Mountless Aerial HMD Floating Virtual Reality Without Headset

Mountless Aerial HMDs Seat You in a Floating Virtual World Without a Headset

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Mountless Aerial HMD Floating Virtual Reality Without Headset
Spending a full day inside a virtual world sounds simple until the hardware starts pressing on your face. Associate Professor Shogo Fukushima at Kyushu University heard that complaint from a student who wanted longer sessions and kept running into the weight of a headset on the head and neck. Fukushima already knew the feeling. Some days he spends more time in virtual scenes than outside them, and he has tried to sleep in one, only to find the goggles made rest nearly impossible. That friction led to a paper at SIGGRAPH Emerging Technologies in 2026, titled Mountless Aerial HMDs, which moves the entire optical assembly off the face and onto a chair.

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Gadget Industry DIY Homemade Power Station Bank Desktop PC

Gadget Industry’s One Hand Power Station Quietly Runs a Full Desktop PC

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Gadget Industry DIY Homemade Power Station Bank Desktop PC
Four brick-shaped lithium iron phosphate cells, each rated 3.2 volts and 15 amp-hours, sit in a row and form the whole energy store of a homemade power station small enough to close a hand around. Wired end to end, they make a 12.8-volt pack that climbs to 14.6 volts when full and holds about 192 watt-hours. A 100-amp battery management board watches cell voltage, balances the four cells, and cuts the circuit on overcurrent or a short. Spot-welded nickel strips, stacked so the joints can carry the current, tie the pack together. Cells of this chemistry tolerate a 3C discharge, which on paper means up to 45 amps, and they are rated for more than 3,000 charge cycles with less fire risk than the lithium-ion packs common in phone banks.

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256GB Google Pixel 11 Pro Prime Day Deal

256GB Google Pixel 11 Pro Smartphone for $834 and 5 More October Prime Day Tech Deals (Part 2)

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256GB Google Pixel 11 Pro Prime Day Deal
Google’s Pixel 11 Pro in the 256GB version, priced at $834 for Prime Day (was $1,100), pairs that storage with 12GB of memory and a Tensor G6 chip built on a 3-nanometer process, inside a glass and aluminum body that measures about 152.7 by 71.9 by 8.4 millimeters and weighs 204 grams. A 6.3-inch LTPO OLED panel runs from 1Hz to 120Hz at 1280 by 2856, with a peak rating of 3600 nits and Gorilla Glass Victus 2 on the front. Three rear cameras handle the photos: a 50-megapixel main sensor at f/1.7, a 48-megapixel ultrawide at 123 degrees, and a 48-megapixel periscope at 5x, with 8K video from the rear and a 42-megapixel camera up front. A 4,850mAh battery charges at 30 watts on a cable, reaching about 55 percent in 30 minutes, and at 25 watts on a magnetic Qi2.2 pad. Android 17 ships on the phone, with seven major OS updates on the schedule, and an ultrasonic fingerprint reader sits under the screen. IP68 covers dust and a short dip, with Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and ultra-wideband for the connections.

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EarthBound SNES Native PC Port Widescreen

Phase Distorter Puts EarthBound on PC With Widescreen Views and CRT Filters

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EarthBound SNES Native PC Port Widescreen
Ness, Paula, Jeff, and Poo can now walk Onett on a desktop, and the program that takes them there shares a name with the time machine Dr. Andonuts built for the end of the game. Phase Distorter, written by a developer going by TheRunaway5, is an unofficial native port of the 1994 Super Nintendo role-playing game EarthBound and its Japanese release, Mother 2. Version 0.2.1 went out on October 4, 2026, as a development build for Windows and Linux, and write-ups followed within a couple of days.

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