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Some of the oldest art on Earth was created 36,000 years ago on the walls of the Chauvet Cave in France. However, these days, physical access to the cave is restricted in order to preserve the site. Thanks to augmented reality, the cave is now virtually open to the public once again.
Google heads to the Annecy Film Fest in full force with two, never-before-scene Spotlight Stories. The biennial Annecy International Film Fest is currently in full-swing as creators from around the world gather in France to showcase their latest achievements in the field of animation. spoke Google in a statement.
Google Arts & Culture partnered with Château de Versailles to create an extremely detailed VR tour of the iconic French palace, aptly named VersaillesVR – the palace is yours (2019). Image courtesy Google Arts & Culture. SEE ALSO Oculus Reveals New VR Headset Prototypes with Major Advances in Optics Form-factor.
Yesterday, the historic Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France suffered a devastating fire that caused significant, lasting damage to the 12 Century building. Image Credit: Google Inc. Ensuring history survives using modern day technology. and the Native American cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde in southern Colorado.
Tech giants such as Google and Apple must lead the charge aside from independent firms such as KaviAR Tech, Ruiz also said. For cities like Grenoble, France, which prohibits big signs, AR can help locals and tourists get around safely and successfully. He predicts that it will eventually be ubiquitous.
You can look forward to representatives from Google, Facebook, Intel, HP, Microsoft, and more. Across the US, as well as in France and China, a network of partner location-based entertainment (LBE) will be giving access to Cannes XR Virtual to journalists and guests without virtual reality headsets.
After Google fought tooth-and-nail to weasel out of paying news publishers more ad revenue, journalists in France claimed victory on Tuesday. The Silicon Valley giant agreed to a new slate of licensing deals with publishers across the country and even quietly dropped its attempt to appeal a fine by the country’s… Read more.
GOOGLE EARTH VR. An oldie but goodie, the virtual rendition of Google’s immensely popular satellite-based geobrowser can be found in a majority of VR owners libraries.
Good morning from Perpignan, France! Google launches “Immersive Stream for AR”. Google has launched a new cloud service based on Stadia technology: dubbed “Immersive Stream for AR”, it lets you perform cloud rendering for augmented reality applications for mobile phones.
Most of the European Vive demo locations are concentrated in England, Belgium, The Netherlands, and Germany, but you’ll still be able to spot a few places in France, and even one in the Czech Republic. Google Daydream. SEE ALSO Google Daydream Review: Casual VR Closes the Gap. Oculus Rift, Touch, and Gear VR.
Quest Store digital gift cards are now available in the UK, Canada, Ireland, Germany, France, and Japan. Digital gift cards are a standard feature of almost every other platform, including Apple's App Store, Google Play, Steam, Xbox, PlayStation Store, and Nintendo eShop. Meta launched digital gift cards in the US back in October.
A friend of mine who is a language professor at Colgate University suggested I move to France and immerse myself into various conversations, pay close attention to what was being said, and use the things I see along with the sounds, smells, touch and taste as part of the language learning process.
The footage was created in-house by the Sky VR Studios, in collaboration with Google. To bring these immersive videos to as many people as possible, Sky will also be giving away thousands of Google Cardboard headsets to people visiting Sky Backstage at The O2 from October 20th.
Some days ago, I found an article on Futurism talking about a university in France able to create the “first smart contact lens” The article also talked about Augmented Reality and the interest of the DARPA for using this product. How is the AR/VR ecosystem in France? Not particularly different from elsewhere.
Dick inspired VR experience, The Great C (2018) , to Oculus Go, Samsung Gear VR and Google Daydream. The 37-minute sci-fi adventure experience is now available for $6 across all platforms, including versions available on Steam (Vive, Rift) and the Oculus Store (Rift, Go, Gear VR), and Google Play ( Daydream ). The post Philip K.
beta 3 include references to three different AR devices codenamed Franc, Luck, and Garta, with diagonal fields of view specified as 61°, 58°, and 68° respectively. Beyond StarTester, the developer says files within iOS 13.1 SEE ALSO Apple Offers Impressive Web-based AR Previews of New Mac Pro.
Partnerships With Google and LiveNation. Schwerin described that the Snap Camera is now available on the lock screen of the Google Pixel 6 so that Snapchatters don’t have to miss a moment unlocking their phones. The Pixy is available starting at $230 “while supplies last” in the US and France. A Lot to Look Forward To.
Well if your finances were the only roadblock keeping you from cycling your way through a virtual Tour De France then boy do we have some good news for you. In fact the only perceivable downside to the device is the steep price tag of $400. So what’s the difference between the $100 sensor and the full $400 set-up?
The FIFA World Cup finals are nearly here, and while we still live in a time where most everyone interested in the France vs. Croatia match will be glued to a TV set, researchers from the University of Washington, Facebook, and Google just gave us a prescient look at what an AR soccer match could look like in the near future.
That seems especially true in France where tax authorities have begun deploying artificial intelligence to snuff out thousands of undeclared swimming pools reportedly worth around $10 million in uncollected tax revenue. They say the only two certainties in life are death and taxes. The country could soon expand its… Read more.
But tonight, we learned how the Journal obtained those documents: A whistleblower named Frances Haugen, who spoke with CBS News’ 60… Read more. Last week, the Wall Street Journal published internal research from Facebook showing that the social media company knows precisely how toxic its own product is for the people who use it.
The engineering director of Google's upcoming AR/VR operating systems has quit. However, in 2021 he quit, citing whistl eblower Frances Haugen's revelations that the company was aware of negative societal effects of its platforms but prioritized profits over trying to better mitigate them.
This year’s 70+ person judging panel included academic professors and researchers as well as representatives from Google, HTC, HP, Deloitte, NVIDIA, Apache, and others. VR Game of the Year went to A Fisherman’s Tale by Innerspace and ARTE France. Anybody can make nominations, which are then judged by a massive panel.
Amazon UK and major Eurozone regional branches such as Amazon France and Amazon Germany are seeing the sale too, knocking the headset down by £50/€50 to the Prime Day sale price of £350/€400. Advisory : you’ll definitely need a VR-ready computer to run it. Check here to see if your computer is ready. Photo by Road to VR.
For those that couldn’t make it out to France to see the Ford GT win the 24 Hours of Le Mans race in June, Ford has got you covered — in virtual reality. The new Ford VR app is available for iOS and Android devices, giving you a 360-degree view of the Le Mans racetrack.
The ambitious new project is the direct result of a partnership between CollegeHumor’s production studio Big Breakfast and multimedia titan Google in an attempt to produce a steady flow of 360-degree content for YouTube as well as the new DayDream VR platform.
Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen stepped out of the shadows Sunday after months of working secretly with lawyers, journalists and lawmakers to build a case against the company she’d once thought to change from within—but now views as fundamentally threatening to the whole of humanity. Haugen was once against… Read more.
In the coming months, these glasses will be shipped to buyers worldwide, including the US, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Czech Republic, Netherlands, China, Japan, and Korea. Samsung Electronics has reportedly been developing this product since February of last year with assistance from Google and Qualcomm.
Google and Sony both have intellectual property around waveguide designs similar in nature. A series of waveguide joint-research projects were also done by HiMax and Optivent of France; HiMax and Lumus; and Lumus and Essilor of France. Near-eye Optics Basics.
During the Galaxy Unpacked event in Paris, France, on July 10, the firm’s leading representatives announced that the XR device will be released later this year-despite MWC news suggesting a 2025 release.
and receivership in France, according to 9to5Google. The company behind the cloud gaming platform Shadow has filed for bankruptcy in the U.S. Shadow recently posted an update to its blog confirming that it was undergoing a “reorganization” to get rid of the debt it had amassed building its cloud gaming platform in… Read more.
At the start of the year, Qualcomm quietly set the stage for the Samsung XR headset when it first revealed its XR2+ Gen 2 Platform, with Samsung and Google as partners, so the integration makes sense. Furthermore, at MWC 2024, Samsung officially unveiled the upcoming XR headset, which was created in partnership with Google and Qualcomm.
During the Galaxy Unpacked event in Paris, France, on July 10, the firm’s leading representatives announced that the XR device will be released later this year-despite MWC news suggesting a 2025 release.
Some of the biggest names in social impact will be in attendance, including: Participant Media, Conservation International, the Rainforest Alliance, Connect for Climate/World Bank, and the Milken Institute, as well as tech companies like Google, Microsoft, and Oculus.
It looks like regional points of concentration are the UK, France, Sweden, and Germany– and rising areas of focus are user input and enterprise solutions (like Improbable, which recently raised $500M), while gaming is the most competitive and saturated vertical. WILL GOOGLE LET YOU ANIMATE YOUR SCENES MADE WITH BLOCKS SOON?
I didn’t know that: Google has still to coordinate with OEMs and so at the moment there is no ARCore-compatible tablet. The vision is the one of offering an LBVR experience in France where Enter VR is in charge of everything, from the location to the hardware not to mention the software. Walking was also very tiresome.
The pitch of Xreal Beam Pro isn't to replace your existing phone, it's to act as a dedicated compute puck for your smart glasses - one that supports all the media and gaming apps already present on the Google Play Store. Xreal's Nebula app launching & positioning system. In South Korea preorders will open on July 1.
My friends in France started sending me press articles about Giroptic , the French start up that “seduced Facebook’s boss with a 360 ° camera.” Google I/O : May 17-19, 2017. Impact on Consumers. ” It helped putting Giroptic on the map, but for a lot of people it also brought more awareness of 360 ° technologies.
Furthermore, the showcase of such a device by Meta has surely created some anxiety in its competitors : Apple, Google, etc… may act cool on the outside, but for sure on the inside are trying to get information about Orion, and are working hard to build something better than that. That’s why I’m very cautious about it.
Today at AWE 2024, XREAL Beam Pro, an Android-based mobile device that allows users to access Google Play Store services as spatial AR applications access through smart glasses, will be unveiled. XREAL is debuting Beam Pro in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, Czech Republic, China, and Japan.
Set to become available across the US, China, France, Korea and the rest of the international markets, Speed Kills VR provides over an hour of replayable cinematic VR content. Google Play - [link] Apple App Store - [link] Oculus - [link]
They are: “Franc”: FoV 47°×40° “Luck”: 46°×34° “Garta” 49°×47°. The bad is that they are just audio smartglasses, that only provide audio directly to your ears and nothing more; Iristick has started offering its smart glasses that look like Google Glass. Garta offers almost a square view, while Luck has a more traditional wide window.
Graffiti Simulator launches next week on Steam and takes the level of creativity we saw in Google’s Tilt Brush to a whole another level. Thanks to King Spray, all graffiti enthusiasts will now get a chance to test their skills in the safety and creativity of Virtual Reality.
Sketchfab was founded in France and has since become one of the premier names in 3D hosting and modeling. Do you see Google Project Tango as a big part of the company’s future? Google Tango is one of the leaders and the first to have shipped a product on the market, along with Intel Realsense. Microsoft Hololens. on Sketchfab.
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