VRScout

MAY 5, 2020

The Wiggles Fun Time with Faces has enjoyed huge popularity with The Wiggles’ fans all over the world, reaching # 1 in Australia and New Zealand, Top 5 on App Stores worldwide, as well as winning several leading industry awards for innovation. The Wiggles – Fun Time with Faces is available on the App Store and Google Play.

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VRScout

MAY 30, 2017

To make matters murkier, there’s also the recently-announced partnership between Google and HTC Vive to create new standalone mobile headsets for all Google Daydream-ready Android phones. Air New Zealand is one airlines provider that is testing how the Microsoft Hololens can help improve in-flight customer service.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Fresh off the release of its VR tribute to Contra , Gun Sight , Climax Studios is back this week with the announcement of two new games for two new platforms. The first of these is Towers for Tango , a new app for Google’s Project Tango 3D capture tech, currently seen in the just-launched Lenovo Phab Pro 2.

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Road to VR

MARCH 18, 2018

Cheery old Hobbiton, although maintained as a tourist destination today at a family run farm five miles west of Hinuera, New Zealand, isn’t a ‘real’ place either. Just the same, New Zealand’s Tourism Board continues to capitalize on the success of Peter Jackson’s film adaptations of J.R.R.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 31, 2023

These include Oracle Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Caregility Joins Informa’s Arab Health Conference 2023 The news comes as the Eatontown, New Jersey-based company expands its operations across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Birthed in New Zealand and raised in Los Angeles, CA, volumetric capture company 8i has announced a Series B round of $27M. The funding disclosure coincided with other big news: 8i will release a smartphone app called the Holo app later this year. MONEY, MOVES AND FUNDING. …and more.

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Tech Trends VR

AUGUST 8, 2018

It seemed an exciting proposition back then, sold mainly off the back of some very cool concept videos cooked up by New Zealand-based special effects company WETA (you know, the one from all the Lord of the Rings films). I first heard about this ridiculously well-funded start-up (investment clocked so far exceeds $2.3

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VRScout

JULY 31, 2016

That originally was the wheelhouse for Seedling, which started in New Zealand in 2007. And we know from a historical understanding of our history how significant it’s evolution is…I’m impressed, when I get into Vive, and I get into google paint, I can be there for hours. There’s a lot of toys and ‘design your own __’ kits.

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Next Reality AR

MAY 2, 2019

and Portkey Games, launched published to Google Play and the App Store in Australia. The land down under joins New Zealand (who gained access to the beta on April 16), as the lucky guinea pigs for the location-based game. On Tuesday, the beta version of Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, built in partnership with Niantic, Warner Bros.,

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EnterpriseWear

AUGUST 1, 2018

The pressure is on for airports to invest in new technologies that improve the efficiency of airport processes and reduce service disruptions; thereby allowing passengers to spend less time in queues and more time enjoying airport facilities. IATA’s Global Passenger Survey confirmed this last year.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 16, 2016

billion in funding from investors such as Google, Andreessen Horowitz and Alibaba. Over the past three years Magic Leap have been one of the darlings of Augmented/Mixed reality. The Florida start-up was valued at $4.5 billion and attracted nearly $1.4 Their concept video was viewed over 3.5

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 15, 2023

You can find a list of officially supported controllers here , although many other non-listed Bluetooth controller also work, like an old Google Stadia controller. Supported controllers include all Xbox One S and Xbox One X controllers, PS4 and PS5 controllers, and some later-generation Xbox One controllers. So, what’s the big deal?

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 6, 2021

The government of New Zealand confirmed on Thursday that Google co-founder Larry Page, the sixth wealthiest person in the world, has obtained residency in New Zealand, according to a report from the news outlet Stuff.

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Hypergrid Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

The grid has now decided to delete Adachi owner’s inventory on the grid and issue a ban on grid usage, grid founder Lena Vanilli wrote in a Google Plus post. There’s no centralized way to find OpenSim grids, so if you don’t tell us about it, and Google doesn’t alert us, we won’t know about it.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

A digital assets of an orc, that was destined to become the character of an animation movie and was later on abandoned, can exit the PC and enter the real world thanks to your help; Air New Zealand’s Fact or Fantasy. Or maybe with the same money, they can directly go to New Zealand (Image by Road To VR).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

There’s a lot to say about me, but I think you are more interested in the weekly roundup of news, so…. Top news of the week. Image by Google). Google completely opensources Cardboard. With a surprise move, Google has announced with a blog post that it ha opensourced completely Cardboard.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Other relevant news. In a new interview given to a New Zealander magazine, Gabe Newell talks about the work that Valve is doing with Brain-Computer Interfaces. Google makes Tilt Brush opensource. Google has just announced that the VR painting program Tilt Brush has been put opensource on GitHub.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 8, 2016

.” Case studies will be examined for the VR series Halcyon and Gone as well as the VR short Henry from Oculus Story Studios.

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VRScout

JANUARY 30, 2017

In an unexpected turn of events, the society’s incredibly rare Century Award will be given to the massively successful Google Earth VR application. Society President Jim Chabin expressed his love for the project: “The Google VR Experience empowers every citizen of the world to explore and learn about our world with VR.

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Mashable VR

JULY 18, 2022

Snap announced today that the flagship video calls and chat features previously only accessible via its mobile Snapchat app will now be available on Google Chrome , with other browsers soon to come. The new web feature will first be rolling out to Snapchat+ subscribers in the U.S.,

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

One of the more surprising announcements during the presentation, Spatial Anchors serve as a way to share three-dimensional images compatible with Apple’s ARKit as well as Google’s ARCore. For those who do want to get on board, you can preorder HoloLens 2 starting today.

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Mashable VR

APRIL 29, 2022

One Google search can actually tell you a lot — a good VPN won't have made headlines for security bungles or customer data leaks. Above all, you want an experienced provider with a stellar track record and a clear-cut privacy policy that guarantees your data won't be logged or collected. Jurisdiction.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 12, 2017

In most of what I’ve done with virtual reality prior to using CoSpaces, students have consumed the content to connect to a learning objective — mainly Google Expeditions and Nearpod VR. As I venture into classrooms to work with teachers and students, I like to keep the new ISTE student standards a focus.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Pradeep has been a leader for IBM GBS Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ), He has over 30 years of executive & management experience across a number of industries. The company was later acquired by Google in 2010. He has a special interest and focus on emerging technologies including #VR #AR #MR #AI. 12- Tipatat Chennavasin.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 15, 2023

Other US-allied powers such as Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and Canada — many of which are Five Eyes nations — activated a ‘rip-and-replace’ policy towards the Chinese telecom giant, sparking massive diplomatic disputes. billion due to a three-year delay in rolling out its 5G.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

AR headset distribution is much more dramatic, as students are mainly developing on Microsoft HoloLens (43%), with Google Glass, Vuzix AR headsets, Epson Moverio, Meta AR Dev Kits making up the rest of the pie chart. Canterbury University, New Zealand. Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark. Academy of Art San Francisco, USA.

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EON Reality

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

On the Top 100, EON Reality is joined by organizations such as Google, The Hoag Foundation, and Kia Motors America, Inc. EON Reality has been recognized by the Irvine Public Schools Foundation (IPSF) and Orange County Business Journal (OCBJ) as one of the Top 100 Companies Supporting Education Excellence.

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