Would be nice if MS open sourced their "Windows Mixed Reality for SteamVR" bridge before abandoning it .. Or perhaps we will get a replacement from the community.
We have used some of those (cheaper) windows mixed reality headsets in public exhibitions and museum kiosks, development was done on Valve's (more expensive) system using the SteamVR API, and they all run fine using MS's bridge software.

"Currently, Search Labs is available to a limited number of people in the US, India, and Japan. It’s only available in English, Hindi, and Japanese."

so what is it ?
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Ben Krasnow at Applied Science did a whole video about this back in 2016 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

yeah that ship has pretty much passed already.

what ? they still need fuel, right ?

THIS. mod parent up!

and this is why some (defunct imo) AV products have flagged executable packers for as long as i can remember. I have used a modified (header only) version of UPX for some products over the years, and time and time again, some AV will flag it as some generic virus. The reason I used it was to make it a little harder for script kiddies to clone the product, as just changing the UPX header would be enough to disable the generic unpacker scripts. It's gotten even worse in recent years, where a simple (un-obfuscated!) C# .net assembly that simply imports ReadProcessMemory from kernel32 gets flagged as a virus by the same "AV" products. I'm sick of AV products ignorantly flagging shit as malicious, resulting a a lot of extra support, while security-ignorant government mandated (very-well-obfuscated) backdoo... er i mean "bugs" are rampant.

why we need a kernel driver for a gaming device ? surely there is some userland service or something that can talk usb hid ?

is this the asteroid that looks like the vampire space ship in life force ?

Interesting fact is that Nintendo themselves downloaded ROM images from the internet for use in their Virtual Console. An example for this is a Super Mario Bros ROM for the NES. Where the image used on the console was stored in a format that was first implemented by the developer of the iNES emulator (Marat Fayzullin) and later adopted by other emulator authors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

what ?

for the youngsters, https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

wouldn't be too hard to detect affected browsers and deny the test .. or disable it with some clever js or images or whatnot.

that the longest surviving soviet probe transmitted for only 65 minutes. I feel that you're over-romanticizing landing on Venus a bit here, also lets not forget about the atmospheric pressure (93 bar) and temperature (462 C; 863 F), at the surface, not the easiest conditions to operate machinery in for longer periods of time. (src: http://astro.if.ufrgs.br/solar...) ESA's Venus Express did some good science as recently as 2015. And you didn't mention the weird retrograde rotation of Venus (together with Uranus, the only ones in our solar system), which is one of its most interesting features in my personal opinion..