April Edition Live Magazine - April 2014 Issue. | Page 6

WHAT’S NEW?

Here’s what’s hot at the moment
and what’s likely to be popular with
gamers and tech lovers!

FACEBOOK BUYS BIG!

GOT A SPARE $3,000 FOR SOME KICK BUTT GRAPHICS?

The internet went a bit crazy the other day with the
announcement of Facebook buying start up, Oculus
VR for $2 billion. Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook
wanted to make Oculus a platform for “completely
new kinds of experiences”.

Nvidia announced the GeForce
Titan Z graphics card for a cool
$3,000. So you can buy this or a
new gaming rig. The CEO of Nvidia
said at the company’s recent GPU
Technology Conference that it would
be powered by two Kepler GPUs
and feature 12gig RAM. It also is
powered by 5,760 processing cored
and that basically means insanely
fast processing power. Sure it’s
expensive but for hard core gamers
it will be very desirable!

With the weight of Facebook behind it, Oculus now
will have the resources to take on Sony’s Project
Morpheus, another VR headset system that recently
was shown off. There were a ton of comments on
the various forums and many people were worried
the social media giant would take the unit into
undesirable directions such as ads on and during
games etc. Facebook are too smart for it to end up
like this humorous video (click here!)…
Founder of Oculus, Palmer Lucky posted a long letter
about the partnership ending simply with “We won’t
let you down.”
Let’s give it a chance and see what they do. After all if
they mess it up, fans simply won’t buy it.

OFFICE FOR iPAD!
At last or too little too late? Either
way it was reported that Microsoft
finally released Office for the iPad
as free download.
You can download via the iTunes
store - Word, Excel and Powerpoint
but if you have the Apple
alternatives, you might wonder why
bother?

NOKIA LUMIA 630 RELEASED SOON!
Aimed at the low end of the market, this promises to be the first Windows phone with on screen buttons.
As of writing this there is no image on the Nokia website so you’ll have to wait for the announcement
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