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Creating Immersive Learning Experiences

Tech Trends VR

Google harnesses the power of photos and street view to deliver simplified VR development for teachers and students. At its annual I/O Developer Conference in Mountain View, California Google announced the launch of Tour Creator , a new tool that easily allows anyone to create interactive content in Virtual Reality.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

In 2015, Snapchat acquired Looksery for $150M. Did Seebright just release the augmented reality equivalent of Google Cardboard? Although Facebook has had 360 video capabilities since September 2015, it’s not clear why they have waited so long to release 360 photo functionality.

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Exclusive: Here’s How Fantastic Contraption VR Devs Generated More Than $1 Million

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Other teams in this group include Survios ( which is funded by investors to the tune of $50 million ) and Owlchemy Labs ( acquired by Google ). They recall demos of Owlchemy’s Job Simulator, Google’s Tilt Brush and Valve’s early robot demo, each of which made excellent use of those hand controls. .

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Meet & Greet in AR, with Spatial’s Jacob Loewenstein

XR for Business Podcast

Co-founder Anand Agarawala sold his previous startup, BumpTop — a 3D physics multi-touch desktop — to Google, and also demoed this in a TED Talk. ” After he gave his TED Talk on it, there’s interest from Apple, and Google ended up buying his company. It was around 2015, the first Hololens had come out.

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Meet & Greet in AR, with Spatial’s Jacob Loewenstein

XR for Business Podcast

Co-founder Anand Agarawala sold his previous startup, BumpTop — a 3D physics multi-touch desktop — to Google, and also demoed this in a TED Talk. ” After he gave his TED Talk on it, there’s interest from Apple, and Google ended up buying his company. It was around 2015, the first Hololens had come out.

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Meet & Greet in AR, with Spatial's Jacob Loewenstein

XR for Business Podcast

Co-founder Anand Agarawala sold his previous startup, BumpTop -- a 3D physics multi-touch desktop -- to Google, and also demoed this in a TED Talk. After he gave his TED Talk on it, there's interest from Apple, and Google ended up buying his company. It was around 2015, the first Hololens had come out. Alan: Yeah, Google Drive.

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Getting — and Keeping — Your Attention in XR, with LumiereVR COO Alexander Haque

XR for Business Podcast

The Click Effect is a 360 video — it’s about a six minute piece from 2015, won a lot of awards — that showcased one of the first full underwater 360 VR diving experiences with dolphins, and talking about the clicking noise that a dolphin will make to communicate. Alex: Right. They’re expecting you to hold their hands.