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Austin’s Rapidly Growing VR Community

VRScout

Does Austin have the largest VR community outside of Los Angeles? I was familiar with Austin, Texas because of SXSW — having attended with my previous employer, Emblematic Group. The VR community in Austin was a bit of a late bloomer compared to other cities. Michael Dell relocated Dell’s headquarters to North Austin in 1984.

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Google Releases AR Geospatial Creator for Unity

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Additionally, people can develop augmented reality (AR) experiences with the platform’s 3D viewing function. Project Anywhere runs on the Microsoft HoloLens 2 headset while leveraging Cesium 3D Tiles datasets. The news comes as Google launches Photorealistic 3D Tiles as an Experimental version for use on its Map Tiles API.

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Spatial Beats: Perseverance XR, Rebecca Minkoff & 3D Maps

AR Insider

Realworld is based on the Microsoft version of Google Earth. The 7th annual FIVARS – Festival of International Virtual & Augmented Reality Stories – begins today, Feb. The popular mobile title by Austin-based Chicken Waffle studio is finally available through the hard-to-find Quest Store’s App Lab.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.03.13): AltspaceVR shuts down, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Hello everyone from Austin, Texas, where I am attending the SXSW! Microsoft has killed it (after having basically abandoned it) because it had to perform a spending review given the bad economic conditions. This project involved creating augmented reality statues of women alongside men in eight major cities in France.

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Creating Immersive Learning Experiences

Tech Trends VR

This follows from the company’s introduction three years ago of Google’s initial foray in educational VR – Google Expeditions – which first introduced the idea of taking students on virtual reality field trips using basic equipment such as Google Cardboard. And that, in fact, is the ultimate goal of any transformative technology.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.03.20): Meta to perform new layoffs, Google Glass to shut down, and more!

The Ghost Howls

I still feel a lot tired because of the jet lag and the little sleep I had in Austin, but this is pretty normal, and in one week or such this feeling should go away. While this is kind of a gimmick for now, it is interesting that Microsoft is still working on Mesh and integrating its services with VR-related features.

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Vancouver Emerging As Top Five VR and AR Hub

VRScout

Seattle, and Austin. Seattle, or Portland, because you’re going up against giants like Google or Microsoft. Our local government is beginning to appreciate it, as are big enterprise organizations like Microsoft. My takeaway from the trip is that Vancouver should be considered among the top five hubs for XR,” he said. “I

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