AR + Blockchain — how does it works?
Fred Ehrsam, co-founder of the popular cryptocurrency exchanges “Coinbase” and GDAX said, that AR and blockchain together create a real “killer app”. We collected 3 interesting projects, that combining these technologies.
Voxelus
Voxelus was founded by serial entrepreneur Halsey Minor (started CNET and Salesforce.com) AR game takes place in a 3D environment. All assets holds on the Voxelus marketplace and called Voxels. Voxels can be converted into cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ether on the Uphold platform. In future Voxels will be used as money to buy equity in privately-held Voxelus Inc.
AR Token
This AR ecosystem was made for exchange 3D content and based on a well-known player Cappasity. Before developing this project company was known by their applications for AR and VR. Cappasity is building a platform to enable AR/VR/3D content generation. Each content file has an ID or a hash stored on the blockchain. It helps to prevent copyright infringement. When a content transaction completed, its details processed to a smart contract protocol.
Nanome (Matryx)
Nanome is famous for their design VR-projects in pharmaceutical sphere. Company is based at the University of California at San Diego. Their Calcflow, Nano-Pro, and Nano-One products are already in use by the world’s largest research and development labs.
The company is hoping to bring its suite of VR products to the blockchain with its decentralized collaboration platform, Matryx. MTX tokens will incentivize collaboration on the platform. The company’s early focus is on the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
Now pharmaceutical company, university and government are planning to post a bounty on the Matryx platform. Users can then find or be assigned the bounty in VR, and design and submit solutions. The winner will be compensated at the end of each competition-style round. The pharmaceutical company and solution designer will share in the revenue.
How the blockchain works in ARGO?
The ARGO ecosystem is based on the micro-service architecture and consists of many different blocks that can be divided into control modules and AR operation modules.
Database IPFS is an integrated distributed storage of system data models. We specifically selected an integration store to be safely scalable, as desired.
Blockchain smart contract is located at the exchange and also freely available on Github for the audit.
Authorship verification means a system to show the beneficiaries of the funds raised and allocation of funds.
External API services — a set of services required by brands for informed decision making on gift distributions (products, beneficiaries, locations).
Internal ARGO API means a set of microservices that allow both brands and Gen-Z to integrate any desired content into the augmented reality.
More information about ARGO project see on argoreality.io
