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Preserving Historical Landmarks In VR Should Be A Priority

VRScout

Following the destruction of the Bamiyan statues in Afghanistan back in 2001, Ben Kacyra began digitally capturing historical landmarks for preservation using laser-scanning technology, going on to launch the non-profit company CyArk in 2003. Image Credit: Google Inc.

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Former Salesforce exec Bret Taylor is teaming up with Google AR/VR vet Clay Bavor on mystery startup

TechCrunch VR

He wanted to go build again — and today he and long time Google engineering veteran Clay Bavor announced they were teaming up on a new mystery project. Until then, I’ll be focusing on transitioning my teams and projects, and wrapping things up properly at Google.” Well, guess what?

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The VRScout Report – AR Magazines, NFL Refs in VR, & Eye Implants

VRScout

The STRIVR company was born out of the Virtual Human Interaction Lab at Stanford back in 2015 (founded in 2003 by Jeremy Bailenson, who founded STRIVR with ex-Stanford kicker Derek Belch). NFL REFS GET THE VIRTUAL TRAINING TREATMENT.

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New LSL Editor released

Hypergrid Business

It works for Windows platforms including Windows 2K, 2003, XP, Vista, 7, and 8 and is available download at the Source Forge page and the manual is available from this Google Doc page.

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‘Need for Speed VR’ Channels Past Entries For Flawed But Fun Street Racing

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Instead, EA and developer Firemonkeys have partnered with Google and its new challenger, the mobile-based Daydream ecosystem. It channels the edgy street racing vibe of 2003’s Need for Speed: Underground , a game fondly remembered by fans of the franchise.

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What VR Headset Makers (not analysts) Have Actually Said About Sales Expectations

Road to VR

. “But just to put that in perspective and compare it to the development of previous computing platforms, like phones and computers, I think the first smartphones came out in 2003, and in the first year, I think BlackBerry and Palm Treo were the initial smartphones that came out. Google – Daydream.

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What is Spatial Computing in simple terms?

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

It was introduced initially by Simon Greenwold in 2003. Google: Google and its parent company, Alphabet, are highly invested in spatial computing. Google has even invested heavily in the XR spatial elements in the past. The MR device and its operating system are defined as “spatial computing” solutions.