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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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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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Celebrate Earth Day With These Nature Themed VR Experiences

VRScout

Back in 2009, two chimpanzees from the New Iberia Research Center (NIRC) at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette, were ‘leased’ to Stony Brook University in New York. GOOGLE EARTH VR. PROJECT CHIMPS. It was there the animals were subjected to years of invasive and painful medical testing.

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FORM’s Premium Goggles Introduce AR To The Swimming Pool

VRScout

Since the introduction of devices such as the Fitbit back in 2009 and the Apple Watch in 2014, the smart wearables market has gone from fantasy to reality, offering consumers a brand new, more convenient method for connecting with their digital lives. Featured Image Credit: FORM.

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Bill Murray Is Either in Ant-Man 3 or Lying to Germans

GizModo VR

He shows up in weird places to hang with random people, like that time in 2009 when he read poetry to construction workers. Bill Murray is an unpredictable man. He’s certainly not above a bit of trolling, so take a grain of salt—or should I say salz —at Murray’s announcement he’s in Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man and the Wasp … Read more.

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Chuck Grassley Tweets That Cable Companies Have Gotten 'To [Sic] Big Like Goggle [Sic]'

GizModo VR

After all, who can forget Grassley classics like “PantsBurnLegWood” of 2009 and “WH:ANSWER MY LETTER” of 2017 ? Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa has always used Twitter in a rather bizarre way. But the senator’s tweets over the weekend were particularly weird, even if you agreed with his central premise. Read more.

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Top 10 Movies that Got Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Right

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Rent or own it : YouTube | iTunes | Vudu | Google Play | Amazon Prime Video 2. Rent or own it : YouTube | iTunes | Vudu | Google Play | Amazon Prime Video | Hulu Did you know the first virtual reality headset was created over 50 years ago? Rent or own it : YouTube | iTunes | Vudu | Google Play | Amazon Prime Video 4.