The week in tech: from Nasa's Dart Mission to 5G in India - Mint Lounge

Meta's caller mixed world headset

There’s a caller virtual world and mixed world headset successful town. On 11 October, Meta unveiled the Quest Pro virtual and mixed world headset, which volition deed the marketplace connected 25 October astatine a terms of $1,500 (around ₹1.2 lakh). According to Reuters, this caller headset volition connection consumers a mode to interact with virtual creations overlaid connected to a full-colour presumption of the carnal satellite astir them. The Quest Pro comes with outward-facing cameras that seizure a 3D livestream of the carnal situation astir a user. Meta is pitching the Quest Pro arsenic a productivity device, aimed astatine designers, architects and different originative professionals, the study adds.

Early 5G woes for India

While 5G services were launched successful India astatine the opening of October, the rollout hasn’t precisely been smooth. Leading telecom operators Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio outlined plans for the rollout successful a prime fewer cities but astir users successful these locations are yet to entree 5G services owing to patchy networks and a hold successful smartphone companies pushing retired required bundle patches over-the-air, a PTI study notes. The likes of Apple and Samsung are expected to upgrade bundle for their 5G-enabled smartphones successful India lone by November-December, the study adds.

DART ngo a success: Nasa

Nasa, the US abstraction agency, said connected 12 October that its ngo to trial a planetary defence strategy to debar a aboriginal doomsday meteorite collision with Earth was a success. The $330 cardinal proof-of-concept DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft successfully changed the absorption of the egg-shaped asteroid Dimorphos done sheer kinetic force, Nasa head Bill Nelson said. The trial was conducted connected 26 September and Nasa said, based connected astronomical measurements implicit the past 2 weeks, that the people asteroid was bumped somewhat person to the larger genitor asteroid, Didymos, it orbits; its orbital play was shortened by 32 minutes, a Reuters study adds.

Google Pixel 7 Pro review: For those who judge successful AI

“But Pixel phones truly aren’t astir the camera anymore. They’re astir Google’s caller Tensor chip, a 2nd mentation of which is fitted successful the Pixel 7 Pro and Pixel 7,” writes Prasid Banerjee successful his review of the Google Pixel 7 Pro. All the camera’s bundle is powered by the caller chip, and you tin archer that Google truly cares astir the software, due to the fact that the camera volition punctual you to update the app if there’s 1 pending erstwhile you’re clicking an image.

Apple iPhone 14 review: Does it warrant an upgrade?

The iPhone 14’s show does consciousness smoother, since the caller telephone has gotten much representation to process heavier apps and games, writes Shouvik Das successful our review of the caller iPhone. The quality isn’t truly a large one, and is thing that you’ll lone consciousness if you comparison it alongside an iPhone 12. For each applicable purposes, the iPhone 13 feels conscionable arsenic smooth. It does consciousness faster to crippled on, and adjacent without a caller processor, Apple seems to person eked retired marginally amended show acknowledgment to much representation astatine hand.