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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 ...
PREDICTIONS 2018
Blockchain will usher in decentralized markets and even more ICOs 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 ...
Bitcoin plunges nearly 35%, prompting Coinbase exchange to suspend trading
One of the largest bitcoin exchanges and wallets, Coinbase Inc., has suspended trading in the wake of an almost 35 percent drop in market value for the digital currency in the past 24 hours or so. At approximately 11:11 a.m. ET, Coinbase said “all buys and sells have been temporarily disabled,” according to the exchange’s ...
Chain releases Ivy, a high-level programming language for bitcoin smart contracts
Making “programmable money” just got easier for bitcoin developers thanks to enterprise blockchain company Chain Inc.’s release of Ivy, a compiler and integrated development environment for writing smart contracts on bitcoin. Chain released Ivy on Monday, following a public sneak peek demonstration earlier this month into its inner workings. An open-source compiler and integrated development environment, ...
Walmart and IBM will expand food safety blockchain efforts in China
The food supply chain in China is about to get a safety boost. It’s set to come from a new Blockchain Food Safety Alliance kicking off with a collaboration between IBM Corp., major retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Chinese e-commerce company JD.com Inc. and the Tsinghua University National Engineering Laboratory for E-Commerce Technologies. These efforts expand already existing pilot ...