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Google Fi Purportedly Isn’t Letting Subscribers Call Poison Control for Some Weird Reason

GizModo VR

Considering the amount of poisonous substances in this world, which can range from mundane things like nail polish to unlikely things like house plants, it’s pretty important to be able to call Poison Control if you’re exposed to something potentially toxic. Unfortunately, if you’re a Google Fi user, that might not be… Read more.

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Qualcomm Swaps Out Arm for RISC-V for Next-Gen Google Wear OS Devices

Anand Tech

As part of a broad collaborative agreement with Google, Qualcomm this week said that that it will be adopting the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) for a future Snapdragon Wear platform. Similarly, Google's backing of the ISA by porting Wear OS to RISC-V is a major milestone on the software front.

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Google Job Listings Point to New “Mass Production” AR/VR Hardware in the Pipeline

Road to VR

Google launched the Daydream View headset late last year, the company’s first virtual reality hardware product. A slew of recent job postings however suggest significant new AR/VR hardware in the works from Google. A slew of recent job postings however suggest significant new AR/VR hardware in the works from Google.

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Meta & Qualcomm Join “Multi-year” XR Chip Partnership to Combat a Common Threat

Road to VR

And with Meta believing that it’s going to take a complete rethinking of the typical computing architecture to make the sci-fi vision of XR a reality , the companies will probably be prototyping together on that front as well. For Meta, which itself wants to control the destiny of XR, that’s a problem.

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‘Neos’ Aims to be the Google Docs of VR World Building

Road to VR

We catch up with Sightline creator Tomáš ‘Frooxius’ Mariančík whose work to create the Google Docs of VR world building with his latest project Neos , is progressing rapidly. A Google Docs for VR world building if you will. Time will tell.

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Google Developers on Designing ‘Earth VR': The Overview Effect & Finding Common Ground

Road to VR

Google Earth VR has been one of the most mind-blowing experiences that I’ve had so far in VR, for so many different reasons. In the future, they will be looking at the 2D version Google Earth for inspiration for new features such as annotation, but they also are open to feedback for the types of features that people are requesting.

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‘The Wild’ Is A Platform For Collaborative 3D Design In VR & AR

VRScout

Powered by VR, The Wild’s cross-platform 3D design platform works much like Google Docs. Founded by Gabe Paez, The Wild seeks to do what Google Docs does for collaborative word processing, but instead of fulfilling the role of an organizational tool, this app is meant to serve more creative purposes. .

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