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ODH and Hashed Health join forces to build healthcare blockchain
Data aggregation and analytics company ODH Inc. and distributed healthcare ledger provider Hashed Health announced today that they have teamed up to develop blockchain technology designed to improve patient care and billing. Hashed Health is a distributed ledger blockchain developer working in the healthcare industry to lead a consortium of like-minded healthcare companies to bring ...
SK Telecom looks to make virtual reality more fun with oksusu Social VR
South Korean wireless telecommunications operator SK Telecom Co. Ltd. announced today that it will introduce “oksusu Social VR,” its newest virtual reality platform that will gather users together to watch video content in a social space. The company said in its release that the system would debut at Mobile World Congress 2018 to be held ...
Scalable blockchain protocol Algorand raises $4M in seed funding
The distributed ledger blockchain protocol Algorand, coauthored by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Silvio Micali, announced today the project has raised $4 million in seed funding. The Algorand protocol is an open-source implementation of a blockchain, a distributed ledger technology that can be used to secure transactions and information in a tamper-proof manner. The protocol ...
IrisVR announces virtual reality meeting software for instant collaboration
IrisVR Inc., a maker of virtual reality immersive design review and collaboration software, announced Tuesday that its enterprise VR platform for industrial architecture and construction will be getting a new meetings feature. Architecture and design take a lot of collaboration and work between separate parties, who may sometimes work miles apart. The immersive and collaborative ...
Gaming Standards Association creates gaming blockchain standards committee
The Gaming Standards Association and Gaming Standards Association of Europe today announced the creation of a new technical committee dedicated to creating standards for the use of blockchain distributed ledgers in the gaming industry. Blockchain technology uses cryptography and distributed ledgers to create highly trustworthy, tamper-proof and transparent transaction records. The technology has been sought ...
BitTicket launches blockchain solution to end ticket scalping in the UK
Using distributed ledger blockchain technology, United Kingdom-based ticket delivery service BitTicket announced Thursday that it’s joining with TheTicketSellers to fight against ticket scalping and bots in the industry. In the U.K., where ticket scalpers are known as “touts,” their presence and the proliferation of bots creates problems for the ticketing industry. According to statistics from BitTicket, a product ...
Vreal raises $11.7M to take virtual reality game streaming mainstream
Virtual reality livestreaming and broadcast platform Vreal Inc. announced today it has raised $11.7 million in a Series A funding round led by Axioma Ventures. The platform was founded in 2015 to compete with 2-D livestreaming platforms such as Amazon.com Inc.’s Twitch and Google LLC’s YouTube with the intent to become the first of its kind ...
Decentralized video platform Lino raises $20 million for blockchain community content
Move over, YouTube and Vimeo. A new blockchain-based startup named Lino wants to build a decentralized video platform that pays its content creators and has raised $20 million in private funding to do that. The company announced Sunday that the $20 million was secured during a private token sale led by ZhenFund, a seed stage ...
Pokemon Go’s Niantic Labs acquires augmented reality startup Escher Reality
The creator of the popular phenomenon game Pokemon Go, Niantic Inc., announced Thursday that the firm has acquired mobile augmented reality platform developer Escher Reality. Niantic Labs gained attention and popularity in 2016 when its AR game Pokemon Go struck a chord with mobile gamers who rushed out into the world to capture adorable 3-D ...
FedEx paves the way for transport blockchain standards
Global shipping and transport network business FedEx Corp. announced Wednesday that the company intends to work with the Blockchain in Transport Alliance to develop standards for distributed ledger technology in shipping. An article in FreightWaves, a cargo shipping news site, reported that FedEx joined BiTA as a founding organization and has outlined plans to set ...
