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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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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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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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The Rise of Consumer AR in China

VRScout

China’s population of Internet users has nearly doubled since 2009. This gives the Chinese pioneers of AR—such as Baidu, the “Google” of China—a huge market for AR content. It doesn’t hurt that Chinese consumers are famously open minded to adopting new technologies.

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Oculus CTO John Carmack Sues ZeniMax For $22.5 Million In Ongoing Battle

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

The complaint filed on behalf of Carmack alleges ZeniMax refuses to make a final payment stemming from the $150 million purchase in 2009 of id Software, the company Carmack co-founded in the ’90s most well known for creating the Doom franchise. The wiping occurred right after Mr. Carmack researched on Google how to wipe a hard drive.

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YouTube Sensations SoKrispyMedia Launch VR Film Series On Within

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The pair shared a love of movies, TV, video games and the internet, and established their YouTube channel in 2009 when they were still in junior high. “I The Within app is free to download via the App Store , Google Play , Oculus , SteamVR , Viveport , PSVR , and WebVR.

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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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