Crypto 2.0 Roundup: Ethereum's ÐΞVCON, Vizor's Virtual Reality and a Blockchain University
The crypto 2.0 community has continued its overall emphasis on consumer awareness in the past few weeks, with several high-profile events finding notable projects taking a pause from their ongoing experimentation to provide a greater depth of clarity to the public. Further, there were signs that the part of the industry most aggressively building on bitcoin's vision is succeeding at this effort. At press time, decentralized social messaging platform Gems had raised more than $500,000 in its ongoing crowdsale, an event that suggests consumer interest in crypto 2.0 projects is high, even as....
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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....
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....
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....
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has announced plans to build an online-based metaverse campus called Metahkust. The institution will take its first step toward this goal by building a mixed virtual reality classroom that will allow students from other latitudes to attend classes like they were in the same space. The virtual classroom will host the launch of the new Guangzhou campus.
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Bets on the Metaverse
Institutions are finding more functions and applications for metaverse spaces, and they are slowly....