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.

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Oculus Rift price drops for the second time this year, to $399

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

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 …

SWIFT adds 22 banks to its international finance blockchain project

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

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 …

Free ‘Google Blocks’ VR app lets anyone make 3D art

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

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 …

Just four days in and already $200M Tezos crowdfund becomes largest ICO to date

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

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 …

Rumored Samsung all-in-one Exynos VR headset revealed with eye tracking tech

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

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 …

Daimler and LBBW issue $114M corporate bond using blockchain

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

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 …

IBM and Lightbend join forces on enterprise AI for Scala and Java developers

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

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 …

Live payments are finally coming to virtual reality via Payscout app

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

Soon you’ll be able to buy stuff in virtual reality as easily as in the physical world. Merchant payment transaction processing firm Payscout Inc. announced today its foray into the emerging industry of virtual reality commerce. The application, known as Payscout VR Commerce, …

Virtual reality startup Spectiv announces token crowdsale for community-driven content

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

Spectiv, a virtual reality startup building a community-driven content platform for 360-degree and VR videos, announced a crowdsale of tokens to fund its launch slated to occur in 2018. The crowdsale, set to begin on Dec. 8, will be used to fund …

Comcast joins NBC and Disney to build a blockchain TV ad platform

EMERGING TECH By KYT DOTSON9 YEARS AGO

Telecom and media giant Comcast Corp. announced today the development of a new blockchain solution for premium advertising. Built on a distributed cryptographic ledger, or a blockchain, the Blockchain Insights Platform is aimed at improving the efficiency of premium video advertising with …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Oculus Rift price drops for the second time this year, to $399

SWIFT adds 22 banks to its international finance blockchain project

Free ‘Google Blocks’ VR app lets anyone make 3D art

Just four days in and already $200M Tezos crowdfund becomes largest ICO to date

Rumored Samsung all-in-one Exynos VR headset revealed with eye tracking tech

Daimler and LBBW issue $114M corporate bond using blockchain

IBM and Lightbend join forces on enterprise AI for Scala and Java developers

Live payments are finally coming to virtual reality via Payscout app

Virtual reality startup Spectiv announces token crowdsale for community-driven content

Comcast joins NBC and Disney to build a blockchain TV ad platform

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