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FullDive VR headset for the masses turns your smartphone into a virtual viewport
The world of Virtual Reality (VR) development is currently dominated by headsets that run their own hardware such as Oculus Rift and Sony Corporation’s Project Morpheus. This makes headsets powerful, but expensive. The alternative is to use already-existing hardware such as smartphones. California-based startup FullDive Inc. hopes add a cheaper everyday alternative to the VR ...
Twitch E3 viewership stats: Star Wars Battlefront brings in the viewers
Earlier this week, Twitch released an infographic showing that the recent Twitch E3 coverage more than doubled the peak concurrent viewership to 840,000 from 400,000 last year. Part of this potentially in part because Twitch began allowing livestreamers on its platform to co-stream E3 press events. To get a better insight into what the viewership ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 July 1: Kraken opens in Canada, Coinbase looks to Australia, itBit and Call Levels, BitTorrent loves BTC
This week brings a lot of fintech news to the Bitcoin space with exchanges expanding, getting venture capital, and linking up with financial services. Kraken is growing and has officially launched in Canada; Coinbase announced an investment from Reventure, a major Australian VC firm; and itBit Trust Company LLC partnered with Call Levels Pte. Ltd., ...
YouTuber DarkSydePhil swatted during Arkham Knight livestream
YouTuber DarkSydePhil faced a police SWAT team during a Twitch Interactive, Inc. livestream in what is a continuing trend of would-be pranksters making false police reports of violent crimes occurring at livestreamers’ residences. Phil Burnell, better known as DarkSydePhil on YouTube, could be heard telling his girlfriend to hold her hands up while he responded ...
Twitch viewers consumed over 12 million hours of E3 content | #E32015
The livestreaming industry continues to mesmerize millions of viewers and this year Twitch, the preeminent gaming livestreaming service launched by Justin.tv in 2011 and bought by Amazon in 2014. Over the years, Twitch has become one of the most-watched platforms for livestreaming but has started to see increased competition from Google’s YouTube livestreaming service and ...
How CloudFlare understands 4 million lines of logs a second to thwart attackers
At four million log lines a second, CloudFlare, Inc. sees a great deal of traffic. So much traffic, in fact, that it’s impossible to digest without some sort of Big Data solution and filtering to break it down into its informative components. To explain how CloudFlare does this heroic job, John Graham-Cumming spoke at the ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 June 24: Bitcoin block size scalability news, Nasdaq partners with Chain, JoyStream BitTorrent for bitcoin, Scrypt.cc hacked
This whole month has seen a great deal of movement on Gavin Andresen’s proposal for increasing the Bitcoin blockchain block size. Currently, a split in opinion of Bitcoin Core developers has thrown a roadblock in the way of adopting a new standard, and most like a new codebase, to support larger block sizes. See below ...
Authy: Why two-factor security matters to gamers and game developers
It has been the era of online identity theft and account compromise for over a decade now and few users know this as well as gamers and game companies. To help combat this scourge of account hijacking, Authy, a subsidiary of Twilio Inc., produces a two-factor authentication service for consumers and developers that the company hopes ...
The Division developer Massive Entertainment cancels mobile companion app | #E32015
It appears that Tom Clancy’s The Division won’t be bringing their friends into the game via mobile and tablets after all. Massive Entertainment (aka Ubisoft Massive) confirmed to IGN today that the tablet app has been cancelled. The Division is an open-world RPG shooter with player-vs-player elements set in a post-apocalypse world where virus has ...
New Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns expansion preorder pricing raises hackles | #E32015
Colin Johanson, ArenaNet Inc. Game Designer, appeared during the E3 PC Gaming Show and announced that pre-orders for the company’s upcoming expansion to it’s free-to-play massively multiplayer online (MMO) game Guild Wars 2 had just started. The expansion, dubbed Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns, sports a cool $49.99 price tag for the Standard Edition, ...