Virtual Reality Platform Builds on Dogecoin Blockchain to Crowdfund Developer Toolkit
With PlayStation, Xbox and Oculus Rift bringing gaming and virtual reality closer to mainstream popularity, 2015 looks to be an enormous market for the virtual reality industry as a whole. In response, Vizor wants to expand their services. Deemed the “YouTube of Virtual Reality,” Vizor allows anyone to create virtual reality videos and host them on their site for others to enjoy. With the drive to expand, they needed an option to crowd fund an initiative to support the development of an integrated authoring virtual reality toolkit. Instead of following the traditional, mainstream route of....
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Commentary by Mark Rees. Why Virtual Reality is different this time: The celebrated release in January of the Samsung Gear VR, co-created by Oculus, set into motion an official paradigm change. Mark Andreesen's early investment in the virtual-reality maker already is bearing fruit as the hot item is flying off shelves. And a newer, slightly improved version being slated for the release of the Samsung Galaxy 6 beginning in April. Virtual reality is not just about games anymore. By some accounts, the hottest ticket at last month's annual Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah was to the....
Virtual reality is an artificial environment that is created with software and presented to the user in such a way that makes it look as a real environment. The virtual reality industry is expanding faster than ever as new investments are being made to support future VR-based applications. The industry is now making big efforts to develop new approaches and new tools to improve the usability and allow anyone to explore the full potential of this new technology. Virtual Reality also seems to be the perfect place to use virtual currencies and now two companies are trying to bring digital....
Fresh from launching its Ethereum-powered blockchain platform for customers of its cloud platform Azure, Microsoft has revealed it intends to add Ripple, an interledger protocol to its blockchain-based toolkit. Microsoft originally made the announcement to offer an Ethereum-blockchain solution for its customers after striking a partnership with ConsenSys toward the end of October. The objective was simple. Collaborate with the Brooklyn-based startup to grant Microsoft's enterprise users the necessary tools to use the Ethereum Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS). The applications would allow....
The programmable token Ethereum and its blockchain have been breaking the mould ever since its pre-sale was announced back in July of 2014. It launched with its initial sale in September of the same year and raised over $18.3 million USD becoming the sixth largest crowdfund to date. Following the exponential growth of Ethereum, developers who help maintain the community and Ether protocol have created a decentralized autonomous organization called the DAO. The platform is built to support fund Ether projects and has recently skyrocketed past the Ethereum pre-sale becoming the biggest....
When Wendell Davis started building Vizor.io three years ago it was merely a tool for creating high-end web graphics. Then, three months ago on a trip to Helsinki with friends, he got his hands on an Oculus Rift headset for the first time. He had an epiphany, Upstart Business Journal reports. Also read: 2015 - Virtual Reality Gets Real. Vizor, "YouTube for virtual reality," isn't just a place for viewing augmented reality videos in a Chrome or Mozilla browser; it's a place to create those videos. More than that even, click "Remix" on an existing video and tweak it to your own....