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The XR Week Peek (2022.05.16): Meta teases Cambria, Google shows new AR features, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Image by Google). Google performs interesting AR news at I/O conference. At Google I/O, no executive of the company has talked about the M-word, but they have anyway showed interesting AR updates, which will be relevant for our future M-world. Another cool announcement has been the one of Immersive View for Google Maps.

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Google Rolls Out New AR Features For Its Lens App

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While VR technology may have been absent at this year’s I/O Developer Conference in Mountain View, California, Google did reveal several AR and machine learning-based updates coming soon to Google Lens. Image Credit: Google. Image Credit: Google. Of course, the update does much more than translate.

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Google Teases New AR Features For Its Search & Lens Apps

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Google focuses on practical AR functionality at its annual developer conference. Google’s annual I/O Developer Conference kicked off earlier this morning at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA with a two-hour keynote highlighting a wide range of updates to their lineup of proprietary mobile software.

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HTC Launches Browser-based 3D & VR Platform ‘VIVERSE Worlds’, Aims to Be ‘YouTube of 3D Content’

Road to VR

That said, HTC ultimately hasn’t tipped its hand on its overarching monetization strategy. Last month,Google announced it had acquired a number of HTCs XR engineers for $250 million, something Google said would accelerate the development of the Android XR platform across the headsets and glasses ecosystem.

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Developer Brings Google Lens’ AR Features To VR

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This past May during the 2019 I/O Developer Conference, Google unveiled several new features heading to their Google Search and Lens applications. So I got google lens working in VR pic.twitter.com/rFCS7nUgbx — Phasedragon (@Phasedragoon) August 22, 2019. Hanging out with @VRDesignGuy translating all the things!

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Meta Would “love” Discord to Support Quest: Another Reason Why It Actually Just Needs Google Play

Road to VR

Meta CTO Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth says the company would “love” to have some sort of Discord integration on Quest in the future, pending interest from Discord, that is—once again highlighting the fact that Quest really just needs Google Play. “I’m sure everyone out there is exited to do integrations with them.

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5 Tips for 3D Models in AR

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With Poly, Google offers a large library of simplified (low number of polygons) 3D models to choose from, while Sketchfab for example has established itself as perhaps the leading provider of prefabricated 3D models made available for free or for varying license fees by its community. Andy Gstoll is CEO of Mixed Reality I/O.

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