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AI’s ‘Oppenheimer moment’: autonomous weapons enter the battlefield

The military use of AI-enabled weapons is growing, and the industry that provides them is booming

The Guardian - US

Who Is Palmer Luckey? Businessman Sells His Virtual Reality Company For $2B, Then Left Two Years Later

VR pioneer Palmer Luckey left Meta in 2016. He founded Anduril Industries and built a deadly VR headset inspired by anime

International Business Times UK

Modretro's Chromatic Game Boy Clone Is the Most Nostalgic Retro Gaming Handheld Ever Made

Palmer Luckey and Modretro took the wraps off of the Chromatic, which is the first "pixel-accurate" Game Boy clone, that only plays cartridges and has a color-matched LCD screen that perfectly emulates Nintendo's original handheld.

Inverse

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Silicon Valley startups are invading the military market

Controversy around defense tech may be heating up on college campuses, but not in the Valley.

Fortune

PC Gamer's least accurate predictions of all time

30 years of getting the future wrong

PC Gamer

Apple 'did everything right' with its Vision Pro headset, says Oculus founder

Vision Pro has gone down well with Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus and a man who knows a thing or two about AR/VR headsets.

iMore

What the Oculus Rift Inventor Thinks About Apple Vision Pro

Palmer Luckey, who invented modern VR with Oculus VR and the Oculus Rift headset, has some interesting thoughts about Apple’s head-worn spatial computer.

Inverse

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Apple's Reality Pro AR/VR headset will be a 'huge deal' according to one man who really should know

Apple's Reality Pro AR/VR headset is imminent and Oculus founder Palmer Luckey has seen it.

iMore

New Apple AR/VR headset leak reveals its powerful components — here's what's inside

Apple's AR/VR headset is coming, and although there have been plenty of rumors of delays, it appears it is scheduled to be unveiled at WWDC in just a few short weeks.

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The Apple VR headset is a winner, according to the Meta Quest’s pioneer

The founder of the Oculus Rift, which later became the Meta Quest, has made big claims about Apple's mixed-reality headset.

TechRadar

Apple Reality Pro headset gets seal of approval from one the VR industry's most important people

The man responsible for modern VR’s revival loves the Apple Reality Pro headset.

iMore

Wildfires are ravaging the American west. Can a contest help solve the problem?

Like many Californians, Peter Diamandis grew frustrated in recent years by the "craziness" of constant wildfire alerts he's received.

Los Angeles Times

Future undersea warfare will rely on uncrewed submarines as ocean becomes ‘transparent’, defence contractor says

CEO of defence firm building Australia’s Ghost Shark autonomous submarines sees the vehicles as ‘a force multiplier’

The Guardian - AU

Far-right's Lord of the Rings obsession

Right-wing Lord of the Rings fans find archconservative lessons in Middle-earth. Why?

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Right-Wing Rings of Power

Lord of the Rings fans from Trump-supporting libertarian billionaire Peter Thiel to Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni find archconservative lessons in Middle-earth. Why?

Inverse

Why the Oculus Rift inventor made a VR headset that can kill you

Palmer Luckey, the creator of the original Oculus Rift VR headset, made a modified Quest Pro that can physically harm you if you lose in a game.

Evening Standard

Game over: Oculus creator designs VR headset that ‘destroys the brain of the user’

New VR headset concept ups the ante for esports with the prospect of instant death

Fortune

Why leaders bury their heads in the sand when faced with uncomfortable facts

Adidas executives, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk have one thing in common: they behave like an ostrich–and so do you, according to behavioral science.

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Daily Mirror

Gamers who perish in new virtual reality experience 'die in real life'

Oculus creator Palmer Luckey has made a virtual reality experience in which players who perish inside the game are killed in real life by three explosive charges aimed at the brain

The Guardian - US

‘Never sleeps, never even blinks’: the hi-tech Anduril towers spreading along the US border

Funded by Trump supporter Peter Thiel, the autonomous surveillance towers can detect a human from 2.8km away

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From ‘The Lawnmower Man’ to Meta: VR’s most important moments

Thirty years ago an adaptation of Stephen King’s ‘The Lawnmower Man’ hyper-fixated on the dangers of “virtual reality." Here’s a short timeline of how VR has become a mainstream buzzword.

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