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VR Quiz Game ‘Go Guess’ Uses Google 360 Captures to Make You Guess Where You Are

Road to VR

Go Guess (2018) is a new interactive VR quiz game from developers Oblix that tosses you into Google 360 captures and makes you to guess where you are. Like its 2D forebears such as GeoGuessr (2013) , Go Guess tasks you with investigating the captures by hunting for clues. Image courtesy Oblix.

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Is 2022 the Year for Consumer AR Glasses?

ARPost

We’re talking, of course, about Google Glass. Google Glasses were the first arguably-AR glasses on the consumer market, coming out in 2013. After all, it was a Google product and a lot of people expected the world. Google Glass retired to the enterprise sector and much of the public gave up on AR glasses.

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Searches for “HTC Vive” Have Caught up with “Oculus Rift” and May Be Accelerating

Road to VR

When it comes to Google searches, “HTC Vive” has recently matched “Oculus Rift” and may be continuing to rise. “HTC Vive” didn’t exist as a search term until the headset’s relatively recent reveal back in early 2015.

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Searches for “HTC Vive” Have Caught up with “Oculus Rift” and.

AllThingsVR

Searches for “HTC Vive” Have Caught up with “Oculus Rift” and May Be Accelerating When it comes to Google searches, “HTC Vive” has recently matched “Oculus Rift” and may be continuing to rise. HTC Vive” didn’t exist as a search term until the headset’s relatively recent reveal back in early 2015.

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Jimmy Fallon’s ‘Tonight Show’ Debuts Virtual Reality Pictionary Segment with ‘Tilt Brush’

Road to VR

NBC’s popular late night talk show The Tonight Show with host Jimmy Fallon has debuted a new segment called Virtual Reality Pictionary which uses the HTC Vive and Google’s Tilt Brush VR paint app. He’s also had the HTC Vive on the show in a number of one-off segments. Jimmy Fallon is no stranger to VR.

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Cloudhead Games Teases Mystery VR Headset in Censored Image

Road to VR

Cloudhead Games have been at the forefront of VR development ever since the studio brought a 2013-era prototype of The Gallery: Call of the Starseed (2016) to the Oculus Rift DK1 and Razer Hydra motion controllers. Unger deleted the tweet shortly after posting it on Friday, although it can still be found in Google’s webcache.

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A brief history of VR and AR

TechCrunch VR

Google revealed Glass the same year the first Oculus prototype hit the scene. Glass was released for developers in February 2013 for $1,500. The following year, Google introduced Cardboard, a super cheap and extremely clever smartphone accessory. We must act first, and go big, or we risk being one of those wannabes.”

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