Digital Trends

AUGUST 24, 2021

Google is updating the Tab Groups feature so that you can save your tab groups, rather than having to recreate them each time you quit the web browser.

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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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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

Image by Google). Google performs interesting AR news at I/O conference. At Google I/O, no executive of the company has talked about the M-word, but they have anyway showed interesting AR updates, which will be relevant for our future M-world. Another cool announcement has been the one of Immersive View for Google Maps.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Google has announced a $1.1 billion cooperation agreement under which certain HTC employees – many of whom are already working with Google to develop Pixel smartphones – will join Google. Separately, Google will receive a non-exclusive license for HTC intellectual property (IP). Google VR & HTC.

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Upload VR

JULY 16, 2024

A group that helped open source a fork of Google's Tilt Brush is doing the same to 3D modeling platform Blocks. Open Blocks follows Open Brush from the Icosa Foundation as an open source version of Google's abandoned VR art tools. The original open source files are already available on Github.

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VRScout

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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 5, 2017

Today, Brandon Jones from Google (who is one of the chairs in the official WebVR Community Group ,) noticed that developers from Apple have officially joined the group. In the Community Group there are 147 non-Chair participants as of the time of this writing. What do you think of this news and WebVR in general?

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VRScout

MAY 18, 2017

Soon after, YouTube became the largest VR video platform over night by supporting playback within VR headsets like Google Cardboard. Since then, we’ve seen YouTube introduce 360° live streaming and YouTube VR pop up as an early launch app on Google’s Daydream platform. YouTube VR Social Viewing.

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Road to VR

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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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Cristiano Amon, CEO of Qualcomm has announced it is designing AR smart glasses with Samsung and Google that can be powered by your smartphone. Qualcomm partnered with Google and Samsung at the beginning of the year to strengthen XR use cases for headset and smart glasses with the help of its XR2+ Gen 2 chipset.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 25, 2021

Finally, why in the name of the geek gods is Google shutting down Poly? Google’s own Tilt Brush, an important content creation tool, relies on Poly. Tilt Brush co-creator Patrick Hackett just left Google, too. Not a good sign. Apple headset to be a pricey, niche VR precursor to eventual AR headset. What’s Next After Zoom?

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Road to VR

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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Road to VR

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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VRScout

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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VRScout

JANUARY 21, 2018

Google WorldSense technology lets you freely explore 2023 Los Angeles. Owners of the recently released Blu-ray edition of Blade Runner 2049 were treated to a special trailer announcing Blade Runner: Revelations , an upcoming VR experience for the soon-to-be-released Lenovo Mirage Solo headset and the Google Daydream platform.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 19, 2023

Microsoft is reportedly reducing the size of its HoloLens group. Google and Apple have instituted hiring freezes for some teams. But Bloomberg’s Dina Bass reports the layoffs include the Mixed Reality group, responsible for HoloLens 2 and the IVAS militarized version.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 7, 2022

The Dublin, Ireland-based company established the Accenture Metaverse Continuum business group to assist companies in grabbing this opportunity. What is Accenture’s Metaverse Continuum Group? Four Key Capabilities of the Metaverse Continuum Group. Moves Towards Accenture’s Metaverse Continuum Group.

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Digital Trends

JUNE 23, 2020

Group tabs can make organizing your work and social browsing far easier. Here's how to make the most of them.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

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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Road to VR

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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Mashable VR

MARCH 1, 2022

Restaurant reviews on Google have become a new digital territory in the fight against misinformation in Russia. 28, the Twitter account @Konrad03249040 tweeted : "Get involved: find a random shop/cafe/restaurant in Russia in big city on google maps and write in the review what's really happening in Ukraine. Credit: Screenshot / Google.

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Mashable VR

MAY 10, 2022

Online dating juggernaut Match Group is suing Google, alleging that its Android apps are being forced to use the tech giant's in-app payment system — thus allowing Google to extract royalties for such transactions. However, Google doesn’t allow apps onto the Google Play Store unless they meet certain criteria.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 22, 2024

This week, the AR Alliance, a group that brings together leaders in the XR industry to drive innovation and success, announced that Qualcomm Technologies will join as the last founding member of its board of directors.

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Digital Trends

AUGUST 15, 2021

Google has been the king of search for decades and has worked hard to keep competitors down. But there's a small group of startups that refuses to back down.

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VRScout

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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Digital Trends

MAY 20, 2022

Google will let Match Group offer an alternative payment system in dating apps such as Tinder, one that charges a lower fee for subscriptions than Play Store.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Apple runs this kind of focus group to figure out what's good about existing products and where it could add unique value, to decide whether to go ahead with product development. Samsung Reportedly Plans Ray-Ban Meta Competitor With Google AI Samsung is reportedly working on a Ray-Ban Meta glasses competitor with Google Gemini AI.

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VRScout

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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

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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Mashable VR

MAY 11, 2022

Google unveiled a new tool Wednesday at I/O, its annual developer conference , which makes it easier for people to request that the advertising giant remove personal data like their home address from search results. Still, as a significant majority of internet search engine traffic is done via Google, this tool packs a punch. "It’s

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Road to VR

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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GizModo VR

JUNE 1, 2022

Amazon—a trillion dollar multinational corporation repeatedly sued by labor groups for unfair working conditions at its facilities—wants you to know it’s being treated unfairly. Read more.

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VRScout

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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VRScout

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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VRScout

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Google, Sony, Oculus, Samsung, Acer and HTC have combined their efforts in order to create a healthy and equal industry for virtual reality hardware and software to develop and expand. Working groups will be organized around important topics for the industry, enabling us to produce relevant research and guidance.

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Anand Tech

OCTOBER 18, 2023

As part of a broad collaborative agreement with Google, Qualcomm this week said that that it will be adopting the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) for a future Snapdragon Wear platform. Similarly, Google's backing of the ISA by porting Wear OS to RISC-V is a major milestone on the software front.

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Mashable VR

JUNE 11, 2022

One of the best and worst things about Google Chrome is the amount of browser extensions you can find in the Chrome store. Save to Google Drive. Send screenshots to Google Drive instantly with this extension. People were despondent when Google announced its Inbox by Gmail app would be shutting down, and it was understandable.

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