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‘Google Earth VR’ Lets You Experience the Total Solar Eclipse Right Now

Road to VR

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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Google Doodle honors the legacy of Black baseball legend Toni Stone

Mashable VR

In honor of Black History Month, Google has released an animated Google Doodle tribute to baseball legend Toni Stone — the first woman to play professional baseball in a men's league. Accompanied by a Google Arts & Culture biography , the Google Doodle highlights a story of passion and determination.

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Suzanne Borders: BadVR is mixing art and technology to innovate data visualization

The Ghost Howls

When he graduated, I was moved to Kansas City, which is in the middle of the country, and no offense to anyone who’s listening from Kansas City… but it’s kind of a smaller town and it’s not as big as San Diego where I was living.

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Tesla’s data advantage. Can Apple, or others, keep up?

Robert Scoble

I do too, and go even further than she does in studying this industry (I had the first ride in the first Tesla with Elon Musk and had the first video on YouTube of Google’s self-driving car, and have interviewed many in the industry, and also have a Twitter list of people and companies building autonomous cars ). Can Google match this?

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Put the Car of Your Dreams in Your Living Room, with ZeroLight’s Barry Hoffman

XR for Business Podcast

A big company like Apple, Google, really pushing the thing out and saying, “this is what it’s going to be,” and then making it part of everyday life. But although, at the moment, in Google — if you type in the words — you start to get those WebAR things. XR, at the moment, is a breakout technology for BYO.

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Put the Car of Your Dreams in Your Living Room, with ZeroLight’s Barry Hoffman

XR for Business Podcast

A big company like Apple, Google, really pushing the thing out and saying, “this is what it’s going to be,” and then making it part of everyday life. But although, at the moment, in Google — if you type in the words — you start to get those WebAR things. XR, at the moment, is a breakout technology for BYO.

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Getting Fit with a VR Toolkit, and Other XR Tips with VRd?j?’s Michael Eichenseer

XR for Business Podcast

I can imagine that there’s a huge hub of VR in Kansas City. There’s a lot of talent here, and I have heard from other people that even places like Kansas City actually have quite a bit of VR happening — and I say VR, I mean XR, AR; all of it. You are the voice of virtual reality in the Midwest.

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