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Google Helps Preserve Endangered Historical Sites in VR

VRScout

Google assists CyArk in saving our heritage by preserving the wonders of the world in VR. In an effort to help capture and preserve endangered historical sites around the world for future generations to enjoy, Google has teamed up with 3D laser-scanning non-profit CyArk to virtually catalogue the world’s most at-risk historical wonders.

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CrowsNest’s Anna is the future of hospitality

The Ghost Howls

CrowsNest XR is a startup in Shanghai and when Covid hit China the previous Winter, Eloi decided to fly to Thailand to avoid the imminent lockdown and do some business development abroad. But if you use her inside Google Chrome on Android or the WebXR Viewer on iPhone, you can trigger also an AR mode.

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NYT Uses AR To Compare The World’s Most Polluted Air With Your City’s

VRScout

Graham Roberts was the creative lead for the NYT’s pollution AR app before leaving the publication to join Google as their Digital Design Lead at Google’s Brand Studio , an innovation lab that looks at how the company can create meaningful experiences that will connect Google products with customers.

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Chinese Headset With XR2+ Gen 2 Is An Apple Vision Pro & Quest Pro Crossover

Upload VR

When Qualcomm announced Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 in January, a higher-end variant of the chipset used in Meta Quest 3, the company told UploadVR that it will power Immersed's Visor , Samsung's upcoming Google-powered headset , a yet-to-be-announced new HTC Vive headset, a YVR headset in China, and a fifth headset from a currently undisclosed company.

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Eido Inoue tells us everything we need to know about HADO and location based augmented reality

The Ghost Howls

Between that, I worked on consumer cloud software with Google for five years… managing engineering teams for Gmail, Japanese mobile, Google Labs, and social (Blogger etc.) At Google, the change was rapid but much easier to control , as everything from the software to even the servers were designed in-house. teams for Japan.

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Play For Dream Launches Kickstarter To Bring Its Apple Vision Pro & Quest Pro Crossover To The West

Upload VR

Play For Dream MR was announced back in June , but at the time the company only confirmed it was launching in China soon, Singapore and Malaysia in October, and then Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Japan sometime in 2025. Play For Dream MR doesn't run Horizon OS , or even Pico OS or Google's upcoming Android XR.

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5 things Marketing and AD Agencies need to know about Virtual and Mixed Reality

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Queuing to wear a headset at a trade show, or even the energy needed to slip a phone into a give-away Google Cardboard viewer might soon lose it’s novelty. For instance: A trip to a 5 star resort in Krabi, Thailand, has it’s own luxury attached to it. What most advertisers and Marketing depts.