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A headset which reads electrical impulses in the brain will allow gamers to interact with virtual worlds merely by ‘thinking and feeling’.

The Epoc headset - which is due to go on sale later this year - works by reading a player’s facial expressions as well as basic thoughts, such as ‘lift’ or ‘drop’, and transferring them to their character in the game.

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By Jonathan Richards @ Times Online UK

ATi’s Catalyst 8.2 is out! There’s a huge list of fixes for Windows Vista and a few for Windows XP. There are fixes for high rated games like World of Warcraft and Enemy Territory Quake Wars, so make sure you grab this driver if you play any of these. The release notes can be found here (read/download in pdf format).

The only performance improvements mentioned are for the 2000 and 3000 series. You can expect a 20% increase in frame rates in Company of Heroes in DX10 mode. In CrossFire the performance will be improved by as much as 30%.

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AMD today announced the introduction and immediate availability of the ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series of graphics processing units (GPU). As the world’s first series of graphics processors to deliver Microsoft’s DirectX 10.1 support, 55nm process technology and tri and quad multi-GPU support with ATI CrossFireX, the ATI Radeon HD 3800 series ushers in a new era of enthusiast gaming performance at mainstream price points. The ATI Radeon HD 3800 series will be introduced in two variants at launch, from US $179 MSRP, the ATI Radeon HD 3850 with 256MB of GDDR3 memory and from US $219 MSRP, the ATI Radeon HD 3870 with 512MB GDDR4 memory. The launch of the ATI Radeon HD 3800 series redefines the enthusiast segment and puts high performance gaming in reach of more users than ever before. This innovative new series of graphics products also represent the first step in the launch of AMD’s upcoming enthusiast platform codenamed “Spider.”

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The ATI Drivers & Software Page now offers the promised new version 7.10 Catalyst reference drivers for ATI graphics cards. The new drivers offer adaptive anti-aliasing for the X1000 series, software Crossfire support for the Radeon HD 2600 and Radeon HD 2400 series, and significant reported performance improvements in a number of games.

During his speech, Nvidia’s senior vice president Dan Vivoli let slip that NVIDIA intended to “launch new hardware to coincide with Crysis’ launch.” Vivoli didn’t elaborate, but the rumor mill has been predicting that NVIDIA would ship a new top-end GPU right before the holiday shopping season, just as they did with the GeForce 8800 last year.

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