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Oppo unveils Air Glass ‘assisted reality’ monocle device
Chinese consumer technology company Oppo today unveiled a new wearable device designed to clip onto glasses called Air Glass. The company describes the device as using “assisted reality” and not augmented reality: Instead of overlaying holographic objects on the user’s vision, it displays text and other 2D information. Users can call up information such as ...
Spatial looks to the metaverse and NFTs with $25M in new funding
Spatial Systems Inc., formerly the creator of a virtual reality collaboration platform, said today that it’s dramatically shifting the focus of its company to become the metaverse for cultural events such as nonfungible token exhibitions, conferences and branded experiences. The company also announced $25 million in new funding to develop its plans. Investors included Pine ...
Google Play will bring Android games to Windows PCs in 2022
Google LLC is bringing Android game titles to Windows personal computers next year via a desktop Play Games app. The upcoming development was teased by Google Thursday during the 2021 Game Awards Show with a 15-second advertisement that only revealed that it would permit gamers to play Android games on PCs, its release in 2022 ...
CloudBees lands $245M in new financing to innovate enterprise software delivery
Enterprise-focused software delivery platform CloudBees Inc. said today that it raised $150 million in a new funding round at a $1 billion valuation, plus an additional $95 million debt facility to accelerate product growth. The Series F funding round was led by client vehicles advised by Goldman Sachs Asset Management, with new investments from Morgan ...
Headroom launches AI-enhanced videoconferencing to bring humanity back to meetings
Headroom Inc., a startup that provides a videoconferencing platform, today announced the launch of its service to take on Zoom, Meet and Teams by using artificial intelligence to transform meetings and make them more human. With the global pandemic, more workforces have gone to remote and hybrid, making videoconferencing more of a norm. This also ...
TRM Labs raises $60M for blockchain forensics and risk management
Blockchain risk management startup TRM Labs today announced it has raised $60 million in new funding led by Tiger Global to support its mission to combat cryptocurrency fraud and financial crime. The Series B funding round also saw participation from a number of investors, among them credit card and payment processing companies including Visa Inc., ...
Binance Smart Chain and Animoca Brands launch $200M fund to boost blockchain gaming
Binance Smart Chain and Animoca Brands today announced the launch of a $200 million investment fund with the goal of incubating early-stage blockchain gaming startups built on the BSC blockchain. The two companies will co-invest up to $100 million each in the fund with the intent to accelerate the adoption and development of studios and ...
Blockchain.com opens waitlist for its NFT marketplace beta
Crypto finances company Blockchain.com Inc. announced Thursday that it’s launching a nonfungible token marketplace into beta along with a waitlist for users to sign up. This launch follows the ongoing surge in popularity in the NFT market that caused it to hit $10.67 billion during the third quarter of 2021, according to a report from DappRadar. ...
Rollbar announces real-time adaptive alerts feature for developers
Rollbar Inc. today announced an upgrade to its error monitoring platform for developers called Adaptive Alerts that adds real-time error alerts to warn about unexpected issues in monitored applications using anomaly detection to reduce false positives and false negatives. Ideally, developers and operations teams want to detect errors before they are deployed, but that’s not ...
Android debuts new features for family and autos in time for the holidays
Google LLC’s Android team today announced a lengthy list of new features for Android products that will help people schedule holiday time with family, access widgets and interact with their cars. In tune with the holiday theme, “Family Bell” is a new feature for Android that will help families stay on track with daily schedules. ...