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Unity Promises Day-one Support for Android XR, Including Easy Ports for Existing Quest Content

Road to VR

Meta Quest developers looking to port their Unity-based apps to Google’s newly unveiled Android XR operating system shouldn’t have a tough time of it, Unity says, as the game engine creator today released all of the tools devs need to get cracking. “This is as simple a port as youre ever going to encounter.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.03.22): Quest to feature new parental control tools, Google acquires Raxium, and more!

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After many pressures from the community and the media, Meta has finally decided to introduce new parental control tools in Quest 2. Even if Meta still doesn’t admit that its headsets are used by a lot of small kids (these measures are marketed as tools parents can use with teenagers), these measures are targeted also at them.

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Google Expeditions AR Tours Now Available To Public

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Google announces the full release of Expeditions AR as well as updates to its Expeditions app. In a continued show of confidence towards VR & AR technology as influential tools in the classroom, Google has today made its limited Google Expeditions AR tours program available to the public free of charge.

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Google Teases New AR Features Coming To Google Maps & Lens

VRScout

Google VR becomes Google AR & VR as the company uses its annual I/O event to tease a new wave of augmented technology. Google wasted no time at this years Google I/O Developer Conference , diving head first into some truly jaw dropping projects that are making their way to our devices.

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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. Although there are a number of tools and strategies that can help drive awareness, there are few more effective than VR to help shine a light on important issues.

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Visual Positioning Systems: what they are, best use cases, and how they technically work

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A VPS system detecting visual features in the surrounding environment (Image by Google) VPS stands for Visual Positioning System. GPS together with the sensors on the phone is all that we need to orient ourselves on a 2D map like Google Maps that we use every day. What is VPS? How do you develop an application using VPS?

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Dev Shares Crash Course on VR Game Optimization for Oculus Quest & Mobile Hardware

Road to VR

But there’s a handful of tools and methods that can set you up for success from the start. In nine minutes, this crash course offers up an indie-dev focused overview of optimizing VR games built in Unity for mobile hardware like Oculus Quest. Combine your meshes [ suggested tool ]. Don’t make photorealistic games.

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