Cats and VR

MAY 10, 2017

Google has made an interesting play to solidify it's VR lineup for the future. Welcome Owlchemy Labs to Google. Now the team takes a huge leap by possibly becoming Google's go to VR dev team for some interesting IP. They've created award-winning games like Job Simulator and Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

The app is available today on the Oculus store and the Google Play store. Boston @ Minnesota , 8:00 p.m. Boston @ Washington , 8:00 p.m. Based on Intel’s True VR technology, TNT is bringing live and on-demand VR coverage of NBA All-Star events to Gear VR and Daydream headsets via the NBA on TNT VR app. Thursday, Mar.

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The AR Show

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

After studying human computer interaction and industrial design at university in China, David continued his studies into human computer interaction at Harvard, where he fell in love with the Boston Celtics basketball team. He goes on to explain where they missed the mark and the lessons he learned from that experience.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Thursday, March 8 – Boston @ Minnesota. Tuesday, April 10 – Boston @ Washington. It’s currently available for Samsung Gear VR, Google Daydream, Oculus , and Google Play. Thursday, March 1 – Philadelphia @ Cleveland. Thursday, March 20 – Houston @ Portland.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 7, 2021

Boston Robotic’s Spot quadruped robot seems to be hitting the battlefield with a group of French Army trainees in a series of drills and simulations that explore how these currently unarmed robots could work side-by-side with humans. Read more.

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VRScout

AUGUST 8, 2017

The association has already partnered with Google to create the MLB At Bat VR experience for the Daydream platform earlier this year, as well as the MLB Homerun Derby VR game. You can download the free MLB At Bat app for Google Daydream to watch the first four episodes now. Premium info or sign up for a plan. No problem!

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ARPost

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Around 200,000+ hospitals have implemented their VR solutions, including Boston Children’s Hospital and Cedars-Sinai. Meanwhile, kids equipped with Google Glass can explore Brain Power’s suite of AR-based apps to practice social-emotional skills that will strengthen their self-reliance. Source: Brain Power Facebook page.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 29, 2017

Partnering with Google’s Daydream, the MLB created On the Verge which is a series that will give fans a chance to see some of their favorite baseball players get under the spotlight outside of a game. The four available episodes of On The Verge can be seen on YouTube but can also be viewed on the MLB.com At Bat app on Google Daydream.

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Hypergrid Business

MAY 31, 2016

Press release: Voice Control, Gesture Control, and See-through Displays Are Top Electronic User Interface Innovations BOSTON, MA – With Apple, Google, and Microsoft sharpening their focus on electronic user interfaces, voice control, gesture control,...

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

This can be valuable in optimizing campaigns through targeted advertising, and “retargeting” services like Facebook Pixel, Google Ads, landing pages, or wish lists. A study from Boston Consulting Group found that 9/10 brands are using, or plan to use, AR in their marketing. Does AR Really Boost eCommerce Conversions?

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Bernard Marr

JULY 29, 2024

Even tech giants like Google or Amazon, I would argue, have found themselves caught off-guard. Google wasn’t the first to let us search the internet using an index of web pages, but it worked out how to build this capability into a viable business via Adwords and paid-for search placement. There are some positive examples out there.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Also, institutions like Cornell University, Imperial College London, Boston University and Harvard University’s MOC Alliance, University of California Berkeley, University of Notre Dame, University of Illinois, University of Tokyo, Yale University and many more have joined the alliance.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 7, 2017

Google has added another potential mainstay to the VR ecosystem with Blocks , a creative platform that caters to a varying degree of experience. Blocks by Google, from Google. The game takes place in Boston and you’ll have 18th-century weaponry available alongside some alien weapons. Price: Free. Price: $7.99.

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Bernard Marr

AUGUST 30, 2022

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has described the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) as more revolutionary than the discovery of fire or electricity. Boston Consulting Group. According to PwC, it has the potential to contribute $15 trillion to the global industry by 2030.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

I’m ready to team up with Papa Johns and Netspend to bring Shaq’s Fun House presented by Netspend to my people at home for the Big Game Weekend” The seven-foot-one-inch-tall sports star has played basketball for the Los Angeles Lakers, Miami Heat, Cleaveland Cavaliers, Phoenix Suns, and Boston Celtics.

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Bernard Marr

JUNE 17, 2024

Another report by Google and Boston Consulting Group concludes that AI can potentially be used to mitigate between 5% and 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Google’s chief sustainability officer, Kate Brandt, has said, “AI has a really major role in addressing climate change.”

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Tech Trends VR

AUGUST 6, 2018

Run by the organisations in collaboration with commercial partners including Google, BBC and Sky, the programme is dedicated to supporting the development of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) products and their application within the creative industries.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 15, 2016

including fans headed to Philadelphia Flyers games at Wells Fargo Center this season and NHL games at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, United Center in Chicago, and TD Garden in Boston. The company has rolled out Virtual View for a few stadiums across the U.S.,

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

While not swapping anything out, Google is attempting to make the world an ad through its visual search app–Google Lens. Just imagine a world where Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant have bodies. Once the rival ad is burned, a Burger King ad is shown in its place. Virtual humans are getting more and more real.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 11, 2023

A Boston Consulting Group survey found that 95 percent of customer service leaders expect their customers will be served by AI bots at some point in the next three years. This makes it an ideal testbed for integrating AI into processes, automating the mundane in order to free up human time for issues that need a human touch.

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ARVR

MARCH 5, 2021

The Best VR Events and Concerts Planned for 2021 History I attended the 1990 SIGGRAPH conference in Boston where Dr. William Bricken made a seminal speech and delivered a spectacularly quotable line: Psychology is the Physics of VR “The Year of VR” was declared. It is still far from clear what Google was thinking but it sent a kind of signal.

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VirtualiTeach

APRIL 18, 2020

There are some excellent examples in this regard – from the Google Spotlight Stories to the immersive stories produced under the Oculus Stories banner like Henry (below). Joycestick Joycestick is an interactive experience based on the legendary novel Ulysses by James Joyce which started as student project at Boston College.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

In the Boston railway network in 2016 the smartglasses supplied to the technical staff were tested to allow them to be connected to the staff in the office and to intervene more quickly in solving problems. On Android devices alone, the application has been used by over 10,000 travelers.

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Bernard Marr

MAY 26, 2023

A prompt engineer is someone who is an expert at getting the new generation of generative AI applications such as ChatGPT or Google Bard to do what they want. And Boston Children's Hospital in Massachusetts is looking for prompt engineers to deploy large language models to assist with healthcare research and clinical practice.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 31, 2022

Heck, when I got Google Glass years ago I thought I never would take those off. They are using the Boston Dynamics’ robots to map out construction sites in 3D and then using HoloLenses to do a variety of tasks. Unfortunately it has taken a lot longer to get augmented reality glasses to consumers than I expected. A lot longer.

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Building the Metaverse

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Consider what happened in the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, when pervasive video recordings and photographs quickly resulted in the identification of the perpetrators. especially those where crowdsourced intelligence plays a role.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 29, 2022

Barbara Eger-Klatt, a deaf yoga instructor, said in an email that past Google searches for accessible meditation content turned up few resources. They also don't provide cues about how long a meditative silence is meant to last, for example. SEE ALSO: How to get your kid into mindfulness.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Obviously the map and Pokéstops will stay the same, too: we live in Boston, and we’ll still live in Boston whether we load in Generation I or II, even if we’re pretending to change regions in the game. Existing players could import their data using their Google account sign-in. The neighborhood pokestops and gyms won’t change.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

Alan: Yeah I think… well, pretty much everybody… So I would say, Google is leading the way with this, with Google Lens being able to take your phone out, open the camera, point it at a pair of shoes, and it will tell you exactly where to buy those shoes instantly from your phone. Alan: So, I think Google’s leading.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

Alan: Yeah I think… well, pretty much everybody… So I would say, Google is leading the way with this, with Google Lens being able to take your phone out, open the camera, point it at a pair of shoes, and it will tell you exactly where to buy those shoes instantly from your phone. Alan: So, I think Google’s leading.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 25, 2016

But because you’re much likelier to hear about VR today, especially this month with the launches of Playstation VR, Google Daydream, and Oculus Touch, AR can feel distant and overhyped. Today, that would include things like LinkedIn, their tweets, Instagram photos, significant Google search results, and more. Food and restaurants.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 20, 2019

And the top people end up working in outsourcing for Facebook and Google and other top tech companies in Silicon Valley. The ones that get to San Francisco, start Facebook and Google and WhatsApp and the top tech companies. And so I started EastLabs with two other partners, Eveline Buchatskiy and Olga Belkova.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 20, 2019

And the top people end up working in outsourcing for Facebook and Google and other top tech companies in Silicon Valley. The ones that get to San Francisco, start Facebook and Google and WhatsApp and the top tech companies. And so I started EastLabs with two other partners, Eveline Buchatskiy and Olga Belkova.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 20, 2019

And the top people end up working in outsourcing for Facebook and Google and other top tech companies in Silicon Valley. The ones that get to San Francisco, start Facebook and Google and WhatsApp and the top tech companies. And so I started EastLabs with two other partners, Eveline Buchatskiy and Olga Belkova.

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Peter Graham

JANUARY 18, 2020

Google’s Tilt Brush app has been the cornerstone of virtual reality (VR) artistic expression since its launch in 2016, allowing artists both amateur and professional to paint in three dimensions. To add a party vibe to the proceedings a live DJ will be broadcasting via Twitch entirely in VR powered by TribeXR.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2019

We got involved in a hackathon in Boston back then. What I’m finding is when you find that champion, like the guy we had from Duke Energy, who was going to fly up to Boston in a week’s notice. And that was like two and a half, three years ago. And at that point, they had zero users, right? I think I can validate that idea.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2019

We got involved in a hackathon in Boston back then. What I’m finding is when you find that champion, like the guy we had from Duke Energy, who was going to fly up to Boston in a week’s notice. And that was like two and a half, three years ago. And at that point, they had zero users, right? I think I can validate that idea.

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