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Visual Positioning Systems: what they are, best use cases, and how they technically work

The Ghost Howls

A VPS system detecting visual features in the surrounding environment (Image by Google) VPS stands for Visual Positioning System. GPS together with the sensors on the phone is all that we need to orient ourselves on a 2D map like Google Maps that we use every day. What is VPS? How do you develop an application using VPS?

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12 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do in Google Chrome

GizModo VR

Even if you’ve been using Google Chrome since it first rolled out back in 2008, the browser is capable of some tricks you may have not discovered yet. Google adds new features on a regular basis, while older features get lost and forgotten about if you’re not using them every day. Here are 12 things you might not… Read more.

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XR Talks: What Will 5G Do For AR?

AR Insider

“The big web-scale players like Google or Amazon [don’t] have data centers every 300 kilometers. In order for platforms like Google Stadia to work, they require all of the speed, low latency, and other benefits that 5G offers. But the phone companies do have that distributed network.” ” XR’s Best Friend.

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BRCvr to Host Day Long Film Festival of Burning Man Documentaries

ARPost

Finally, TV Free Burning Man presents the story of how TV executive producer and long-time burner, Justin Gunn, painstakingly covered the festival in groundbreaking ways between 2006 and 2008. The film festival is free and links are available at the event website linked above, but attendees are encouraged to register via a Google Form.

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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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Why You Should Ditch Google Chrome For Microsoft Edge

GizModo VR

The odds are good that you’re reading this right now in Google’s web browser, Chrome, which has become hugely popular since it made its debut in 2008. But Chrome has some issues, and now that Microsoft is back with a rebooted version of its Edge browser—based on the same Chromium code as Chrome—it might just convince… Read more.

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Who’s Waging the Wearables Wars? Part IV: Bose

AR Insider

After examining Amazon , Microsoft , and Google , it’s time to zero in on Bose. Think of it like primitive iPhone apps circa 2008, before we got Waze, Foursquare and Uber. Head Start. But what’s everyone else doing? The question, like with others, is how are hearables aligned with its plan to future proof its core business?

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