AR Insider

JUNE 18, 2021

That could be wayfinding with Google Live View , geospatial gaming experiences from Niantic, or location-specific social AR experiences like Snap’s Local Lenses. We’re featuring the video and takeaways for this week’s XR Talks, continuing here in Part I with insights from Google, Niantic and ARWay. First Steps. Showing the Way.

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AR Insider

JUNE 10, 2021

That could be wayfinding with Google Live View , or visual search with Google Lens. As you can tell from the above examples, Google will have a key stake in this “Internet of Places.” It’s a software architecture that enables spatially oriented computing interactions. ” But it’s not alone.

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ARPost

MARCH 16, 2021

See Also: Google Survey: How Shoppers Actually Feel About AR-Enabled E-Commerce. See Also: How Immersive Tech Continues to Find a Home in Architecture and Real Estate. If you’re looking for an example of an industry that has already had to change its marketing quite significantly, real estate is a perfect choice.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Google’s Justin Quimby says this is okay as long as there are common languages — again like HTML today. ” Google could be the knowledge layer , Facebook the social layer , Microsoft the enterprise productivity layer , and Amazon the commerce layer. We have that for spatial positioning given GPS and altitude.

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VRScout

AUGUST 21, 2019

Designed by architecture studio Red Deer , the futuristic space—once simple east London railway arch—now features 14 private VR entertainment pods, a self-service bar, as well as an up-scale poke kitchen. Dream Corporation’s “neon jungle” features 14 extra-sensory VR pods, a bar, and a poke kitchen.

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ARPost

JANUARY 12, 2022

The museum inspires by its architecture, as much as by its exhibits. To make it more accessible to the general public, The British Museum partnered with Google Arts & Culture. The beloved Museum of Modern Art in New York is our starting point. Honestly, every American should visit MoMA at least once in their lifetime.

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AR Insider

MARCH 16, 2021

Another way to view the AR cloud – framed in the terminology of today’s technology – is an architecture that makes the physical world clickable. Just as Google began indexing the web 20 years ago, the next evolution could be for someone to index the physical world in potentially more valuable ways. The AR Location Wars, Part I: Google.

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ARPost

APRIL 27, 2022

Although most people still consider AR as an entertainment technology, we can see its practical implementations in various industries like e-commerce, healthcare, architecture , training, and many others. Google ARCore. ARCore is developed and launched by Google. See Also: Developing AR Apps with Google's ARCore.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 4, 2024

It inherits all the advantages of the base XR2 Gen 2 architecture, including the hardware acceleration for camera passthrough that is said to reduce end-to-end latency to around 12 milliseconds. But that inherited architecture also means that while its GPU and CPU have a higher maximum clockspeed, their performance per watt is identical.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Powered by VR, The Wild’s cross-platform 3D design platform works much like Google Docs. Founded by Gabe Paez, The Wild seeks to do what Google Docs does for collaborative word processing, but instead of fulfilling the role of an organizational tool, this app is meant to serve more creative purposes. .

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 5, 2020

We all know that the new Ampere architecture gives NVIDIA GPUs much more horsepower, especially for what concerns AI and ray tracing. An architecture project made with Omniverse (Image by NVIDIA). Basically, it is like Google Docs for artists. Let me briefly describe them all, and let me tell you why they are so important!

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 30, 2017

From today, you can see Lithodomos’ work in two mobile apps that are compatible with Google Cardboard. ” This could be a key use of VR going forward, and essential to education programs like the Google Expeditions initiative that search engine giant is currently testing out at schools across the world.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2021

Google AR Cloud Streaming. Google has partnered with FCA (Fiat Chrysler Automobiles… do you know that Fiat is from my city in Italy?) In this version, the Jeep has 4K textures and tens of millions of polygons, and it gets rendered on Google servers and streamed very fast to your smartphone. Pollen Robotics.

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Anand Tech

APRIL 9, 2024

Google was among the first hyperscalers build custom silicon for its services, starting first with tensor processing units (TPUs) for its AI initiatives, and then video transcoding units (VCUs) for the YouTube service. Sources: Google , Wall Street Journal

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 26, 2021

For instance, when some months ago I published an application for a customer on Google Play, it got rejected because Google Play doesn’t even allow uploading 32-bit apps anymore. The procedure to activate 64bit builds. It has been recorded with Unity 2019 LTS. It may slightly vary depending on your version of Unity.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

And with Meta believing that it’s going to take a complete rethinking of the typical computing architecture to make the sci-fi vision of XR a reality , the companies will probably be prototyping together on that front as well.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 13, 2022

It’s no secret that Google’s been vying for a space in your living room for years. Google TV has undergone quite a few branding changes since it first launched in 2010, but it’s still managed to become one of the top streaming platforms. And it’s not stopping: Google has its sights set beyond just casting your… Read more.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2021

That could be wayfinding with Google Live View , or visual search with Google Lens. As you can tell from the above examples, Google will have a key stake in this “Internet of Places.” This takes Pokemon Go’s architecture and spins it out as a platform on which other developers can build games and experiences.

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Road to VR

JULY 6, 2017

After traveling to 36 VR conferences over the past year and seeing over 2,000 VR demos, Chennavasin sees some of the most promising VR industry verticals as being healthcare, advertising technology, collaborative meeting and product design apps, enterprise applications, as well as architecture, engineering, and construction.

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AR Insider

JULY 15, 2020

At the other end of the spectrum are the likes of North Focals — lacking immersion and contextual awareness, but stylistically-viable (though sales challenges and sale to Google should be noted). Between these endpoints is a sliding scale where we see glasses like nReal Light. The Next Mobility.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

The architecture hasn’t changed much in the past 300 years,” Vogt told The Boston Globe , “but the signage has changed dramatically.” It’s not yet on the Google Play store — but you can download its SDK from HBI. Artists Giovanna Casimiro and Ethan Vogt reimagined the bookstore’s signs from 1850, 1890, 1960 and 1990.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The Pokémon Go and Ingress creator recently turned its AR architecture into a platform on which others can build apps: the Real World Platform. AWS and [Google Cloud] weren’t built as compute platforms for everybody,” said Niantic CTO Phil Keslin at AWE. They were built to support the applications of Amazon and Google.

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ARPost

MAY 26, 2020

From architecture firms to game developers, healthcare units to engineering, and industrial design, a wide range of companies can enjoy a better way to work. The tetherless XR streaming experience is available for both head-mounted displays and Android phones that support Google ARCore. Compatible End Devices for NVIDIA CloudXR.

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VRScout

MARCH 16, 2017

A simple Google search reveals incredible examples of resumes iced into cakes, programmed into video games, hidden inside QR codes, the list goes on. Using some clever 3D design and architectural-planning, Cuttoli crafted his CV into a simple puzzle that’s as charming as it is informative. .

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 10, 2017

Now, Google is partnering up with museums around the world to bring their artifacts to life with Tango technology. Google showed the feature shown with the capability to overlay enhanced versions of artifacts untouched by time through your Tango-enabled mobile device, or using one requested at the museum itself. h/t: The Verge.

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Tech Trends VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Their first MR project used Google Tango and the Microsoft HoloLens to bring a rare digital tank from their game to a real-life exhibit at the Tank Museum at Bovington , UK. Apple ARKit, Google ARCore and Facebook Camera Effects could deliver more than 900 million installed base by the end of this year, jumping to nearly 3.5

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

It’s almost time for the official release of Android 12 , but Google isn’t saving every feature for the public launch. Today the company announced a handful of new abilities coming soon to Android, Google TV, the Assistant, and Gboard, including some that were previously exclusive to Google’s own Pixel lineup. Read more.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Taking a page from Apple’s playbook, it looks like Google is working on its own processors for Chromebooks and tablets. And according to a Nikkei Asia report , we could see in-house Google chips as early as 2023, and devices powered by those chips soon after. Read more.

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GizModo VR

MAY 11, 2022

Google I/O, the tech giant’s annual developer conference is happening this week. Among many new features and reveals came the Tuesday announcement of “scene exploration,” and search tool that combines panoramic photos and text. Read more.

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Road to VR

APRIL 6, 2018

I think that it’s most likely the these types of educational experiences will be built on the open web using open standards like WebXR, and currently Google’s Expeditions is the probably the closest platform that is realizing the more educational aspects of the OASIS. Support Voices of VR. Subscribe on iTunes.

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GizModo VR

MAY 11, 2022

Google seems to be taking the “try, try again” proverb to heart when it comes to tablets, given that it just teased plans to release another tablet during Google I/O. But that doesn’t mean it’s not shaking things up. Whereas the company’s short-lived Pixel Slate ran Chrome OS, the mysterious tablet just teased at the… Read more.

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Anand Tech

OCTOBER 18, 2023

As part of a broad collaborative agreement with Google, Qualcomm this week said that that it will be adopting the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) for a future Snapdragon Wear platform. Similarly, Google's backing of the ISA by porting Wear OS to RISC-V is a major milestone on the software front.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 1, 2016

We catch up with Sightline creator Tomáš ‘Frooxius’ Mariančík whose work to create the Google Docs of VR world building with his latest project Neos , is progressing rapidly. A Google Docs for VR world building if you will. Time will tell.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Google Earth VR has been one of the most mind-blowing experiences that I’ve had so far in VR, for so many different reasons. In the future, they will be looking at the 2D version Google Earth for inspiration for new features such as annotation, but they also are open to feedback for the types of features that people are requesting.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 3, 2021

Google is officially laying it to rest. Whether you’re running it for a nostalgic feel or you’ve held on to a device for too long, it’s time to say goodbye to the decade-old Android Gingerbread. Read more.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

In the past the company has worked with brands like Coca-Cola and Sony Pictures to create AR advertising campaigns, while its platform can also be used for architectural apps, and educational experiences. VR content for mobile-based headsets like Google Cardboard can also be created with the platform.

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GizModo VR

JULY 29, 2021

You probably wouldn’t expect to find references to “sugar daddies” in Google’s policy updates, but this week that’s exactly what happened. Android Police was first to note that Google quietly updated its inappropriate content policies in its Play Store to specifically forbid any apps meant to encourage “compensated… Read more.

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