Road to VR
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
Since then, Meta’s first-gen Aria has found its way outside of company offices; early collaborations with BMW and a number of universities followed, includingCarnegie Mellon,IIIT Hyderabad, University of Bristol, and University of Iowa,which used the smart glasses to tackle the a host of machine perception challenges.
Road to VR
AUGUST 20, 2017
Whether or not you’re in the narrow band of ‘solar eclipse totality’ that’s making its way across the continental United States on Monday, August 21st, Google Earth VR has seen a recent update that will let you experience the rare event from the comfort of your own HTC Vive or Oculus Rift. image courtesy NASA.
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GizModo VR
AUGUST 9, 2022
internet users last night briefly experienced the dark, frustrating realities of a world devoid of Google services. Though Google has since resolved the outage issues, new reports suggest the disruptions may be tied to an “electrical incident” at a Council Bluffs, Iowa data center that left at… Read more. Large swaths of U.S.
GizModo VR
MAY 3, 2021
Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa has always used Twitter in a rather bizarre way. After all, who can forget Grassley classics like “PantsBurnLegWood” of 2009 and “WH:ANSWER MY LETTER” of 2017 ? But the senator’s tweets over the weekend were particularly weird, even if you agreed with his central premise. Read more.
XR for Business Podcast
AUGUST 2, 2019
Steve: Well, it was a MetaVRse product that I downloaded to my phone some time, in Google Cardboard. If you think about it, for decades — I used to serve in the Iowa legislature, and I was chairman of the Education Committee, and we spent a lot of time addressing, how do we improve education? Let me ask you a quick question.
XR for Business Podcast
AUGUST 2, 2019
Steve: Well, it was a MetaVRse product that I downloaded to my phone some time, in Google Cardboard. If you think about it, for decades — I used to serve in the Iowa legislature, and I was chairman of the Education Committee, and we spent a lot of time addressing, how do we improve education? Let me ask you a quick question.
XR for Business Podcast
AUGUST 2, 2019
Steve: Well, it was a MetaVRse product that I downloaded to my phone some time, in Google Cardboard. If you think about it, for decades -- I used to serve in the Iowa legislature, and I was chairman of the Education Committee, and we spent a lot of time addressing, how do we improve education? Alan: So that's Google Cardboard.
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