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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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Google Helps Preserve Endangered Historical Sites in VR

VRScout

Referred to as the Open Heritage project, the operation had CyArk utilize their advanced 3D laser-scanning technology to record critical data at important sites and render the information into a detailed VR recreation. You are also free to apply for the data thanks to the Google Cloud Platform.

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Marco Magnano on XR Safety Week, journalism, and the meta…

The Ghost Howls

Around the year 2001, so at the beginning of high school, the Internet entered my life, and I discovered the Indymedia project, which was one of the most important independent media outlets in the world. We decided to not put any barrier to the access: no ticket, no registration required, no data collection.

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Alex Kipman Nominated for Inventor’s Award

Tech Trends VR

Kipman started his professional career at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington, right after graduating from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2001. During the procedure, the surgeons were able to view live diagnostic imaging from MRI and radiography data feeds, without taking their eyes off the patient.

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Augmented Reality May Be The Future, But It Still Has Major Limitations

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Underkoffler has been trying to make the vision of the 2002 film Minority Report , where actor Tom Cruise uses “data gloves” and gestures to control a transparent computer, into a reality. Hollywood gave us Hal (the talking computer from 2001: A Space Odyssey ), and we got the TRS-80 (the ancient text-based computer system),” Hanke said.

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Weekly Funding & People VR/AR Roundup1) EntryPoint Raises.

AllThingsVR

2) Virtualitics Raises $3M Virtual and augmented reality data analytics company Virtualitics , has raised $3 million USD in a seed funding round. Big Data is worthless if we cannot extract actionable knowledge from it,” said Michael Amori, CEO of Virtualitics in a written statement. Read more on Fortune. Read more on Haptical.

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BISim tells us how XR is relevant for the Army

The Ghost Howls

BISim was founded in 2001 in Australia as part of Czech-based Bohemia Interactive Studio (makers of Arma and Dayz). Do you have any statistical data to prove the effectivity of VR in your field? In 2013, Bohemia Interactive Simulations began operating separately from BI Studio after BISim was acquired by The Riverside Company.