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Google Announces Android XR Operating System Alongside Samsung MR Headset

Road to VR

Google today announced Android XR, a new core branch of Android, designed as a spatial operating system for XR headsets and glasses. That includes all of Google’s major first-party apps like Chrome, Gmail, Calendar, Drive, and more. Check out our early hands-on with the headset.

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How To Attend Zoom, Skype, Hangouts Meetings In VR With SPACES

VRScout

Whereas some apps, such as Immersed , Glue , and Spatial , offer those with VR headsets the chance to coordinate within virtual co-working environments, SPACES allows VR users to connect with those out-of-headset using a handful of popular video messaging apps. “SPACES creates a virtual webcam that most software can see and use.

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Google Announces ARCore 1.0 Update and New AR Experiences

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Now Google is going beyond what’s already available, announcing further partnerships with manufacturers to enable their upcoming devices this year, including Samsung, Huawei, LGE, Motorola, ASUS, Xiaomi, HMD/Nokia, ZTE, Sony Mobile, and Vivo. Google also teased us with an exclusive Ghostbusters World ARCore app. New Immersive Content.

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Spatial Beats: Oculus, Google & Snap

AR Insider

This week, we look at tech stocks, Quest 2’s continued rise, Google’s VR sunsetting, and horsing around with Snapchat See the full roundup below. What is up with Google and XR? You can join virtual environments for festival mingling or join Q&As and drop into post-premiere parties.

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Virtual Reality and Team Building: An Outlook

ARPost

These days, most folks have experienced virtual reality in some shape or form: it could be a Google cardboard, VR kiosk at a local mall, or an at-home VR headset from HTC or Oculus. VR headsets create interactive environments that anyone can have access to. Application of Virtual Reality in Team Building.

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Social VR: Virtual Reality Headsets Eliminating the Distance Between Us

ARPost

Teachers held classes on Google Classroom. It uses holographic elements to place people together in the same virtual environment wherever they are in the world. These avatars are set in a virtual environment that’s often based on real places such as the company meeting room.

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Google VR Teases Future of 3D Animation in VR

VRScout

The Google VR Daydream Labs team is exploring and sharing the possibilities of animating 3D objects in VR and it looks like a blast. Daydream Labs is a way for the Google VR team to explore different applications and interactions for virtual reality, pairing engineers with designers to rapidly prototype concepts.

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