The team behind Project Holodeck has a daunting task ahead: it has to combine a virtual reality headset, two PlayStation Move controllers and a Razer Hydra into a unified VR input system that somehow feels natural.
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But the result is an unwieldy hydra of a book that, having made its point early on, lashes out in all directions to no clear purpose.
It's hard to get totally excited about a PC hardware peripheral, given the smaller quantity of games (particularly hardware-specific titles) over in desktop land, but with Valve support and what appears to be the perfect control scheme (dual analog sticks, dual fully 3D-sensing motion controllers), we'd say the Hydra has a better shot at winning us over than anything else of its ilk.
"It's like a hydra with 200 heads, " says Jost, the former Treasury official.
Sixense, the outfit behind Razer's Hydra, has cooked up a custom version of the Italian-themed sample for use with their controller, and it gives gamers a pair of floating hands to pick up and manipulate objects.
Faced with such a many-headed hydra, what can the record industry do?
The specter of LIBOR manipulation has become a multiple-headed hydra that continues to sprout more heads as we see each new defendant indicted.
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However, as this idea slowly crept into regulations, laws, response plans, the medical industry and the Cold War, it grew into a multi-headed Hydra.
In 2008, Wildern founded a turnaround consulting company called HYDRA Professionals LLC to help auto-suppliers through bankruptcy.
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Aaron Turner launched Hydra Head Records in 1995 without much of a plan.
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In his first letter of the collection, written in 1955 from Nikos Ghika's house on Hydra, Fermor proposes having himself turned into a fish by a young local witch and swimming all the way from Greece to Lismore Castle in Ireland, where the Duchess was staying.
The technology behind the Hydra Sixense motion controller has been in development for a while now, but Razer was actually showing it off at CES this year.
It was on a night in 1968, during my first long sojourn on Hydra.
Last week Turner took to the Hydra Head blog with an unfortunate announcement: The label will be shutting down, putting a halt to releasing new music in December.
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On the other end of the fame scale from Santorini, the island of Spetses, an island in the Saronic Gulf, is known mostly as a haven to ship owners who have houses here and less to the general public who flock to neighboring Hydra instead.
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