Imagine the near future, when virtual reality - along with cryptocurrency - has become a fixture of daily life. The Other World Built on Ours - And Powered by Crypto Some people might work in VR, commuting to work from their home-office desk and doing tasks at a virtual workplace. The work will mostly be intellectual, but just consider the possibilities: After work, what can you do? Imagine a...
Scott Galloway, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), believes crypto will have a worse year in 2019. As a part of his general trends prediction for this year, he said that virtual reality (VR) and crypto will continue to struggle in the upcoming 12 months. Why Scott Galloway is Bearish on Crypto Most emerging markets and technologies tend to move by cycles and are...
Reality content creation platform and marketplace Voxelus has completed its private pre-sale of in-game cryptocurrency Voxels (VOX) with 1.2 million VOX sold for a total of 1,022 BTC. The private pre-sale of 1.2 million VOX for a total of 1,022 BTC (approx. $350,000) has resulted in a record for the largest amount raised in a private crowdsale of a cryptographic token. A majority of the orders...
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...
A few years ago the virtual world Second Life, created by Philip Rosedale and his team at Linden Lab, was a media darling that made headlines every day. One of the most widely covered aspects of Second Life was its in-world economy based on a virtual currency, the Linden dollar. Thousands of Second Life developers were able to earn a living, and in some cases become rich, by selling virtual...