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Meta Wants to Beat Google at its Own Game with Horizon OS

Road to VR

This puts Meta in an entirely new position as a platform holder, as it now seems the company is trying to beat Google at its own game. Apple vs. Google. Google: Keep on Daydreaming After having abandoned its ill-fated standalone XR platform Daydream in 2019, Google took a giant step back from VR that it never quite recovered from.

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The AR Location Wars, Part I: Google

AR Insider

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 is the theme of our new series, Location Wars , where we’ll break down who’s doing what… starting with Google.

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Who’s Waging the Wearables Wars? Part III: Google

AR Insider

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 and Microsoft , it’s time to zero in on Google. For Google that of course means search.

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New VR Fitness App VZfit Helps Stay at Home People Stay in Shape

ARPost

The gym is closed, but you want to keep exercising and stay in top shape. They can pick from a multitude of real-life locations on Google Maps and start training. “We To make the training session more exciting, they can choose to start streaming a music selection designed to encourage physical exercise. Why a VR Fitness App?

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‘Exploring fitness’ won’t get Google TV anywhere near Apple Fitness+

Digital Trends

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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Does the VirZOOM Exercise Bike Solve the VR Locomotion Problem?

Road to VR

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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Get Your Parents to Buy You a Quest 2, Study In VR, Exercise In VR & More Ep. 81

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0:00 Intro 0:54 Q&A 1:00 Favorite VR - NOT GAMING 2:26 VR Exercise 3:13 Into the Radius & Red Matter 2 3:31 Worst Product You've Ever Reviewed 6:48 VR News 7:16 Meta Quest Pro Release 11:52 Firewall Ultra coming to PSVR2!!! Each week, we release NEW EPISODES on all Your Favorite major platforms: Spotify, Apple, Google.