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VR Quiz Game ‘Go Guess’ Uses Google 360 Captures to Make You Guess Where You Are

Road to VR

Go Guess (2018) is a new interactive VR quiz game from developers Oblix that tosses you into Google 360 captures and makes you to guess where you are. Google opened up its treasure trove of 360 Street View captures to developers late last year, although there was a proviso for developing apps and games with the data: it had to be free.

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The 2017 Lumiere Awards: Google and Dear Angelica Win Big

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Cher Wang – HTC Vive. AIS-VR Society President Jim Chabin and actress Maria Bello honored the CEO of HTC with the Sir Charles Wheatstone Award for exemplifying exceptional forward movement in the VR Sciences. HTC is the maker of the Vive VR headset , a monumental achievement in optics, controls and 3D positional tracking for VR.

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Google Launches Earth VR on HTC Vive, A Breathtaking New Way to Know Our Planet

Road to VR

Today Google launches Earth VR for the HTC Vive for free, giving us a whole new perspective on the world. I remember, back in 2001, how amazed I was to see Google Earth for the first time. I remember huddling around the computer monitor with friends shouting “go to New York City!”

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NextVR Brings Its Live Streamed Events to Oculus Quest

Road to VR

said David Cole, NextVR co-founder & CEO, “We’re launching with a collection of experiences that best demonstrate the capabilities of our technology including a show this September 10th hosted by Pete Davidson recorded live at Gotham Comedy Club in New York City.”. Monday, 9/2 | Wood & Wire in Concert | 6pm PT.

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The best AR and VR news from CES 2022

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HTC Vive Wrist Tracker. HTC Vive Wrist Tracker (Image by HTC). HTC has made an announcement at this CES and it has been a pretty cool one. To showcase its functionality, HTC showed some videos of the tracker in use to improve the performances of hands tracking and also with the tracker installed on external props.

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Is IMAX VR the Ultimate VR Experience?

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Google, Jaunt VR and ARRI are all developing VR and 360 degree IMAX cameras. The partnership with Google is bringing that ultimate VR camera whose launch is planned in 2018. The partnership with Google is bringing that ultimate VR camera whose launch is planned in 2018.

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Building a Better 360 Camera from Consumer to Pro, with Insta360’s Michael Shabun

XR for Business Podcast

When you open the box, camera’s inside, but there’s also a VR viewer, like a little Google Cardboard kind of thing, a little plastic thing that you slap on your phone. You see Google. What this does is it uses a technology that Google made popular some years ago and it uses something called dynamic rendering.