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Nvidia is marking a significant anniversary this week. Eight years ago today, the company launched its GeForce RTX twenty eighty and twenty eighty Ti graphics cards, kicking off what would become an industry-wide obsession with real-time ray tracing. At the time, games supporting the technology were nearly nonexistent, but Nvidia was betting on the future — and that bet largely paid off.
Shifting to the world of augmented reality, Meta Connect is just around the corner, scheduled for September twenty-third and twenty-fourth of twenty twenty-six. The company is expected to unveil camera-less smart glasses alongside updates to its Ray-Ban line, though the event arrives amid ongoing privacy concerns and what insiders are calling a RAM crisis in its wearable hardware division. It may not be a smooth showing.
And for anyone who has ever placed speakers wherever they happened to fit, there is a quieter but genuinely practical story making the rounds. Engadget is out with a guide on how small adjustments to speaker placement and room positioning can dramatically change what you actually hear from a surround sound system. The science is real, and the results, apparently, are worth the effort.
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