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Lenovo Mirage Solo Daydream VR
Developer releases basic 2D Daydream VR launcher for the Lenovo Mirage Solo

Looking for a launcher to launch 2D apps and games on your new Lenovo Mirage Solo on the Daydream VR platform? Look no further as a developer has released a very basic launcher that does just the trick.

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The standalone Lenovo Mirage Solo Daydream VR headset is actually capable of launching two-dimensional apps and games, but the device by default provides no way of doing so. You have to use a cumbersome workaround involving installing the app remotely from the Play Store on a PC, then opening Settings on the Mirage Solo, then opening the app settings page that you want to launch, then launching the Play Store details page for the app, and then finally tapping "open" to actually launch the app you want. The full steps outlined by UploadVR show you just how tedious this can be. Fortunately, a developer has released a 2D app launcher that lets you launch other 2D apps without going through this painful process.

Qualcomm Spectra ISP 280
Qualcomm's Second-Gen Spectra ISP Brings Massive Improvements to Smartphone Photography

Qualcomm's Snapdragon 845 features a powerful imaging processor, the second-gen Spectra ISP, that substantially improves on its predecessor.

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At the Qualcomm Snapdragon Technology Summit in Hawaii on Wednesday, Qualcomm finally took the wraps off its newest Snapdragon Mobile Platform: The Snapdragon 845. A crucial component of the new system-on-chip is the Spectra 280 Image Signal Processor (ISP), the co-processor that accelerates on-device processing. It's been redesigned from the ground up in the Snapdragon 845, and there's a lot that's new.