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The 10 Best Google Maps Street View Photos Of All Time

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Google Street View has captured the world since 2007 -- and a fair amount of hardy shenanigans have taken place along the way. Here are the 10 best.

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Apple Should Be Very Worried About Google’s Pixel

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

These facts have me considering jumping ship from Apple seriously for the first time since 2007. Google is claiming Pixel has a better camera than the iPhone 7 (though they didn’t mention the 7+) and it is pairing that camera with unlimited full resolution storage of photos and videos shot with the device.

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How to blur your house on Google Street View (and why you should)

Mashable VR

Google Street View offers up a window to the world in all its bizarre , intimate , and often raw glory. Specifically, you can ask Google to permanently blur your house out — leaving only a smeared suggestion of a building in its place. Google pulled the images down. Go to Google Maps and enter your home address 2.

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How Watson, IBM’s Artificial Intelligence, Is Powering Audio-Interactive VR/AR Environments

VRScout

He talks about Mass Effect, an open-world game that was really groundbreaking when it first came out in 2007. To give a bit of context, voice-based assistants have been around for over 60 years, but it wasn’t until recently that they picked up popular use with the introduction of smart home devices such as Google Home, and Amazon Echo. “It’s

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The 2019 VR Awards Winners Recognized for Outstanding VR Tech

ARPost

This year’s 70+ person judging panel included academic professors and researchers as well as representatives from Google, HTC, HP, Deloitte, NVIDIA, Apache, and others. The experience now sits in the hall of fame with Google Tilt Brush , which won the category in 2017. VR Lifetime Achievement. VR Film of the Year.

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Can AR Make Us Smarter?

AR Insider

This could extend from Google’s work to index knowledge, but amplify that work with even easier access. By indexing knowledge, [Google] eliminated the need to occupy cognitive space with rote facts,” said Boland. No one was thinking of Uber and Snapchat when the iPhone launched to a desktop-minded world in 2007.

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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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