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Apple’s new AR/VR headset may cost $3,000, feature dual 8K screens and more
A mixed-reality headset from Apple Inc. reportedly will house more than a dozen cameras for tracking movement, advanced eye tracking, dual 8K high-resolution displays, spatial audio and more bleeding-edge features that put it far above anything on the market today. That’s according to a report today from The Information, which cited “direct knowledge” of the device from ...
Touchcast raises $55M to expand its mixed reality event platform
Virtual experience and events platform Touchcast Inc. today announced it has raised $55 million in an early-stage funding led by Accenture Ventures and others to scale up the company’s virtual events platform. The Series A funding was led by Accenture Ventures and joined by Alexander Capital Ventures, Saatchi Invest and Ronald Lauder. In a world ...
Sauce Labs announces plans to acquire scriptless testing outfit AutonomIQ
Continuous testing solutions provider Sauce Labs Inc. today announced plans to acquire AutonomIQ Inc., a scriptless test automation solution service that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to assist clients. Sauce Labs is a provider of continuous testing solutions for customer application experience so that web and mobile applications run better before they are placed ...
Fine wines become first tokenized security issued under new Swiss blockchain law
Syngum Bank AG and Fine Wine Capital AG today announced that a range of premium investable wines have been tokenized onto a distributed ledger blockchain, creating the first asset tokens issued under a new Swiss law. Assets tokenized on Sygnum’s Desygnate platform, the company’s end-to-end digital ledger solution, will be recognized under the incoming legal ...
ImagineAR and IMP use augmented reality to bring automotive events to life
Augmented reality platform ImagineAR Inc. and Interactive Marketing Promotions announced today a three-year license for a software development kit with an AR platform for a new IMP Event App for automotive shows. In 2019, IMP developed and deployed an AR Scavenger Hunt for the Greater Milwaukee Auto Show presented by the Automobile Dealers Association of Metro Milwaukee. ...
Preciate Social raises $4.6M in seed funding to scale up its platform
Virtual socialization platform Preciate Inc. announced Tuesday that it closed a $4.6 million seed funding round led by led by Inspiration Ventures. This seed round follows the launch of Preciate’s platform in September, a 2D virtual socialization and gathering platform designed to help businesses facilitate remote events, parties and socials. Since that launch, Preciate’s customer ...
Pernod Ricard Winemakers taps Trellis to predict grape harvests with AI
Pernod Ricard Winemakers, the premium wine division of Pernod Ricard, today announced that food system artificial intelligence innovator Trellis Ltd. will provide accurate grape yield, quality, harvest timing and procurement cost prediction across Australia and New Zealand. The grapes market was valued at $167.9 billion worldwide in 2018 and is estimated to reach a value ...
Pledging $150M in COVID-19 vaccine help, Google opens some offices as vaccination sites
Google LLC will open some of its offices as COVID-19 vaccination sites, Alphabet Inc. and Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai said in a blog post today. Additionally, the company intends to invest $150 million in vaccine education and add localized information to search and maps. With the national rollout of COVID-19 vaccine underway in the ...
NexTech AR integrates Microsoft’s Azure Cloud Services platform
NexTech AR Solutions Inc., an augmented reality technology 3D advertisement and e-commerce provider, today announced that Microsoft Azure Cloud Services platform will now be a standard offering for its users. Augmented reality is used by many brands and outlets to attract customers using mobile devices by layering extra visual information over their vision in order ...
Infosys launches applied AI cloud on Cobalt powered by Nvidia DGX A100
Digital services and consulting company Infosys Ltd. today announced the launch of its applied artificial intelligence cloud and part of Infosys Cobalt built on Nvidia DGX A100 systems for AI workloads. This new Infosys applied AI cloud will enable developers and project teams access machine learning hardware and software stacks more easily across private and ...