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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 ...
Polish bank Alior uses Ethereum blockchain to authenticate documents
The Warsaw-based financial institution Alior Bank SA Monday announced plans to use the public Ethereum blockchain to authenticate and secure sensitive documents for clients. According to a report in Forbes, the Alior announced that the public blockchain distributed ledger, which is second only to the bitcoin blockchain, will be used to provide a feature that will ...
FDA, IBM and Walmart join to track pharmaceuticals with blockchain pilot
The United States Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that the department wants to use blockchain distributed ledger technology to track and trace the production and movement of drugs and vaccines in the U.S. To do this, the FDA has joined forces with IBM Corp. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Merck & Co. Inc. and KPMG LLP ...