Image: Epic Games Today, Epic is releasing a new tool designed to capture an actor’s facial performance using a device as simple as an iPhone and apply it to a hyperrealistic “MetaHuman” in the Unreal Engine in “minutes.” The feature, dubbed MetaHuman Animator, was detailed at the Game Developers Conference in March but is now available for developers to try out for themselves. Epic has also released a new video today produced by one of its internal teams to show what the tool is capable of. While Epic’s short film shows off some impressively subtle facial animation, the big benefit the company is emphasizing is the speed with which MetaHuman Animator produces results. “The animation is produced locally using GPU…

Steam has rolled out a notable app update featuring a revamped in-game overlay, fresh note capabilities, and the ability to pin in-game windows.Valve updates the Steam appValve first announced it in April, outlining a comprehensive overhaul of Steam, and has released them after testing them in beta. The update introduces several new features, such as a convenient cloud notepad, the ability to pin panels within the in-game overlay, improvements to the web browser, screenshot manager and notifications tabs, and hardware acceleration for Linux and Mac systems. Read more...

Steam has rolled out a notable app update featuring a revamped in-game overlay, fresh note capabilities, and the ability to pin in-game windows.Valve updates the Steam appValve first announced it in April, outlining a comprehensive overhaul of Steam, and has released them after testing them in beta. The update introduces several new features, such as a convenient cloud notepad, the ability to pin panels within the in-game overlay, improvements to the web browser, screenshot manager and notifications tabs, and hardware acceleration for Linux and Mac systems. Read more...

Steam has rolled out a notable app update featuring a revamped in-game overlay, fresh note capabilities, and the ability to pin in-game windows.Valve updates the Steam appValve first announced it in April, outlining a comprehensive overhaul of Steam, and has released them after testing them in beta. The update introduces several new features, such as a convenient cloud notepad, the ability to pin panels within the in-game overlay, improvements to the web browser, screenshot manager and notifications tabs, and hardware acceleration for Linux and Mac systems. Read more...

Steam has rolled out a notable app update featuring a revamped in-game overlay, fresh note capabilities, and the ability to pin in-game windows.Valve updates the Steam appValve first announced it in April, outlining a comprehensive overhaul of Steam, and has released them after testing them in beta. The update introduces several new features, such as a convenient cloud notepad, the ability to pin panels within the in-game overlay, improvements to the web browser, screenshot manager and notifications tabs, and hardware acceleration for Linux and Mac systems. Read more...

Macworld You might think that connecting anonymously to a public Wi-Fi network doesn’t reveal much about you. You might be using a VPN (virtual private network) to protect everything you do. But even if you aren’t, the vast majority of websites and email servers (and pretty much all those run by companies) use client-to-server encryption. But what if you could be tracked anyway? Apple has a solution for this as it does for many tracking systems. The company’s trick lies in how Wi-Fi (and ethernet) adapters identify themselves over a local network when connecting wirelessly or via an ethernet cable. Every network adapter has a factory-assigned unique address baked in at the time of manufacture. It’s called a Media (or…