VRScout

APRIL 17, 2018

Google assists CyArk in saving our heritage by preserving the wonders of the world in VR. In an effort to help capture and preserve endangered historical sites around the world for future generations to enjoy, Google has teamed up with 3D laser-scanning non-profit CyArk to virtually catalogue the world’s most at-risk historical wonders.

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Road to VR

APRIL 17, 2018

Google has partnered with CyArk , the non-profit studio behind VR app MasterWorks: Journey Through History (2018), to expand CyArk’s mission to 3D laser-scan the world’s historical sites and provide open access to the data. Google and CyArk are making the source data of the models available to anyone interested.

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VRScout

APRIL 16, 2019

Ensuring history survives using modern day technology. In more recent years, companies like TARGO have begun using immersive technology to digitally capture our greatest landmarks, historical sites, and monuments and preserve them for future generations; a righteous crusade to immortalize the efforts of the human race.

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VeeR VR

MAY 2, 2018

Surgery Planning--Google Cardboard saves a baby. Dr. Redmond Burke, the chief of cardiovascular surgery at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami, used a low-cost Google Cardboard headset to plan a surgery on the baby. What ’s more, it allows a treatment planning without causing any danger to the patients. VR for Pain Relief.

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NVidia VR

JULY 31, 2018

When the Taliban blew up two 1,700-year-old statues of the Buddha in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, in 2001, preservationists around the world were shocked, perhaps none more so than Ben Kacyra. A software developer who’d just sold his industrial mapping company, Kacyra wanted to do something good with his technology skills. For Now, More Data.

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Building the Metaverse

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Although there have been other conflicts in the past decade, this is the first where there’s widespread availability of real-time streaming platforms and the war is taking place within a modern democracy equipped with pervasive use of mobile technology. Semiconductors The US sanctions include an embargo of chips based on US technology.

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