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Off the road: UPS taps virtual reality to prepare new drivers for hazards
United Parcel Service of America Inc. today announced a plan to start using virtual reality to train employees to spot road hazards. The package delivery company’s new VR classroom program will be launched in September at the company’s nine UPS Integrad training facilities. With the rise of convenient e-commerce and retailer delivery promotions, the number ...
Google woos virtual reality customers with Daydream summer sale
In a move to get more people to buy into virtual reality, Google Inc. today started the “Daydream Summer Sale” for VR apps on its Daydream VR headset. During the sale, which runs Aug. 11-17, numerous apps available for Google’s Daydream View mobile VR headset will be reduced up to 60 percent. Apps affected by ...
Microsoft unveils open-source Coco Framework to speed enterprise blockchain networks
Microsoft Corp. today announced the release of Coco Framework, an open-source system for building large scale, confidential blockchain networks that meet enterprise standards. With the Coco Framework, enterprise developers can quickly roll out distributed ledger technology at scale that can provide tamper-proof history, distributed governance and enhanced confidentiality. Blockchains, consensus built distributed cryptographic ledgers, have ...
Overstock.com becomes first major retailer to accept multiple digital currencies
Paying for home décor and clothing at Overstock.com is about to get a lot more interesting as the online retailer announced today that shoppers can now purchase products with numerous cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, Dash, Monero even the newly minted Bitcoin Cash and others. Overstock.com Inc. is offering the capability through an integration with digital currency ...
Firefox update will add WebVR support for virtual reality viewing
Web browser developer Mozilla Corp. will bring virtual reality viewing capabilities to its flagship product Firefox by default with its planned update Tuesday. This addition will bring Firefox in line with its major competitors, Edge and Chrome, which already support some parts of the standard for online virtual reality viewing. The Firefox 55 update launching tomorrow ...
DMarket looks to blockchain for cross-game virtual item marketplace
A new decentralized marketplace called DMarket announced its intention to become the first service to allow users to trade virtual items between game worlds. Using distributed ledger technology, also known as blockchain, DMarket intends to allow game developers and publishers to bring their games onto a global marketplace. Although virtual game items can be traded within ...
WWPass announces free password manager to make logins more secure
Cybersecurity and identity management company WWPass Corp., developer of authentication technology dubbed PassKey, today announced the release of a password manager for those people who haven’t yet been able to ditch passwords entirely. The free password manager, PassHub, allows people to log in without a username using the WWPass login app PassKey Lite. The app ...
Neverdie launches digital currencies to make virtual jobs and economies a reality
Virtual worlds may make way for virtual jobs in the future and Jon “Neverdie” Jacobs, chief executive of Neverdie Studios, believes the answer will come in the form of digital currencies. To make this happen, Jacobs and Neverdie have been running a crowdsale of virtual tokens that will be used to fund virtual world economies ...
Second Life developer breathes life into social VR with new virtual world, Sansar
Linden Lab, the creator of the world’s most popular and prolific virtual world Second Life, released its newest creation, the virtual reality world of Sansar, to the public today. Sansar’s open beta gives creative access to developers and artists with the tools needed to create and market immersive, social 3-D experiences. The objective of the ...
Ethereum smart contracts gets smarter with technology to ‘see’ what they say
The Ethereum blockchain, a cryptographic distributed-ledger protocol, just got smarter for developers and business users with the addition of technology to reduce bugs and exploits. Using a so-called decompiler dubbed Porosity, Ethereum developers and smart contract users can translate contracts from Ethereum Virtual Machine bytecode – a machine language imprinted on the Ethereum blockchain – into a ...
