Xbox 360 titles that are available with Games with Gold can be played on Xbox One and Series S/X. Additionally, the Series X/S can also play Xbox One titles.
In Canada, an Xbox Live Gold subscription costs $11.99 for one month, $29.99/three months and $44.99/six months.
Further, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members get Xbox Live Gold included in the price of Game Pass, which comes at $16.99 per month and features Game Pass for console, PC, Cloud Gaming and EA Play.
Meta (Facebook) is developing its own pair of True Augmented Reality (AR) glasses dubbed Project Nazaré, revealed the Menlo Park, California-based company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook Connect 2021.
Zuckerberg talked about the company’s progress in the space by mentioning the recently released Ray-Ban Stories. However, those were just small steps “along the path to an embodied internet,” says Zuckerberg. “The ultimate goal here is true Augmented Reality glasses.”
Zuckerberg describes a typical situation in which people chat on Whatsapp and plan a gaming night, all in AR with friends’ avatars popping in the user’s field of view. While still in progress with a lot of work to be done, Project Nazaré will eventually allow users to communicate, play games and travel around with their friends’ avatars in real-time, as if they were actually there with you.
“There is a lot of technical work to get this form factor and experience right,” says Zuckerberg. “We have to fit hologram displays, projectors, batteries, radios, custom silicon chips, cameras, speakers, sensors to map the world around you and more into glasses that are about 5mm thick.” Essentially, Zuckerberg and the team are trying to fit a supercomputer inside a pair of glasses, which might explain why the project is still a few years out. “Our first fully-fledged AR glasses — Project Nazare — are still a few years out, but we’re excited by the progress we’ve made and look forward to the road ahead,” reads Meta’s blog post.
Want to learn more about Meta’s capabilities in the AR/VR space? Check out our review of Ray-Ban Stories.
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Canon has announced a new camera, that at first glance, doesn’t really look like a camera.
The new PowerShot PX is a smart camera that looks like the lovechild of R2-D2 and an everyday surveillance camera. Canon is touting the PowerShot as a portable companion that you can set up anytime and anywhere to automatically capture memorable moments with you in the frame, not behind it.
The Canon PowerShot PX records stills and video by intelligently tracking and composing subjects in the frame and can tilt 110 degrees up and down and pan 340 degrees left and right. It features a 12-megapixel sensor that can record video at 1080p at 60FPS with a 19-57mm lens.
The camera can connect to your smartphone over a Wi-Fi network, allowing it to sync all the content it has shot and giving the user the option to manually control the camera if needed. It has a battery life of about two to five hours, depending on if and how many photos/videos it captures.
The Canon PowerShot PX is available to pre-order in Europe for £ 449.99 ($766.28), with orders shipping on November 18th. We couldn’t find any information about it coming to North America. MobileSyrup has reached out to Canon for information regarding Canadian pricing and availability.
FacebookMeta could be working on a smartwatch with a front-facing camera and slightly rounded screen, according to images found in one of the company’s iPhone apps.
Interestingly, the watch also sports a display notch that houses a camera. Many smartphones incorporate a notch to fit in a selfie camera while also minimizing wasted space around the display. However, the Meta smartwatch bucks the usual trend and places the notch on the bottom of the display.
Bloomberg reports that the watch features a control button on the right side, detachable wrist straps and what appears to be a button on the top of the watch case.
Meta could launch a smartwatch as early as 2022, but Bloomberg says the company hasn’t made a final decision on timing. A source familiar with the product confirmed to Bloomberg that Meta was working on three generations of the watch aimed at different release time frames.
The watch’s presence in the View app suggests it could be managed through that app when it launches, similar to Meta’s smart glasses. Further, code inside the app indicates Meta could call the watch ‘Milan.’ Finally, the watch could act as an input device or accessory for Meta’s virtual reality and augmented reality (VR and AR) headsets.
Bloomberg notes that if Meta does launch a smartwatch next year, it might need to contend with three new Apple Watch models — an Apple Watch Series 8, a new Watch SE and possibly a rugged Apple Watch aimed at athletes.
As is the case every month, several shows and movies are leaving Netflix, Crave and Prime Video in November.
It’s worth noting that the streaming services may only be removing certain shows and movies for a specific amount of time.
Series like Avatar: The Last Airbender and Gossip Girl and movies like Mean Girls have all left Netflix and then returned to the service months or years later. If you’re more interested in what’s coming to Crave, Netflix and Prime Video, check out our respective ‘what’s coming to’ posts.
Interactive Ontario has unveiled The Lodgge, a digital hub for all things video games and interactive entertainment in the province.
The not-for-profit industry trade organization’s site features news, events, job listings and more for games that are made in Ontario.
Welcome to The Lodgge, Ontario's Home for Video Games and Interactive Entertainment. Come visit https://t.co/n7eA787nBF to keep up with the latest news, jobs, events, and games from around the province. We have also launched our very own podcast! See you there🏡🔥
There’s also a ‘games library’ to view games by studio, provided that they’re Interactive Ontario members. These include Toronto’s DrinkBox (Guacamelee!), Capy (Grindstone) and Cococucumber (Echo Generation) and London’s Digital Extremes (Warframe).
The Lodgge also has a Twitch channel, which it says will be used to host Ontario developers so they can promote their games. Further, there’s an official Lodgge podcast that will host various guests, with the first episode featuring Digital Extremes’ Danielle Sokolowski.
Incoming Meta CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth made the announcement in a broader blog post discussing the Facebook name change.
“We’re working on new ways to log into Quest that won’t require a Facebook account, landing sometime next year,” Bosworth wrote. “This is one of our highest priority areas of work internally.”
This is a notable reversal for Meta, which had previously said Facebook accounts would eventually be required to use its Meta Quest VR headsets (formerly Oculus Quest). It was a highly controversial move from a company that has already faced immense scrutiny over privacy, among other subjects.
The company also says it’s no longer using the Oculus branding “to make clear” that its VR division is tied to Meta. However, the names of the company’s apps — Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp — will remain the same.
In general, the tech giant’s overall name change is meant to signal its intention to expand beyond a social media company into a “metaverse” company. To put it simply, this is a world in which avatars of people can interact, work, play, go to concerts and other activities. This will leverage augmented and virtual reality technology and be built over a period of five to ten years, according to the company.
Dell Canada is currently offering a 78-hour ‘Cyber Sale’ with several monitors at discount. Dell says these are “Limited-quantity deals for 72 hours at Black Friday pricing.”
Further, monitors market with a ‘**’ in the list below are eligible for an additional 10 percent discount using code ‘10%OFFMONITOR.’
The sale is expected to end tomorrow, October 29th at 6am ET. Find all monitor deals here.
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At the 30-second mark in the latest ‘Event’ trailer for Marvel’s upcoming Hawkeye Disney+ series, there’s a moment when Jeremy Renner’s Clint Barton takes a phone call outside of a store. The purpose of this scene is for a fun “I’ll be home for Christmas” line from Clin, but Eagle-eyed viewers may also notice that he’s actually using the Google Pixel 3.
It’s a particularly notable phone for him to have since it’s the same model he used in 2019’s Avengers: Endgame. The phone can be seen in the pivotal scene where Hulk uses Tony Stark’s makeshift Infinity Gauntlet to bring back half of all life in the universe. Clint receives a call on his Pixel 3 from his previously deceased wife, thus showing that Hulk’s efforts worked.
But what’s especially interesting is that Clint’s phone would undoubtedly have been destroyed immediately after this call, given Thanos’ airstrike on the Avengers compound. Therefore, Clint was clearly enough of a fan of the Pixel 3 to not only get a new one, but still be using it by the time of the Hawkeye series.
It’s unclear exactly how long Hawkeye takes place after Endgame, but presumably, there are at least a few months between both MCU titles, suggesting he’s been using the Pixel 3 for a little while. (I like to imagine that Clint went to replace it immediately after Tony Stark’s funeral in Endgame).
Interestingly, fellow Avenger Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) was seen using a Windows Phone in her eponymous solo film earlier this year. However, that film took place in 2016, which made it more understandable that she might be using one of the now-discontinued devices.
Hawkeye is Marvel’s fourth live-action series for Disney+, following WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Loki. Set to premiere with two episodes on November 24th, Hawkeye follows Clint Barton as he teams up with the young archer Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld) to fight enemies from his past and get back to his family in time for Christmas.
It’s also worth noting that ahead of the Hawkeye premiere, Disney will hold its inaugural ‘Disney+ Day’ event on November 12th. This presentation will stream on Disney+ and offer news on future streaming titles from a variety of brands, including Marvel.
