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Last week, Google delivered its most important event of the year, the Google I/O. Of course, AI has been the star of the show , with the public release of Google Bard and the announcement of a new language model, but there have been also interesting pieces of news about XR.
Google is entering the music festival realm this year with news that it’s sponsoring and livestreaming a series of five shows spread across five cities, in support of five different good causes. With GoodFest, Google is following in the footsteps of Apple, which has offered its own annual music festival for the last 10 years.
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In a mission to make 360 video less terrible, the Seattle-based company has developed a number of technologies since they came out of stealth last December. As ‘platform agnostic’ player, we’re sure to see apps available for headsets such as Samsung Gear VR, HTC Vive, Google Daydream, and Oculus Rift.
Co-founder Anand Agarawala sold his previous startup, BumpTop — a 3D physics multi-touch desktop — to Google, and also demoed this in a TED Talk. Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk. Jacob, welcome to the show.
Co-founder Anand Agarawala sold his previous startup, BumpTop — a 3D physics multi-touch desktop — to Google, and also demoed this in a TED Talk. Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk. Jacob, welcome to the show.
and Waze and Yelp and Google Maps. It's kind of like what Samsung is doing here by building their experience centers. Michael: Oh, we have offices in Austin and Seattle. And the reason why I'm here in Seattle is that where there is oil, there are refineries; where there is data, there's AI. for your camera.
and Waze and Yelp and Google Maps. It's kind of like what Samsung is doing here by building their experience centers. Michael: Oh, we have offices in Austin and Seattle. And the reason why I'm here in Seattle is that where there is oil, there are refineries; where there is data, there's AI. for your camera.
Co-founder Anand Agarawala sold his previous startup, BumpTop -- a 3D physics multi-touch desktop -- to Google, and also demoed this in a TED Talk. Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk. To learn more about Spatial, you can visit spatial.is.
and Waze and Yelp and Google Maps. It's kind of like what Samsung is doing here by building their experience centers. Michael: Oh, we have offices in Austin and Seattle. And the reason why I'm here in Seattle is that where there is oil, there are refineries; where there is data, there's AI. for your camera.
Projects must be viewable via Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Samsung Gear VR, or Google Cardboard. Fictional and non-fictional, live-action cinematography and CGI are all acceptable as long as they are compatible with mobile HMD's such as Samsung Gear VR. The festival mainly focuses on VR narratives and documentaries.
Alan: That, to me, is something that… at the very beginning when VR was kicking off, when Samsung did this huge presentation and they had hundreds — or probably a thousand headsets — all synchronized. So it makes it a very seamless experience. Alex: Right. They’re expecting you to hold their hands. Alan: Indeed.
at the very beginning when VR was kicking off, when Samsung did this huge presentation and they had hundreds -- or probably a thousand headsets -- all synchronized. Alan: And it was funny, because it was Robert Scoble and myself at Curiosity Camp, which is put on by Eric Schmidt from Google. So it makes it a very seamless experience.
Alan: That, to me, is something that… at the very beginning when VR was kicking off, when Samsung did this huge presentation and they had hundreds — or probably a thousand headsets — all synchronized. So it makes it a very seamless experience. Alex: Right. They’re expecting you to hold their hands. Alan: Indeed.
GOOGLE DAYDREAM SCORES NETFLIX AND HBO APPS. Google Daydream has exclusive access to YouTube’s considerable 360 video library (although admittedly curation could be better) as well as its massive 2D video archive. valuation) from huge names like Google, Alibaba, and Andreeson Horowitz. MAGIC LEAP’S CONTROVERSY.
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