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VR vs. 360-Degree Video: What’s the Difference?

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Virtual reality involves moving through a virtually (re)constructed environment. Because a VR environment is built of spatially constructed components, it can be moved through. Computer learning is also increasingly enabling the construction of spatially reconstructed environments from multiple images taken from a conventional camera.

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Google Announces ‘Blocks’, a VR App Like ‘Tilt Brush’ for Modeling 3D Objects

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Google wants to make it easier for VR/AR app developers to create 3D objects with its new app revealed today called Blocks, a program designed to let you build assets for the immersive mediums from within the VR headset itself. image courtesy Google. image courtesy Google. image courtesy Google. image courtesy Google.

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Making the Physical World Clickable, Part I

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One historical parallel is the mighty Google. In fact, Google is a natural candidate to build this “Internet of Places.” After spending years assembling a knowledge graph on the web, Google has the building blocks for a “spatial web.” ” XR Talks: Lessons From Building AR for Google Maps, Part I.

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Will 3D Cities Unlock Immersive Experiences?

AR Insider

It let you essentially fly around a city, sort of like Google Earth but in three dimensions. In fairness, Google Earth offers 3D features. In fairness, Google Earth offers 3D features. And Google Earth VR , lets users fly around cities in strikingly immersive ways. Geospatially Sound. Force Multiplier.

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Metaverse and Investing – Opportunities for Retail Investors Part 2: Software and Infrastructure

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This implies an enormous variety of software that will be used for its construction and for its application in our lives. And then there are the “tools” with which all of the above will have to be created, modeled, written, and programmed. Unity (Nasdaq: U) for 3D Modeling and Animation Tools.

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DoubleMe to Make City-Scale Digital Twin of Buyeo, South Korea

ARPost

Digital Twins are an increasingly popular tool in enterprise. Google is working on “world-scale” AR, in part using satellite data and mobile device location data that they already have access to. City-Scale Digital Twins. That doesn’t mean that no one has tried it.

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Google MediaPipe Offers ML-Based Hand-Tracking Tools

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Google debuted MediaPipe, an artificial intelligence (AI) framework that detects people and objects in 3D space, in 2019 and the machine learning (ML) solution accurately tracks targets to transform 2D media as 3D spatial data. The free, open-source Google solution incorporates Apache 2.0, Key Features. Object Detection and Prediction.