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Actress Elizabeth Banks Brings Pedigree To VR Animation ASTEROIDS!

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Cheez is voiced by Banks and will add to a film that is an official selection for the Sundance Film Festival that takes place in Park City, Utah from January 19th to the 29th. A sneak peak at the film is available on Samsung Gear, Google Daydream, and the Oculus storefront starting today.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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Partnering with National Geographic to show off the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah in full 360 degree glory, Facebook took its first steps into live spherical video. If you have a Samsung Gear VR, you can now connect with your Facebook friends through Oculus Home. If anyone can do it, it’s Jimmy Fallon.

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Smart Glasses? It’s all about perspective.

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While there were various attempts to realize such device over the past decades, Google definitely has the prerogative of raising the awareness of the general public for this technology. Its Google Glass finally unlocked the market of smart eyewear in 2013. These goggles will abduct you from reality and plunge you into a virtual world.

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Students Hack Positional Tracking onto Gear VR with SteamVR Tracking

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In a reverse engineering exercise, two students at Utah State University have hacked positional tracking onto a Gear VR headset using SteamVR Tracking technology. Mobile VR solutions like Samsung’s Gear VR currently employ rotational tracking only.

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Web-Based Augmented Reality for E-Commerce, with Seek’s Jon Cheney

XR for Business Podcast

And now, due to some of the new partnerships that we have that we brought to the table with Google for them, we’re enabling some of their content through Google AR Search. Alan: Yeah, the new Samsung 10 does it. You could just run straight Google Analytics and say if they used AR, what was conversion? Jon: Right.

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Web-Based Augmented Reality for E-Commerce, with Seek’s Jon Cheney

XR for Business Podcast

And now, due to some of the new partnerships that we have that we brought to the table with Google for them, we’re enabling some of their content through Google AR Search. Alan: Yeah, the new Samsung 10 does it. You could just run straight Google Analytics and say if they used AR, what was conversion? Jon: Right.

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Web-Based Augmented Reality for E-Commerce, with Seek's Jon Cheney

XR for Business Podcast

And so we're using a lot of the technologies that Google and Apple have been working on -- the ARKit and ARCore and things like that -- of being able to measure the room around you, and then be able to engage with it and start to interact with it and start to answer those what-if questions without having to order--. Jon: Right. Jon: Exactly.