Facebook's Oculus Horizon Workrooms Pits VR Meetings Against Zoom And Microsoft Teams

Hot Headlines In Tech For Today [HotHardware.com]( Here Are Today's Hot Headlines In Tech [Facebook's Oculus Horizon Workrooms Pits VR Meetings Against Zoom And Microsoft Teams]( By Paul Lilly on Aug 19, 2021 01:58 pm [Facebook's Oculus Horizon Workrooms Pits VR Meetings Against Zoom And Microsoft Teams]( Facebook is making a virtual play in the remote collaborative workspace, with a new app for the Oculus Quest 2 called Horizon Workrooms. If you and your co-workers own a VR headset (and not just any VR headset, but specifically the Quest 2), this could offer an alternative to the usual suspects, including Zoom and Microsoft's Teams software. 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Given that Arc cards will compete head-to-head with [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Banana Pi's BPI-M2S Is A Ripe Raspberry Pi Rival With Dual GbE And 6-Core SoC]( By Brandon Hill on Aug 19, 2021 11:52 am [Banana Pi's BPI-M2S Is A Ripe Raspberry Pi Rival With Dual GbE And 6-Core SoC]( It seems as though there is no shortage of alternatives to Raspberry Pi when it comes to single-board computers. A new entry makes its presence known every few months, but Raspberry Pi still has the most mindshare with the enthusiast/DIY community. Banana Pi is looking to change this with its latest fruity "Pi" offering: the BPI-M2S. The [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Star Citizen Blasts Off For Another Free Fly Event With Six Ships To Command]( By Paul Lilly on Aug 19, 2021 11:36 am [Star Citizen Blasts Off For Another Free Fly Event With Six Ships To Command]( You have another opportunity to play Star Citizen for free, and not just for a weekend. Cloud Imperium Games is letting people trial the title in still-unreleased form at no cost for a little over a week—enough time to check it out, fly a handful of ships, and perhaps even decide to add more money to the crowdfunded coffer. "From now through [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Intel 13th Gen Raptor Lake-S CPU Family Leaks Including Flagship Core i9-13900K]( By Paul Lilly on Aug 19, 2021 10:57 am [Intel 13th Gen Raptor Lake-S CPU Family Leaks Including Flagship Core i9-13900K]( Some more details came to light about Alder Lake during the Intel Architecture Day 21 event, including a bit of a deeper dive into the hybrid architecture with three high-speed interconnect fabrics to tie together I/O, memory, and compute. What Intel unsurprisingly did not discuss is Alder Lake's successor, Raptor Lake, but a fresh leak offered [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Intel To Adopt Hybrid Manufacturing Strategy For Arc GPUs, Meteor Lake CPUs And Beyond]( By Brandon Hill on Aug 19, 2021 10:54 am [Intel To Adopt Hybrid Manufacturing Strategy For Arc GPUs, Meteor Lake CPUs And Beyond]( We brought you details from Intel's Architecture Day earlier this morning, and we highly recommend that you grab a cup of coffee and read through it for all the latest information on Alder Lake, Sapphire Rapids, Arc, and more. But looking past those new architectures, Intel also gave us some insight into its strategy for foundries. As we [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [NVIDIA Crushes Q2 Earnings On Booming Gaming Demand, Expects GPU Shortages Through 2022]( By Paul Lilly on Aug 19, 2021 09:48 am [NVIDIA Crushes Q2 Earnings On Booming Gaming Demand, Expects GPU Shortages Through 2022]( NVIDIA just posted another monster quarter, this time raking in a record $6.51 billion in revenue during Q2, representing a massive 68 percent increase from the same three-month period last year. A significant chunk of that is profit—NVIDIA reported net income of $2.37 billion, up 24 percent sequentially and a mind-boggling 282 percent year-over-year. [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Intel Architecture Day 21: Alder Lake, Arc, Sapphire Rapids And More Revealed]( By Dave Altavilla, Marco Chiappetta on Aug 19, 2021 09:00 am [Intel Architecture Day 21: Alder Lake, Arc, Sapphire Rapids And More Revealed]( Intel held its annual Architecture Day earlier this week, and it’s safe to say that members of the press and analyst communities were waiting with baited breath for the deep dive disclosures on the company’s next-gen silicon architectures and products that are typically unveiled at the event. This year, Intel gave us a densely-packed... 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