VRScout

OCTOBER 9, 2018

While there wasn’t much news on the VR front from Google at today’s New York hardware event except from learning that the new Pixel 3 and Pixel 3XL are compatible with Daydream View VR headsets, Google did introduce a new slate augmented reality (AR) stickers that will have you taking selfies with Iron Man.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Ahead of the release of their 8th studio album entitled Cracker Island , the virtual band Gorillaz will perform an augmented reality (AR) concert in New York City and London during which the band members will appear as enormous, skyscraper-sized virtual avatars. Image Credit: Google x Gorillaz.

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Next Reality AR

JUNE 10, 2019

Available via the App Store and Google Play, the app, along with an accompanying documentary released on. Snapchat isn't the only tech company transforming landmarks with augmented reality for Pride Month.

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Road to VR

APRIL 30, 2018

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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ARVR

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Though it’s a mature product with a dominant market share, Google Maps’ roadmap resembles that of a younger, nimbler product. And its latest update is to make Live View more searchable (it is Google after all). To be fair, we knew this move was coming as it was teased at Google’s September Search On event.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 11, 2016

There are very few places more spectacular than New York City during the holidays. The post Google Debuts VR Tour of New York’s Famous Festive Store Windows appeared first on VRScout. Take a virtual stroll past festive window displays and get swept up in all the holiday goodness. Don’t have a headset? No worries!

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VRScout

DECEMBER 8, 2016

” Following last years mesmerizing 360° series Take Flight , The New York Times is at it again with their annual celebration of Hollywood’s best performers, this time bringing us nine film-noir style 360 videos in a series titled Great Performers.

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VRScout

MAY 26, 2022

Similar to Google Maps’ Live View , users can use their smartphone’s camera to follow a series of virtual arrows leading to their desired location without having to take their eyes off the street. At the time of this writing, Tokyo is the only area in Japan to have reportedly received support. Image Credit: Alta Distance.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 9, 2017

The Vive experience will debut at New York Comic-Con. The first taste of the VR experience is already available for Google Cardboard as part of a promotional demo in partnership with Gillette. Located at the Javits Center, New York Comic Con runs from October 5 through October 8. Outrace your enemies as Batman. .

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

billion in 2019, with many billions more being invested in R&D by the likes of Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and many more. As of November 2020, they’re hiring for both New York and San Francisco positions. The New York Times (Research & Development).

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APRIL 24, 2017

Taking place at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California, Google I/O is an outdoor developer festival that lasts for three days. On May 17th – 19th, there will be hands-on learning, tech keynotes, and insight on Google’s latest developer products in the 2nd annual event.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

A New York Times report maintains that Meta has been planning its own retail stores that aim to eventually span the world. The report cites people with knowledge of the project in addition to internal company documents shared with The New York Times.

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Road to VR

JULY 17, 2020

Social VR/AR platform vTime released a new update today that includes a few theater spaces where you can chat with friends and watch select sports programming on big screen TVs. Programming is admittedly thin at the moment, which only includes select clips from Manchester City Football Club matches.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Google Earth VR. presented Google Earth VR with the Century Award for VR in service of environmental enrichment. Google Earth VR turns much of the world into a digital playground that you can fly or teleport around in immersive 3D space. Longtime Hollywood environmental activist, Ed Begley Jr. Ghostbusters . Dear Angelica.

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Road to VR

APRIL 19, 2017

At Sundance this year, I had a chance to catch up with a couple of representatives from Google to talk about what’s happening on the YouTube VR platform with 360 videos. New York Times is doing a Daily 360 video. Julia Hamilton Trost. Rhomaleosaurus: Back to Life in Virtual Reality #PreviouslyOnEarth. Support Voices of VR.

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Road to VR

JUNE 23, 2021

The New York-based company’s latest funding round was led by Bee Partners with additional investment from First In, Meeting Street Capital, Service Provider Capital, Spacecadet, and Dan Farah, producer of Steven Spielberg’s film adaptation of Ready Player One. The post Moth+Flame Raises $2.5M

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Next Reality AR

MARCH 6, 2019

Augmented reality is having a similar moment right now, with Google's Arts & Culture department publishing a new Big Bang AR experience based on research from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) arriving about two months after the AR feature from The New York Times profiling the Large Hadron Collider.

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VRScout

MAY 10, 2019

Meanwhile, Extreme Rescues with the NYPD, available June 6th, will take users on a helicopter tour through the New York City skyline to experience what it’s like to track the NYPD Emergency Service Unit from the perspective of a police chopper. Exploring the frozen landscapes of Iceland in Iceland is Melting // Image Credit: CNNVR.

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Digital Trends

MAY 20, 2021

Microsoft ultimately shuttered its physical stores, but the Google Store in New York City could succeed where Microsoft failed.

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ARPost

JANUARY 12, 2022

The beloved Museum of Modern Art in New York is our starting point. To make it more accessible to the general public, The British Museum partnered with Google Arts & Culture. Now that we made you curious, it’s time to share some recommendations. Honestly, every American should visit MoMA at least once in their lifetime.

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Road to VR

MAY 22, 2016

Google is delivering a dedicated VR YouTube app in their newly announced Daydream platform. Google maintains that the new YouTube VR app will be “built for comfort and longer sessions,” including a host of normal functions such as search, discovery, and playlists to keep users watching just like on monitors and smartphones.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 7, 2019

Image Credit: New York Times. Graham Roberts was the creative lead for the NYT’s pollution AR app before leaving the publication to join Google as their Digital Design Lead at Google’s Brand Studio , an innovation lab that looks at how the company can create meaningful experiences that will connect Google products with customers.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 13, 2022

A proposed law in New York would cut down on law enforcement’s ability to use controversial surveillance tactics—including warrants that can clandestinely target you because of your search engine history or nab your location data without you knowing. Read more.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Not to be forgotten in the maelstrom of the Apple event news, Google has officially announced the next Made By Google launch event. Google will stream it for those who plan to follow along at home. The event is happening Thursday, Oct. 6 at 7 a.m. PT / 10 a.m. ET in Brooklyn, NY. Read more.

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JANUARY 4, 2017

Powered by IBM and New York Times, Outthink Hidden is inspired by the film and seeks to shed light on lesser known historical figures around the nation. The application is an AR first for New York Times and highlights the main characters of the Hidden Figures film, Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughan.

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VRScout

JANUARY 29, 2018

John announced the tour during a press conference that was simulcast via live stream to both New York and London. The stream could be viewed in both standard 2D format and in VR through the use of a Google Cardboard headset. The VR180 initiative includes Google created VR cameras , apps and contests to keep the creativity going.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

A pioneering creative tool in VR; Google’s Tilt Brush was awarded for empowering artists from all realms to experiment, design and create all kinds of art in virtual reality. Century Award: Google Earth VR. Google Earth VR for helping the world see the world. Best VR Experience: Tilt Brush.

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VRScout

APRIL 22, 2019

Back in 2009, two chimpanzees from the New Iberia Research Center (NIRC) at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette, were ‘leased’ to Stony Brook University in New York. GOOGLE EARTH VR. PROJECT CHIMPS. It was there the animals were subjected to years of invasive and painful medical testing.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 13, 2021

Sonos just won a small victory in its battle against Google. According to the New York Times , a trade judge has ruled preliminarily in favor of the speaker maker, saying that Google should not import products that violate Sonos’s intellectual property. Read more.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Which are not that many, either An article in JingDaily states that in China metaverse activities are more appreciated by the authorities if they are somehow linked to real events and locations The New York Times has written a long and detailed article to bash Mark Zuckerberg and its metaverse efforts. New info about IVAS glasses.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 16, 2019

They will provide Montefiore’s Bronx facility with 40 VR headsets before the year ends, making them the largest VR and AR program in New York. Meanwhile, kids equipped with Google Glass can explore Brain Power’s suite of AR-based apps to practice social-emotional skills that will strengthen their self-reliance.

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VRScout

APRIL 21, 2017

Charlotte Tilbury’s launch for her debut fragrance, Scent of a Dream , was an out of this world experience for guests at New York Fashion Week. 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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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Participating children design and draw their own 3D environment and then fill their new world with hand-molded clay sculptures. A Samsung Gear 360 camera captures the scene in 360-degrees which kids can then explore using a Google Cardboard headset that they also get to customize (and obviously keep).

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Mondly , a successful language app with over 20 million downloads, and named Facebook’s “Europe, Middle East and Africa App of the Year” for 2017, looks to use this idea to make learning a new language a lot easier in VR with the launch of Mondly VR for Google Daydream.

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ARPost

JULY 20, 2022

If that sounds familiar, earlier this month ARPost spoke to the team from Inworld AI – largely a team of Google AI veterans building virtually embodied conversational AI. If you happen to be in New York, you can also enter via a special activation in Times Square. Those are limitations MeetKai doesn’t have.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 16, 2020

As more states and cities explore reopening amid the coronavirus pandemic, Apple and Google have struggled to keep up with the flood of third-party contact-tracing apps in their respective app stores. Now, New York Attorney General Letitia James is urging both companies to impose stricter protections for consumers. Read more.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Those words echoed through the air outside Google’s New York City office as workers left for the day on Thursday evening. Outside, they faced a street packed with dozens of Google and Amazon employees opposed to Project Nimbus , a $1.2 “No justice, no peace, tech workers are in the streets!”

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