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Dalux puts augmented reality to work building a hospital in Denmark’s Faroe Islands
Dalux, Denmark-based company that does building information modeling, Wednesday launched an augmented-reality phone app designed to give construction workers an edge. The so-called BIM platform, intended to assist construction crews in the field by providing visual overlays via mobile phone camera as well as floor plans, is currently being used in Denmark’s Faroe Islands to assist with ...
Facebook reportedly planning to release $200 VR headset in 2018
Facebook Inc. has plans to unveil a new standalone virtual reality headset with an affordable price tag of $200 later this year that will begin shipping in 2018. According to a report from Bloomberg, the headset’s code name is “Pacific.” This report follows Facebook’s recent efforts to make its Oculus Rift headset cheaper to enhance sales of ...
Food and drink transparency blockchain startup Provenance raises $800K seed round
United Kingdom-based startup Project Provenance Ltd. announced today closing $800,000 in funding to enable a market launch of its blockchain service. Provenance has developed a distributed cryptographic ledger, or blockchain, designed to provide transparency to track fresh produce from origin to grocery store shelf. This seed round follows a successful international pilot tracking tuna through Southeast ...
Oculus Rift price drops for the second time this year, to $399
Facebook Inc. is dropping the price of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset for the second time this year, bringing the price tag of the Rift bundle down to $399 for a limited time. The price drop for the Oculus Rift comes during a promotion the company calls the “Summer of Rift” covering a broad ...
SWIFT adds 22 banks to its international finance blockchain project
The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, the international payments settlement network, announced Thursday that it has added 22 more banks onto its proof-of-concept project harnessing distributed-ledger blockchain technology for cross-border account reconciliation. The project is part of the SWIFT Global payments innovation initiative. SiliconANGLE reported on the plans for GPI in 2015 and it ...
Free ‘Google Blocks’ VR app lets anyone make 3D art
Virtual reality holds a lot of promise for entertainment, education and industry using 3D worlds, but the tools for the production of VR content still largely remain in the world of 2D. And the new software and gear for creating VR content come with quite the price tag. To address this gap, Google Inc. today released ...
Just four days in and already $200M Tezos crowdfund becomes largest ICO to date
The record for biggest initial coin offering has been broken again after just a few days. New crowdfunded blockchain startup Tezos began its “initial coin offering” crowdfunding campaign four days ago and it’s already making records. Since July 1, the ICO has raised over $213 million — $140 million in Bitcoin and $73 million in Ethereum ...
Rumored Samsung all-in-one Exynos VR headset revealed with eye tracking tech
Eye tracking hardware and software developer Visual Camp announced today that its technology would be incorporated into the still-unreleased Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.’s next-generation Exynos VR virtual-reality head-mounted display. The Exynos III prototype HMD (pictured) follows in the footsteps of Samsung’s Gear VR headset, but embeds its own stand-alone display, powered by Samsung’s mobile chipset ...
Daimler and LBBW issue $114M corporate bond using blockchain
Automobile maker Daimler AG and German banking group Landesbank Baden-Württemberg announced the successful test of a distributed ledger technology network, or blockchain technology, to execute a €100 corporate bond, or about $114 million USD. The transaction took place yesterday and involved Daimler executing the one-year corporate bond through LBBW known as a Schuldschein, which is ...
IBM and Lightbend join forces on enterprise AI for Scala and Java developers
IBM Corp. announced a collaboration today with Lightbend Inc. in a bid to fire up the creation of artificial intelligence applications in large enterprises. Lightbend is the provider of the world’s leading development platform for so-called “Reactive” applications, which are highly distributed, flexible and tolerant of failures. Together, the two companies seek to build a complete ...