AR Insider

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Where does Google fit in all of this? Besides financial incentive to future-proof its core search business with next-generation visual interfaces — per our ongoing “ follow the money ” exercise — Google’s actual moves triangulate an IoP play. That includes its “search what you see” Google Lens , and Live View 3D navigation.

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

Notably, when kicking off this thought exercise, we realized that several of the topics look similar to last year. As shown in the Google Glass era, cultural receptivity and comfort levels for face-worn hardware (with a camera, no less) will be a years-long uphill climb.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

It certainly doesn’t help that I find exercising in a gym boring and time-consuming. The Virtual Reality Institute of Health and Exercise does research on the impact of virtual reality exercise on the human body. VR Health Exercise Tracker. This is the app by the Virtual Reality Institute of Health and Exercise.

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VRScout

APRIL 15, 2021

TRIPP uniquely integrates gameplay mechanics, breath visualization, breathing exercises, beautiful visual landscapes, and binaural audio. ” VZfit – “ VZfit is a fitness app that lets you explore the world through Google Street View while getting a full-body cardio workout.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 21, 2020

A fter launching in 2017, Google’s ARCore has been relatively quiet. Google reports this week that ARCore has surpassed one billion installs. This refers to the Google Play Services for AR app in Google’s Play Store. That’s just a thought exercise of course. Google lives on the web after all.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Where does Google fit in all of this? Besides financial incentive to future-proof its core search business with next-generation visual interfaces — per our ongoing “ follow the money ” exercise — Google’s actual moves triangulate an IoP play. These visions often trace back to their core businesses.

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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2016

VR on exercise bikes like VirZOOM is going to be AMAZING… for some people, and I may not be one of those people. But overall, I think that VirZOOM is clearly going to be a popular incentive and motivator for some people to get more exercise. The post Does the VirZOOM Exercise Bike Solve the VR Locomotion Problem?

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Like in our ongoing “ follow the money ” exercise, they’re each building wearables strategies that support or future-proof core businesses where tens of billions in annual revenues are at stake. Specifically, its new Echo Buds are Bluetooth earpieces that compete with Google Pixel Buds and Apple AirPods.

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JULY 6, 2022

The service also supports Avantis Education’s purpose-built headset, as well as Google Expeditions kit, and is designed for classroom adoption. The base Eduverse product is free for teachers, who can quickly log in using an active Microsoft or Google account, enabling teachers and students to access Eduverse teaching tools.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Picking up where we left off last week in examining Apple’s hearables strategy, what’s Google’s counterpoint? With Apple out of the way, we’ll now tackle Google (and Bose next week). How is audio AR aligned with Google’s master plan to be the “knowledge layer” for the spatial web?

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Road to VR

MARCH 8, 2017

In a reverse engineering exercise, two students at Utah State University have hacked positional tracking onto a Gear VR headset using SteamVR Tracking technology. Mobile VR solutions like Samsung’s Gear VR currently employ rotational tracking only. A detailed breakdown of the project and its inner workings is available here.

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ARPost

MARCH 2, 2021

And in the same way, reinforce what you’re learning, conduct practical exercises, and much more. We can find educational VR content in a variety of sources, such as: VR apps in the App Store, Google Play, or Steam directories. Google Earth VR. A significant part of the information can be submitted playfully.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The app uses content from Wikipedia and Google Earth to create interactive and educational self-guided tours of just about anywhere. Some of the exercises like the boxing exercise or the rhythm game “Flow” might be intense at first, but there are also the more laid-back meditation and stretching activities. Wander (Quest).

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Then VR might be an excellent motivation to get more exercise as it is less boring, at least in my opinion. There are subscription-based apps like VZFit or Holofit that give you access to an app and tracker and allow you to bring an exercise bike or even an elliptical into your VR experience. Image courtesy Google.

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Road to VR

APRIL 22, 2024

Well, yes… but for now it seems the company imagines there’s enough room for specialized headsets from its partners—like different headsets for gaming, exercise, or work—without too much overlap. But won’t that mean Meta will be competing with its own hardware partners?

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VRScout

JUNE 17, 2017

VirZOOM is back with a more affordable option for exercising in virtual reality. The $100 device is compatible with most mainstream headsets including the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and PSVR, with support for mobile VR options such as Samsung’s Gear VR and Google DayDream on the way.

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ARPost

MAY 27, 2022

The experience uses imagery from Google Street View to allow runners and bikers to change their scenery when working out indoors. The company regularly posts “challenges” for their community, which typically involve using scenery from different parts of the world, encouraging exercisers to explore the planet from wherever they are.

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ARPost

MAY 18, 2022

We kind of thought about a mashup of futuristic exercises and a mid-century style gym.”. Modeled after a physical gym for your body, the Mind Gym is composed of over 60 different mental exercises, arranged from warm-ups, to “special equipment,” to cool-downs. Cycling is not just physical health, it’s how I do my meditating.

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VRScout

JUNE 20, 2018

The company is currently valued at more than $6 billion and has raised money from the likes of Google and Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba. ” The eyewear can also track activities such as “eating, taking medication, exercising, or a combination thereof.”

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VRScout

AUGUST 29, 2021

Join a yoga session with your team, meditate in space or just relax with easy breathing exercises. What’s exciting about HeadOffice.Space is that it is interoperable, flexible, and accessible across multiple platforms, with Mac, iOS, Android, Oculus Rift, Google Cardboard, and Oculus Quest support currently in development.

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AR Insider

APRIL 8, 2020

Like in our ongoing “ follow the money ” exercise, they’re each building wearables strategies that support or future-proof core businesses where tens of billions in annual revenues are at stake. After examining Amazon , Microsoft , and Google , it’s time to zero in on Bose. Head Start.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

They can’t imagine life without Apple, Google, and apps, so education must adapt to their new perception patterns. See Also: Developing AR Apps with Google's ARCore. It’s a highly immersive exercise for human anatomy classes that lets children see how they look from inside. Let’s take a look at what AR technology they offer.

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Road to VR

MAY 26, 2017

Google’s overarching mission is to organize all of the world’s information, and so it’s a natural fit for the company to be one of the leading innovators for using VR for immersive education. SEE ALSO For Google, the Future of VR Is on the Open Web with WebVR & WebAR. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 27, 2018

Do you know Google Spotlight Stories? It is a small R&D lab on creative projects hosted by Google that is focused on creating original VR storytelling experiences. The 16 experiences developed so far by the Google Spotlight Stories team. Back To The Moon is the first virtual reality doodle of Google’s history.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

So predicting AR’s trajectory becomes an exercise in “ following the money.” ” For Google, investments in AR are to drive search (visual search, mapping). Google will be the knowledge layer , just like its web index serves that purpose on the 2D web. For Apple, AR’s job is to sell more hardware.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Bose is already there with Bose AR, while Google has developed live language translation apps and Apple will enter a bit later, as it often does. On to Google, It’s likewise motivated towards Audio AR as an always-on touch point for users to search and be proactively served content. The second step will be apps. Touch Point.

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AR Insider

MAY 24, 2021

Meanwhile, borderline cases on the above list are Zoom and Google Meet. Beyond that, and in the spirit of the above exercise, we dug further into Sensor Tower’s data to find that it’s likewise performing. We include them due to virtual backgrounds (and lenses are possible via Snap Camera ).

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Digital Trends

JANUARY 15, 2022

Google has to do more than just "explore fitness" if it wants to get Google TV anywhere close to the exercise experience of Apple Fitness+.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 23, 2020

Visual search is Google’s main flavor of AR. It’s one way Google wants to future proof its core search business. A more visual front end — via Google Lens and Live View navigation — builds on mobile hardware, computer vision, looming 5G connectivity and gen-Z camera affinity. For example, Google Lens — a.k.a.

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ARPost

MARCH 24, 2021

The unique combination of technology and physicality possible in VR gaming appeals to people of all ages, but has particular benefits for adults who might have limited exercise. While traditional gaming does stimulate the brain, VR gaming adds in a physical component that translates to physical activity and exercise. Google Earth VR.

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VRScout

JANUARY 23, 2017

Appropriately titled CycleVR , the application uses a bluetooth cadence monitor to track pedal rotations while simultaneously using Google Street View to create a 3D environment. Aaron spoke more about his motivations behind the project stating, “I don’t really like exercise, I find it boring.

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AR Insider

JULY 1, 2021

The latest such exercise zeroes in on mobile AR revenues. This figure — based on Apple’s ARkit and Google’s ARCore — is no longer relevant because the landscape of AR-enabled devices is increasingly fragmented by several platforms including social apps and web AR.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Google Play Services for AR app is the 8th most downloaded Google Play app in August (9th overall), sitting between Instagram and Snapchat. Google Play Services for AR , previously known as ARCore, is the user-facing version of ARCore. This exercise is a glimpse into our thinking when market sizing. What does this mean?

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VRScout

AUGUST 9, 2016

Take in the Google Street View scenery with this custom built Gear VR app. Exercise bikes can be boring. But not for one developer in Scotland who wanted to spice up his daily exercise bike rides by pairing a Gear VR headset with Google Street View imagery data for one unique ride up the length of Britain.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

How do astronauts exercise in space? To give a bit of context, voice-based assistants have been around for over 60 years, but it wasn’t until recently that they picked up popular use with the introduction of smart home devices such as Google Home, and Amazon Echo. “It’s It was a trust exercise.

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VRScout

JULY 5, 2020

With so many of the newer VR games leaning more towards a more mature audience ( Pistol Whip , Half-Life: Alyx , and Phantom: Covert Ops ), or focusing on VR exercise ( Supernatural and Audio Trip ), having a VR experience designed specifically for light, family-focused entertainment, Wonderglade represents a refreshing change of pace.

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VRScout

MAY 1, 2019

Whether you need to spice up your presentation, make a training exercise or simulation come to life, or enhance a game – modern VR creation tools allow you to dive into the world of VR development, minus the years of specialized schooling. The Varwin software interface is based on Google’s Blockly visual language.

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