Neowin News Feed for: Reality

Apple hires Microsoft HoloLens engineer fuelling speculation of AR features in iOS 9

Moshe Jacobs — Mon, 31 Aug 2015 15:34:01 +0000

Apple is rumoured to begin augmented reality efforts as it recruits a former lead engineer from Microsoft's HoloLens team. Will we be seeing the future of Apple's intentions soon? Read more...

iPhone copy and paste nearing reality

Damien Reynolds — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:15:56 +0000

Something all iPhone users desperately want is copy and paste, nothing is more annoying when someone sends you a link to a site in your text message and you have to write it down so... Read more...

Need For Speed leaves virtual reality

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:20:54 +0000

EA, the publishers behind the Need For Speed series of games, have announced that fans of the popular series will be able to act out their car fantasies in real life in June 2009. Over... Read more...

AI nearing reality

Tom Warren — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:40:35 +0000

A machine came within 5% of beating the turing test at this weekend's annual Loebner Prize competition at the University of Reading. The Turing test is a proposal for a test of a machine's... Read more...

Project Reality 0.7 - Battlefield 2 Mod

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:13:45 +0000

Project Reality is a free to download game modification for the Battlefield 2 (BF2) retail pc game. The Reality Mod installs alongside the existing game installation allowing both the original and Project Reality to be... Read more...

You Won't Believe Your Eyes When 3D TV Becomes Reality

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 02:31:20 +0000

Perfect 3D television and movies without those horrible glasses? They're closer than you think. I'm sitting in Paris and some butterflies are fluttering towards me. Loads of them, perfectly clearly. I could allow one to... Read more...

Microsoft's Fathi: Vista Security Is Becoming Reality

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 15:07:45 +0000

After taking on the responsibility of leading Microsoft's efforts to secure its much-awaited Vista operating system, Ben Fathi, corporate vice president of the Redmond, Wash., company's Security Technology Unit, is in town at the Security... Read more...

Epic purchases Reality engine, ends development

Todd Tanner — Thu, 12 May 2005 18:04:09 +0000

RALEIGH, May 12th, 2005; Epic Games, one of the world's leading developers of cutting-edge computer and video games and the pioneer of the award-winning Unreal Engine, today announced that it has completed the purchase of... Read more...

DS Linux closer to reality

Marcel Klum — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 20:18:46 +0000

A group of homebrew development enthusiasts attempting to get Linux running on the Nintendo DS have made something of a breakthrough this past week, managing to get a homebrew demo running on the dual screen... Read more...

The Sims 2 now retail reality

Sun, 19 Sep 2004 00:08:04 +0000

Four years after the original PC game started the life-sim craze, the sequel has finally shipped to stores. In the year 2000, EA and Maxis released The Sims that re-created everyday life.... Read more...

Virtual Reality May Distract the Brain from Pain

Mon, 05 Jul 2004 18:31:00 +0000

Researchers have since long been working on harnessing computers' processing power in various different ways to aid in finding cure for diseases. From generating strings of protein sequences to simulation of biological trends and now... Read more...

AOL to launch reality show

Thu, 08 Apr 2004 14:55:02 +0000

It's a lot like "The Apprentice," except nobody gets fired. Hoping to capitalize on the sensational buzz around NBC's hit reality show, AOL is launching an online feature that will follow the... Read more...

Real's Reality

Thu, 04 Mar 2004 23:08:07 +0000

The message in RealNetworks' antitrust case against Microsoft is clear: "Predatory conduct" by Microsoft is responsible for lost business that could exceed $1 billion in damages to the digital-media company. Regardless of... Read more...

Reality Check: How Safe Is Linux?

Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:43:42 +0000

It is not enough for an operating system to be low cost, reliable and capable of handling mission-critical applications. At some point in every OS's cycle of life, the question comes down to security and... Read more...

Reality intrudes into gaming

Tom Warren — Sat, 19 Apr 2003 09:41:09 +0000

Microsoft has come up with a new take on the often fantastical virtual world gamers are used to playing in. Using a technique developed at Microsoft's UK research lab in Cambridge,... Read more...

AquaMark3 - The Reality Benchmark.

Marcel Klum — Mon, 24 Mar 2003 19:36:12 +0000

JoWooD Productions is proud to announce that their subsidiary, Massive Development, has today launched an official website and trailer to show off their upcoming PC tool AquaMark3. New details on AquaMark3 and the official trailer... Read more...

Judge-dread becomes reality

Sat, 15 Mar 2003 15:08:54 +0000

Ever see judge dread? They had these cools guns which only fired if your finger print was authorised; film just became reality. "Pretoria inventor Nic van Zyl has developed what may be... Read more...

Media needs a reality check?

Steven Parker — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 13:12:53 +0000

Thanks Jon who spotted this before it was removed (but not deleted) from view at the site Boston.com. This extraordinary article seemed to cover a very different chain of events and could well... Read more...

IM compatibility closer to reality

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 02 Nov 2002 10:24:17 +0000

The Internet's governing technical body quietly gave its stamp of approval Thursday to a group intent on creating an open standard for instant messaging. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the group that sets... Read more...

AOL 6.0 for Windows XP a reality

Steven Parker — Wed, 28 Nov 2001 12:27:32 +0000

Thanks again Warp2search for this one, this is for all you AOL'ers that find upgrading to AOL 7.0 to much to stomach. "I was doing some digging on the AOL ftp... Read more...

Linux app makes Xbox net gaming a reality

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 27 Nov 2001 10:18:49 +0000

Next year's launch of Microsoft's network gaming service for Xbox has been pre-empted by an open source/Linux development, Xbox Gateway. Bill is no doubt absolutely ecstatic about this, but he can console himself with the... Read more...

OT: Teleportation one step closer to reality

Steven Parker — Thu, 27 Sep 2001 10:00:31 +0000

Saw this over @ The C-A-D. Physicists in Denmark have made two samples of trillions of atoms interact at a distance in an experiment which may bring Star Trek-style teleportation and rapid quantum computing closer... Read more...