Road to VR

MAY 18, 2016

Google’s newly announced ‘Daydream’ promises to raise the bar for virtual reality on Android compared to Cardboard. We also see Google’s new VR controller reference design in action, which allows gesture-based interactions within the virtual world.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 21, 2025

The connector is slightly larger than a Lightning one, and the cable has a dark blue color that they referred to as graphite dark blue. Honestly, I wasnt expecting a Vision Pro headset until next year, but Apple is probably launching a new device to take measures against the upcoming release of Googles Project Moohan.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 22, 2025

Recently, at the TED2025 conference, Shahram Izadi , the leader of Google’s AndroidXR development team, gave a public demonstration of the upcoming smart glasses operating system, following its initial launch in the new year, showcasing a prototype pair of smart glasses during the presentation.

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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2016

At Google’s I/O event in San Francisco today, they’ve announced that in Android N, they’re including a complete platform and ecosystem built entirely for virtual reality. He also alluded to new reference VR headset, coming later this year in the Fall along with a new motion controller.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 24, 2017

Google’s JUMP team is announcing a new, virtual reality camera today that is smaller and lighter than its predecessors. It is known as the YI Halo and Google is referring to it as the “next generation” for its JUMP platform. This new camera was built in partnership with YI technologies.

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Tech Trends VR

MAY 21, 2018

Google harnesses the power of photos and street view to deliver simplified VR development for teachers and students. Whereas now we tend to refer to the physical and digital worlds as separate entities, we are inexorably moving towards a blending of the two.

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Road to VR

MAY 23, 2017

Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information, and so they’ve been long-time advocates for the open web. At Google I/O last week, the company announced that they’ll soon be shipping Google Chrome for Android with WebVR , and that they’re going to start experimental builds for WebAR.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 9, 2017

Google’s team at Daydream Labs have been prototyping ways of animating objects and characters in Blocks , the company’s recently released VR modelling tool. Olson references the creative app Mindshow that embraces this ‘puppeteering’ technique, due to launch into open beta soon.

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ARPost

MARCH 8, 2022

With more and more business and sales being conducted in virtual worlds, one digital marketing agency with physical offices in California is expanding its services into the metaverse. With partners like Google, Salesforce, and Shopify, high-tech trends like big data analytics and online retail are not new to the company.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 17, 2017

” This is the tagline accompanying the shadowy image of a brand new virtual reality headset that was unveiled today from the manufacturers of the popular Vive VR system: HTC. Just pick it up, put it on and be fully immersed in your new reality.” “No Phone. Standalone VR.” HTC VIVE (@htcvive) May 17, 2017.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

With these numbers, creating a fulfilling shopping experience online should be a top priority for retail providers, and virtual reality is one of the greatest tools they have in accomplishing it. What is virtual marketing and retail? We can also help you get started with your own virtual reality shopping app.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

Further references. Further references. Further references. Further references. Further references. Futher references. There are also some rumors about Half-Life: Alyx coming for PSVR 2, but nothing has been officially announced in this sense. With the Vive Tracker, this setup can become much more compact.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The 3D maps of the terrain below you are very accurate, and people can so see in VR a realistic view of the cities from the above, and this is breathtaking scenery in virtual reality. They have created this reference design of a smart-glass that is very lightweight and fashionable. Of course, no. News worth a mention.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Efforts to construct and expand the Metaverse were sparked by Meta Platform’s major pivot in October, which saw Microsoft, NVIDIA, HTC VIVE, Qualcomm, Google, Varjo, and dozens of other tech giants enter the race for prime positioning to build the virtual and connected world. Virtual Reality.

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VRScout

MAY 10, 2019

For quick reference, the release order looks like this: “ Enter North Korea ,” – May 9. “ CNNVR was originally launched in 2017, and has since “ produced over a hundred 360-degree virtual reality segments, ” Within states in its press release. An Ordinary Day in North Korea ,” – May 23. Toro Bravo ,” – July 6.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 3, 2016

A lot of virtual reality game developers would be VERY happy to have a user spend that much time in their game. I feel like I could just stop writing now, that pointing at these videos is enough to make at least a few people out there [hello Google] pause and say “Huh. Tilt Brush (Google). type of one shot experiment.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 6, 2020

Mixing these two kinds of lenses and having the screen being not a traditional one, but a special laser-emitting screen , the result is the one of a virtual reality headset that is very thin, light, and comfortable. And the speed gain is impressive : a full-resolution reference scene that would take 140.6 milliseconds!

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

It is curious that even after the launch, those devices keep many references to their previous internal names. Looking at the list of elements installed, many things already belong to the namespace com.oculus.horizon, that I think refers to this social world. Oculus Go was codenamed “Pacific”, instead. Oculus Assistant.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Two of the biggest names in XR—headset maker Meta and chip maker Qualcomm—today announced a “multi-year broad strategic agreement” to collaborate on “customized virtual reality chipsets” for future devices.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2022

It was a video player for virtual reality headsets, able to play both 2D videos, 360 videos, and 360 VR videos which was quite popular back in the Gear VR days. A few months back, a friend referred me to the Moon VR team, and I found what they do pretty interesting stuff. Who else remembers Moon VR Player?

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Tilt Brush is Google’s first VR app to launch on the Oculus Rift , and I had a chance to catch up with Tilt Brush product manager Elisabeth Morant. I also asked about privacy in VR, but Google has yet to disclose any information about what information they may or may not be capturing from VR users.

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VRScout

MARCH 23, 2017

We’re nearly a half-decade into this new Immersive Renaissance—somewhere in the neighborhood of half a decade depending on who you talk to—and we’ve learned a boatload of lessons about producing virtual reality experiences. 360° Cinema Is Virtual Reality, but Only One Type. Anyway, the basics… Terminology.

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Road to VR

JULY 27, 2017

Google Daydream, the company’s mobile VR platform, is compatible with a number of flagship smartphones from various manufacturers. Note: Google advertises the View as the only available Daydream headset at this time. Google Pixel and Pixel XL. image courtesy Google. image courtesy Google. ZTE Axon 7.

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Road to VR

APRIL 30, 2017

The work combines mixed-reality footage using VR software Tilt Brush with a real painting on canvas. “I I was so amazed by Tilt Brush textures similarity with real paint that I decided to extend my traditional paintings in virtual reality”, writes about the video (heading this article). Photo courtesy Anna VR.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

This is huge news because all the most popular XR headsets that are on the market are based on Qualcomm’s reference designs, so here we are talking about a technology that will pave the way to the next generation of XR headsets. It seems the journalist liked them. In this game you can… basically pop everything!

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VRScout

MAY 18, 2016

Google has unveiled Daydream, their new VR platform to become the Android of virtual reality. The first day of Google’s annual I/O developer conference kicked off this morning with Clay Bavor, Vice President Virtual Reality, taking the stage to announce Google’s push beyond Cardboard into virtual reality.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 9, 2022

The Digital Markets Act is a law that the European Parliament and Commission are discussing since 2020 and has the purpose of limiting the excessive power of the major tech giants like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta. And the same holds for Google, which is applying similar restrictions. References. Data privacy.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 20, 2019

I entered the building with my Chinese assistant Miss S… and I have to say that that place is very beautiful … all white, with an enormous white hall (shared with Google!) Qualcomm new reference design headset plugged into a Snapdragon 855 phone. According to some rumors, this is the reference design the Cosmos is based on.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 1, 2020

I used to refer to this list each time I came across a term, but didn’t remember what it meant exactly. refers to any 3D model. Augmented Reality (AR) ?—?a refers to the accumulation of potential motion tracking error. Top 10 Movies that Got Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Righ Edit-time ?—?when

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ARVR

JUNE 16, 2021

Virtual Reality: A New Age of Learning Science Virtual reality is not a new, hot-off-the-press concept. The term “ virtual reality” was first used in 1987 by Jaron Lanier, who was researching goggles that could display digital creations (Lowood, 2018). n.d.). , n.d.).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 3, 2023

In this post I’m referring to widespread sales and usage across average consumers: Laptops are mainstream, 3D printers are not. Yes, Google Cardboards. This seems to hint at the fact that now VR is already mainstream… or not? VR isn’t mainstream… yet “Mainstream” may mean many different things.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

I’m amazed, and I can’t wait to try it to see how it is the immersion that it can give inside a virtual reality google. Hammer, Valve’s level authoring tool, has been updated with all of the game’s virtual reality gameplay tools and components. It raises the bar of virtual reality gaming a lot.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 28, 2023

There is not only the problem of the timezone but also the unknown of the internet connection and the inability of reaching Western websites like Google. VPN (Image from Know Your Meme) In China, most of the Western websites we use the most, like Google and Facebook, are blocked behind the Great Firewall. Absolutely not.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Generally, “the cloud” refers to remote servers that do work off of a device. According to NVIDIA , “CloudXR lets you leverage NVIDIA RTX-powered servers with GPU virtualization software to stream stunning augmented and virtual reality experiences from any OpenVR application. But, what is the cloud anyway?

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Road to VR

APRIL 12, 2018

But Google Chrome and the WebVR developer community has been waiting for the official launch of what was being referred to as the WebVR 2.0 Firefox Reality is currently the only open source, cross-platform mixed reality browser, and I’m curious to track the development more once they get more of the WebXR features implemented.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Interactivity here refers to the process when photographers take photos, the audience can also actively participate in the creative process. 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.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Support for NVIDIA virtual GPU software, including Quadro Virtual Workstation, will be available early next year. If you want to know more, you can refer to the official pages of the A6000 and A40. For more info, you can refer to NVIDIA’s official post on the matter. Basically, it is like Google Docs for artists.

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