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Microsoft brings Minecraft into the real world with beta signups for AR game
Microsoft Corp. announced today that the company is opening up closed beta signups to the general public for Minecraft Earth, an augmented reality game developed by the software giant that brings the tree-punching, block-placing game into the real world. Minecraft quickly became extremely popular after its initial launch in 2011 because of its simple but imaginative approach ...
Samsung releases blockchain software development kit for distributed smartphone apps
Technology giant Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. announced Wednesday the release of a new software development kit supporting the creation of blockchain distributed apps, called dApps, for the company’s Galaxy S10 phone series. The blockchain distributed ledger dApp SDK provides a full set of tools and functions designed to help developers quickly build apps that can ...
Form launches waterproof goggles to bring AR to swimmers
Sports technology company Form Athletica Inc. today announced the upcoming launch of waterproof goggles that use a transparent augmented reality display to keep performance metrics in view for swimmers. AR has been tapped as a way to provide heads-up displays and information for users hands-free with wearable devices or through handheld mobile devices. Ruggedized devices ...
Coinbase-backed blockchain card game ‘Gods Unchained’ launches public beta
Competitive digital collectible card game “Gods Unchained,” developed and published by Fuel Games, today launched its public beta. Using the power of the Ethereum public distributed ledger blockchain, “Gods Unchained” makes it possible for virtual playing cards to be minted, owned and traded similar to physical trading cards. The collectible, competitive card game has been in ...
VisionBanker seeks to change vision care with the blockchain
VisionBanker Pte. Ltd., a startup looking to change vision care through technology, Tuesday announced plans to raise $10 million through a token sale on its own platform to tap into the Asian eye care market. Using facial recognition technology and a blockchain distributed ledger, VisionBanker seeks to change the way vision patients and eyeglass consumers ...
Nestlé pilots blockchain to let customers track milk origins and safety
Swiss multinational food and drink company Nestlé SA announced today a pilot project that uses blockchain distributed ledger technology to enable customers to track food from farm to the dinner table. The pilot, designed to bring supply chain transparency to the company, retail outlets and its customers, is being built in conjunction with OpenSC. Founded ...
Blockchain-based distributed API company dfuse raises $3.5M funding
Dfuse Platform Inc., a provider of blockchain distributed ledger application programming interfaces, announced Wednesday it has raised $3.5 million in a seed funding round led by Multicoin Capital and Intel Corp. As an API provider, dfuse makes it possible for developers to rapidly build distributed, high-performance blockchain-based applications. The company provides open-source libraries that allow ...
Vivo reveals smartphone-tethered AR glasses at MWC Shanghai
Chinese smartphone maker Vivo Communication Technology Co. Ltd. announced its first foray into the augmented reality market today at the Shanghai Mobile World Congress with a reveal of the company’s prototype tethered AR glasses. The glasses, called Jovi AR Glass (above), look like a bulky, but stylish, pair of wrap-around sunglasses, are designed to operate ...
Raspberry Pi 4 launch brings 4K display support and faster CPU for $35
The Raspberry Pi Foundation, maker of a favorite prototype production platform for inventors and “internet of things” developers, announced today the launch of its most recent product: the Raspberry Pi 4 on sale starting at $35. The newest incarnation of the Raspberry Pi brings with it a faster central processing unit, graphics processing unit, the ...
New Harry Potter AR game from ‘Pokemon Go’ developer launches a day early
A new augmented reality game from “Pokemon Go” developer Niantic Inc. for the Harry Potter universe “Harry Potter: Wizards Unite” became available for download today on iOS and Android in the U.S. and U.K. Earlier this week, Niantic announced via a tweet that the game would launch this Friday, June 21, but it appears to ...