The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2023

More info (Official statement by Mark Zuckerberg) More info (Meta to lay off 10,000 people — Road To VR) More info (Meta to lay off 10,000 people — Upload VR) More info (Meta focusing more on AI — Yahoo Finance) More info (Meta focusing more on AI — CNN) Other relevant news Google is discontinuing Glass It’s the end of an era.

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VRScout

JUNE 28, 2017

When YouTube channel Nat and Friends toured Google VR, we were honestly expecting to see experiments from Google’s Daydream Labs that we’ve already seen. Projects we’ve reported on like Google’s headset removal or last year’s social VR experiments have been some of our favorites. Putt-Putt Google Earth VR.

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Ryan Schultz

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

As I mentioned, shortly after my sixtieth birthday, I gave a one-hour presentation on Second Life, in Second Life, to a graduate class in virtual world building and design, currently being taught at my university ( first blogpost ; second blogpost ). I am happy to report that my presentation was very well received by the students!

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 15, 2017

Educators are souring on virtual worlds, as evidenced by declining participation in online forums, in virtual conference attendances and education-related destinations on the Second Life grid. “This will allow more students, such as those in rural areas and low-income situations, to access the virtual worlds.”

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VRScout

MAY 18, 2017

Part of the latest Daydream Euphrates update announced at Google I/O Wednesday, you’ll soon be able to share what you’re seeing while in VR, as well as cast your virtual world right onto the screen in your living room. Yesterday, Google announced standalone VR headsets with HTC and Lenovo coming to Daydream later this year.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2018

During the Google Developer Day presentation at GDC 2018, Product Manager Clementine Jacoby and Engineering Lead Patrick Donelan at Google Maps presented the team’s progress in bringing their technology and data to game developers. Building large virtual worlds is costly and time-consuming when done by hand.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 22, 2023

2023: Enter Google ARCore Google’s convenient and easy-to-access ARSDK facilitates the development of WebAR experiences for cross-platform delivery. Google now supports numerous Android smartphones such as Asus, Lenovo, LG, Moto, Motorola, OnePlus, Samsung, Sony, Vivo, Infinix, Tecno, Sharp, and Xiaomi.

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ARPost

MARCH 8, 2022

With more and more business and sales being conducted in virtual worlds, one digital marketing agency with physical offices in California is expanding its services into the metaverse. With partners like Google, Salesforce, and Shopify, high-tech trends like big data analytics and online retail are not new to the company. “We

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Next Reality AR

APRIL 24, 2019

Google is going all in with Childish Gambino as its musical champion for augmented reality, as the duo has now dropped its second AR collaboration of the year. The app opens a portal to a virtual world that is equal parts psychedelic and cosmic. An iOS version is coming soon.)

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Road to VR

MAY 8, 2019

If you’ve felt that Google has been quiet about their Daydream VR initiative for a worrying amount of time, you aren’t alone. Their annual developer conference, Google I/O, this week is the latest opportunity for the company update the world on their VR ecosystem, but there’s little more than silence.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 22, 2022

It was even featured on Google News. Image by Google). Google acquires micro-LED startup Raxium. This week Google has performed another strategic move towards the development of its future XR glasses. The post The XR Week Peek (2022.03.22): Quest to feature new parental control tools, Google acquires Raxium, and more!

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 21, 2017

Educators are using virtual worlds, but not in the way they had used them in the past, and not in the same numbers. The Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education conference is a good example that showcases this work. Those educators that remain in virtual worlds are leveraging them to create better experiences.

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

Eight year ago, when I first launched Hypergrid Business , virtual worlds offered a unique set of compelling features. There was presence, and immersion, and the ability to create your own virtual environments. At that time, virtual worlds were the only visible path to an interconnected metaverse of virtual environments.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

You largely have to imagine the expressions of people as they interact with a virtual world. Google, however, showed off some impressive research that takes the technology to the next level. This work is the result of an “ongoing collaboration” between Research, Daydream Labs and the YouTube teams at Google.

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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2016

Google’s newly announced ‘Daydream’ promises to raise the bar for virtual reality on Android compared to Cardboard. We also see Google’s new VR controller reference design in action, which allows gesture-based interactions within the virtual world.

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ARPost

JULY 26, 2023

As Space Invaders turns 45, TAITO teams up with Google and UNIT9 to give its players an elevated AR gaming experience with Google’s ARCore Geospatial API. TAITO and Google partnered with global production and innovation studio UNIT9 to transform Space Invaders into an immersive AR game in honor of its 45th anniversary.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 17, 2017

We’ve just confirmed with Google’s Clay Bavor that its upcoming standalone headsets from HTC and Lenovo will use the Daydream controller with three degrees of freedom (3DOF). This means you can move your hands in any direction and that movement will be reflected in the virtual world.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

The last cycle before this one was the Quest one, which started to make virtual reality known to the mainstream audience for what concerns games and fitness. Especially Apple and Google, which are the dominant players in the smartphone industry, are both launching headsets this year.

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VRScout

JUNE 29, 2016

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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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The additions aim to challenge firms like Google, Pinterest, and others dominating the eCommerce search sector. Google previously debuted its own multisearch tool via its Google Lens platform, with Lens initially debuting in October 2017. The company also launched the multisearch tool last year.

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Cats and VR

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

pic.twitter.com/L4tln5SM8I — Google VR (@googlevr) February 22, 2017. Google has made some neat technology that makes VR headsets "transparent" for Mixed Reality use. Finally, we composite the person into the virtual world, which requires calibrating between the Vive tracking system and the external camera.

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Slashgear

MAY 23, 2017

I don’t mean that metaphorically, either: the question of where a user in a virtual world is physically, and how they’re interacting with the real world around them, is arguably the key to making the next generation of headsets. It’s something not only big names like Google … Continue reading.

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Road to VR

APRIL 4, 2023

And so it’s the idea that there is this environment that may be even better than just the real world—to overlay the virtual world on top of it might be an even better world,” said Cook. Just as Apple was skeptical of Google Glass, Cook knows Apple will always be in a similar boat when launching new products.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

When you hear the term “VR,” you might think of entertainment, social media, or the exploration of virtual worlds; perhaps the last thing you’d ever think of is the healthcare industry. Does this sector of the world actually use VR and does it really bring with it any unique benefits? Augmented Medical Records.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Mixed reality is a blending of the physical and virtual worlds. On the other side, we have the virtual world; this article you’re reading right now, the game you play with your friends, that Google Doc you have pulled up on your device. We are by far the most advanced organisms on Earth.

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AllThingsVR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Google Files Patent Application For Hand-Controlled Mobile VR Headset A patent filed by Google in February and published Sept. The headset would presumably have its own display, but the phone could receive tracking information from the headset and do the processing necessary to draw a virtual world. Clay Bavor?),

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Ryan Schultz

APRIL 6, 2023

And I do apologize to those of you who wish I would get back to writing more about social VR, virtual worlds, and the metaverse! I signed up for one year of unlimited Neeva searching, and I will be comparing search results between Google and Neeva throughout the next twelve months, and I’ll report back that I find.

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ARPost

JULY 7, 2023

That is, until you remember that the metaverse isn’t just a collection of virtual worlds – it also means augmenting the physical world. Digital Twins as a User Interface “If you have a virtual representation of a thing, you can run software on that representation as though it was running on the thing itself.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

This is Google Earth VR. Our Virtual World. Google Earth VR is a surprise project from Google’s Geo team that is being both announced and released today. This is the team behind Google Maps and the original Google Earth. Google Earth VR’s primary locomotion system is flight.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 1, 2016

RalphVR announced that their award winning multiplayer VR game Daydream Blue is coming to Google Daydream. Our mission is to connect people together and help foster smiles in virtual reality. Connect with your friends from around the world online in Daydream Blue multiplay. But you don’t have to do it alone! Or play some golf.

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Cats and VR

MAY 10, 2017

Google has made an interesting play to solidify it's VR lineup for the future. Welcome Owlchemy Labs to Google. They've created award-winning games like Job Simulator and Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality. They’ve helped set a high bar for what engagement can be like in virtual worlds, and do it all with a great sense of humor!

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Among others, Wong will be joined on the panel by Zilliqa Head of Metaverse and NFTs Sandra Helou representing the Metapolis virtual world. Microsoft, Google, the XRA – and That’s Just One Talk. On day two, Pico’s Elaine Wong will also sit on a panel discussion, “This is How We Play: The Role of Gaming in the Metaverse.”

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AllThingsVR

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Former Myspace Music CTO Dmitry Shapiro Leaves Google to Found Metaverse Startup Former Veoh CEO and Myspace Music CTO Dmitry Shapiro has left Google to work on a mysterious new startup that may be related to virtual or augmented reality. I’m with Her.” Before that, he was CTO of Myspace Music.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 26, 2017

Earlier this year HTC became an official partner with Google in producing a Daydream-based standalone VR headset under the Vive brand. It looks like it will access HTC’s storefront, called Viveport, to get to virtual worlds rather than Google Play. Where Are My Hands?

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Cats and VR

MAY 11, 2017

Today, Ubisoft ® announced that Hungry Shark ® VR, the seventh installment in the successful mobile franchise developed by Future Games of London, is available on Google Daydream. This advanced platform allows players to interact with the virtual world in the same way that they would in the real world.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 7, 2023

“Actually, we see that there is a lot of innovation when it comes to virtual worlds,” she said. “I The initiative will provide a “toolbox of guidelines” for interacting with virtual worlds and guidance on how to fight counterfeiting, Reuters added, citing a leaked document. If confirmed, this is illegal.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Sony is followed by Facebook (the Oculus platform) and Google (Day Dream, Card Board, Tilt Brush, etc.); He launched the first browser-based Virtual World in 2008 for which he was awarded in 2011 by the Virtual Worlds community. He previously held leadership roles at PTC and Oracle.

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