Gran Turismo 7 will be coming to the PC

Kazunori Yamauchi, the director of Gran Turismo 7, has recently spoken about a PC port for the game. However, he has conceded that “it is not an easy subject”. The game was released for the PS4 and PS5 earlier in March this year. When asked about whether the game would be available in a PC version, he said “Yes, I do think so” before talking about the fact that the game was made for the PlayStation and will be challenging to change into different formats. 

Why is it difficult to create a PC version of the Gran Turismo 7?

Over the last few years, the time taken to create PC versions of PlayStation games has shorten, with the former being released fairly quickly after the later. This, however, cannot be the case with the Gran Turismo 7. 

‘Gran Turismo is a very finely tuned title,’ said Yamauchi. ‘There are not many platforms which could run the game in 4K/60p natively, so one way we make that possible is to narrow down the platform. It’s not a very easy subject, but of course, we are looking into it and considering it.’

While a high-end PC is likely to have all the raw power needed to be able to run this game, Yamauchi was not referring to the same when talking about the portability. The Gran Turismo 7 has been made specifically for the PlayStation hardware. 

Of course, Sony has not ever committed to bringing every single first party game to the PC, but based on current trends, this seems to be the case. Doing so allows the company to expand its audience base and bring PC gamers into their universe. 

Will PC versions be released the same day as console releases?

This might be some time off. However, we might actually see something like this with the Last of Us multiplayer title. It is believed that this game will be a free to play one. 

Have you ever played Gran Turismo 7? Check out our Gran Turismo hands-off preview of the same! 

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OpenAI trained a bot to play Minecraft after feeding it 70,000 hours of YouTube gameplay

Back in the day, if you could defeat the computer at chess, you’d feel like a king for a day. Now, we’ve got a modern equivalent of ‘beating the computer’ and that is possibly playing with AI. OpenAI, artificial intelligence research, and deployment company has announced that it's trained a bot to play Minecraft. How did it achieve this? Well, the same way we all learn things - by watching 70,000 hours of Youtube videos. 

The bot is the first to create the highly coveted DIamond tools in the game. This isn’t just significant from a gaming perspective but is also an important breakthrough in the kind of tools that can be used to train AI.

Breaththroughs in training AI

According to research, this represents a major breakthrough in imitation learning. Imitation learning is a method of teaching AI how to do things by showing the bots how humans do the task. You know, monkey see, monkey do. AI learns by mimicking the tasks it sees, which means we may soon be able to train AI bots to take over a bunch of menial tasks. 

Researchers at OpenAI hope to use this to teach bots to achieve something similar to GPT-3 for large-scale language models. GPT-3 can imitate human-written text. It had been trained using thousands of texts and books to achieve the same. 

“In the last few years we’ve seen the rise of this GPT-3 paradigm where we see amazing capabilities come from big models trained on enormous swathes of the internet,” says Bowen Baker at OpenAI, in an interview with Technology Review.

Thinking about playing Minecraft? It’s actually one of the most played games in the world right now, and you can’t go wrong with it at all. 

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iQoo 11 display specs confirmed: AMOLED display, refresh rates, and more

iQoo has confirmed the display specifications of its upcoming iQoo 11, said to launched on 2nd December 2022. The flagship smartphone will be releasing in China and Malaysia in December and is the direct successor to the iQoo 10 (which was rebranded iQoo 9T 5G in India). 

In anticipation of the upcoming release, iQoo has begun to drop teasers about the smartphone to get potential buyers excited. The latest version of these teasers confirmed that the smartphone will come with major display upgrades when compared to its predecessor.

iQoo 11 display features

The iQoo 11 will feature a 2K display, according to the firm’s communication on Weibo. The display will have a 144Hz refresh rate along with a 1440Hz high-frequency PWM dimming. The 6.78-inch E6 AMOLED display will offer a brightness of 1800 nits. It will also support LTO technology that will allow the refresh rate to switch dynamically based on the content on the screen. As a result, it should be able to deliver an optimal viewing experience.

iQoo released another teaser that hints at the smartphone’s ability to switch the refresh rate even when on split screen mode. For instance, if you’re splitting the screen to view a video and its comments section, the video displayed at the top half of the screen will have a refresh rate of 60Hz while the comments section will have a refresh rate of 120Hz. 

Other teasers confirm that the smartphone will come with a curved display. 

iQoo 11: Other likely features

The new Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC was released recently, and iQoo has confirmed that the upcoming flagship smartphone will sport this new chipset. Just as a refresher, this chipset offers a peak clock speed of 3.4 GHz. The brand claims that it is 25% more powerful than its predecessor and can also offer 45% higher efficiency than the same. 

The iQoo will be equipped with the Vivo's custom-developed V2 Image Signal Processor (ISP). The brand claims that this feature improves portrait shots and also delivers a better video recording experience in low light. 

The iQoo 11 will also come with a triple camera setup. It will come with a 50 MP Samsung GN5 primary camera, 13 MP ultra-wide lens, and a 12MP telephoto unit. It will also have a 16Mp selfie camera. The smartphone will also have a 5,000 mAh battery capacity with support for 120W fast charging.

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Gran Turismo 7 PC: Team ‘Considering’ a PC Port for the PlayStation Exclusive

Gran Turismo series lead Kazunori Yamauchi has revealed that the team is “considering” and “looking into” porting the racing franchise to PC. In an interview with GTPlanet, he noted some concerns when trying to get the “finely tuned” title to perform at 4K 60fps consistently. While not explicitly mentioned, Yamauchi seems to be referring to the latest Gran...

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iPhone 15 features roundup: From USB Type-C to iPhone 15 Ultra

Apple recently launched the Apple iPhone 14 smartphones, and already, we’re hearing a lot of buzz about the upcoming Apple iPhone 15. While the latter’s release date has not been confirmed yet (and it is believed that it's still a long way off), reports of its possible features have started doing the rounds. 

The following are some of the features that we can expect to see in the upcoming premium smartphones.

Apple iPhone 15 Ultra

The mini variants of the Apple smartphones were discontinued with the launch of Apple iPhone 14 Pro as these devices failed to inspire great sales. This moniker was replaced with the Max moniker, with the brand offering the Apple iPhone 14 Max as one of the variants. Now, the brand plans to get rid of the Pro Max moniker and replace it with Ultra. We’ve already seen the Ultra nomenclature in a few Apple devices like the Apple Watch and the high-end version of the MI chipset. 

Solid state buttons on iPhone 15

The brand might be moving away from physical buttons altogether and will, instead, equip the upcoming smartphones with solid state buttons. The brand revealed the logic behind this in a shareholder letter, according to a MacRumours report. It said that the “largest change in new iPhone models next year is the removal of the buttons, which would require additional drivers for the haptics engine,”. 

Periscope camera on iPhone 15

Currently, all Apple smartphones use a telephoto lens that offers a 3x zoom. The Periscope camera will be a feature that enhanced the smartphone’s zoom capabilities, bringing the same to 10x optical zoom. The brand has been working on this lens for a while now, and we may see the same in the Apple iPhone 15 series. 

iPhone 15’s rounded design

According to ShrimpApplePro, the upcoming Apple 15 series will be bidding goodbye to the squared-off design we’ve gotten used to over the years. The brand is moving back to its rounded design (last seen on the Apple iPhone 5C launched in 2015. The Apple iPhone 15 series may also come with a titan chassis and will retain the pill-and-hole cutouts for the Dynamic Island featured on the Apple iPhone 14. 

USB Type C Port

India and the European Union have been fairly vocal about the need for common chargers across devices. In fact, the European Parliament has already passed a mandate that makes USB Type C chargers compulsory by 2024. Due to this, Apple may be moving towards USB Type C ports to bring us chargers that are similar to the ones we see on Android smartphones. This may spell the end of the lighting port. 

What do you think of these reported features? Read our review of the Apple iPhone 14 to know what the device offers. 

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JioGamesCloud: Reliance’s New Cloud Gaming Service Now Available in Beta to Everyone

JioGamesCloud is now available for early access, and is accessible as part of a free beta programme. Interested users can sign in using their mobile numbers across PC/ Mac (browser), the JioGames app, and the JioFiber set-top box on television. Controller support is enabled across all platforms, and there is no need to download or install the games. The service is exp...

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What is Red Planet Day, and what is its significance with Mars

Mars, the fourth planet in our solar system (and a potential candidate for human colonisation sometime in the future) is often referred to as the Red Planet. The planet has hardly any air, coupled with a terrain that’s made of a sandy desert. 

There are indications of activities on the planet in the past, with volcanic eruptions, seasons, canyons, polar ice caps, all being a part of the planet’s geography. It is believed that Mars became inhospitable around 4 billion years ago, when its magnetic field died out and the atmosphere eroded.

So, what is Red Planet Day?

The Mariner 4 was the first spacecraft to arrive on Mars on 28th November, 1964. This day is known as Red Planet Day and marks mankind’s first excursion onto the planet. Red Planet Day is celebrated every year. 

The Mariner 4 was built specifically to facilitate space exploration in the future, and its primary purpose was to conduct fly-bys and gather data on the planet. It completed its mission in 8 months, allowing scientists to begin forming hypotheses about the red planet. These findings can be considered the basis of what is now a mountain of research on that planet. 

More facts about Mars

In spite of the fact that the planet died 4 billion years ago, it is still considered the most viable option for human colonisation. The weather on the planet is neither too hot or cold, and there are trace amounts of hydrogen and oxygen still found in the atmosphere. The planet also has ample sunshine. Finding a way to jumpstart organic oxygen production on the planet would be one way to start making it a second home for Earthlings.

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