It’s March now, that means one of many greatest occasions within the cell world has simply wrapped up. 

Cellular World Congress (MWC) was full of telephones, tablets and wearables this yr, together with ideas designed to provide us a glimpse towards the way forward for cell tech.

Highlights for us right here at Trusted Opinions included the Xiaomi 14 Extremely, the Honor Magic 6 Professional and the Lenovo ThinkBook Clear Laptop computer Idea. There have been additionally some standout wearables current on the occasion, together with the Humane AI Pin and the Samsung Galaxy Ring. 

Preserve studying to find who we named our winner and our loser this week and why. 

Winner: Sony 

This week’s winner is Sony after the corporate introduced that it will be rolling out PC recreation help on the PSVR 2. Sony Interactive Leisure’s Gillen McAllister revealed the thrilling information in a latest entry shared to the PlayStation Weblog. 

“We’re presently testing the flexibility for PS VR2 gamers to entry further video games on PC to supply much more recreation selection along with the PS VR2 titles accessible by PS5,” wrote McAllister. “We hope to make this help accessible in 2024, so keep tuned for extra updates.”

That is nice information for PC avid gamers contemplating investing in Sony’s second-generation VR headset, in addition to those that have already picked the PSVR 2 up. Nevertheless, Sony didn’t elaborate on whether or not you’d be capable of use PC storefronts corresponding to Steam freely, or whether or not you’d be locked to a PlayStation-branded storefront.

Within the meantime, Sony introduced a variety of native video games coming to the platform this yr, together with The Wizards – Darkish Occasions: Brotherhood, Wanderer: The Fragments of Destiny, Little Cities: Larger!, Zombie Military VR and Soul Covenant, in addition to a free replace for Arizona Sunshine 2. 

Loser: Apple 

Our loser this week is Apple after a brand new report recommended that Apple has cancelled plans to construct an Apple Automobile. This report arrived a decade after rumours of the electrical automobile (codenamed “Titan”) first emerged in late 2014. 

Although the existence of Mission Titan was by no means formally confirmed by Apple, the Apple Automobile rumours had been stored alive by leaks and rumours. One such hearsay concerned a driverless Lexus RX450h SUV being noticed exiting an Apple facility as far again in 2017. 

As of 2018, it was estimated that round 5000 staff had been engaged on the key venture. Apple additionally had a reported 66 self-driving vehicles and 111 registered drivers out on the roads that very same yr when the corporate was concerned in a minor crash with a human-operated Nissan Leaf (through BBC). Whereas each autos sustained harm, neither particular person reported any accidents. 

Extra just lately, it had appeared as if Apple was taking a step again from creating its personal automobile, with reviews stating it had pivoted its focus to software program and companies for self-driving autos. This grew to become extra convincing when Apple introduced a number of automobile options it might need in any other case reserved for the Apple Automobile, together with the Apple CarKey and up to date CarPlay plans.

That brings us to February 2024. In accordance with Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, CEO Tim Cook dinner broke the information to the remaining 2000 workers this Tuesday. In accordance with the report, many of those workers members will transfer their focus to creating an Apple generative AI mannequin that may rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini chatbots.