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Emotional rescue could refresh uncertain VR market
In 2017, a thousand variations on “Virtual reality is dead” stared coldly from the headlines of tech blogs. But despite lackluster content and sagging headset sales, some proponents say VR is still in the fight. Perhaps to enthrall viewers, VR just needs that old black magic Hollywood’s always counted on to sell tickets: Paleomammalian cortex arousal. That is, ...
Is Cisco’s head start on IoT edge warming its seat at new-guard table?
“Internet of things” connected devices at the network edge are giving fresh pains to legacy technology companies and startups alike. It may at first seem that a younger, edgier (no pun intended) company is best equipped to tackle the challenge. But here comes the elder shaman of network ills Cisco Systems Inc. assuring, “I’ve got ...
Cisco twists network into pretzel so it can manage messy IoT
Linking a universe of “internet of things” connected devices into a manageable whole is a work in progress to put it optimistically. “An absolute disaster” — analyst Maribel Lopez’s description — would be a less cheerful diagnosis. Could networking legacy Cisco Systems Inc. furnish the missing pieces? Cisco began hammering away at the IoT concept, ...
NetDevOps whirls the network into agile spin cycle
Developer operations smooth an app’s path from the first line of code its maker writes to its clearing onto the network. New applications involving cloud and “internet of things” connected devices are so network-sensitive, they are shifting the network’s place in the DevOps chain. Welcome to NetDevOps. “These applications need the network more than ever before,” ...
Cisco lays claim to multicloud, IoT from new-guard clouds
Legacy tanker ship Cisco Systems Inc. is veering into multicloud and “internet of things” edge devices. But can the networking giant coast these high seas with new-guard software and cloud companies? “My question coming into this show is, how much is Cisco a software company?” said Stu Miniman (@stu, pictured, left), co-host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile ...
Getting real on VR’s consumer appeal at Sundance
These are curious times for virtual reality. Citing underwhelming content, some analysts are predicting that augmented reality will supplant VR as the interactive art form for the masses. On the flip side, an unprecedented seven-figure deal to buy a virtual reality movie just made waves at this year’s Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Creative ...
Harry Potter computing can’t make hardware go ‘poof’ yet
Just because lots of businesses have chucked their data center hardware and moved to cloud infrastructure as a service, doesn’t mean hardware has dissolved in a black hole. Cloud providers hyper-optimize hardware that can make or break the software and applications found further up the stack. So how far should customers jut their noses into ...
Amazon’s smartphone jinx is AI voice competitors’ juju
How many artificial intelligence voice assistants are too many? Do people wish to manage all of their “internet of things” connected devices — TVs, speakers, lights, locks, etc. — with the same familiar digital chum? If they do, the consumer IoT market may tilt toward the company with the best-liked assistant on the most used ...
Can precision medicine break chokehold on healthcare big data?
Big data analytics has bestowed the gift of personalization on a range of industries. For example, marketers can target consumers with data-fed recommendation engines like those on Amazon.com. Now, it’s positioned medicine on the brink of a revolution in individualized treatment. Precision medicine can enable healthcare professionals to prevent and treat illness with granularity down ...
Cloud and smartphone big dogs battle for everyday AI
It’s one thing to connect an “internet of things” device to a network; it’s quite another to link a menagerie of devices — in the car, the kitchen, the basement, wrapped around a person’s wrist — together. This is the feat Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd, Amazon Web Services Inc. and others have set out on with their connected ...