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Last June, Google released a new 3D ad format called Swirl , which meshes programmatic advertising with next-generation content. Previously available only through Google team, Swirl was released to all brands yesterday , on July 9, making it available to all advertisers. Spicing Up Your Ad Strategy Without Spending More.
Top news of the week (Image by Google) Google announced Android XR The most important news of the week, and one of the most important of the whole year, has been the official announcement by Google of Android XR. Developers can already access a preview of the development environment for native, Unity, WebXR.
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This week, we had quite a lot of interesting news about all the major players: Apple, Meta, Google, and Valve. I think this decision may make a lot of sense: Meta is allegedly going to release glasses with a display at the end of this year, so launching something with fewer features may not have made much sense for Google.
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P icking up where we left off in examining Niantic’s business strategy, its biggest move may be yet to come. Examples include Unity, Adobe Aero and 8th Wall. AWS and [Google Cloud] weren’t built as compute platforms for everybody,” said Keslin at the same AWE presentation. It includes some of its data and takeaways.
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Unity’s Tony Parisi reiterates that this capability is here today… we just need to make it scalable. Per the above amortization point — and points made last week by M7’s Maher — investing in an AR strategy is a long-game. .” M-XR similarly creates detailed product renderings.
Following that is a “Fireside Chat” with Unity CEO John Riccitiello. It’s hard to find an XR organization that Peck isn’t or hasn’t been involved with, and Bar-Zeev co-created Google Earth and HoloLens. We don’t yet know what will come of this year’s keynote but it’s being given by the company’s CEO Peggy Johnson.
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In the meanwhile, its adoption is getting better, too: the popular Unity game engine promises the first implementations of OpenXR for the end of the year with a complete implementation coming in 2021, and Microsoft has already completely switched to an OpenXR runtime. More info (Using Google Translate).
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A key enabler for Object Theory’s success has been Microsoft’s strategy for marketing, supporting, and developing Mixed Reality content for the HoloLens, which is why Zachary and Hoffman are enthusiastic in their praise for the company, and in particular of the leadership of CEO Satya Nadella. pic.twitter.com/UMhQbxgH1g.
However, it can help to have foundational knowledge of: AR development tools: Understanding how platforms like Unity, Unreal Engine, and similar solutions work can be helpful when learning about augmented reality. It teaches students how to use standard tools for AR development, like Google’s own ARCore kit.
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