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Google Buying HTC’s Pixel Team for $1.1 Billion

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Google has announced a $1.1 billion cooperation agreement under which certain HTC employees – many of whom are already working with Google to develop Pixel smartphones – will join Google. Separately, Google will receive a non-exclusive license for HTC intellectual property (IP). Google VR & HTC.

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Immersive Technology for Education: How Virtual Reality Will Change the Learning Process

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The rapid growth of software for virtual reality. This figure has been growing steadily since 2012 and does not plan to significantly stop its growth soon. We can find educational VR content in a variety of sources, such as: VR apps in the App Store, Google Play, or Steam directories. Google Earth VR. billion per year.

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AR Glasses: Technology With Potential for Consumers Too?

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This was certainly the case of Google Glass back in 2012. Many argued that Google Glass was too expensive and sought to meet a non-existing need. Over at Google, the AR glasses project didn’t die completely. At the same time, the capability of the device to record constantly raised serious privacy concerns. Guest Post.

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VR Set To Enter New Phase After A Decade Of Carmack

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In December 2012 I published my first in-depth article after a demo with a hand-built Oculus VR prototype. Oculus VR CEO Brendan Iribe looking at a Rift prototype in 2012. While our VR devices and software get most of the public attention, we are directing about half of our Reality Labs operating expenses towards our AR initiatives.”

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Spatial Beats: 2020’s Top Ten

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Russian government hackers piggybacked on cybersecurity software (!!!!) B from Google, Disney, AT&T, Alibaba Group, JP Morgan, Kleiner Perkins, Qualcomm, and other brand name investors to make see-through AR glasses, and the content, optics, chips, and AI that go in them. The hack of the century. Magic Leap’s pivot to enterprise.

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

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Our panelists included John Hanke, CEO of Niantic Labs and co-creator of Pokémon Go; Ralph Osterhout, CEO of Osterhout Design Group, maker of augmented reality glasses; and John Underkoffler, CEO of Oblong Industries, maker of the Mezzanine collaboration software and science advisor for the film Minority Report.

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Take a Look Inside Two Bit Circus

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Two Bit Circus was founded in 2012 by Brent Bushnell and Eric Gradman. They also produced a NAS concert for KCRW’s Sound in Focus and a couple pieces with Google Daydream including NFL Immersed and rag & bone. This installment of our LA Creator Photo Series takes you inside Two Bit Circus.