Sony’s First To Greatness Offers Players 64 Unique Challenges

Sony has launched a new PlayStation 4 community challenge website called First to Greatness, which allows PlayStation 4 owners to claim many different firsts on the new PlayStation 4 system.

The First to Greatness challenge presents the wider PS4 audience (over a million strong now and growing) with a series of 64 challenges that need completing across a list of games including Killzone: Shadow Fall, Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag, NBA 2K14, and Knack.

The way things works is like this: players need to head over here for a full list of challenges and select their desired task from among them. Then upon completing said task players will need to use the PS4?s Share button to record video proof of their deed and then upload said video to Facebook. Sony is planning to do a remake of their Perfect Day video which will include footage of the first person to complete each challenge and thus will your video game “immortality” be assured.

Sony explains : “But even if you’re not the first to complete a particular challenge, the site will serve as a handy archive of your greatest PS4 accomlishments. Once you’ve completed a challenge and uploaded the video to your Facebook account using DualShock 4’s Share button, submit it to FirstToGreatness.com by signing in with Facebook.

Sony’s First To Greatness Offers Players 64 Unique Challenges

Sony has launched a new PlayStation 4 community challenge website called First to Greatness, which allows PlayStation 4 owners to claim many different firsts on the new PlayStation 4 system.

The First to Greatness challenge presents the wider PS4 audience (over a million strong now and growing) with a series of 64 challenges that need completing across a list of games including Killzone: Shadow Fall, Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag, NBA 2K14, and Knack.

The way things works is like this: players need to head over here for a full list of challenges and select their desired task from among them. Then upon completing said task players will need to use the PS4?s Share button to record video proof of their deed and then upload said video to Facebook. Sony is planning to do a remake of their Perfect Day video which will include footage of the first person to complete each challenge and thus will your video game “immortality” be assured.

Sony explains : “But even if you’re not the first to complete a particular challenge, the site will serve as a handy archive of your greatest PS4 accomlishments. Once you’ve completed a challenge and uploaded the video to your Facebook account using DualShock 4’s Share button, submit it to FirstToGreatness.com by signing in with Facebook.

Google introduces 'OK, Google' voice search on Chrome for desktop

Google search on Chrome for desktop can now be voice activated with the "OK, Google" command thanks to an official plug-in.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
 Do you hate typing? If you use Chrome for desktop, you can now activate Google voice search by saying "OK, Google", just like you can on the Nexus 5 smartphone, thanks to a new official plug-in.

"It's that time of year... the in-laws are coming for a tasty Turkey Day dinner," Google wrote on a rather US-centric Google+ blog post. "You're elbow deep in your turkey, ready to start the stuffing and you need to quickly calculate how many ounces of walnuts are in a cup. This year, rather than stopping midway through to wash your hands and type in a search, you can just speak to your laptop: 'OK, Google, how many ounces are in one cup?'"

At the moment, the service is in beta and targeted at the US market, but it can be downloaded outside the US (it worked fine for us in our Sydney office) and, if it's anything like Google Now for Android, doesn't take long to adapt to your accent and idiom. And of course, it can be used for almost everything you currently use Google Now for: performing searches and translations, setting reminders, creating calendar events and getting directions.

You need to be on the Google search page for it to work, and it won't read out all your answers — so its functionality is limited — but we're optimistic that, at some stage, the feature will be enabled from any web page in the Chrome browser.
You can download Google Voice Search Hotword for free from the Chrome Web Store.

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Google Working On Prescription Lenses, New Designs For Google Glass

 

 Google has already talked about expanding its range of Glass products and if the rumours are true, the company is one step closer to making a prescription version of this wearable tech.

Word comes from the Wall Street Journal, which states Google is in talks with VSP Global about integrating Google Glass into prescription glasses. WSJ cites VSP CEO Robert Lynch as saying plans include training optometrists to fit patients for Google Glass, making more stylish frames, and developing lenses that work with Google Glass.

VSP, which provides a vision plan for Google employees, has 60 million enrolled members and counts 30,000 eye doctors in its networks – assets that could help bring Glass to a broader audience. 

Google’s Internet-connected eyewear lets users receive search results, read email, scan maps for directions and engage in video chats without reaching for their smartphones, but many fear its current design is a bit too nerd friendly.

According to The Verge, Rochester Optical is not working with Google to develop its lenses.

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