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Field in View: Google Earth VR Gave Me The Trip Of A Lifetime Inside My Kitchen

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In between the 55 miles of water separating Russia and Alaska, there sits a tiny island. The second I dived into Google Earth on the HTC Vive, I knew where I had to go. I could see the miles of icy ocean surrounding me and the vague outline of mainland Alaska behind me. As it turns out, I went there yesterday. It was incredible.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.11.21): OpenAI drama shakes the AI world, Unity enables Vision Pro development, and more!

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At the same time, I think that Meta is not pushing much on its business offerings (and in fact this price clarification arrived many months later than expected) so probably the field will still be dominated by Pico and HTC for any foreseeable time. cameras) to the previous one, just with improved characteristics and design.

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