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The XR Week Peek (2020.06.29): Oculus kills the Go, Google buys North, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Google is going to buy North. A report says tha t Alphabet, the company behind Google, is in the last stages of the acquisition of North, the Canadian startup that makes the Focals smartglasses. Google adds depth APIs to ARCore. Unity Learn Premium is permanently free. Take your course on Unity now!

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EU Accuses Google of Violating Antitrust Regulations

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The European Commission has hit Google with fresh accusations of violating its antitrust laws, citing favouritism for the latter’s own advert services over rival firms. According to the Commission’s statement , Google abused its position over the last nine years by offering better treatment to its AdX exchange.

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Veteran VR Developers Reveal How Gaming Influences Enterprise XR Services

XR Today - Virtual Reality

The real-time 3D engines powering AR/VR/MR applications, like Unreal and Unity, found fame and traction as gaming development tools. For example, Unity is a critical component of the workplace-focused Vision Pro. The gamification trap… XR is always linked to gaming, whether business like it or not.

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Morpheus Launches Turnkey VR Enterprise Solution

XR Today - Virtual Reality

To date, Morpheus has facilitated sales pitches for major big tech firm like Meta Platforms, Google, Gather, Adobe, Gensler, Biogen, Randstad, RideAmigos, and numerous others. Cernick continued, stating, “Our long-term vision is that we’re on all major headsets. Ours is just a matter of prioritising.

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Best Places To Learn AR and VR Development Online in 2020

Hypergrid Business

Although Unity 3D is undoubtedly the most common and trained standards for developing and deploying augmented and virtual reality application for both beginner or expert developer, it is cannot be employed for developing content for some headsets. Google VR SDK is popular for building virtual reality applications for Android and iOS.

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Which XR Platforms Are Democratising Creative Content?

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Google, and Apple all have their own unique toolkits, designed to simplify the process of creating immersive content. Here are just some of the other major vendors innovating in this space: 1. Major institutions like the United States Department of Defence are already leveraging the tool in their own learning strategies.

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VRARA Holds Annual Education Forum

ARPost

The event was attended by representatives from over 70 universities in the United States, Europe, and Asia, and was attended by representatives from dozens of companies providing VR and AR education solutions. You’re not seeing the stores in the same way that Apple and Google have their app stores,” said Moynihan.

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