Nintendo Virtual Boy emulators have been available for years, but there really hasn’t been a way to replicate the 3D display of the nascent virtual reality system. Until now! Resourceful gamers have made some tweaks to an emulator so you can experience the 3D effect with Google Cardboard.
- Heck yeah: A tweak to the popular video game emulator RetroArch is bringing Nintendo’s Virtual Boy to Google Cardboard. Virtual Boy was, of course, Nintendo’s 1995 venture into pixelated virtual reality that was a colossal bomb even though I bought one. It was wonderful in its own way. [Motherboard]
- Google might be making the links in search results black instead of blue. Black like plain text. Messed up, man. A number users have seen the UI tweak in their search results, so presumably Google is testing the change. When I was a kid ALL the links on the internet were blue. It was the only color possible with the technology at the time. [The Next Web]
- Spotify is developing a whole slate of new original video programs. They’ll be about music and pop culture to start, including a documentary series that will highlight moments in music history, but eventually the videos will include comedy and general entertainment. [Bloomberg]
- Google News will now be highlighting local sources in your search results. Previously, national news outlets might surface in the results first, even when local news might be more appropriate, so they’re trying to highlight local sources when the context is right. [Google News Blog via The Verge]
- Periscope is indeed adding the ability to save your streams indefinitely, as they were seen testing just last week, along with a number of other features. You can now browse topics to find interesting streams and soon you’ll be able to broadcast from DJI drones. Dronecast! [Periscope]
Source: LifeHacker
