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Roughly two and a half years after its first season aired, Star Wars Andor, the fiercely political series starring Diego Luna who reprises the role of Cassian Andor he first played in Rogue One, has returned for its second and final season. Overseen by Michael Clayton director Tony Gilroy, the show has an unusual…
DietPi 9.12, a Debian-based Linux distro for SBCs, adds support for Fish Shell, Amiberry v7, Amiberry-Lite, and more.
Porsche’s Apple Vision Pro App lets you customize a 911 Spirit 70 in mixed reality — and proceed to order it if you have the $250K to spare.
The Porsche 911 Spirit 70 is a limited edition model of the 911 meant to pay homage to the 1970s. The company says it “captures the vibrant flair of the 1970s and then wraps it in the unmistakable form of a contemporary 911”, and plans to make just 1500 units.
Prospective 911 Spirit 70 buyers can customize the exact color of the car’s exterior and interior on the website, in store, or now, for the first time ever that we’re aware of, in mixed reality.
Trying out Porsche’s app on Apple Vision Pro, the vehicle appeared to be close to real scale (though not full scale), and thus it didn’t fit in my room, inducing the common mixed reality depth-conflict effect wherein an object should clip through your wall but doesn’t. And while you can rotate the virtual 911 Spirit 70, you can’t resize it. If you can afford a car that starts at $250K, you probably have a room big enough for it, though.
Another oddity of the app is that it won’t let you stick your head through the window to closely inspect the interior, despite it being fully modeled in very high fidelity. Attempting to do so will bring up an “Oops, that’s too close” message and make the entire vehicle temporarily invisible. This is a baffling decision. Ideally, I’d even want a mode where I can sit in the interior.
Another thing to be aware of is that the app is far more than just a spartan configurator. The process of customizing the car brings you through a series of videos from designers of the Porsche 911 Spirit 70 explaining their inspirations and decisions, though you can skip them after a few seconds.
Once you’ve configured the car, you can either proceed to the ordering webpage via Safari, with your choices passed through, or save your decisions to a card in your Apple Wallet to show at a Porsche store.
While we don’t expect many people to actually buy a $250K limited edition vehicle this way, it is an interesting example of how physical products could be sold using mixed reality.
Though the weather has taken a turn for the better recently, nothing beats staying inside for some gaming—or, if you prefer, taking a game to go with you on your portable device of choice. Should you be planning on staying in this weekend with some games or looking to log some miles with a handheld console at your…
As pre-orders for the Switch 2 went live earlier this week, we started to learn more about many of the launch and post-launch games that will be available for Nintendo’s next big console. And it turns out that a lot of physical Switch 2 games are “Game Key Card” carts which, rather than actually containing the game on…
The Beetle RP2350 is a coin-sized development board designed for space-constrained embedded projects. Despite its compact 25 × 20.5 mm footprint, it offers a wide range of hardware features and low power consumption, enabling its use in portable devices such as retro computers, game consoles, lighting controllers, and electronic badges. This board is built around […]
Minecraft has milk in it but it’s not green. Instead, the “Creeper milk” going viral on Tiktok arises purely from the marketing geniuses behind chocolate milk maker TruMoo.Drafting off of the Minecraft Movie’s box office success, the dairy company released jugs of Minecraft-licensed “Vanilla Green Lowfat Milk” that…
The Debian project is discussing a General Resolution (GR) that
would, if approved, clarify that AI models must include training data
to be compliant with the Debian
Free Software Guidelines (DFSG) and be distributed by Debian as
free software. While GR discussions are sometimes contentious, the
discussion around the proposal from Debian developer Mo Zhou has
been anything but—there seems to be
consensus that AI models are not DFSG-compliant if they lack training
data. There are, however, some questions about the exact language and
questions about the impact the GR will have on existing packages in
the Debian archive.
A live-action movie adaptation of Split Fiction, EA and Hazelight’s recently released hit co-op game, is moving forward according to new report claiming that the director of Wicked is set to helm the film. It’s also reported that Sydney Sweeney will star in the adaptation that is being written by the team behind Deadpo…
Linux hardware vendor System76 released today COSMIC Alpha 7 as the latest development version for this up-and-coming desktop environment written in Rust for GNU/Linux distributions and the company’s in-house Pop!_OS Linux distro.
This article will guide you to enforcing DoT (DNS over TLS) on your running system and at boot time. Support is avaliable in Fedora 42. It will also guide you to set up encrypted DNS for system installation, if you want to try it with current Fedora Rawhide (Fedora 43). Background Traditionally, DNS queries are […]
The Jones Road Fire tore through over 15,300 acres of drought-stricken Pine Barrens—leaving a smoky scar visible from space.
Zalmotek offers a range of Feather SoMs built around Renesas microcontrollers, targeting energy-efficient and compact embedded applications. These modules follow the Adafruit Feather form factor and include essential interfaces for rapid prototyping and deployment in IoT and low-power scenarios. The RA0E1 Feather SoM is designed for ultra-low-power use cases. It features an Arm Cortex-M23 CPU […]
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