MobileNews

The Oppo Watch goes official in China, running ‘Android-based’ ColorOS

Oppo has officially unveiled its first-ever smartwatch in China — the Oppo Watch — with a global release expected later next month. The company’s very first wearable was teased during the livestreamed launch keynote for the Find X2, but it was at the Chinese launch of the smartphone where more details were shared. It will come with a 46mm square crown, which houses a 1.91-inch OLED panel…
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MobileNews

How to livestream the Oppo Find X2 and Oppo Smartwatch launch

Oppo is set to unveil the follow-up to its legendary pop-up Find X at a launch event in London, but you can livestream the entire thing from the comfort of your home. Despite many other firms canceling launches because of coronavirus concerns, Oppo is still powering through with the launch of its first 2020 flagships. We’re not just going to see a smartphone either. The Chinese firm is also set…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Microsoft’s AI generates 3D objects from 2D images

The AI research labs at Facebook, Nvidia, and startups like Threedy.ai have at various points tried their hand at the challenge of 2D-object-to-3D-shape conversion. But in a new preprint paper, a team hailing from Microsoft Research detail a framework that they claim is the first “scalable” training technique for 3D models from 2D data. They say it can consistently learn to generate better…
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GamingNews

Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous — Adapting a tabletop RPG campaign for a PC game

Whenever I think of adapting tabletop role-playing campaigns to a PC game, my mind goes to Temple of Elemental Evil. It’s one of the seminal modules of Dungeons & Dragons, and in 2003, Troika Games released a near 1-to-1 conversion of it as a PC game. And boy, did it have problems beyond bugs despite having all the bones of a fantastic RPG and being one of the best adaptations of the…
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