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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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Google Partners With CyArk to 3D Scan the World’s Historical Sites, Provide Open Access to Data

Road to VR

Google has partnered with CyArk , the non-profit studio behind VR app MasterWorks: Journey Through History (2018), to expand CyArk’s mission to 3D laser-scan the world’s historical sites and provide open access to the data. Google and CyArk are making the source data of the models available to anyone interested.

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Rohingya Sue Meta for $150 Billion Over Facebook's Alleged Role in Myanmar Genocide

GizModo VR

For years now, reports have emerged of Myanmar’s military using Facebook as a key tool in its ongoing slaughter of the country’s Muslim Rohingya population. Investigations have found the platform’s been openly used to incite vicious rumors and organize planned attacks on the Rohingya, whose lives have been thrown into … Read more.

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Temple Run: CyArk Taps GPUs to Capture Visual Records of World Heritage Sites

NVidia VR

A software developer who’d just sold his industrial mapping company, Kacyra wanted to do something good with his technology skills. While Ristevski sees a lot of potential for deep learning to help CyArk as it gets more into classification of its data, the company hasn’t delved far into that technology to date. Taste of What’s to Come.

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