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Jaime King Expecting Second Child With Husband Kyle Newman
February 19, 2015 22:04:52 GMTJaime King, 35, is having a new addition to her growing family with Kyle Newman. It will be the second child for the couple. The "Hart of Dixie" actress announces her pregnancy on Instagram with a picture of her adorable son sitting on grass and blowing bubbles.
Jaime King Opens Up About Infertility and Five Miscarriages Before Having Child
July 28, 2014 04:09:05 GMTJaime King opened up about her struggles to have a child in an Instagram post on July 25. The "Sin City" actress revealed she had struggled with infertility and five miscarriages before she gave birth to his son, James Knight.
Taylor Swift Celebrates Fourth of July With Emma Stone and Lena Dunham
July 07, 2014 03:24:23 GMTTaylor Swift invited over her closest girlfriends to one of her houses to celebrate the 4th of July. Her celebrity friends including "The Amazing Spider-Man" star Emma Stone and scriptwriter/actress Lena Dunham joined her in the party. Former "Gossip Girl" star Jessica Szohr, "Sin City" star Jaime King, and indie-pop singer Ingrid Michaelson were also in attendance.
Taylor Swift and Jaime King Bake Cake to Celebrate 4th of July
July 04, 2014 07:39:27 GMTTaylor Swift and Jaime King's preparation to celebrate the 4th of July is in full swing. On Thursday, July 3, the "Hart of Dixie" star took to Instagram to share a photo of them proudly showing off their patriotic cake which seemingly features decoration from fruits.
Jaime King Shares Breastfeeding Photo, Says It Shouldn't Be 'Taboo'
June 10, 2014 08:29:25 GMTJaime King encourages mothers to breastfeed their babies in an Instagram post. The "Hart of Dixie" actress took to the social media on June 8 to share a photo of an intimate moment when she breastfeeds her baby and leave an encouraging message to fellow mothers.
Jaime King and Kyle Newman Welcome First Baby
October 07, 2013 09:20:49 GMTAfter eight long years of being together as a couple, actress Jaime King and her husband, director Kyle Newman welcomed their first child together. The baby was due for a delivery date sometime between October and November but as the couple revealed in a photo of the new baby's tiny fingers on Newman's Instagram account, their bundle of joy already arrived a little earlier than expected, ending their long wait.
Jaime King Holds 'Star Wars'-Themed Baby Shower
August 19, 2013 07:11:29 GMT"Hart of Dixie" actress Jaime King reportedly celebrated her baby shower with friends and family on Saturday, August 17. The event, which took place at Soho House in West Hollywood, was featured with a "Star Wars"-themed cake with a message, "May the force be with baby Newman."
Jaime King Pregnant With First Child
May 04, 2013 02:00:48 GMTJaime King is pregnant with her first baby, a representative for the 34-year-old actress confirmed. King is expecting her first child, who will arrive later this year, with filmmaker husband Kyle Newman.

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10 quirky, useful new products you'll soon wish you owned by Chris Morris @FortuneMagazine January 10, 2015, 9:16 AM EST E-mail Tweet Facebook Google Plus Linkedin Share icons There's a lot of cool stuff at CES. Mind you, there's a lot of garbage, too – but the scales generally tend to tip toward cool. That can make it hard to narrow down a list of the most interesting and intriguing products at the show. For example, do you only focus on items with imminent release dates? If one TV is slightly better than the other, do you ignore the runner up? In the end, any list of this sort is subjective, so we went with the products that ultimately left us the most excited – for any reason.
When will virtual reality games hit stores? by Chris Morris @FortuneMagazine January 9, 2015, 10:28 AM EST E-mail Tweet Facebook Google Plus Linkedin Share icons Nate Mitchell knows the question is coming. As co-founder and vice president of product for Oculus, he gets it a lot – especially at an event like CES. But no matter how you ask it, he still won't say when the Oculus Rift, the virtual reality headset that has been building buzz for the past two years, will finally – officially – hit store shelves. He'll drop hints – saying that a consumer version is "getting close" and that there's "absolutely a chance" that it will go on sale by the end of the year – but that's as far as he's willing to go. There are a few things starting to settle, though. First off, price – which Mitchell says will be in the $300-$400 range. And, if online buzz and sales of Samsung's Gear VR (a joint venture with Oculus that came out last year) are any indicator, there's healthy demand out there for VR products. (Gear VR sold out, says Mitchell, but he declined to give hard numbers.) Oculus, which was purchased by Facebook FB last year for $2 billion, is the industry's top player, but it's far from the only name in VR. Learn more about Facebook's purchase of Oculus from Fortune's video team: Sony SNE has publicly shown its Project Morpheus, a VR headset for the PlayStation 4 (though it hasn't officially declared it a forthcoming product yet). Google GOOG dipped a toe into the market last year, releasing specs allowing people to build their own headset out of cardboard. And there were several new headsets on display at CES this year. Some of them – many, in fact – aren't very good. They're being made by companies and entrepreneurs who want to take advantage of the building excitement over VR before the Rift and other high profile systems come out. (Among those is the 3DHead, a system from billionaire Alki David that The Verge called "insanely terrible.") "Smaller companies are rushing to get out there first – and that can poison the well," says Mitchell. "Fortunately, I don't think anyone has poisoned it yet. … [But] what everyone is showing is it's easy to do poorly." Some companies putting out headsets have wider ambitions though. Earlier this week, high-end PC peripheral company Razer announced its own VR headset alongside an initiative called OSVR – which Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan calls "the Android of VR". OSVR is a software platform that includes multiple game engines and displays. And so far, roughly two dozen companies have signed on to use it – with plug-ins for Unreal Engine 4 and Unity 3D, two of the game industry's biggest backend systems, on the way. The idea is games won't necessarily be tied to just one headset, but can instead create a larger ecosystem of titles for customers. "This is the first time someone has gotten everyone in VR together," says Tan. "We think this is going to accelerate everything. … If everyone continues with this fragmented market, it's going to take a long time to hit the market." Oculus isn't taking part in OSVR, though. Mitchell says that while the idea is a good one in the long term, the market is too immature for the initiative to do much good now. "You need multiple VR headsets out there that have matured before a specification is warranted or helpful," he says. "We need a couple of great headsets – and as they start to align, that's when a specification makes sense." Before any headset can succeed, though, there needs to be content – which is part of the reason so many major names are dragging their feet with commercial versions. But both game developers and filmmakers are working to create finished products for VR systems – and Oculus is working to nail down what the minimum system specs will be for VR development. Once that's done and there is a catalog of polished products, the release date – and commercial product – will likely soon follow. "It's a chicken and egg thing," says Mitchell. "Without an audience, it doesn't make sense to develop content, but without content, there's no audience. … The cool thing about VR is it's new and fresh – and we don't know what the killer app is going to be." Chris Morris is a freelance writer and editor, specializing in video games, consumer electronics and personal finance.
Katee Sackhoff talks two kinds of 'Oculus,' virtual reality and social media by Chris Morris @FortuneMagazine September 6, 2014, 10:33 AM EST E-mail Tweet Facebook Google Plus Linkedin Share icons Katee Sackhoff has starred in two of the most beloved science-fiction franchises in history. She played Starbuck in Syfy's Battlestar Galactica reboot and brought Bo-Katan to life in Cartoon Networks' Star Wars The Clone Wars. The actress can currently be seen on the small screen in A&E's Western series, Longmire, as well as in the horror flick, Oculus, which was just released on home video. Gamers will soon be hearing Sackhoff as Rán, the leader of the Valkyrie fighter pilots in CCP Games' EVE Valkyrie space combat shooter game, which is coming out for PlayStation 4 (through the Morpheus headset) and PC (through Oculus Rift). Sackhoff talked to Fortune about her two unrelated Oculus projects and explains how social media can be used for good causes like the Ice Bucket Challenge. Fortune: What was it like stepping into the horror of Oculus? Sackhoff: Horror movies are an interesting thing because most people think that the atmosphere on set is usually pretty tense, and it's almost the opposite. There's tons of joking around and laughter because the subject matter sometimes is so heavy that you almost find yourself trying to really laugh and to make other people laugh and to keep the mood on set up. What movies scare you? I watched The Ring by myself at a house in the middle of Alberta. Probably not the smartest thing. That actually scared the shit out of me. I remember Blair Witch being so terrifying. I remember seeing it and people still thinking it was real when I saw it in the theater. Other than that, possession movies scare me because there's a side to me that because there's no proof it doesn't exist, you have to believe it does. Right, especially when they say "based on a true story." Yeah, absolutely. And really how based on a true story? Like are we loosely based, or is this exactly what happened? I don't know if I would be on board to watch a movie that said completely and totally based on a true story, sort of like a documentary, but played by actors. The world is scary enough. What are your thoughts about this whole virtual reality craze that's going on right now, as someone who's starring in an Oculus Rift video game? The technology has been around for such a long time, and they've just really gotten to a point where it's very realistic. When I was first approached about this game, I was a little apprehensive because I'd seen models before and they just weren't great. So I took a meeting and sat down and as soon as I put the mask on I literally started laughing like a child and I couldn't take it off. It was one of the coolest things I've ever experienced in my entire life. Having fake played a Viper pilot for seven years of my life, it's the closest as an actor that I've actually felt to being part of a world. It's absolutely amazing. Potentially, it could change so many things. As an actor, how great would it be if you could see what the world is going to look like before you were going to do a project. Not to mention that for fans of video games, this is a dream come true…to be able to actually be in that world and to not only visually feel it, but feel it emotionally and physically. You physically feel the effects of playing the video game and using the technology, which is pretty phenomenal from someone who has played their share of video games. Not a ton these days, but I come from a family of gamers, so my brother and my nephews were excited about this game. One of the big trends at San Diego Comic Con was Hollywood creating Oculus Rift virtual reality experiences for everything from Pacific Rim to X-Men to Sleepy Hollow. What would the Longmire virtual reality experience be like? For Longmire it could be two-fold. You could be a murderer, which would be kind of cool, and you're trying to get away with murdering someone, which would be really sick and twisted. But you could go after the bad guys and it could be a shoot'em up game, where you could like pick your weapons and shoot bad guys. Because Longmire is like a mix between Dirty Harry and Where in the World is Carmen San Diego in Wyoming. Or you could just pick to be the lazy person because it's virtual reality and you could just like lay down and stare up into the big open sky in the sun. You could also ride a horse, which would be awesome, and do all that crazy stuff that people do on farms and in the Wild West. Almost like Red Dead Redemption but with the Longmire characters. Yes. And depending on which character you chose that's how you get to pick your own personal weapon. Jake is from the city, so she may have some high caliber weapon. How do the fan bases differ between Battlestar Galactica and Star Wars The Clone Wars? There's nothing like Battlestar Galactica, as far as the fans are concerned. There's a ton of crossover fans, but as far as being fans of this show and us as actors for being part of it, there's nothing like that. That being said, because of Clone Wars I think I'm a part of 50 different First Legion clubs, which is awesome because I'm in the process of hanging fuzzy Star Wars wallpaper in our guest bathroom. And there's a character in the wall paper that if you squint, could be my character, Bo-Katan from Clone Wars. Having stepped into universes like Riddick, Halo and Star Wars, was sci-fi something you were into when you were younger? Absolutely. I grew up watching movies with my dad. It's something that he and I bonded over at a very young age. Unbeknownst to my mother, he was showing me Predator when I was 7. Without realizing it – and granted I'm a fan of those movies — I think that I started picking projects that my dad would want to watch. And then it just spiraled from there. But I really think that was my criteria, would my dad think this is cool? What are your thoughts on the power of social media and technology for good causes, having recently taken the Ice Bucket Challenge and also through your Acting Outlaws charity with Tricia Helfer? There has been a bad side to social media, but we're talking about the charitable component to it. And we have the ability, not only as actors but as people in this world, to reach so many people in a millisecond. To not use that for good is insane. There's enough negativity in the world, and the world is scary enough. For Trish and I, Acting Outlaws was a way to marry our love of riding motorcycles with doing good. We have found over the years that if people are having fun while doing good, they'll continue to do it. I come from a family where my mom was one of those people that if you have $2 in your wallet, you give the $2 away, so I'm just ingrained to do that. The Ice Bucket Challenge is interesting because it's close to my heart. I worked with Scott Lew on Sexy Evil Genius, and ALS robbed him of his freedom of movement. He is still funny, and he is still the same man he always was, but there is a part of him that will be trapped because of this horrible disease. And my best friend's mom was just diagnosed with it. ALS is something where a perfectly healthy human being on Day 1 can be diagnosed and 33 months later they could not be with us anymore. The scary thing about ALS is that it's fast, but it's slow moving.
Oculus Rift U? Tech goes to college with virtual campus tours by Chris Morris @FortuneMagazine July 31, 2014, 1:04 PM EST E-mail Tweet Facebook Google Plus Linkedin Share icons While video games have been the focus around the new wave of virtual reality coming soon from Facebook-owned FB Oculus VR and Sony's Morpheus, there are other applications for the technology. Developer YouVisit has more than 1,000 virtual tours of colleges around the globe that currently run on Oculus Rift, which could change the way universities promote their schools and give incoming freshmen a new way to explore campuses without actually stepping foot on them. Abi Mandelbaum, CEO and co-founder of YouVisit, said his company had already been capturing college campuses through video and photos using special equipment. An on-site shoot typically takes two to three days, and the locations covered range from the student center and dormitories, to classrooms, labs, and everything in between. Previously, students and educators used the YouVisit.com site via laptops and mobile devices to experience this content. Since September 2013, the company has stitched everything together to provide an immersive 3D experience on the virtual reality headset. All of the virtual campus tours are now available on Oculus Rift, making YouVisit one of the lead non-gaming content providers on the platform. "When visitors tour our campus in person, there are plenty of 'oooh's and ahhh's,'" said Mark Dunn, director of outreach and recruitment at Yale University, which will be receiving its first Oculus Rift headsets this fall. "Experiencing those same campus spaces in the Oculus Rift headset produces the same sense of wonder, without the distance and artifice associated with clicking through images on a browser. As I experienced it, the Oculus Rift technology enhanced the campus visit experience, rather than distracting from it." While Yale is still formalizing its Oculus Rift plans, Dunn says he can imagine an officer bringing along a headset to showcase to a small group of students when they travel to high schools across the country. He also believes a headset could be integrated into its on-campus outreach and recruitment events. "This might seem counter-intuitive, but our existing YouVisit content includes many campus spaces that we can't normally open up to visitors," said Dunn. "Weather and timing can always make it challenging to see everything you want when you visit campus. A virtual tour station during one of our on-campus events would be its own attraction, and the headset itself is just so cool, it's easy to imagine high school seniors lining up for hours just to try it on." Although there's no release date yet for the Oculus Rift, schools have been ordering the Oculus Rift development kit, which includes a pair of headsets. Mandelbaum said that colleges and universities that work with YouVisit will be showcasing their virtual tours to prospective students on the Oculus headset at more than 1,500 recruitment events at high schools and college fairs this fall. "I can imagine that this technology will provide a very valuable supplement to the college visit experience," said Dunn. "I'll also note that Yale makes a special effort to reach out to promising students who may have lacked the advantages and resources for college preparation which others may have had. As such, it is my hope that this exciting technology becomes accessible to high school students without the resources to travel to campus." While it may not replace the physical college campus visit in the United States, virtual reality is making global education opportunities more accessible. "Higher education is rapidly becoming global, students are considering options in very distant parts of the world, and it is not possible for many of them to visit the campus before they make a final choice," said Andrew Taylor, information manager at the Audencia Nantes School of Management in France. "The VR headset allows them to get a feeling of how it is to visit the campus before they actually come to study with us." The Audencia Nantes School of Management is using Oculus Rift for more than just a tour of campus. "Our virtual tour will not only include the school itself but also the main landmarks of the city in which we are located: Nantes," said Taylor. "This is a student city and we think it is important to show students how life can be here." College students, or would-be tourists, may soon be able to walk the virtual campus halls, or the city streets of college towns. At E3 in Los Angeles this year, Virtuix demonstrated a walking tour of Amsterdam. The tour combined Oculus Rift's virtual reality with its own Omni multidirectional treadmill, allowing attendees to explore the streets and alleys of the "Venice of the North" without leaving the Los Angeles Convention Center. "Virtual reality is now at the stage where the experience becomes extremely real, and it's only going to get better with increased resolution and lower latency," said Jan Goetgeluk, CEO of Virtuix. "In addition to the head mounted display, the Omni allows for physical and active immersion in VR, enabling not only your mind but also your full body to be part of the VR experience." What's especially interesting about this influx of support for Oculus is that not a single retail VR headset has been sold to the public yet. "There have not been many products in history that have had that type of impact prior to being released to consumers," said Mandelbaum. YouVisit is in the process of exploring other virtual reality devices, including Sony's Morpheus, with the goal to make its virtual tours available on all VR headsets. In April, Virtuix raised $3 million from top investors like Mark Cuban and funds including Maveron and Tekton Ventures. That money is allowing the tech start-up to roll out the commercial launch of the Omni later this year, and ramp up our production and distribution to new markets and customers that are emerging every day. "VR is set to hit the mass market in 2015, and we need to be ready for that," said Virtuix's Goetgeluk. "VR is real this time, and it's here to stay. It's no longer a niche technology."
'EVE: Valkyrie' provides Sony and Oculus Rift a killer app by Chris Morris @FortuneMagazine June 23, 2014, 1:40 PM EST E-mail Tweet Facebook Google Plus Linkedin Share icons When it comes to the video game industry, each major player needs a "killer app" to sell its hardware. Sony SNE has its Gran Turismo franchise, Microsoft MSFT has Halo and Nintendo has Mario. Oculus Rift has been wowing game journalists since May 2013 – long before Facebook FB acquired the company for $2 billion this March — by featuring developer CCP Games' virtual reality space-combat dog fighting game, EVE: Valkyrie. Sony Computer Entertainment stepped into the VR game in March with its Project Morpheus prototype device, and one of the games showcased was EVE: Valkyrie. The game will be a launch title for both platforms, offering PC gamers and PlayStation 4 owners (separately) the ability to step into a virtual cockpit and fight alongside, and against, friends. At its annual global EVE Fanfest event in Reykjavik, Iceland, this month, CCP Games allowed fans the opportunity to play both versions of the game. The company, which was an early Kickstarter backer of Oculus VR, recently switched from Unity to Epic Games' Unreal Engine 4 technology and showed off the graphical upgrade running on the just-released Oculus Rift Development Kit 2 (DK2). The developer has worked closely with both Oculus VR and Sony, which allowed them to get nine Oculus Rift DK2s and four Morpheus devices to the fan event. "From a creative standpoint, VR as a platform opens up a whole wealth of opportunities, as well as challenges," said Owen O'Brien, executive producer for EVE: Valkyrie. "We have been conditioned for years to consume media on a two-dimensional screen and have developed best practices and interfaces to compensate for this. All that has now changed. We are really just starting to learn what is possible in VR." O'Brien's development team in Newcastle, England, is also working on a cross-platform game experience designed for two still-developing platforms. He noted that both VR devices now have positional tracking, which allows more accurate replication of the head movement. This means aspiring pilots can lean forward and look out their window to check on weapons systems or for damage. Advances in the headsets are really helping reduce simulator sickness, which occurs when there is a disconnect between what the brain is telling you your body is doing and what your body is actually doing. "The Oculus Rift DK2 clearly showed that this was a device to be taken seriously," said Steven Wong, Editor-In-Chief of gaming site Shacknews.com. "It doesn't look like a little flat panel screen glued onto a pair of ski goggles, like Dev Kit 1 did. It actually looks like it's comfortable to wear, and it's something consumers won't feel silly about wearing. Furthermore, the technology took off by leaps and bounds during its year of development. The fast low-persistence OLED display is a major breakthrough, and it became clear that Oculus was going to be synonymous with VR." Peter Warman, video game analyst for Newzoo, is convinced that this new and improved version of EVE: Valkrie contributed to the speed of the Facebook acquisition process. Although he added that the reasons for Facebook's purchase are broader than only games. "It is a strategic acquisition to stay in the Google Glass-type arms race between the worlds' biggest (social) media companies," said Warman. "CCP is known for innovation and its core Eve Online audience are typically the consumers that would be early adaptors of Oculus. On the other hand, they are also the people who are skeptical towards companies such as Facebook." So now EVE: Valkyrie finds itself in a unique and powerful situation among core gamers. Many Oculus Rift fans have been counting down the days until the game launches with the hardware (which has yet to be announced), but they're also still upset at Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey for selling the company to Facebook. One way CCP Games may even the battlefield is to release the game as a free-to-play title. "This business model would immediately appeal to the EVE Online crowd of a couple hundred thousand and an additional couple million gamers that like shooters and enjoy sci-fi," said Warman, who believes the game will bring in at least $20 million a year through micro-transactions and other revenue. It could also help the bottom line for the Icelandic developer. In the first quarter of 2013, CCP Games stated they had 500,000 EVE Online accounts for its massively multiplayer online (MMO) space simulation role-playing game. Since many players have sub accounts, Warman believes the actual number of paying subscribers is between 200,000 and 300,000. CCP Games earned $66 million in 2011, but the company has struggled a bit since. Warman estimates CCP's revenues today at about $50 million, which corresponds nicely with their staff of about 500 and an average monthly spending level of just over $15 for 250,000 paying subscribers. CCP Games announced that the new PC shooter game, EVE: Project Legion, will be free-to-play. The shooter is being developed as an alternative to the PlayStation 3-exclusive DUST 514 free-to-play shooter that launched in May 2013. Like the PS3 game, the battles that occur within the game universe will directly affect the EVE Online universe. CCP Games, hoping to attract more than just core gamers to VR, has enlisted Battlestar Galactica alum Katee Sackhoff to play the role of Rán, the leader of the Valkyrie fighter pilots in EVE: Valkyrie. The universe continues to expand with new offerings from Dark Horse Comics. Following 2014's EVE: True Stories comes the EVE: Valkyrie digital comic series, which will tell the origin story of New Eden's first Valkyrie pilots and their rise to prominence in the EVE universe. The publisher will also release the EVE Universe: The Art of New Eden book. Beyond helping CCP Games grow its own user base, EVE: Valkyrie could ultimately help Facebook and Sony turn VR into first an early-adopter hit and potentially into a more mainstream experience. While Facebook has plans beyond gaming, video games will play a huge role in enticing consumers to invest in Oculus Rift, as well as in Sony's VR headset. "EVE Valkyrie was designed from the outset to be a VR game and as such we feel it is ideally suited to show off the potential of the technology," said O'Brien. "It provides immediate visceral thrills, is easy to play and still has tactical depth for players to explore. VR has the potential to be a game-changer on a literal as well as metaphorical level. You can see from the reaction of anyone taking off a headset after playing Valkyrie for the first time; they feel they have glimpsed the future." That future doesn't have a release date yet, but it's coming soon. And this new wave of VR, backed by the pocketbooks of huge companies like Facebook and Sony, already has its killer app.
Oculus Rift to bring virtual reality to Chuck E. Cheese's by Chris Morris @FortuneMagazine May 21, 2014, 9:25 AM EST E-mail Tweet Facebook Google Plus Linkedin Share icons FORTUNE — Some lucky kids will soon be able to test the virtual reality headgear made by recent Facebook FB acquisition Oculus Rift while surrounded by cheap pizza and singing robotic animals. Chuck E. Cheese's, the restaurant and entertainment chain "Where a kid can be a kid," said Tuesday the headset will be part of a new Virtual Ticket Blaster Experience birthday package that will be available in select markets for a six-week trial-run starting this week. The package adapts the chain's normal Ticket Blaster experience — wherein the birthday boy or girl goes into a booth and attempts to grab as many falling gaming tickets as possible — in virtual reality. Considering that a consumer version of Oculus Rift's product has yet to be released commercially, the Chuck E. Cheese's offer may be one of the first opportunities for members of the public to try the hardware outside of a tech conference — that is, assuming their parents make a birthday party reservation. The birthday packages will be available at Dallas-Fort Worth area Chuck E. Cheese's locations as early as today, with the equipment becoming available at more locations in that area, as well as Orlando, Fla. and San Diego, later this month. MORE: Facebook buys Oculus VR for $2 billion The Oculus Rift headset features 360-degree head-tracking technology along with 3-D views that let users "feel as though they are inside the Ticket Blaster with Chuck E.," the company said. The headset will track the number of virtual tickets grabbed by the birthday kid, who can then redeem them for merchandise. The company says the Virtual Ticket Blaster game was developed by Dallas-based visual effects studio Reel FX. Roger Cardinale, president of Chuck E. Cheese's parent company CEC Entertainment, Inc., said in a statement that children currently have "unprecedented access" to gaming options. "Our challenge is to deliver an experience not available at home, and there is no doubt virtual reality does just that. Oculus Rift technology is the next frontier in the gaming industry, and we're thrilled to be able to say it's part of the Chuck E. Cheese's lineup," he said. MORE: Microsoft's wildest dream: Killing the laptop In March, Facebook agreed to pay $2 billion to acquire Oculus Rift, which got its start raising capital through Kickstarter before finding venture funding. The Irvine, Calif.-based company is expected to release its first commercial virtual reality headsets sometime next year. (CEC Entertainment was also recently sold, with buyout firm Apollo Global Management paying $1.3 billion for the company earlier this year.) Chuck E. Cheese's may seem like an odd choice for an early look at the virtual reality gaming platform, but the chain's founder, Nolan Bushnell, is no stranger to working with gaming startups, having also co-founded the pioneering video game company Atari. As The Atlantic's Alexis Madrigal pointed out last year, Bushnell actually came up with the concept of Chuck E. Cheese's as an extension of Atari, whose coin-operated games were featured prominently at the chain's early locations, allowing Bushnell to "vertically integrate the market."
Oculus VR isn't a 'pre-revenue' startup by Chris Morris @FortuneMagazine March 26, 2014, 12:30 AM EST E-mail Tweet Facebook Google Plus Linkedin Share icons FORTUNE — Facebook FB set the tech world buzzing this evening, by announcing plans to acquire virtual headset maker Oculus VR for $2 billion. This marks the third time Facebook has strayed from its M&A strategy of acqui-hires. Unlike the first deviation, however, the most recent two targets have generated some real revenue. Typically, Facebook buys a small startup and folds its product into its own, shutting down the startup. It's mostly a talent play, and sometimes a technology play. Facebook has followed this strategy 42 times, with three exceptions. Three very big exceptions. 1. Photo-sharing The first was Instagram. On the eve of its IPO, Facebook paid $1 billion for the fast-growing app. In a "fairness hearing" on the deal, when Instagram founder Kevin Systrom was asked how the company makes money, he cheekily answered, "That's a great question. As of right now, we do not." Zuckerberg promised Instagram it could operate independently of Facebook. 2. Mobile messaging Similar story for Facebook's most recent whale of an acquisition, WhatsApp. Facebook paid $19 billion for the app, which, like Instagram, makes zero dollars in revenue charges $1 per user per year. Update: WhatsApp is estimated to have around $20 million in annual revenue. Its founders famously opposed advertising, and Zuckerberg promised them it would keep WhatsApp ad-free. He also promised WhatsApp it would remain independent. 3. Virtual reality And now Oculus VR. Today's deal marks the third $1 billion (or more) Facebook acquisition, after which the acquired company will be allowed to operate as an independent entity. Like WhatsApp, Oculus VR is not a zero-revenue company. Oculus made money by selling pre-orders for its developer kits, which cost $350. The first version (Oculus Dk1) cost $300. That means Oculus had brought in around $23 million in revenue. That's nothing compared to how much venture funding Oculus raised ($93.4 million). Or how much Oculus' early investors made on the deal. (In June 2013, Spark Capital and Matrix Partners invested $16 million at a $30 million pre-money valuation. They both reinvested when the company raised $75 million more from Andreessen Horowitz.) On a conference call today, analysts probed Zuckerberg for hints as to how Facebook will monetize the acquisition. Zuckerberg hinted at virtual goods in virtual reality-land, or possible ads. But he stressed that the first few years of Facebook owning Oculus will be about investment and development. "For the foreseeable future, the mission is building out the product using the levers that Facebook has to make the product affordable to people and make it ubiquitous."


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Seniors emerge from Rich Rodriguez era, help Michigan transition
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Denard Robinson will never forget his first snap as a Michigan quarterback, as one of two freshmen running the Wolverines' offense that game. He was raw. He was fast but didn't have the pedigree of his classmate, Wolverines starting quarterback Tate Forcier. Even worse, when he received the shotgun snap, he dropped it, and for a second, it looked like an inauspicious beginning to a college career. That is, until he picked it up and in one play -- his first play -- did what he would so often do throughout the next three years at Michigan.
"That was not in the playbook, but I made it in the playbook, I guess," Robinson said last month. "It was God-given talent to do that.
"I watched it a couple times and one of the guys I made miss went to my high school."
Michigan won that game and the next three, starting the careers of the now-fourth-year seniors with an undefeated conference record and two freshman quarterbacks who had massive potential.
The next two-plus seasons would not be so easy.
It is a group that has seen it all at Michigan. Some of them, such as fifth-year senior J.T. Floyd, started their careers as redshirts on a Wolverines team that went 3-9. They endured a coaching transition from Rich Rodriguez, who brought them all to Michigan, to Brady Hoke, who helped turn them in one season from a mediocre team to the Allstate Sugar Bowl champion.
On defense, they went from being maligned early in their careers as one of the worst units statistically in Michigan history to becoming one of the most improved in the country last season -- all while playing for two (and in the case of the fifth-year seniors, three) defensive coordinators. On offense, they shifted from a zone read spread offense under Rodriguez to attempting to learn a hybrid offense leaning toward pro-style tendencies under offensive coordinator Al Borges.
"It always boils down to wins and losses," Floyd said. "Always boils down to that because losing is the toughest part for me. I'm a competitor and strive to win in everything I do."
For the entirety of the Rodriguez era at Michigan, the Wolverines didn't win -- certainly not to the level the Michigan fan base and players had come to expect. Two of Rodriguez's three seasons with the Wolverines ended with losing records. They also dealt with the first major NCAA sanctions in the history of the program related to excess stretching and practice time.
Still, Rodriguez brought most of the players now having success to Michigan. He recruited Robinson out of Deerfield Beach, Fla., to be a quarterback. He plucked defensive end Craig Roh and offensive tackle Taylor Lewan out of Arizona. He flipped receiver Roy Roundtree from Purdue to Michigan and found running back Fitzgerald Toussaint in Ohio. He discovered safety Jordan Kovacs at a walk-on tryout.
Most of the key components to last season's success at Michigan and this season's leadership core came from Rodriguez and were molded by both him and Hoke.
"It made us even hungrier," Robinson said. "The seniors, we went through that and that's what a family does. A family is going to have ups and downs and through thick and thin, no matter what. You're going to have those ups and downs.
"You're going to be able to fight, not quit. That's what's going on right now. We're still fighting."
Hoke, though, has not focused on a past he had nothing to do with. Since he arrived at Michigan, he has squarely kept the focus on the present, be it with his senior class last season to help restore the Wolverines program or his group this year.
He said he has not inquired about those experiences, either.
"Really not much and I don't ask," Hoke said. "We don't live in the past, you know. We live in the future. The only thing I really care about is what we're doing daily."
His players, the same ones brought in by Rodriguez, will often echo the same sentiments. They want to focus on what has happened at Michigan now and where they want it to go in the future.
But they also recognize one thing -- their past helped bring them to their present, where they are hoping for that future to be brighter than it was when they arrived in Ann Arbor.
"Everybody just understands," Kovacs said. "We've gone through struggles and haven't won that Big Ten championship yet.
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A 1-J high-brightness frequency-doubled Nd:YAG laser
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The authors report development of a 1-J high-brightness, frequency-doubled, Nd:YAG laser consisting of a TEM00-mode oscillator, four amplifiers, an optical isolator, and a KD*P doubler cut for type II phase matching at 1064 nm. The system operates at a pulse repetition rate of 10 pps, a pulse width of 17 nsec, and a beam divergence of 0.4 mrad in a 12.5-mm diam beam. The system has run damage-free for greater than twenty million shots with a mean-time-between-failure (MTBF), limited by flashlamp life, of greater than five million shots.
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In my opinion (and many others'), Invisible War never existed.
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The only thing that is constant in life is change. The world of dividend investing closely follows this eternal truth as well. For example, in the past two decades investors have witnessed several implosions in large companies that have previously been considered blue chip stocks. Companies such as AT&T Corp had mostly lost its status as a widows and orphans stock after the split in 1984, cut dividends in 2001, and was eventually purchased by SBC Communication in 2005. SBC Communications took the AT&T name after that.
Another example includes financial institutions such as Bank of America (BAC), Citigroup (C ), Wachovia and US Bancorp (USB) which were regarded as safe blue-chips by investors for many years. These companies managed to boost distributions for several decades, and could be found on the dividend aristocrats lists. In fact, these companies exemplified the characteristics of the perfect dividend growth stocks, since they not only provided high yields but also grew distributions at above average rates. While the financial crisis of 2007 -2009 proved that this was all based on financial alchemy, investors who sold after dividend cuts and reinvested proceeds in other income producing securities did fairly well.
Even stodgy utilities, which investors regard as safe investments could deliver their fair share of losses. For example, in 1974 Con Edison (ED) skipped dividends for one quarter and then initiated them back at a rate that was 55% lower than prior to the cut. This was prompted by the fact that the company used oil for its power generation facilities, and the oil embargo made it unable to pass price increases to consumers quickly enough. In addition, it was burdened by construction projects used to increase capacity, all of which caused a shortage of cash. This probably surprised many investors, who were relying on dividends of otherwise stable utilities. In fact, when I look at records of utilities companies in the Dow Jones Utilities Index, there are just a few that have never cut dividends. This goes on to show, that time and again, dividend investors might fall in love with a certain sector, be it master limited partnerships, financials, consumer staples or real estate investment trusts. If they are not careful however, and overexpose themselves to certain sectors, they increase the riskiness of their portfolios.
In essence, there are no perfectly safe investments. While a company looks perfectly stable today, and poised to grow forever, the reasons why it would implode might not be known for several decades. As a result, buy and hold dividend investors should regularly monitor the companies they own and devise a plan to sell if a certain trigger event occurs. For example, I would automatically sell a stock after it cuts distributions. I would then reinvest capital in a company in a similar industry. My experience has uncovered that companies that admit they no longer can afford to pay distributions are very risky. Essentially these stocks either go to zero after cutting dividends, or deliver stratospheric returns after that, with equal chances of either outcome. However, by retaining flexibility to sell after a cut, an investor saves their portfolio for another day. By reinvesting into another company, the investor also recoups a portion of the lost income. If the dividend cutter eventually starts raising distributions again, you can always get back in.
As a dividend investor, I would expect that names in my portfolio in 2042 would likely be different than the names present in 2012. After all, since 2008 I have experienced several cuts in my income portfolio. I had one cut in 2008 (ACAS), two cuts in 2009 (GE, STT), one cut in 2010 (BP) and no cuts in 2011 and 2012. With three months to go in 2013, I have not experienced any dividend cuts either. By maintaining a relatively diversified portfolio consisting of over 40 individual issues, my total dividend income is somewhat immune by dividend cuts or eliminations. If two companies in an equally weighted portfolio of 40 issues completely eliminate dividends but the remaining 38 issues raise distributions by 5%, my dividend income would be unchanged for the year. Assuming that I manage to replace the fallen dividends stocks I sold with fresh income stocks, I might even be able to eke out a gain in total dividend income. Monitoring 40 – 50 positions should not take a lot of time as well. Assuming that investors have done their homework in the initial stage, future time could be allocated reading annual reports and maybe quarterly reports while also performing an annual checkup of their position. I would not expect this to take more than 10 -15 hours/week.
After all, a company like McDonald's (MCD) would keep being in the restaurant business for as long as possible. Its business model of delivering a consistent customer experience on a global scale should not change much. Its expansion might come not just by opening new stores internationally however, but by renovating existing locations, innovations in its menu and attracting new customers from a young age. These megatrends do not happen overnight, and would likely take years to develop. Another example includes Wal-Mart (WMT), which is the world's largest retailer. While the company has largely saturated US market, it could grow substantially abroad. In addition, it could also grow organically by making stores more appealing to consumers. At the same time, if investors use the company's product or service in their everyday lives, they might gain an insider's look at things, even before the annual reports are out.
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1 (32 ounce) bottle guava nectar
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