Quixel is a company that’s spent the last decade or so doing high resolution photogrammetry, scanning in thousands of real-world objects, buildings and other assets like animal fur – and turning it into 3D assets to be used in applications and games. It’s an incredible, substantial library of assets that’re useful for deliver photorealism.

TV’s aren’t the sort of thing you replace regularly – unless you’re the sort that has to stay up to date with the latest standards and resolutions. I think for most, if the TV hits Full HD and has some smart features, then it does its job. If that describes your relationship with TV, and you bought a Samsung set a few years ago, then it’s possible that your smart TV is going to lose a bit a of its functionality.

PlayStation is set to unleash its next console on the world towards the holiday period next year. We know quite a bit about the system, including the general CPU and GPU architecture, the semi-proprietary SSD drive and that it’ll be packing a Blu-Ray drive. When details of the console were first floating about, a patent – including a picture of the system’s dev kit – was discovered, showing what the PlayStation 5’s development unit look like. It turned out to be an accurate representation of the system.

A compact and fun device that gives any video production a layer of cinematic quality with its incredible stabilisation, the DJI Osmo Mobile 3 is a must-have for anyone looking to up their vlogging game.

DJI came out swinging with the Osmo Action camera, and they more than landed a few knockout punches in the process. There may be some niggling areas that the device can improve on, but the Osmo Action more than delivers on the aspects of action videograpy and vlogging that it aims for: Easy to use, able to produce some stunning results under the right conditions and small enough to fit in your pocket.

The new mid-gen consoles heralded the beginning of the 4K era, brining UHD gaming to the masses. Sure, you could argue that few games consistently run at the target resolution natively. Some games instead use dynamic resolution scaling or rendering techniques. That techno-disclaimer aside, a great many games are actually outputting in native 4K, especially on the Xbox One X, and they do so using setting that hover around “medium” settings, usually at 30fps. The PS4 Pro isn’t quite up to that task, and usually runs games at a lower resolution.

Years ago, the idea of wearing a watch – let alone a smartwatch or fitness tracker – was an alien idea to me. I’d grown up not wanting or needing a timepiece attached to my arm and later, when mobile phones became ubiquitous, I’d always had one with me for timekeeping purposes. I didn’t need any of the fitness-tracking because …

First developed as a tool that could be used to see through walls, that humble amorphous solid has a wide array of applications that have helped create technological breakthroughs. Microsoft is looking to use glass for the next big step forward in information preservation for their Azure platform, with the most recent proof of concept being the transfer of the entire 1978 Superman movie to something that’s the mere size of a beer coaster.