Steven Spielberg's sci-fi movie Ready Player One, based on the Ernest Cline book about virtual reality and video games, has added Simon Pegg to its cast. This is according to a report today fromVariety, which also revealed the character Pegg will play.
Pegg will reportedly play Orgen Morrow, the co-creator of Oasis, which is the virtual reality that Ready Player One characters tap into and find preferable to the real world.
The film's already-confirmed cast includes Bloodline's Ben Mendelsohn, Olivia Cooke (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl), and Tye Sheridan (Mud). Mendelsohn will reportedly play the villain while Sheridan takes on the role of the teenager at the heart of the story. Cooke's role has not yet been divulged.
Pegg's latest major movie was Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation. His next big film is this July's Star Trek Beyond, which he co-wrote and portrays Scotty in.
X-Men writer Zak Penn wrote the most recent script for the Ready Player One movie, though it remains to be seen how closely the film follows the book's story. Penn and Cline also worked together on another video game movie, last year'sAtari: Game Over.
When Marvel’s Daredevil premiered on Netflix last year, its brawls and its slow build were great. But it also had the particular pacing problems that plague many Netflix “binge” shows. The second season of Daredevil—what I’ve seen of it—has kept all of the good and fixed a lot of bad. Here’s a spoiler-free review.
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You've probably seen the "Puppy or Bagel?" photo by now. No? What about "Chihuahua or Muffin?" C'mon, these things are internet gold. Turns out there's one single person to thank for them all... or most of them, anyway. Her name is Karen Zack and she's clearly a gift to us all. Check out the best of her creations below.
Wow. We no longer need to move. This is officially the end of humanity and the start of the Matrix. Awesome.
Samsung’s to bring a new set of experimental headphones to SXSW that uses electrical impulses to fool your inner ear into thinking your body is physically moving. What’s more, they seem to be pitching the new headgear for virtual reality use alongside the company’s Gear VR headset.
Samsung’s C-labs popped up on the Road to VR radar back in January when they announced their Rink experimental motion controllers for use with the Gear VR using electromagnetic fields to track the movement of your hands in 3D space. Despite looking very polished indeed, our hands-on time with the devices confirmed their R&D status.
Now comes a new set of hardware, again straight from C-Labs, and they promise to provide another piece in the player immersion puzzle by physically stimulating the inner ear to fool the brain into thinking they’re actually moving – a set of headphones called Entrim 4D.
The process in question is known as Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation (GVS) and it’s long been a technique talked about in the virtual reality community as a way to bridge the gap left by visually and aurally induced psychological immersion, or presence. That is, you can only do so much with sight and sound, no matter how good your picture and audio is, you won’t physically feel movement with those methods alone.
GVS uses tiny electrical impulses to stimulate your vestibular system, the sensory system of your inner ear that controls your sense of balance and inertia, into thinking you’re moving when you’re not. The practical upshot is, if you’re able to take output from a game you can in theory simulate the physical sensation of travelling at speed around a race track or riding a roller coaster for example.
The Entrim 4D is describes as a “motion headset that lets you feel (and not just see) VR”. The headset contains electrodes that “correspond with movement data input by engineers,” thus your physical responses to an on-screen event.
“Virtual reality shouldn’t be experienced only with the eyes,” says Steve Jung, Creative Leader of the project. “With Entrim 4D, we hope that people can experience VR the way it was meant to be—with their whole bodies.”
Counter-intuitive as it may sound, this kind of trickery of the inner ear may help reduce the chances of nausea felt by those who suffer from the disconnect felt when a virtual reality experience convinces your mind you’re moving when your body says otherwise. By bringing your physical sensations in line with those in the virtual world, in theory that disconnect is lessened and nausea diminished. In theory.
Entrim 4D has been declared as “safe”, having been tested on some 1500 human guinea pigs, resulting in the development of 30 ‘movement patterns’ – stimulation presets to bring upon certain sensations.
The new project is to be demo’d at the forthcoming SXSW festival which starts in Austin, Texas tomorrow.
BUT she's NOT asain! Power Rangers is White washed!
The upcoming Power Rangers movie just got its villain. The Lego Movie and Hunger Games star Elizabeth Banks will be appearing as Rita Repulsa, the evil sorceress bent on invading Earth (via Hollywood Reporter).
Banks will be playing villain to the team of teen heroes played by Dacre Montgomery (Red Ranger), Naomi Scott (Pink Ranger), Becky G (Yellow Ranger), RJ Cyler (Blue Ranger) and Ludi Lin (Black Ranger).
Project Almanac director Dean Israelite is on board to helm the Power Rangers movie, while X-Men: First Class writers Ashley Miller and Zack Stentz wrote the original draft of the script. Screen-writing team Burk Sharpless and Matt Sazama, best known for The Last Witch Hunter and the upcoming Gods of Egypt, have written the most current draft.
The Power Rangers movie is set to release in 2017.
Banks most recently appeared in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 as Effie Trinket. She also featured in the Netflix original series Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp, in addition to directing, producing, and acting in Pitch Perfect 2.
How cute are his little doggie braces? Harborfront Hospital for Animals in Michigan put these on Wesley because he needed a tooth alignment to close his mouth properly. He should only need to wear them for a few weeks so enjoy the cute while you can!
Meh. Not my type, but still excited for the movie!
Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ernie Cline’s Ready Player One just found its biggest piece. Tye Sheridan—whom we’ll see playing Cyclops in this summer’s X-Men: Apocalypse—is set to play the lead character of Wade, aka Parzival.
When LA closes a major freeway for construction, the city usually comes up with scary names for it to keep people off the roads. Carmageddon. Jamzilla. This weekend, the city is taking a different approach. The “101 Slow Jam” not only has a cute name, it has a video starring LA Mayor Eric Garcetti doing his best-worst Barry White.
Oh man. That is awesome. I hope he was alive the whole time.
The man who died after being sucked out of a Somali passenger jet in midair on Monday appears to have been the person who detonated the bomb, reports the Wall Street Journal.
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