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Firefox update will add WebVR support for virtual reality viewing
Web browser developer Mozilla Corp. will bring virtual reality viewing capabilities to its flagship product Firefox by default with its planned update Tuesday. This addition will bring Firefox in line with its major competitors, Edge and Chrome, which already support some parts of the standard for online virtual reality viewing. The Firefox 55 update launching tomorrow ...
DMarket looks to blockchain for cross-game virtual item marketplace
A new decentralized marketplace called DMarket announced its intention to become the first service to allow users to trade virtual items between game worlds. Using distributed ledger technology, also known as blockchain, DMarket intends to allow game developers and publishers to bring their games onto a global marketplace. Although virtual game items can be traded within ...
WWPass announces free password manager to make logins more secure
Cybersecurity and identity management company WWPass Corp., developer of authentication technology dubbed PassKey, today announced the release of a password manager for those people who haven’t yet been able to ditch passwords entirely. The free password manager, PassHub, allows people to log in without a username using the WWPass login app PassKey Lite. The app ...
Neverdie launches digital currencies to make virtual jobs and economies a reality
Virtual worlds may make way for virtual jobs in the future and Jon “Neverdie” Jacobs, chief executive of Neverdie Studios, believes the answer will come in the form of digital currencies. To make this happen, Jacobs and Neverdie have been running a crowdsale of virtual tokens that will be used to fund virtual world economies ...
Second Life developer breathes life into social VR with new virtual world, Sansar
Linden Lab, the creator of the world’s most popular and prolific virtual world Second Life, released its newest creation, the virtual reality world of Sansar, to the public today. Sansar’s open beta gives creative access to developers and artists with the tools needed to create and market immersive, social 3-D experiences. The objective of the ...
Ethereum smart contracts gets smarter with technology to ‘see’ what they say
The Ethereum blockchain, a cryptographic distributed-ledger protocol, just got smarter for developers and business users with the addition of technology to reduce bugs and exploits. Using a so-called decompiler dubbed Porosity, Ethereum developers and smart contract users can translate contracts from Ethereum Virtual Machine bytecode – a machine language imprinted on the Ethereum blockchain – into a ...
HTC cuts the cord to virtual reality with the Vive Standalone headset
HTC Corp. revealed its first standalone virtual reality headset Thursday at the ChinaJoy entertainment expo in Shanghai. The head-mounted display does not require a PC or a smartphone to run and will sell under the name HTC Standalone – but only to consumers in China. The headset looks exactly the same as a standalone version ...
Visbit opens all-in-one VR streaming platform to developers
Virtual reality and 360-degree video streaming company Visbit Inc. announced today that it is opening up its platform to developers. The company released a software development kit for the Unity mobile engine and a web-based virtual reality player capable of video streaming in 4K resolution or higher. Using Visibit’s platform, content creators and publishers may now ...
The end of an era: Microsoft removes Paint after 32 years (but it’s not dead yet)
New Windows users will soon find themselves without an iconic, free paint program that launched 32 years ago. Microsoft Paint is being removed from Windows 10 as part of a looming update from Microsoft Corp. That update, called the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, will greatly expand how Windows users create things, by adding apps and ...
Billion grabs $2.3M grant to put prepaid cards market on the blockchain
The European Union’s largest innovation research program, Horizon 2020, announced Thursday that it granted $2.3 million to the Billion Group to pioneer distributed-ledger technology for the alternative payments market. The alternative payments market concerns payments made with nontraditional means such as e-wallets, prepaid cards and vouchers. Currently, many of these payment types operate sluggishly because ...