10/27 Do Now

What a presentation means to me is that I can show others what I am interested in while showing them new information about it. How to engage in a presentation is to start off with a question, or make eye contact with the audience. Also, to bring in a positive attitude such as being happy to the the presentation to attract or wake up the audience.

Tech Article 10/23/14

Magic Leap

• Google donates and leads $542 million to Magic Leap.
• Magic Leap is a company which is a developing a new augmented reality glasses that create digital objects in your environment.
• One of these many unique objects is an elephant or even a submarine.
• Instead of displaying these images or projecting them outward, Magic Leap decided to project it into the user eye, surprisingly, the outcome was jaw-dropping.

Tech Article 10/17/14

Steam

• Steam is a digital distribution platform developed by Valve Corporation.
• Steam distributes games made by many  well known companies and even regular everyday people.
• Not only does it help sell games made by anyone but it also sells other platforms, kits, and even software to create more games. In it of itself, its technically a self building game developer due to every player and designer just having fun and making games.
• This gives anyone a way to make money through making games from their own house.
• This all was discovered mostly by a guy named Gabe Newell or also known has Gaben who now has a networth value of about $1.3 Billion and still rising.

Tech Article 10/9/14

Oculus Rift 

• The Oculus Rift is a Virtual Reality head-wear which lets you experience the world around within a game.
• It has Ultra-Low 360 degree head tracking system which allows you seamlessly look around the virtual world as if you were the in the game itself.
• Also, it has stereoscopic 3D view which creates parallel images for each eye, so unlike 3D movies it makes the environment seem more realistic and natural.
• Lastly, the Oculus provides 100 degrees field of view which expands beyond your peripheral vision which also makes your view not limited by the box around the screen but as far as your eye can see.