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Google Launches Social Awareness VR Initiative ‘Daydream Impact’

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Google Daydream will provide organizations with VR training and equipment rentals. That’s why Google is launching a new program dubbed Daydream Impact , with the hope of helping organizations and creators utilize virtual reality to take their programs to the next level.

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Google’s Daydream Impact Project Aims to Bolster Philanthropic Efforts With VR

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Google’s newly announced Daydream Impact program is a philanthropy project that provides organizations, nonprofits, and advocates for change with resources, tools, and training to create immersive VR content to support their cause. SEE ALSO 1,350 Student VR Education Study Measures Attitudes, Interest in VR Learning & Building.

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Amazon Launches ‘Prime Video VR’, Commits to Building up VR Video Library

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Amazon is also committing to bringing VR content to Prime Video VR. At today’s launch the library includes 10 “curated” 360 videos, and the company says it has plans to “continue to add new VR-specific titles.” Image courtesy Amazon.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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Also remember: we’re soon going to have a Gear VR controller (it’ll be similar to Google Daydream’s controller, which operates like a laser pointer). Brands have customized Google Cardboards for… well, as long as “marketing” and “virtual reality” have been in the same sentence (a year and a half, really).

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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YouTube tells you where people are looking in your 360 videos AND embraces 180 degree video, Google’s 180 degree camera, the Meta-Cookie project gets weird and alters your taste, and Intel leans into sports in a big virtual way…. It turns out that 75% of people watch only the front 90% of 360 videos.

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View Conference 2018: Jan Pinkava explains some VR experiences from Google Spotlight Stories

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Do you know Google Spotlight Stories? It is a small R&D lab on creative projects hosted by Google that is focused on creating original VR storytelling experiences. The 16 experiences developed so far by the Google Spotlight Stories team. Back To The Moon is the first virtual reality doodle of Google’s history.

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Managing Pain & Anxiety in Hospitals with AppliedVR

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The research shows that the combination of immersion with interactivity can help to reduce pain up to 70%, and in some studies do as well or better as using morphine. Here’s a 360 video with some the Applied VR experiences.