The Cardboard for VR - oops sorry, AR - is exploding on Kickstarter

A Daily Wrap-up of some of the interesting stuff that’s going on in the crowdfunding scene:

By now, we all know the cardboard headsets for virtual reality, but The start-up Aryzon has taken the cardboard to the next level and created the cardboard for augmented reality. By making use of a set of lenses, cardboard, and a smartphone camera, the headset is able to place virtual content projected from the user’s smartphone screen within their own environment. Aryzon states that for most people, the current $3,000 Microsoft Hololens is not an option and that it is simply diversifying the market by offering a $30 product that works with every smartphone (IOs & Android). The augmented reality headset is shipped as a DIY kit, meaning that it fits right through your letterbox.

Judging by the amount they've raised thus far, 95k Euros, way more than the 25K goal, there are a lot of people out there eager to experiment with augmented reality. The campaign ends on July 3rd.

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Sony on Crowdfunding? Yeah, that’s correct engadget reports that the first product from Sony's Global Education division, meant to help kids learn to code while they have fun building robots is out on Indiegogo trying to gather some $100,000 and meantime get some valuable feedback. The available perks go for around $300 and $400. The design kits include more than 30 hours of kid-friendly coding instruction and multi-colored blocks with sensors and actuators. The project currently sits at almost $14,000 in funding and kits are set to ship out to backers in November. Here’s an infographic showing how it works: [caption id="attachment_2847" align="aligncenter" width="485"]

How to use Koove[/caption] Journalist who was sued by Netanyahu and ordered to pay $33K raises the entire amount Israeli newspaper Haaretz published that journalist Igal Sarna, Who was ordered to pay 115,000 shekels ($32,700) in a judgment in a defamation case filed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara has managed to raise the full sum from a crowdsourcing campaign on Israeli crowdfunding site giveback. The amount of the judgment was raised within 36 hours after the campaign was launched and slightly exceeded the amount of the judgment. The Netanyahus sued Sarna for comments that he posted on his Facebook page implying that the prime minister's motorcade had stopped the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway one night and that the prime minister's wife had kicked the prime minister out of the car. The balance, or the entire amount if the judgment is overturned on appeal, will be donated to the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, Igal Sarna says to Haaretz.