MERGE VR is a toy-focused company that is producing products to help kids get excited about virtual reality and augmented reality toys. Their Merge Cube is a new toy on the market that enables kids to turn a black cube into multiple objects.
Andrew Trickett is the co-founder of Merge VR. Trickett joins Cheddar to explain why it was essential to make Merge Cube compatible with all phones. Merge VR wants any kid to be able to use the technology.
Merge VR will be releasing more tech and products at the upcoming CES. In 2017, the Merge Cube was named "Most Unique Product" at CES.
Apple Pay is getting in on the buy now pay later boom with a feature allowing users to split purchases into four separate payments over six weeks at no additional cost or interest.
San Francisco-based technology startup Illumix just closed a $18 million Series A round of funding, and in a rare move for the Shark Tank star, Mark Cuban contributed.
Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain implant venture, is reaching out to major U.S. neurosurgery centers to potentially begin testing its devices on humans, according to a Reuters report.