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Another Google Glass Failure: What Happened to Google Iris?

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After months of tinkering and testing, Project Iris, Google’s latest AR innovation, appears to be another “Google Glass Failure.” For years, Google has been toying with the idea of becoming a real competitor in the extended reality market. But for all its innovation and resources, Google’s AR ideas never really seem to pan out.

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VR & AR Goes For Gold At 2018 Winter Olympic Games

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You can experience the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in entirely new ways. The 2018 Winter Olympic Games is getting a big technology boost when it opens on February 9th in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The 2018 Winter Olympic Games will have a “different approach,” according to Blake Rowe, Implementation Manager for Intel Sports.

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These Are The Stocks You Could Buy To Invest In The VR Industry

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VR investments have broken into the billions of dollars with reports showing as high as $4-5 billion since 2010 and $2 billion in the last 12 months alone. billion from companies listed below like Google and Qualcomm. Google – NASDAQ: GOOG – Cardboard, Google VR, Daydream & Tango, VR cameras, Tilt Brush.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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Unity’s most recent update makes the cross-platform game engine even more equally optimized, so with only one API you can simply build for multiple platforms with hardware-specific tweaks held to a minimum. Already supporting the Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, HTC Vive, and PSVR – Unity will now support Google Daydream.

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A Brief History of VR

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Atari founded a lab for virtual reality research in 1982, but it closed down two short years later due to the North American video game crash of 1983. In 1991, Sega released Sega VR headsets for arcade games and the Mega Drive console. In 1994, they released the Sega VR-1 motion simulator arcade attraction which tracked head movement.

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Reaching for the Clouds with 6D.ai’s Matt Miesnieks

XR for Business Podcast

CEO Matt Miesnieks has been in the AR game since the beginning, and he says the best in the industry have always known the best, native use cases for the technology; the problem was for the technology to catch up to the use cases. So things like Uber or Google Maps and directions were native to the phone, that were kind of useless on the PC.

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Reaching for the Clouds with 6D.ai’s Matt Miesnieks

XR for Business Podcast

CEO Matt Miesnieks has been in the AR game since the beginning, and he says the best in the industry have always known the best, native use cases for the technology; the problem was for the technology to catch up to the use cases. So things like Uber or Google Maps and directions were native to the phone, that were kind of useless on the PC.

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