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IBM brings the power of cloud and AI-as-a-Service via Watson to Sword Art Online VRMMO
IBM Japan announced a new massively multiplayer online (MMO) game virtual reality project called Sword Art Online: The Beginning that will make use of IBM’s cognitive computing artificial intelligence Watson and the company’s high-function cloud service SoftLayer. In an almost science fiction move, the company is putting together two of the most powerful systems on ...
Facebook wants to be the moon landing of virtual reality social media
A new era of computing awaits in 2016 with virtual reality (VR) technology finally coming to the hands of consumers. With its acquisition of Oculus VR in 2014, Facebook, Inc. looked at VR and saw a chance to become part of a technology that would change the face of social media, much like the space ...
Yahoo embraces DevOps mobile analytics with update to Mobile Developer Suite
Personalized web portal giant Yahoo! Inc. announced an update to its mobile DevOps library, the Yahoo Mobile Developer Suite, at its San Francisco Mobile Developer Conference. The developer suite includes an all new Flurry, a data analysis platform, tvOS analytics support and a dashboard for direct ad control. Data analysis from apps running in the ...
Nvidia sets sights on PC gaming, VR, deep learning and self-driving cars after record year
Gaming and industrial graphics card chipmaker Nvidia Corporation has seen a record year—with 2016 fiscal revenue $5.01 billion, up 7 percent from $4.68 billion from last year. Quarterly earnings reported by Nvidia for Q4 2016 revenue hit $1.40 billion, up 12 percent from $1.25 billion in Q4 2015. “We had another record quarter, capping a ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 February 17: GNU C library DNS vulnerability affects Bitcoin clients, SEC seeks default judgement against Josh Garza, IBM Blockchain-as-a-Service
A vulnerability discovered in the GNU C library DNS client may have implications for many Bitcoin node and wallet implementations on Linux, keep reading for information on that and how to resolve it. The U.S. Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) is closing in on Josh Garza and GAW Miners with a filing for a default judgement ...
Dinosaurs come to Mattel’s View-Master DLX VR headset with 2.0 upgrade
Mattel, Inc. is bringing its View-Master toy series into the 21st century by upgrading the 3D photo viewer into a mobile VR headset based on Google Cardboard. This weekend at the New York Toy Fair. Last year, Mattel announced the upgraded VR-capable View-Master and just announced today the second generation of the upgrade alongside more ...
Print your favorite toy with ThingMaker, Mattel’s upcoming $300 3D printer
American multinational toy maker Mattel, Inc. announced the release of a $299.99 3D printer that allows kids to make their own toys, called the ThingMaker. The product is named after a previous toy sold by Mattel that children could use to create figurines from molds by heating then chilling liquid plastic. This represents one of ...
AR and VR firms Magic Leap and Virtuix join the Entertainment Software Association
Augmented reality company Magic Leap, Inc. and virtual reality company Virtuix (Virtuix Holdings, Inc.) have joined the Entertainment Software Association (ESA). The ESA is a Washington DC-based association of software developers, publishers and distributors dedicated to service the business and public affairs needs of the video game industry. This news comes after Magic Leap raised ...
Pre-order Oculus Rift PC bundles touchdown February 16: Are you VR ready?
February 16, pre-order bundles including the Oculus Rift VR headset and PCs capable of running the overwhelming entertainment peripheral, will touchdown at retailers such as Best Buy, Amazon and the Microsoft Store. These bundles feature the powerful PC hardware needed to run a VR headset as well everything needed for the VR experience: the Rift ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 February 10: Steam getting Bitcoin payments, Simplex $7M Series A, Coin Center raises $1M, Hyperledger expands membership
Bitcoin may be getting a boost with a potential unfolding partnership between Valve Corp. and BitPay, Inc.! Redditors have discovered payment code in Valve’s video game distribution platform Steam that will allow bitcoin payments for US customers. In Bitcoin finance, credit card processing company SimplexCC, Ltd. announced $7 million in Series A funding to assist Bitcoin ...