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The XR Week Peek (2020.08.24): Facebook login gets imposed on Quest and the community riots, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Someone invokes saviors like Google and Amazon, but even if they managed to succeed, they are other data-harvesting companies , so in any case, we are f**ked. Apple threatens future support in Unreal Engine. Other relevant news. Image by Epic Games). Notice that Apple talks about “future VR features” that it is going to implement.

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How I got started with virtual reality (and you can, too)

The Ghost Howls

Years later, in 2014, my previous classmate Gianni Rosa Gallina called me because he wanted to create a startup about all the fancy things we were discussing in that period, in particular Google Glasses and my obsession about seeing virtual objects on top of the real world. This is how I got started with Virtual Reality development.

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Mozilla Pushes Game-changing WebVR to Bring VR to the Masses

VRScout

WebVR — which Google has also officially embraced — can offer immersive room-scale VR software through a web browser without downloads or installs. The graphics quality is a long shot from what you can build in systems like Unreal Engine , but it’s still powerful.

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‘Industrial VR’ Is Like ‘Google Earth’ For Iconic Engineering Sites

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Google Earth VR has shown us the wonders of visiting real world locations as a towering giant in VR, and now Industrial VR looks to do the same. It almost looks as if someone has gone back into Google Earth and given some areas a bit of spit and polish. The piece was developed in Unreal Engine 4.

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Kelly Peng reveals Kura 150° FOV AR glasses expected price and release date

The Ghost Howls

I’ve studied at important universities like UC Berkeley, and I’ve worked on many technical projects (for work or personal interest) in electronics, optics, brain-machine interface , natural language processing, etc…. But we were motivated, so we started studying the problem. Hello Kelly! Can you introduce yourself? for fitness).

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How to Build a Location-Based AR Application

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Similarly, Google’s recent update to Google Maps brought a possibility to navigate through the city using the capabilities of AR. You all know about the Google Translate application. It’s now time to study them more carefully. Google’s ARCore . Augmented reality is a perfect fit for education. Tech aspect matters.

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The XR Week Peek (2024.05.14): New rumors on the Vision Pro 2, Ultraleap Hyperion, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

This is a period with many tech announcements: we had Meta telling about its Horizon OS, yesterday OpenAI unveiled the new GPT-4o, and today Google will hopefully unveil its Android XR operating system. What a time to be alive!