Kyt Dotson

Kyt Dotson is a Senior Editor at SiliconAngle and works to cover beats surrounding DevOps, security, gaming, and cutting edge technology. Before joining SiliconAngle, Kyt worked as a software engineer starting at Motorola in Q&A to eventually settle at Pets911.com where he helped build a vast database for pet adoption and a lost and found system. Kyt is a published author who writes science fiction and fantasy works that incorporate ideas from modern-day technological innovation and explore the outcome of living with those technologies.

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HTC cuts the cord to virtual reality with the Vive Standalone headset

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

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 …

Visbit opens all-in-one VR streaming platform to developers

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

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 …

The end of an era: Microsoft removes Paint after 32 years (but it’s not dead yet)

APPS By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

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 …

Billion grabs $2.3M grant to put prepaid cards market on the blockchain

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

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, …

London Stock Exchange Group taps IBM blockchain technology for private securities

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

The London Stock Exchange Group plc has teamed up with IBM Corp. to build a solution using digital ledger technology, or blockchain, to allow small and medium-sized European businesses to digitize corporate securities. Using the technology, LSEG expects to help simplify the …

Bitfury reveals enterprise-grade blockchain framework for business

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

Blockchain software and infrastructure company BitFury Group Monday announced the launch of its enterprise distributed cryptographic ledger technology service. The blockchain framework, named Exonum, is aimed at providing businesses and governments a secure and easy way to rapidly bring blockchain solutions online. “We …

MelodyVR partners with Sony Music to bring sweet tunes to virtual reality

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

Sony Music Entertainment has become the latest major record label to sign a deal with MelodyVR Ltd., a subsidiary of EVR Holdings plc, to produce and distribute music using the emerging technology of virtual reality. With this deal, MelodyVR has inked deals …

Dalux puts augmented reality to work building a hospital in Denmark’s Faroe Islands

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

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 …

Facebook reportedly planning to release $200 VR headset in 2018

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

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 …

Food and drink transparency blockchain startup Provenance raises $800K seed round

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

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 …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

HTC cuts the cord to virtual reality with the Vive Standalone headset

Visbit opens all-in-one VR streaming platform to developers

The end of an era: Microsoft removes Paint after 32 years (but it’s not dead yet)

Billion grabs $2.3M grant to put prepaid cards market on the blockchain

London Stock Exchange Group taps IBM blockchain technology for private securities

Bitfury reveals enterprise-grade blockchain framework for business

MelodyVR partners with Sony Music to bring sweet tunes to virtual reality

Dalux puts augmented reality to work building a hospital in Denmark’s Faroe Islands

Facebook reportedly planning to release $200 VR headset in 2018

Food and drink transparency blockchain startup Provenance raises $800K seed round

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