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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

The devices will use positional tracking (which will not require any external sensors) developed from expertise learned through creating Google’s Tango mapping technology and optimized for virtual reality. THE BATTLE BETWEEN THE DISAPPEARING STORY APPS CONTINUES. …and just a few more.

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Google Opens ‘Maps’ API So Devs Can Create ‘Pokémon Go’-style Games

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Building large virtual worlds is costly and time-consuming when done by hand. Using the example of Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto IV (2008) , which remains one of the most expensive and richest game worlds ever created, Jacoby noted that this was, at launch, it only as big as downtown Manhattan (in terms of real-world scale).

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