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Google launches Kubernetes-built ‘Game Servers’ beta for high-scalability cloud gaming backend
Google today announced the availability of “Game Servers” in beta test mode, a managed service offering using a service called Agones, which is an open-source game server hosting and scaling project built on Kubernetes. Using Agones, game developers and publishers can provide critically needed servers for games to maintain great multiplayer experiences. Game developers now ...
Google releases Android 11 Developer Preview 2 with new security and quality updates
Google LLC’s Android division today announced the release of Android 11 Developer Preview 2, featuring changes to the user interface, a smarter keyboard, faster messaging experiences, new 5G-related application programming interfaces and updated security measures. This new preview is aimed at Android developers so they can get a handle on what to expect in Android ...
InstaVR launches affordable remote teaching pricing during outbreak
InstaVR Inc., a provider of web-based virtual reality authoring and publishing, today launched organizationwide academic pricing to give universities a more cost-effective way of using VR to provide remote learning and online classes during the coronavirus outbreak. The nationwide COVID-19 pandemic has led to numerous statewide and citywide closures of schools and universities, leading to ...
Snapchat launches new web-based AR tool Lens Web Builder for brands
Social media messaging app developer of Snapchat, Snap Inc., today announced the launch of a web-based augmented reality creation tool aimed at advertisers designed to make it easy for them to develop “AR lenses” for the platform. The “Lens Web Builder” circumvents the need for sophisticated AR development software or expert knowledge, thus allowing anyone ...
AVA Labs open-sources codebase for decentralized finance blockchain platform
The codebase for the distributed ledger blockchain platform developed by AVA Labs Inc., a financial blockchain infrastructure development startup, officially became open source today and was released to the global community. AVA’s vision for its blockchain platform is to become the “AWS of finance,” referring to the cloud computing leader Amazon Web Services Inc. It ...
Varjo updates XR-1 developer AR headset with ‘green-screen’ technology to provide enterprise features
Varjo, a Finnish maker of industrial-grade virtual reality and augmented reality headsets, today announced updates to its XR-1 Developer Edition AR headset that include real-time chroma keying and marker tracking technology as early access features. In film, chroma key is used in a process known as “green-screening,” which is used to replace specially painted backgrounds ...
GrainChain reaps $8.2M in funding for agricultural blockchain infrastructure
GrainChain, a Texan company focused on agricultural distributed ledger blockchain infrastructure, announced today it has raised $8.2 million in funding led by Medici Ventures Inc. Using its innovative blockchain platform, GrainChain offers solutions to farmers, distributors, grocers and other agricultural businesses faster payment and the immediate availability of tradable commodities between farms and buyers. “GrainChain has ...
XRHealth offers VR telehealth services for some quarantined coronavirus patients
Virtual reality telehealth startup XRHealth today announced that it’s working with Israel’s Sheba Medical Center to offer VR services to patients exposed to the coronavirus who have been quarantined at the hospital. Infections with the novel coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, continue to rise, with new cases being discovered and disclosed across the world. According ...
Claris Connect launches to give low-code workflow automation to small business
Claris International Inc., a subsidiary of Apple Inc., today announced the launch of a powerful workflow automation platform designed for the real-world software development challenges faced by small and medium-sized businesses. Claris Connect links manual and automatic processes through the cloud both onsite and remotely in order to streamline and automate business processes and development workflows. ...
Talespin raises $15M in funding to give workers VR training opportunities
Talespin LLC, a spatial computing company focused on workforce training using virtual reality, today announced it has raised $15 million in funding led by Cornerstone OnDemand Inc., a provider of enterprise-ready cloud-based learning and talent management. Along with the Series B round, Cornerstone announced a partnership with Talespin that will provide the startup’s extended-reality training ...