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Portal
Portal often refers to: * Portal (architecture), an opening in a wall of a building, gate or fortification, or the extremities (ends) of a tunnel Portal may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Gaming * ''Portal'' (series), two video games developed by Valve ** ''Portal'' (video game), a 2007 video game, the first in the series ** ''Portal 2'', the 2011 sequel ** '' Portal Stories: Mel'', a mod for ''Portal 2'' * ''Portal'' (1986 video game), a 1986 computer game by Activision * Portal (''Magic: The Gathering''), a set in the ''Magic: The Gathering'' card game * Portal (video game element), an element in video game design Music * Portal (band), an Australian extreme metal band * ''Portal'' (album), a 1994 album by Wendy & Carl * ''Portals'' (Arsonists Get All the Girls album), 2009 * ''Portals'' (Sub Focus and Wilkinson album), 2020 * "Portals", by Alan Silvestri, from the soundtrack for the film '' Avengers: Endgame'' * '' Portals (EP)'', a 2022 EP by Kirk Hammett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portal 2
''Portal 2'' is a 2011 puzzle-platform video game developed by Valve for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. The digital PC version is distributed online by Valve's Steam service, while all retail editions were distributed by Electronic Arts. A port for the Nintendo Switch was included as part of ''Portal: Companion Collection''. Like the original ''Portal'' (2007), players solve puzzles by placing portals and teleporting between them. ''Portal 2'' adds features including tractor beams, lasers, light bridges, and paint-like gels that alter player movement or allow portals to be placed on any surface. In the single-player campaign, players control Chell, who navigates the dilapidated Aperture Science Enrichment Center during its reconstruction by the supercomputer GLaDOS (Ellen McLain); new characters include robot Wheatley (Stephen Merchant) and Aperture founder Cave Johnson (J. K. Simmons). In the new cooperative mode, players solve puzzles together as ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portal (series)
''Portal'' is a series of first-person puzzle-platform video games developed by Valve. Set in the ''Half-Life'' universe, the two main games in the series, ''Portal'' (2007) and '' Portal 2'' (2011), center on a woman, Chell, forced to undergo a series of tests within the Aperture Science Enrichment Center by a malicious artificial intelligence, GLaDOS, that controls the facility. Most of the tests involve using the "Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device" – nicknamed the portal gun – that creates a human-sized wormhole-like connection between two flat surfaces. The player-character or objects in the game world may move through portals while conserving their momentum. This allows complex "flinging" maneuvers to be used to cross wide gaps or perform other feats to reach the exit for each test chamber. A number of other mechanics, such as lasers, light bridges, tractor funnels and turrets, exist to aid or hinder the player's goal to reach the exit. The ''Portal'' games are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portal (video Game)
''Portal'' is a 2007 puzzle-platform game developed and published by Valve. It was released in a bundle, '' The Orange Box,'' for Windows, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, and has been since ported to other systems, including Mac OS X, Linux, Android (via Nvidia Shield), and Nintendo Switch. ''Portal'' consists primarily of a series of puzzles that must be solved by teleporting the player's character and simple objects using "the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device", often referred to as the "portal gun", a device that can create inter-spatial portals between two flat planes. The player-character, Chell, is challenged and taunted by an artificial intelligence named GLaDOS (Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System) to complete each puzzle in the Aperture Science Enrichment Center using the portal gun with the promise of receiving cake when all the puzzles are completed. The game's unique physics allows kinetic energy to be retained through portals, requiring creative use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Facebook Portal
Meta Portal (also known as Portal) is a brand of smart displays and videophones released in 2018 by Facebook Inc. (now named Meta Platforms). The product line consists of four models (Portal, Portal+, Portal TV, and Portal Go) that provide video chat via Messenger and WhatsApp, augmented by a camera that can automatically zoom and track people's movements. The devices are integrated with Amazon's voice-controlled intelligent personal assistant service Alexa. Meta uses some data collected from Portal devices for targeted advertising. Reviewers rated the Portal line's video and audio handling capabilities positively, but criticized Facebook's privacy practices for commercial use of data that Portal devices captured. History On October 8, 2018, Facebook, Inc. announced the sale and shipment of the Portal and the Portal Plus. The second generation of Portal devices was announced on September 18, 2019; the second-generation Portal and Portal Mini were released on October 15, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portal Software
Portal often refers to: *Portal (architecture), an opening in a wall of a building, gate or fortification, or the extremities (ends) of a tunnel Portal may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Gaming * ''Portal'' (series), two video games developed by Valve ** ''Portal'' (video game), a 2007 video game, the first in the series ** '' Portal 2'', the 2011 sequel ** '' Portal Stories: Mel'', a mod for ''Portal 2'' * ''Portal'' (1986 video game), a 1986 computer game by Activision * Portal (''Magic: The Gathering''), a set in the ''Magic: The Gathering'' card game * Portal (video game element), an element in video game design Music * Portal (band), an Australian extreme metal band * ''Portal'' (album), a 1994 album by Wendy & Carl * ''Portals'' (Arsonists Get All the Girls album), 2009 * ''Portals'' (Sub Focus and Wilkinson album), 2020 * "Portals", by Alan Silvestri, from the soundtrack for the film '' Avengers: Endgame'' * ''Portals (EP)'', a 2022 EP by Kirk Hammett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portals (initiative)
Portals is a global public art initiative that connects people around the globe through real-time video audiovisual technology housed inside a gold-painted, converted shipping container or other structure.{{cite news, url=http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/21/arts/portals-project-los-angeles/, title=This gold box is 'better than Facebook', date=April 23, 2017, work=CNN, agency=CNN, author=Jason Kravarik , author2=Stephanie Elam, accessdate=24 May 2017{{cite news, last1=Stephanopolous, first1=George, title=This Week with George Stephanopoulos: Reporting on the Global Public Art Initiative, Portals, url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f70eYYjkMsk, agency=ABC This Week, date=30 May 2016 Individuals and groups enter local Portals and engage with individuals or groups in distant Portals through live, full-body video conferencing. The experience has been described as "breathing the same air." Portals are placed in public spaces such as public squares, museums, university campuses, high-level sum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portals Network Programming Api
Portals is a low-level network API for high-performance networking on high-performance computing systems developed by Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico. Portals is currently the lowest-level network programming interface on the commercially successful XT line of supercomputers from Cray. Overview Portals is based on the concept of elementary building blocks that can be combined to support a wide variety of upper-level network transport semantics. Portals provides one-sided data movement operations, but unlike other one-sided programming interfaces, the target of a remote operation is not a virtual address. Instead, the ultimate destination in memory of an incoming message is determined at the receiver by comparing contents of the message header with the contents of structures at the destination. This flexibility allows for efficient implementations of both one-sided and two-sided communications. In particular, Portals is aimed at providing the fund ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portal (band)
Portal is an Australian extreme metal band whose style is an unorthodox fusion of death metal, black metal, dark ambient and experimental music. The band's hybrid musical style is characterised by heavily distorted guitar riffs, down-tuned rhythms, and vocals ranging from "menacing, echoing" sound effects to death grunts. Writing for ''Popmatters'', Adrien Begrand noted that "death metal always pretends to be scary, but ..it's all rather harmless. That said, however, I make no mistake in saying that the death metal peddled by Australia's Portal is truly friggin' terrifying". Lead guitarist Horror Illogium has described Portal's intent as "to capture a cinematic horror scope". They have released seven full-length albums to date, as well as a number of EPs and split releases. Their most recent albums, ''Avow'' and ''Hagbulbia'', were released in 2021 on Profound Lore Records. Musical style Portal's main musical influences were Morbid Angel, Beherit, and Immolation. Des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portal (comics)
Portal (Charles Little Sky) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Portal is a mutant superhero. Publication history The character first appeared as Charles Little Sky in '' Avengers'' #304 (June 1989) and as Portal in '' Darkhawk'' #5 (July 1991). Fictional character biography Native American Charles Little Sky was born in Hartsdale, New Mexico. As a teenager, he manifested his dimension-spanning powers during a confrontation between the Avengers and Puma, the superhuman protector of Little Sky's tribe. Little Sky fled the reservation he lived on, moving to New York City where he took a job as a construction worker. He was followed by Puma, who had set out in pursuit of Little Sky out of fear that the powers he'd soon manifest would prove dangerous. When Puma finally tracked him down at Ellis Island, Little Sky's powers activated for the first time, opening a portal to the dimension where the U-Foes had been exiled, freeing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portal (1986 Video Game)
''Portal'' is a text-driven adventure with a graphical interface published for the Amiga in 1986 by Activision. The writing is by American author Rob Swigart, and it was produced by Brad Fregger. Ports to the Commodore 64, Apple II, and IBM PC compatible, IBM PC were later released. A version for the Atari ST was announced and developed, but not published. Until recently, it was thought that a Macintosh version was similarly developed yet left unpublished. The published Macintosh version was rediscovered in 2021 by a game collector. Plot The player, taking on the role of the unnamed astronaut protagonist, returns from a failed 100-year voyage to 61 Cygni to find the Earth devoid of humans. Cars are rusted and covered with moss, the streets are completely barren, and everything appears as though the entire human race had just vanished suddenly. The player happens upon a barely functioning computer terminal that is tied into a storytelling mainframe computer, mainframe, Homer. Thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enterprise Portal
An enterprise portal, also known as an enterprise information portal (EIP), is a framework for integrating information, people and processes across organizational boundaries in a manner similar to the more general web portals. Enterprise portals provide a secure unified access point, often in the form of a web-based user interface, and are designed to aggregate and personalize information through application-specific portlets. One hallmark of enterprise portals is the de-centralized content contribution and content management, which keeps the information always updated. Another distinguishing characteristic is that they cater for customers, vendors and others beyond an organization's boundaries. This contrasts with a corporate portal which is structured for roles within an organization. History The mid-1990s saw the advent of public web portals. These sites provided a key set of features (e.g., news, e-mail, weather, stock quotes, and search) that were often presented in self-co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Intranet Portal
An intranet portal is the gateway that unifies access to enterprise information and applications on an intranet. It is a tool that helps a company manage its data, applications, and information more easily through personalized views. Some portal solutions are able to integrate legacy applications, objects from other portals, and handle thousands of user requests. In a corporate enterprise environment, it is also known as an ''enterprise portal''. Background The Intranet and Internet share many elements and use the same technologies, but they fundamentally differ in their missions. Unlike the Internet, the intranet operates within a private network and is not necessarily connected to the Web. Connectivity transpires within the process called ''address mapping''. Here, Intranet addresses are converted to Internet addresses to provide the required transparency and vice versa. Through the intranet portal, the private network is able to impose its own local rules of behavior because ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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