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PREDICTIONS 2018
Augmented reality in 2018: Smart glasses emerge as the big battleground
The magic of augmented reality is that we can don a pair of glasses and see things other people cannot see, overlaying the world we live in with holograms and virtual objects and allowing us to see abstract ideas visually. But with the singular exception of the hit mobile game “Pokemon Go,” AR’s introduction to the public ...
Ledger raises $75M to scale up cryptocurrency hardware wallet operations
Paris-based cryptocurrency wallet manufacturer Ledger SAS announced today the company has raised $75 million in a Series B venture round led by Draper Esprit. The company plans to use the money to scale up its operations in producing hardware wallets for cryptocurrencies and provide security for distributed ledgers. Ledger produces a hardware cryptocurrency wallet known ...
De Beers launches blockchain pilot to track diamond authenticity
Diamond mining and retail company De Beers announced Tuesday that it intends to launch the first industrywide blockchain to track diamonds. The distributed-ledger technology would allow De Beers to keep track of diamonds through the entire supply chain from the mine to jewelry store. De Beers is the largest diamond producer in the world by value and ...
China escalates plans to restrict bitcoin exchanges and trading
China is jacking up its regulation of the trade and cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin, with plans to block access to Chinese and offshore platforms that allow centralized trading. According to a report by Bloomberg today, sources close to Chinese policymakers said that the country intends to clamp down on both online exchanges and mobile apps that offer ...
JCB opens research into connecting multiple blockchains in hope of easing bottlenecks
In a bid to ease blockchain bottlenecks, Japanese credit card company JCB Co. Ltd. announced today the development of a technology that will connect separate distributed digital blockchain ledgers. By sharing volume on multiple blockchains, JCB said, it expects to help ease problems caused by heavy traffic on any one blockchain. The company said it will jointly ...
Report: AR and VR companies raised a record-breaking $3 billion in funding in 2017
Investment funding in virtual reality and augmented reality reached a record-breaking $3 billion during 2017, according to a report today from industry analyst Digi-Capital LLC. Almost half of that funding, more than $1.5 billion, was brought in during the last quarter of the year. The total represents a 30 percent rise in investments over 2016, during ...
CES 2018
LUCI announces standalone ‘immersion-on-demand’ VR display at CES
The trajectory of the virtual reality industry is changing. The headsets of 2017 were either wired and expensive, relying on expensive VR-ready computers, or wireless and requiring high-priced smartphones in order to provide a high-fidelity VR experience. Now, manufacturers are beginning to launch standalone headsets to deliver similar high performance at less cost. VR hardware developer ...
Meta and Ultrahaptics will bring a ‘touchable’ augmented reality supercar to CES
Augmented reality developer Meta Co. announced today that it has teamed up with Ultrahaptics and ZeroLight Ltd. in an effort to create touchable AR objects by combining haptic feedback and real-time 3-D visualization techniques. To demonstrate this technology, Meta will enable customers to see and feel a luxury supercar, rendered in AR (pictured), during the upcoming Consumer ...
EZPOS begins cryptocurrency crowdsale to spur customer loyalty with a blockchain
EZPOS Holding Singapore, a cloud-based point-of-sale systems provider, today began an initial coin offering crowdsale of tokens for a product designed to help merchants maintain the loyalty of customers. The EZPOS platform uses a blockchain, a type of distributed ledger technology, that makes its system difficult to tamper with and also provides value to its ...
PREDICTIONS 2018
With next-gen tech, virtual reality will finally hit the mainstream in 2018
The coming year no doubt will be just as unpredictable as 2017, as a huge range of tech trends from the cloud and blockchain to machine learning and virtual reality collide and combine. This is the latest in a series of predictions by SiliconANGLE’s staff and other experts on what’s coming in the enterprise, emerging ...