkees

Edit Naples Daily News 22 May 2016
Step inside the Wayback Machine and journey to the '60s, where Davy Jones still lives and sings "Daydream Believer" for all eternity. Time machines don't exist, of course. But that didn't stop The Monkees from peeling back the decades Wednesday night at Barbara B ... Davy Jones." ... Jones' ghost hung over the night's proceedings and manifested itself with recorded vocals on two songs, including the ever-popular "Daydream Believer." ... ....

RJD show-causes Taslimuddin for remarks against Nitish Kumar

Edit Deccan Chronicle 22 May 2016
Patna. RJD on day issued a show-cause notice to its Araria Lok Sabha MP Mohammad Taslimuddin for making statements against Chief Minister Nitish Kumar ... RJD sources said the controversial statements were indirectly helping BJP ... On an earlier occasion as well, Taslimuddin had said Nitish Kumar was not "PM material" and was "daydreaming of becoming the prime minister". ....

RJD show-causes MP Taslimuddin for remarks against Nitish Kumar

Edit DNA India 22 May 2016
-->. Taslimuddin said Nitish Kumar is not even fit to be a 'mukhiya'. RJD on Sunday issued a show-cause notice to its Araria Lok Sabha MP Mohammad Taslimuddin for making statements against Chief Minister Nitish Kumar ... ALSO READ ... RJD's Taslimuddin ... On an earlier occasion as well, Taslimuddin had said Nitish Kumar was not "PM material" and was "daydreaming of becoming the prime minister". ....

The in and out of Google's tech fest

Edit The Hindu 22 May 2016
Google Assistant. No doubt Google has decided to take on Apple this time, with a significant move into artificial intelligence via Google Assistant. Not to forget that Microsoft has its cross-platform Cortana, working on iOS, Android and Windows. Google's CEO Sundar Pichai introduced this language processing platform that provides a two-way dialogue with Google ... Google Home ... It can answer questions via Google search ... Allo ... Duo ... Daydream....

Alan Young obituary

Edit The Guardian 22 May 2016
Actor who starred alongside Mister Ed, the talking horse, in the TV sitcom ... For five years, between 1961 and 1966, Young starred in the extremely popular television sitcom Mister Ed opposite the titular horse ... “Ah,” he says ... Facebook ... The show was a bland mixture of musical numbers – Young had a pleasant singing voice – and comic sketches, which utilised the star’s rather wimpish, daydreaming persona, carried over into the films he made....

‘In Negroland we thought of ourselves as the Third Race’

Edit The Guardian 22 May 2016
An extract from Negroland, Margo Jefferson’s memoir of growing up in postwar America’s emerging black elite. • Margo Jefferson. ‘I was anxious about using the word Negro in a book title’. I was taught to avoid showing off. I was taught to distinguish myself through presentation, not declaration, to excel through deeds and manners, not showing off. But isn’t all memoir a form of showing off? ... So I grew ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... She was planning or daydreaming....

Epic Games explains why its backing Google Daydream VR

Edit Venture Beat 21 May 2016
Earlier this week, Epic Games announced that it created a plugin for Google’s new VR platform, Daydream, that would allow developers to use Unreal Engine 4 to create games and experiences for the device ... GamesBeat interviewed Nick Whiting, the technical director at Epic Games, about Epic’s support for Daydream ... What makes Daydream different from other VR platforms?....

Is Google’s new VR project just another … daydream?

Edit Venture Beat 21 May 2016
As with any major announcement from Google, Daydream’s May 18 reveal came with its fair share of hyperbole and hubris. “Hundreds of millions of users” will have Daydream-enabled phones in a couple of years, claimed the company’s senior product manager, Brahim Elbouchikhi ... And they will have the Daydream platform on them ... Essentially, Daydream ......

Watch Radiohead Debut 'Moon Shaped Pool' Songs in Amsterdam

Edit Rollingstone 21 May 2016
... the first five songs Radiohead performed at their first concert since November 2012 were the album's opening five tracks – "Burn the Witch," "Daydreaming," "Decks Dark," "Desert Island Disk" and "Ful Stop" – in order before they dipped back into the rest of their catalog ... "Daydreaming"....

Tidal in trouble, boombox luggage, dirty VR daydreams

Edit Digital Trends 21 May 2016
Tidal is in trouble, VR porn could kill old-school porn, smart contact lenses are going to freak everyone out, and Google has way too many chat apps, Guests include Ezra Cimino-Hurt, of Case of Bass, and Chris Regis, of Green Century Electronics Recycling. The post Trends with Benefits. Tidal in trouble, boombox luggage, dirty VR daydreams appeared first on Digital Trends ... ....
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