Amaya Toman Have you often felt lately that the best thing you could do right now is to disappear from this planet? If you consider yourself an artist, you have a unique opportunity to do so - see our roundup of the day for details. In addition, you will also learn what Microsoft's new platform for mixed reality looks like, or what purchase the management of the gaming company Zynga was pleased with.
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Vratislav Holub Microsoft's new platform for mixed reality
One of the most important news this week is the news that Microsoft has introduced a new platform for mixed reality - called Mesh. It is, of course, compatible with the HoloLens 2 headset and allows content sharing, communication and a number of other actions through mixed reality. Among other things, the Microsoft Mesh platform is also supposed to facilitate collaboration and should find its application in the future, for example, in cooperation with the communication tool Microsoft Teams. Here, users can create their own virtual avatars and then "teleport" them to another environment, where they can present the given content to other participants. Initially, these will be avatars from the AltspaceVR social network, but in the future Microsoft wants to enable the creation of its own visually identical "holograms" that will appear and communicate in virtual space. Microsoft, according to its representatives, hopes that its Mesh platform will find application in all possible fields from architecture to medicine to computing. In the future, the Mesh platform should not only work with the mentioned HoloLens, but users could even use it to some extent on their tablets, smartphones or even computers. During the presentation of the Mesh platform, Microsoft also teamed up with Niantic, who demonstrated its use on the concept of the popular Pokémon Go game.
Google and patching vulnerabilities
A vulnerability was discovered in the Google Chrome web browser, which Google successfully patched this week. Alison Huffman of the Microsoft Browser Vulnerability Research team discovered the mentioned vulnerability, which has the designation CVE-2021-21166. The bug has been fixed in the latest version of this browser marked 89.0.4389.72. In addition, two more critical bugs have been reported in Google Chrome - one of them is CVE-2021-21165 and the other is CVE-2021-21163. The latest version of the Google Chrome browser in total brings the correction of forty-seven errors, including eight vulnerabilities of a more serious nature.
Zynga buys Echtra Games
Zynga officially announced yesterday that it has acquired Echtra Games, the developer behind 3's Torchlight 2020. However, the exact terms of the deal were not disclosed. Echtra Games was founded in 2016, and the Torchlight game series was the only game series ever to come out of its workshop. In connection with the purchase, representatives of Zynga stated that they were particularly attracted by the past of the founders of Echtra Games – for example, Max Schaefer previously participated in the development of the first two games in the Diablo series. "Mac and his team at Echtra Games are responsible for some of the most legendary games ever released, and are also experts in the development of action RPGs and cross-platform games," said Zynga CEO Frank Gibeau.
A Japanese billionaire invites people to a mission to the moon
Have you always wanted to fly to the moon, but thought space travel was only for astronauts or the rich? If you consider yourself an artist, you now have the opportunity to join one such rich man regardless of your income. Japanese billionaire, entrepreneur and art collector Yusaku Maezawa announced this week that he will fly into space on a rocket from Musk's company, SpaceX. In the video in which he announced this fact, he also added that he wants to invite a total of eight artists with him into space. Its conditions include, for example, that the person in question really wants to break through with his art, that he supports other artists, and that he helps other people and society as a whole. Maezawa will pay the entire space trip for the eight selected artists.
