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Video games have entertained children and adults for decades. However, they’ve come a long way since the early days of computer games and the original Nintendo and Atari consoles. Today’s video games have become more lifelike with 3D visuals and AR/VR integration.
But although many different games and genres have emerged, only a few have maintained their dominance. Racing games, particularly, have consistently been among the most sought-after titles in the gaming world. A report from Market Research Future stated that the racing games market is expected to grow at an 11.2% CAGR to $13.64 billion by 2030.
And interestingly, this popular genre is now coming on the blockchain. K4 Rally is the first rally racing game bringing racing cars onto the blockchain tracks with the full support of the motorsport community and real race drivers. The game is a combination between non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and play-to-earn that allows players to drive, upgrade, buy, and sell rally cars to win trophies and prizes.
K4 Rally: An NFT Powered P2E Racing Gaming
Developing a decent game with robust gameplay and features is daunting. Moreover, having both short and long-term incentives is also challenging. However, by solving these crucial elements, K4 Rally is bringing a high-quality graphic web browser game with many features for the community. It is a combination of three critical aspects of blockchain.
The first component is the NFTs which players can level up, purchase, sell, and trade to earn crypto. Every car, its parts, and certain other in-game items will be tradable ERC-721 tokens. With NFTs, the goal is to provide complete ownership of the in-game assets to players.
Similarly, the second component is the play-to-earn, where players can earn in-game assets and K4R — K4 Rally’s native token — rewards for their participation. Overall, K4R’s P2E model will involve playing daily and weekly tournaments, in-game farming items, upgrading, and trading NFTs.
Lastly, with the winning rewards and K4R Tokens, players can purchase and level up new NFTs like Race Cars, Race Drivers, Co-Drivers, and more while acquiring in-game assets like a Race Garage or parts of a Racetrack.

The K4 Rally Gameplay
The gameplay begins with players driving cars on various rally-stage tracks in different modes. The goal here is to collect consumables. The player levels up the car with these, and a significant level-up happens after every ten levels. These level-ups increase the car performance, helping players get an edge.
Apart from consumables, players also obtain parts and team members by shopping in-game. While parts help improve car performance, team members help with different aspects of the game by enabling modes and passive boosts. For example, in the team set-up and management mode, the player configures his team by hiring and assigning positions, giving players improved performance and other bonuses.
Once a player has an eligible car, they enter tournaments to race against other players. The selection criteria are based on abilities, modifiers, and track challenges. Moreover, tournaments require the use of K4R Tokens. Beyond that, players also get to participate in competitive driving tournaments where the duration of driving a car will be compared to other players’ times, earning more K4Rs.
Ultimately, this progression and competition loop gets repeated along with skilling-up. The player can also enter the economic circle and start focusing on creating content and selling it to other players. This way, the game helps shorten their onboarding time and cycle by providing good content for purchase.
Building a Community First Gaming Economy
Building a solid community of players and making them feel valuable is key in the gaming industry. The community’s opinion is what determines the success of any game. And this is true for both traditional and blockchain gaming.
While building a solid community can be challenging, K4 Rally’s community-first game economy offers a new notion for other gaming projects. The game’s motive is not only to create a fun racing game but also to provide short and long-term motivation to players. This way, it believes in creating a long-term sustainable gaming environment.


Video games have entertained children and adults for decades. However, they&#8217;ve come a long way since the early days of computer games and the original Nintendo and Atari consoles. Today&#8217;s video games have become more lifelike with 3D visuals and AR/VR integration. But although many di...

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K4 Rally: A Game That Allows You to Race Other Cars on the Blockchain

Hal Finney, a computer scientist and the world’s first publicly known Bitcoiner, would have celebrated his 66th birthday today.

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Happy birthday Hal Finney: Crypto community honors world's first known Bitcoiner

Meta today announced “major improvements” coming to Quest 2’s controllerless hand-tracking capability. The ‘re-architected computer vision and machine learning approach’ is said to specifically improve reliability for overlapping or fast moving hands and specific gestures. The SDK and OS update to enable these improved capabilities will begin rolling out today.

Meta first introduced controllerless hand-tracking to the original Quest back in late 2019 where it remained an ‘experimental’ feature until mid-2020 when it began allowing developers to use the new capability in their apps.
Since then we’ve seen a handful of games incorporate hand-tracking into their apps and even the launch of some games that exclusively rely on hand-tracking, like Hand Physics Lab (2021) and Unplugged: Air Guitar (2021).
Now, a little less than a year later, Meta says it’s bringing “major improvements” to Quest 2’s hand-tracking capability (the company confirmed the original Quest will not receive these improvements).

The improvements come thanks to a ‘re-architected computer vision and machine learning approach’ which improves the robustness of hand-tracking in key ways.
With the 1.0 version of hand-tracking on Quest 2, the system had particular trouble recognizing the user’s hands when they obstructed or touched each other and when moving quickly. From the user’s point of view, their virtual hands would disappear momentarily during these lost tracking moments and then reappear once the system detected them again.

With the 2.0 version of hand-tracking on Quest 2, Meta says the system will handle those obstructed and fast-moving scenarios much better, leading to fewer instances of disappearing hands. The company calls it a “step-function improvement in tracking continuity.”

The update is also said to improve gesture recognition in the hand-tracking system. Gesture recognition looks for specific hand-poses which the system detects as unique and can therefore be used as inputs. For instance, pinching is one such gesture and it’s employed to allow users to ‘click’ on elements in the Quest interface.
In the demo below, a ‘grab’ gesture is used to hold the virtual object, and the improvement in robustness for clapping is demonstrated as well.

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Meta says the hand-tracking 2.0 update on Quest 2 will begin rolling out via an SDK and OS update starting today. The company says developers who have already built hand-tracking into their apps won’t need to change any API calls in order to use the upgraded system, though it won’t be automatically enabled. The company says developers can reference “upcoming documentation” for enabling it in their apps.
The move should bring Quest 2’s hand-tracking a step closer to Ultraleap, which has maintained some of the best hand-tracking in the industry to date, though it isn’t clear yet how the two systems will stack up.
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Meta today announced &#8220;major improvements&#8221; coming to Quest 2&#8217;s controllerless hand-tracking capability. The &#8216;re-architected computer vision and machine learning approach&#8217; is said to specifically improve reliability for overlapping or fast moving hands and specific ge...

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“Major improvements” Coming to Quest 2 Hand-tracking with ‘2.0’ Upgrade

Snap inc is acquiring BCI company NextMind for future AR glasses, The Verge’s Alex Heath reports.
A major challenge in shipping consumer AR glasses is the input method. A traditional controller, such as those used with many VR devices, would not be practical for glasses you want to wear out and about on the street. Similarly, while voice recognition is now a mature technology, people tend to not want to give potentially private commands out loud in front of strangers.
A brain computer interface (BCI) could one day allow users to control their glasses, and even type words and sentences, by just thinking.
NextMind is a French startup which released a a $400 developer kit two years ago, a headband for brain input. Its competitors include Neurosity.

This isn’t Snap’s first core tech acquisition for its AR glasses ambitions. In May it acquired WaveOptics, its supplier of the transparent optical waveguides and accompanying projectors in the Spectacles developer kit.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta began its own BCI research project in 2017, with the stated goal of “a system capable of typing 100 words-per-minute straight from your brain”. But in July 2021 the company announced it was cancelling this project to work on wrist-mounted devices to read signals passing from the brain to the hands instead.
A Snap spokesperson apparently told The Verge the NextMind acquisition is a long-term research bet, with no specific technology yet intended to ship in products.


The company behind Snapchat is acquiring brain computer interface startup NextMind, for future AR glasses input.

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Snap Acquires Brain Reading Tech Startup NextMind For AR Glasses Input

Bitcoin 2022 Conference is billed to be the biggest Bitcoin gathering to date. One of its side attractions will be the auctioning of the art collection of Ross Ulbricht, the computer scientist notorious for creating and operating the Silk Road website. 
Ulbricht brings his advocacy initiative to Bitcoin 2022 conference
Ulbricht has announced today that the organizers of the conference which starts in about 10 days have agreed to feature his digital art creations. This is the second art auction he will be conducting; the first – called the Genesis Collection – was auctioned during Art Basel last December.
The initiative was originally intended to raise funds to contest his incarceration. However, this second sale will broaden the scope of the initiative. Ulbricht revealed that proceeds from this auction will also go to charities that help the families of incarcerated persons to visit them in prison.
We can look more broadly at making the whole system just, rather than focusing just on me…
And we are moving forward with the idea of helping kids travel to visit their moms and dads in prison,” he wrote. 
Ulbricht is currently serving two life sentences without the possibility of parole plus 40 years and a $183,961,921 fine. He was convicted of several charges including conspiracy to commit money laundering and sell narcotics from 2011 to 2013. 
The Bitcoin 2022 conference is presented by Cash App and will be held between April  6 to 9 in Miami. Already, around 400 speakers have been booked to appear during the event including El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, Michael Saylor – CEO of MicroStrategy, and US Senator, Cynthia Lummis. 
The last edition of the conference had over 12,000 attendees and featured Bukele making the initial announcement that he would push El Salvador to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender. 
Bitcoin trading in bullish territory
While activities ramp up for the conference, Bitcoin has been staging a price rally in the market. Bitcoin is trading at $47,600 on the day, up 6.65%. The benchmark crypto has scaled lows that it was trading, and is now up 2.81% year to date as the end of Q1 approaches.
Market sentiment has also recovered along with the price. The fear and greed index which measures market sentiment is currently in the greed region, at a reading of 60.

Bitcoin Fear and Greed Index is 60. GreedCurrent price: $47,332 pic.twitter.com/DW3bdj8Ze7
— Bitcoin Fear and Greed Index (@BitcoinFear) March 28, 2022

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Bitcoin 2022 Conference is billed to be the biggest Bitcoin gathering to date. One of its side attractions will be the auctioning of the art collection of Ross Ulbricht, the computer scientist notorious for creating and operating the Silk Road website.  Ulbricht brings his advocacy initiative to ...

Internet Computer price	$7.96
Low - High 24H	$7.77 - $8.19
Market cap	$1.86B
Volume 24H	$60.93M
All time high	$700.65 -98.86% May 10th 2021
All time low	$6.11 30.52% May 12th 2022
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