After more than two years of tinkering and finessing, today Google finally officially launched its Tango smartphone augmented reality system to the masses. Right now, it’s only available on Lenovo’s Phab2 Pro, which begins shipping today, but you can expect to see this in a bunch of Android phones in the next year or so. About 35 applications are launching with Tango support at… Read More
Apple just introduced a shiny, super thin new MacBook Pro. But for what was birthed, a lot of widely-held standards had to die. Today, Apple removed the MagSafe 2 charging port type, they stripped away the HDMI port, they ripped out the SD card slot, they shuddered the Thunderbolt 2 ports (which you probably used like three times) and they most notably killed the standard USB port. All… Read More
Apple is selling a lot of iPhones, but the numbers are still taking a bit of a dip from 2015 sales. Apple reported its Q4 quarterly earnings this afternoon, and met most expectations that the street had, leaving shares popping up 2 percent after hours. The company reported Q4 2016 iPhones sales of 45.51 million units. This compares to 48 million units sold in the same quarter of last… Read More
Google want to know everywhere that you’re looking. Today, Eyefluence announced that it has been acquired by Google. The eye-tracking interface startup founded in 2013 had raised $21.6M in funding from investors including Intel Capital, Jazz Venture Partners, Motorola Solutions Venture Capital and NHN Investment. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Eyefluence shared the… Read More
Not everything in our field-of-view at any given time is all that interesting, often it’s only when something consistent changes that our eyes take notice. Paris-based Chronocam is looking to further develop this concept in the computer vision space with its new camera system optimized for autonomous vehicles. Today, Chronocam announced that it has picked up $15 million in a Series… Read More
Virtual reality offers businesses the ability to see consumer habits in digital environments before committing the resources to actually building out those environments in the real world. For InContext Solutions, a major market opportunity that they’ve been able to isolate is giving retailers the opportunity to test and explore new in-store retail concepts inside virtual reality. Today,… Read More
If you had the chance to watch the second episode of the new season of Black Mirror, you won’t take much convincing when people tell you how important realistic 3D audio is to immersing you in a virtual reality/mixed reality experience. Dysonics is a startup in the VR audio space looking to build the hardware and software workflows that give VR content creators high-fidelity solutions… Read More
