ARVR

MAY 24, 2022

Last week, Google held its annual I/O developer conference?—?and Buried in all the keynote action, there was also a notable nugget for AR: Google Lens is now used for 8 billion visual searches per month. To put that in perspective, it’s still miles from the 2 trillion+ total annual Google search queries. in Google fashion?—?is

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

On its 40th anniversary Rolling Stone Magazine said, “Its influence cannot be overstated, practically inventing the music video seven years before MTV went on the air.” Headphones, a swivel chair and your Google Cardboard headset are an absolute requirement. Image Credit: Youtube – Google Play.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 25, 2018

In the VR app, you can resize and reposition content windows, bookmark a show by creating interactive magazine-like objects, and view 3D and 360 video. You can download the new Plex app through the Daydream Store, or get Plex VR on Google Play.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Top news of the week (Image by Google) AI models to generate 3D scenes start to surface This week we had the announcement of two AI models dedicated to the generation of 3D worlds. These glasses should be built in partnership with Google and Qualcomm and have a similar form factor to the successful Ray-Ban Meta glasses.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

After picking up a copy of the magazine, you can download the LIFE VR app to then scan and unlock a series of captivating behind-the-scene videos hidden throughout the magazines pages. After downloading the LIFE VR app, you can check out the collection of immersive VR videos using either just your phone or a Google Cardboard headset.

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ARVR

MARCH 17, 2023

In all the excitement around generative and conversational AI, Google has gotten lots of grief for missing the party. The common refrain is that these technologies are Google killers. However, there’s just one issue with that take: Google is better positioned than anyone for AI. In other words, where can I buy it locally?

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ARVR

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Represented by tools such as Google Lens, Pinterest Lens, and Snap Scan, it’s all about pointing your phone at physical world objects to contextualize and identify them through informational overlays. Google calls it “search what you see” — a use case that carries a practical and high-frequency value proposition like web search itself.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

A tool that has been used to create magnificent virtual paintings—Google even started an artist in residence initiative—much of the program’s hype focused on its ability to create beautiful landscapes and quirky characters. Designer uses VR to design award-winning prototype carry-on bag. Three days later, I’d made a physical prototype.”.

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ARVR

APRIL 13, 2022

Point your phone at a jacket a friend is wearing using Google Lens or Snap Scan , then buy it right on the spot. This is the theme of our AR and Shopping Collide series, continuing here with Google. Well-Traveled Touchpoints After covering Snap, Pinterest and Shopify in earlier parts of this series, What’s Google doing in AR shopping?

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ARVR

JULY 15, 2022

This is why our ears perked up when hearing the most recent example: “ captions for the real world ,” which Google used at its I/O conference to describe visual search. This is Google’s go-to “flavor” of AR, which future-proofs its core search business and today manifests in Google Lens. Does AR Need More PR?

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ARVR

JULY 11, 2022

But greater impact could come from the web’s most traveled destination: Google. More specifically, Google continues to enable search results to come to life in 3D and AR. These use cases and categories will continue to broaden as Google tests the waters. How is Google Cultivating AR Marketing?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2022

I thought that there could be nothing else to say in this roundup apart from the Connect, while actually, digging into the various XR magazines and social media feed, I have been able to find a lot of interesting little news, which I’m reporting to you. Google Starline starts real-world testing. This is pretty disappointing.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2022

Thanks to the leak reported by around ten insiders, the online magazine has been able to cast a light on some unknown details about the headset. Google launches “Immersive Stream for AR”. Chinese giant Baidu (The Google of China) has announced its XiRang platform aimed at building the metaverse.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2023

Google joined forces with Samsung (and Qualcomm) to release a new headset soon. Apple has already announced its App Store for the Vision Pro , and I can bet my ass that when Google and Samsung will announce the new headset, it will be associated with a new Android For XR operating system and an XR Play Store store.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Some magazines talked about thousands of people laid off, but Bytedance refuted that the scale of the operation was that big. More info Google may still be working at Project Iris Some months ago a rumor claimed that Google had stopped working on Project Iris, its project devoted to the creation of augmented reality glasses.

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ARVR

JUNE 25, 2021

its answer to Google Live view. Not to be outdone, Google fired back with an update of its own: better landmark detection in Google Lens. But buried in that announcement was a notable nugget: Google Lens is used 3 billion times per month. But Google could be the king of visually-oriented local discovery….just

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ARVR

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Live Monitoring of Premises Google has already experimented with VR goggles (known as Google Daydream) that helped people find their way and get new routes. It wasn’t long ago when Oculus, Google, and Sony had people vouch for VR headsets for playing immersive games. You sure can. It would be epic.

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Virtual Reality Trends Hardware Technology 299

The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2021

A new week has passed by, and it has been a quite good one for me: I’ve been featured again on Authority Magazine and I’ve launched a new series of videos on my Youtube channel where I answer the questions of the community. More info (Use Google Translate). Learn more (Use Google Translate). Support this magazine on Patreon.

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VRScout

APRIL 21, 2017

By using the magazines “ElleNow” app, users can hover their smartphones over any cover to watch the cover face come to life in an exclusive video interview. In an effort to boost new subscribers, Sports Illustrated released 500,000 special edition bundles with Google Cardboards for their world famous swimsuit edition.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

A new leak coming from Twitter user choco_bit and published by online magazine 9to5Mac seems to point to the fact that the upcoming iPhone 12 Pro phone may feature a rear depth camera. Let’s see if Facebook will be a worthier opponent than Google. Google releases Chrome 81. I will come out fatter from this quarantine .

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

Google’s investment for a 7.7% Google-Jio joint venture to develop an Android-based platform for an affordable 5G phone. Read about Google experiments with AR and wearables. A very interesting article on CNET highlights some of the experiments that Google has made with 1D glasses, smart tattoos and other cool stuff.

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ARVR

JUNE 29, 2022

This is something Google doesn`t yet have. link] VR AR Global Summit Summary was originally published in AR/VR Journey: Augmented & Virtual Reality Magazine on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. This is something AR has been waiting for in a long time.

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ARVR

MARCH 16, 2023

Speaking of text prompts, some have even called this the death of the Google-dominant era of search. Though that could be overblown or premature — Google itself is well positioned for AI as we’ve examined  — there’s ample promise in the underlying technology from the likes of OpenAI. One is that Google has trained us to use keywords.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

As I reported last week, people are exploring class actions, or are switching to other devices, and I even found on Kotaku (a popular indie gaming magazine) a very angry article about this topic. Facebook will have its own Cloud Gaming Service, entering so the field of the future of gaming where other companies like Google (Stadia!),

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ARVR

DECEMBER 6, 2022

For more information on NFT, digital arts, and Metaverse, please check out my website: [link] For more information, please check out my podcast “Digitalization” on Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Radio Public, and Spotify.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 4, 2021

Analyzing the data from Google and the subscribers of the VR-related subreddits on Reddit, it is possible to see that the interest in VR, especially the one branded by Oculus, has skyrocketed at the end of 2020. More info (Subscriber count of subreddits) More info (Google searches for “Oculus”). Learn more. Some XR fun. Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Google releases a tool for body tracking on your phone. Google has just released MediaPipe BlazePose, an AI tool that is able to track the upper part of your body in realtime on your phone. Remote XR collaboration tool Spatial ( read here my review about it ) has just released its 1.7 Learn more.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The former CEO of Google has stated that Artificial Intelligence, which is one of the technologies which will make Metaverse a reality, is “a giant false god”. One of the biggest problems that have also affected companies like Facebook and Google is privacy. There is also a fear that this will deplete human relationships and society.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Upload did it again: on December, 2nd, the big XR magazine has streamed a big showcase of many news about VR games. Mogura VR , one of the most important magazines about VR in Japan, has organized an event hosting a few important Japanese VR professionals to discuss the m**averse in Japan. Google details Project Starline.

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ARVR

JULY 8, 2022

In January, 2015, amid a mounting wave of critical sentiment, Google withdrew Glass from the consumer market, with the promise of returning with a revamped product in 2017. One of the main reasons that Google Glass failed was that it fell into the ‘snob pricing’ category, and those who wore it were looked at as ostentatious pills.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 3, 2023

Yes, Google Cardboards. According to a fast research I did on Google, Xbox One sold more than 50M units, and the total number of monthly ACTIVE Xbox users, including the ones on Game Pass, is around 120 million. Retention is: the more people use a product every day/week, the more that product is relevant.

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ARVR

MAY 11, 2022

For example, Google click value is greater when local intent is signaled by the searcher, such as a “near me” or geographic modifiers like a zip code in the search query. So companies like Google, Yelp, Foursquare and many others have built businesses around this principle in driving local search and discovery?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2021

I so tried looking for some special announcements on dedicated VR magazines (Upload, Road To VR, etc…) but I found literally nothing. Only two games listed in the VR category. I can’t say I was happy of seeing this.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2022

This week some selected journalists from popular online magazines like CNET and The Verge have been able to have a preview of the upcoming Magic Leap 2 glasses. Google and Waymo evolve NERF to cope with cities. More info (Official acquisition announcement post) More info (Road To VR reporting the acquisition). Other relevant news.

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ARVR

AUGUST 9, 2021

In 2020 Google came up with the idea of influencing and teaching people the importance of Social distancing with its SODAR application. Augmented Reality helped Google to convey the message uniquely. Awareness about your brand Many Businesses have used Augmented Reality for spreading awareness about society.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Google AR Live View walking directions for Google Maps have improved since it first entered beta in August 2019. In October 2020, Google announced several new features to improve the outdoor AR Live View experience. These included the ability to overlay landmarks and extend the live view to more cities.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2019

He doesn’t only write with a great style on important magazines like Forbes, but he is also always able to find great content to talk about , like innovative AR startups or interviews to big names of the immersive industry like Rony Abovitz. Wikipedia, Google, Yelp, selfies, other forms of social media. What kind of data?

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