XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 1, 2022

On Thursday, the Warner Music Group (WMG) announced a collaboration with OpenSea, a peer-to-peer NFT marketplace, to secure the global music label with Web3 infrastructure. Via the marketplace’s MoonPay service, users can buy, sell, and mint NFTs with Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Apple, and Google Pay.

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JULY 5, 2017

With Apple’s newly public interest in VR , developers from the company have join the W3C WebVR Community Group to have a say in the development of the WebVR standard. To achieve that, W3C hosts online groups to get developers talking to one another and deciding what a standard should look like and how it should work.

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MARCH 14, 2019

Google is shutting down Spotlight Stories, the group tasked not only with pushing forward virtual reality as a storytelling medium, but creating a number of highly polished and thoughtful VR pieces in the process. Image courtesy Google. A copy of an email written by executive producer Karen Dufilho was obtained by Variety.

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DECEMBER 14, 2022

The Grammy award-winning group will perform their new single “Skinny Ape” at Times Square in NYC at 2:30 pm ET on December 17th and in Piccadilly Circus at 2:00 pm GMT on December 18th. Prior to that, the group released a 360-degree music video for their song “Saturnz Barz.” Image Credit: Google x Gorillaz.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

StatusPRO , the studio behind NFL Pro Era (2022) , announced it has secured $20 million in Series A funding, led by Google Ventures. The post ‘NFL Pro Era’ Studio Raises $20M From Google to Grow VR Sport Game Catalog appeared first on Road to VR.

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OCTOBER 1, 2019

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). Liberté, égalité, fraternité—all that jazz—and no throngs of tourist groups to swim through either. Image courtesy Google Arts & Culture.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Two months ago Google launched their Blocks VR creation tool that enabled anyone to 3D model low polygon objects with little modeling experience required. And to delete a selected group of strokes, just throw it away. You can check out the full release notes from Google here.

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JULY 21, 2017

The team behind Daydream, Google’s mobile VR platform, is currently conducting experiments with the aim of broadening virtual reality’s usecase to include more interactive learning. image courtesy Google. SEE ALSO This Restaurant is Using Google Daydream to Train Employees.

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JULY 6, 2017

For the last month I’ve been working with Google to test Blocks, a new VR creation tool that enables anyone to 3D model low polygon objects without training. Grab Tool: Used to grab, group, duplicate, multi select, flip, and throw away objects. Google VR (@googlevr) July 6, 2017. To explain, I created this. Happy modeling!

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

The team’s name was Master of Shapes , and they were one of the groups that HTC had gathered to showcase some of the many applications for the new device. The team today posted a look at its experiments attaching the Tracker to Google’s Daydream View, a device that doesn’t positionally track a user’s head movements.

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MAY 22, 2018

Ahead of SID Display Week, researchers have published details on Google and LG’s 18 Mpixel 4.3-in ” The researchers attached to the project are Googl’es Carlin Vieri, Grace Lee, and Nikhil Balram, and LG’s Sang Hoon Jung, Joon Young Yang, Soo Young Yoon, and In Byeong Kang. Specification. Upper bound.

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APRIL 15, 2025

This week, we had quite a lot of interesting news about all the major players: Apple, Meta, Google, and Valve. According to him, the equipment is being provided by Teleray Group who [sic] also manufactured the gaskets for the Valve Index and HP G2 Omnicept. Another device they are working on together is XR glasses.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2017

If you’ve been one of the creators working with Tilt Brush and Blocks, you’re probably aware of the two different galleries Google created for you to showcase your work: Sketches and Objects. The post Google Launches Poly, a Home and Discovery Platform for VR and AR Content appeared first on VRScout.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 15, 2025

Other organizations, like Google, are working on entirely new software solutions. Googles Android XR platform will accelerate the introduction of AI into virtual reality workplace future experiences, by enabling easy access to the Gemini ecosystem. Meta has expanded its Horizon ecosystem to make it more accessible to developers.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2020

VTime’s cross-platform social network vTime XR is now available on Facebook’s Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest 2 headsets, offering standalone users a premium socialVR experience centered primarily around intimate group meet-ups. For more information on vTime’s growing cross-reality platform visit here. Image Credit: vTime.

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JULY 30, 2020

But AR/VR solutions are not limited to Google Glass, mobile apps for trying on shoes or accessories, and AR-based games. At the same time, personal voice assistants developed by tech giants — Alexa from Amazon, Siri from Apple, and Google Assistant — are standing at the forefront of the audio augmented reality market.

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MAY 10, 2022

Using a pair of Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 smart glasses, a clinical team of Pennard vets working out of Sevenoaks was able to broadcast audio and video to a group of Vet CT specialists tuning in remotely from Kent, London. Google Glass offers vets a way to communicate with specialists while keeping their hands free to operate.

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JULY 18, 2024

Google has made Google Blocks an open-source application, which it says will enable “novel and rich experiences”. Google AR Glasses: Is This the Return of Google Glass? ” Icosa Foundation is a global community of developers that create open-source replacements for Tilt Brush and Google Poly. .”

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JANUARY 24, 2018

Google reveals new prototype that lets you share interactive augmented reality assets online. Reza Ali and Josh Carpenter work on Google’s Daydream WebXR team—a group working to integrate more virtual and augmented reality elements into everyday web browsing. Their latest breakthrough is called Article.

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MARCH 20, 2021

Developers have explored potential solutions in the past, such as Google Daydream’s ultra-fun Drum Keys or Logitech’s VR compatible keyboards. This can be especially useful when performing Google searches or entering the URL of a website into a browser. This makes tasks such as cutting and pasting incredibly simple.

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MARCH 28, 2025

The group behind VR games Myst, Riven, Firmament and Obduction parted with "roughly half" the team, or a dozen "talented staff members". The specific note about seeking financing doesn't specifically mention VR, but Cyan is among a small group of studios with experience developing titles with hand tracking.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2019

This year, however, Google is looking to modernize your romantic festivities with Love Playmoji characters and AR stickers for Pixel Playground, Night Sight functionality, and a slew of other updates guaranteed to add a bit of spice to your evening. Image Credit: Google LLC. Image Credit: Google LLC.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2016

But if you’re in the New York area and want to try the headset before you buy it in retailers like Verizon and Best Buy, you can stop by Google’s pop-up shop in the heart of SoHo. The pop-up shop that opened October 20th, is open all week (10AM – 8PM) for people to check out the Pixel phone, Google Home, and Daydream VR headset.

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DECEMBER 15, 2017

It’s been a long while coming, but Google has finally launched a YouTube VR app on PC. Google expects YouTube VR to remain in Early Access through 2018 as they continue to develop it based on feedback. Image courtesy Google. Image courtesy Google. It took a while, but YouTube VR on PC was largely inevitable.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

As a work-focused social app, Spatial puts heavy emphasis on productivity tools, including things such as an in-app browser, screen sharing abilities, support for multiple 2D/3D file types, communal whiteboards and sticky notes, and integration with Slack, Google Drive, One Drive, and Share Point. Unlimited meeting length.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The award for Best Consumer App was presented by Hopscotch Interactive CEO Emily Olman to Google Maps Live View by Google. The award for Best Developer Tool was presented by Khronos Group President Neil Trevett to Mixed Reality Toolkit for Unity (MRTK-Unity) by Microsoft. ?. Best Creator & Authoring Tool.

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MAY 18, 2020

“The use cases described by such a large and diverse group of creatives made a lot of sense and motivated a couple of friends and me to turn the prototype into a real application that anyone can use.” Those interested in copying and pasting reality can request access to the app here.

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OCTOBER 18, 2020

Key features of HoloPatient Remote according to GIGXR: Remote and/or socially distanced student groups connect with their instructor, who is wearing a Microsoft HoloLens 2 mixed reality headset, using their iOS or Android device. Collaborative learning among the group facilitates highly effective learning outcomes. nanga o Awanui?rangi

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JUNE 12, 2020

It’s no doubt been a massive undertaking creating a platform agnostic standard for VR and AR, as The Khronos Group consortium has included in its ranks the important hardware and software creators in the industry, including AMD, ARM, Epic Games, Facebook, Google, HTC, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Unity, and Valve.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Khronos Group , the consortium behind the OpenXR project which aims to standardize the way applications communicate with AR and VR headsets, just added Microsoft to its ranks. Among its count of members, the OpenXR working group consisted of nearly every major player in the industry except Microsoft until now.

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MARCH 24, 2017

Fitting for Gorillaz, who are ‘virtual band’ consisting of four fictional characters, the group’s highly anticipated fifth studio album (and first since 2011), ‘Humanz’, saw the release of its first track (Saturnz Barz (Spirit House)) as part of an impressive 360 music video. Google Daydream: YouTube VR app.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 4, 2021

Snap wants to compete with Google Maps as a local search and discovery engine. The latter is potentially most interesting, as it further differentiates Snap Map from Google Maps. This organizational framework lets users toggle between thematically grouped events and entities. My Places also follows Snapchat’s May Layers launch.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

recently teased an update to their project that aims to replicate the official Microsoft version of Minecraft for HoloLens, the company’s $3000 AR headset, and put it on mobile devices capable of running Google’s ARCore and Apple’s ARKit. Now, with the release of Google ARCore and Apple ARKit, Speak Geek?

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MAY 18, 2017

Over the last 12 months or so we’ve been keeping an eye on Google’s aggressive hiring for its AR/VR team which, among other things, suggested that the company was working on new “mass production” hardware that would go beyond the simple smartphone snap-in Daydream headsets. No pictures were allowed.

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

This Thursday, Google debuted Blockchain Node Engine for its Cloud ecosystem. Google Cloud’s Blockchain Node Engine helps Web3 developers by providing a node-hosting service which relays transactions, deploy smart contracts, and writes blockchain data. Google Cloud (@googlecloud) October 11, 2022.

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MAY 12, 2022

Also, the founder and managing partner of AR funding group Super Ventures , Inbar’s talks are always full of insight, passion, and a few laughs. Also, Athena Demos of Big Rock Creative (the group that brings Burning Man to AltspaceVR ) presents “Principles in the Metaverse (Multiverse).”. The Day-One Main Stage Marathon. Autodesk Inc.

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AUGUST 24, 2019

Light Field Lab is the first firm to secure major funding for ongoing light-field tech development since its spiritual predecessor, Lytro, was purchased and subsequently sunsetted by Google , ceasing over 12 years of operations in ‘light-field camera’ development at the end of March 2018.

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