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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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. Below are examples of how far these models can be taken with rendering software.

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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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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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VRScout

MAY 18, 2020

. “Thanks to modern developments in machine learning, it is now possible to precisely detect people and objects around you, remove the background automatically, and transfer the result to virtually any software on your computer,” stated Diagne during an interview with Dezeen.

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VRScout

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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Road to VR

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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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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DECEMBER 26, 2016

Khronos Group is attempting to create a standard API (application program interface) across VR components and, announced via press release , they recently received the co-sign from Epic Games. We spoke with the president of Khronos Group, Neil Trevett, about the development and its implications.

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Road to VR

MAY 23, 2016

Google’s mission is “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful,” but what happens if there’s a shift from the Information Age to the Experience Age? Google’s Daydream mobile VR platform is part of that answer. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST. Support Voices of VR.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Software group SAP knows that the world needs smart people. SAP is a multinational company headquartered in Germany that creates “software for the management of business processes.” Other partners of JFF Labs include the Departments of Labor and Education, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Walmart, Salesforce, and Google.

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Road to VR

JUNE 6, 2018

InstaVR boasts that its software suite can help businesses “quickly and easily author interactive 360-degree VR apps and publish them for all major VR headsets, as well as desktop and mobile devices with a single click.”

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NOVEMBER 27, 2024

More on Samsung’s XR Headset Last month, Samsung publicly updated the development of its XR device through a patent listing with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) called “Method and System for Grouping Plurality of Devices.”

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Road to VR

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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ARPost

AUGUST 26, 2020

Think trying to open a Google Doc in OneDrive, only that document is an autonomous vehicle, or a piece of manufacturing equipment, or medical information. That’s part of the goal of a group called the 5G Open Innovation Lab. Right now, all of this is almost a moot point because there are so few 5G applications.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 28, 2023

There is not only the problem of the timezone but also the unknown of the internet connection and the inability of reaching Western websites like Google. Luckily, one my of Chinese contacts managed to fix the problem by making me install on my computer some software that did the trick. People will understand.

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OCTOBER 4, 2016

I basically didn’t talk to my family for a week during a recent outage caused by my need to repair the iPhone because our iMessage chat group didn’t port over to Android. Google is releasing Pixel alongside the Daydream View reference VR headset that will offer experiences to compete with Samsung’s Gear VR.

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Road to VR

MARCH 21, 2017

As VR’s biggest industry event, this year’s event represents the most diverse group of companies from around the world ever to attend the conference. New Developments in the OSVR Software Platform – OSVR. The Once & Future Web – Google. Session Highlights: . A Peek into the US Navy’s Mixed Reality Lab – BEMR.

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Road to VR

JUNE 27, 2017

According to a report from Polygon , augmented reality company CastAR is heading for a shutdown, laying off staff from the Palo Alto headquarters and its internal AR software development studio in Salt Lake City. The recent screen-based AR solutions (such as Google Tango and Apple’s phone and tablet AR ) and a number of AR headsets.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

They’re just not ready to fork over the dough for a pricey gaming PC or they don’t have a compatible mobile device that makes snatching up a Samsung Gear VR or Google Daydream View an easy purchase decision. The Oculus Go also has its own 3DOF controller, but the best part is it shares the same software as the Gear VR.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

Just to make an example, I was there when there was the Netscape vs Internet Explorer war, but now the leading web browser is Google Chrome. Google Chrome, for instance, has been helped a lot by the fact that it is the pre-installed browser on all Android phones. Google Glass v2. What will happen? Honestly, I don’t know.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2022

The rest is our long story… Well, I have time for a long story… Our story began in 2016 when Tao Hu, our founder, and CEO, left Oculus and started the company with VC seed funding and a group of like-minded geeks. We had 500k downloads on Google Play , 100k downloads on Gear VR, and 50k on Steam.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2021

If there are some community groups on Discord or such, you can also ask there, to see if other users have found a way to do that. These avatars show on your screen what a 360 camera installed on the head of the avatar sees and then you can use a screen-grabbing software like OBS to have a 360 degrees video of your content.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

Google’s ARCore technology was used for the augmented reality overlays, the Google Cloud Vision AI API for object detection, as well as early access to some of Google’s cutting-edge Human Sensing Technology that could detect emotional expressions of the participants.

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ARPost

MARCH 3, 2020

Expeditions Pioneer Program by Google. Google helps tackle the latter with its Expeditions Pioneer Program. Below is a sneak peek of Google’s experiment at Andersen Middle School, where they pioneered their program. ?. Teachers and staff learn how to use Google’s Expeditions app and ARCore (for Android) or ARKit (for iOS).

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ARPost

JULY 5, 2019

New virtual reality headsets such as the Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, and Google Daydream have barely scratched the surface of the technology’s potential. Their software allows eldercare residents to revisit childhood homes or explore places they’ve never had the chance to visit. Seniors make up 15.6% of the entire US population.

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VRScout

MAY 1, 2017

WebVR — which Google has also officially embraced — can offer immersive room-scale VR software through a web browser without downloads or installs. ” He said A-Frame also removes the need to understand linear algebra or programming languages like C++, which are normally critical for developing VR software.

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Road to VR

JUNE 28, 2017

Luckey’s pledge ought to buy the Revive creator a seat at that table, but it’s not clear how much influence they might have compared to the likes of major players like Oculus, Google, NVIDIA, Samsung, Valve, and others who are part of the initiative.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 27, 2016

They also produced a NAS concert for KCRW’s Sound in Focus and a couple pieces with Google Daydream including NFL Immersed and rag & bone. In addition to all of that, they’ve been working with various YouTube creators to educate and explore new capture techniques using Google Jump.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2022

A very short primer about OpenXR , in case you forgot what it is: it is a standard, created by the Khronos Group , which has been adopted by all the major XR companies and that allows for interoperability of XR hardware and software from different vendors. Header image containing Unity logo and OpenXR logo by Khronos group).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The Chinese VR ecosystem is very active and it is evolving pretty fast: this summer I have been in China and I met some cool startups that are working on software (e.g. This point basically says that the supply chain of VR products should be improved , so that the hardware and the software meet the needs of the users and the content creators.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2023

To a request for further explanations by Upload, Microsoft answered that the future release of Windows that will remove the software will happen in late 2024. Of course, existing WMR users can still use the devices if they do not upgrade to a version of Windows that does not have the software anymore. And that “ As of Nov.

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VRScout

JANUARY 28, 2018

Thanks to a collaboration with a small community VR project called Plevr , Plex VR allows Google Daydream users to access their entire personal catalogues of television, film, music, pictures and other media all without taking off their headsets. Plex VR is available now on the Google Play Store for all Daydream-ready Android smartphones.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 7, 2016

The Khronos Group announced on Tuesday that they have a critical mass of major VR players who are collaborating on a VR open standard. I had a chance to catch up with Khronos Group President Neil Trevett to talk about this call for participation on this VR open standard. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST. Support Voices of VR.

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JANUARY 24, 2017

For its first few months of availability, Google only worked with a select group of developers on Daydream-compatible apps. Starting today, Google is opening the doors for all developers creating apps along the company’s guidelines to submit. Tagged with: Android , google play. That’s about to change.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 30, 2017

The companies co-developed the mobile Gear VR headset, which would be manufactured and sold by Samsung but run the Oculus platform for VR software distribution. SEE ALSO How Google's Latest VR Moves Are a Major Blow to Oculus' Mobile Strategy. Samsung was perhaps Oculus’ first major ally.

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MAY 10, 2017

So, it comes as no surprise that they are interested in how they can enable VR and AR technologies with their own Special Interest Group (SIG). Find more from Moor Insights & Strategy on their web site , Twitter , LinkedIn , Facebook , Google+ and YouTube. DisplayPort was even the first to support 4K, 5K a,nd 8K resolutions.

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