Relaxnews Telecoms provider Orange is testing the waters of mass-market VR with an experimental OCS VR channel for the Samsung Gear VR and PlayStation VR. The Paris, France headquartered telco is teaming up with Californian startup Wevr to offer premium video content in “an immersive VR environment customized to look like a private theatre” from October 12, 2016. From ...

  Bloomberg Samsung Electronics Co. opened a branch of its early-stage technology investment program in Tel Aviv to better tap into the innovative engineering for which Israel is known. Investment in individual companies will typically be about $1 million with no limit on the number of beneficiaries or the funding amount, Eyal Miller, Samsung Next Tel Aviv’s general manager and ...

  Wellington / AFP New Zealand researchers said Monday they have restored the first recording of computer-generated music, created in 1951 on a gigantic contraption built by British genius Alan Turing. The aural artefact, which paved the way for everything from synthesizers to modern electronica, opens with a staunchly conservative tune —the British national anthem “God Save the King”. Researchers at ...