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Oculus Rift price drops for the second time this year, to $399
Facebook Inc. is dropping the price of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset for the second time this year, bringing the price tag of the Rift bundle down to $399 for a limited time. The price drop for the Oculus Rift comes during a promotion the company calls the “Summer of Rift” covering a broad ...
SWIFT adds 22 banks to its international finance blockchain project
The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, the international payments settlement network, announced Thursday that it has added 22 more banks onto its proof-of-concept project harnessing distributed-ledger blockchain technology for cross-border account reconciliation. The project is part of the SWIFT Global payments innovation initiative. SiliconANGLE reported on the plans for GPI in 2015 and it ...
Free ‘Google Blocks’ VR app lets anyone make 3D art
Virtual reality holds a lot of promise for entertainment, education and industry using 3D worlds, but the tools for the production of VR content still largely remain in the world of 2D. And the new software and gear for creating VR content come with quite the price tag. To address this gap, Google Inc. today released ...
Just four days in and already $200M Tezos crowdfund becomes largest ICO to date
The record for biggest initial coin offering has been broken again after just a few days. New crowdfunded blockchain startup Tezos began its “initial coin offering” crowdfunding campaign four days ago and it’s already making records. Since July 1, the ICO has raised over $213 million — $140 million in Bitcoin and $73 million in Ethereum ...
Rumored Samsung all-in-one Exynos VR headset revealed with eye tracking tech
Eye tracking hardware and software developer Visual Camp announced today that its technology would be incorporated into the still-unreleased Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.’s next-generation Exynos VR virtual-reality head-mounted display. The Exynos III prototype HMD (pictured) follows in the footsteps of Samsung’s Gear VR headset, but embeds its own stand-alone display, powered by Samsung’s mobile chipset ...
Daimler and LBBW issue $114M corporate bond using blockchain
Automobile maker Daimler AG and German banking group Landesbank Baden-Württemberg announced the successful test of a distributed ledger technology network, or blockchain technology, to execute a €100 corporate bond, or about $114 million USD. The transaction took place yesterday and involved Daimler executing the one-year corporate bond through LBBW known as a Schuldschein, which is ...
IBM and Lightbend join forces on enterprise AI for Scala and Java developers
IBM Corp. announced a collaboration today with Lightbend Inc. in a bid to fire up the creation of artificial intelligence applications in large enterprises. Lightbend is the provider of the world’s leading development platform for so-called “Reactive” applications, which are highly distributed, flexible and tolerant of failures. Together, the two companies seek to build a complete ...
Live payments are finally coming to virtual reality via Payscout app
Soon you’ll be able to buy stuff in virtual reality as easily as in the physical world. Merchant payment transaction processing firm Payscout Inc. announced today its foray into the emerging industry of virtual reality commerce. The application, known as Payscout VR Commerce, will enable frictionless payments in VR experiences, allowing consumers to shop and purchase ...
Virtual reality startup Spectiv announces token crowdsale for community-driven content
Spectiv, a virtual reality startup building a community-driven content platform for 360-degree and VR videos, announced a crowdsale of tokens to fund its launch slated to occur in 2018. The crowdsale, set to begin on Dec. 8, will be used to fund the startup and set the stage to encourage the adoption and sharing of ...
Comcast joins NBC and Disney to build a blockchain TV ad platform
Telecom and media giant Comcast Corp. announced today the development of a new blockchain solution for premium advertising. Built on a distributed cryptographic ledger, or a blockchain, the Blockchain Insights Platform is aimed at improving the efficiency of premium video advertising with the expectation it will reduce costs while delivering better planning, targeting and execution ...
