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The 5 most important XR-related pieces of news from Google I/O 2023

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Last week, Google delivered its most important event of the year, the Google I/O. During its keynote, the CEO Sundar Pichai announced many new products of the company. During the last years, XR has never been relevant at Google I/O, but this year it has been relevant inside the keynote, again.

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Google Unveils $79 Daydream VR Headset

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During a press event on Tuesday, Google finally revealed their Daydream View VR headset, a lightweight VR headset that will be compatible with Daydream Ready phones. The Daydream View headset was announced along with Google’s new Pixel phone in San Francisco, which is the first phone to be Daydream Ready.

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Justice League VR Coming to HTC Vive & Oculus Rift

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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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The 2017 Lumiere Awards: Google and Dear Angelica Win Big

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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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Samsung's Android XR Headset Ships In 2025, And We Went Hands-On

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Samsung's first standalone headset is coming in 2025, running Google's new Android XR operating system and powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 chipset. Beyond this, Samsung isn't yet sharing specifications. I went hands-on with an early headset developer kit showcasing Google's software and Samsung's hardware.

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How Fashion Brands Are Using VR

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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. Fashionably Bound” gives users the chance to travel to party cities around the world like New Orleans, Tulum, and Berlin with a group of fashionable friends for an unforgettable 24 hours.

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Kids Bike Through Their Own Artwork In This VR Workshop

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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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