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Google Launches Social Awareness VR Initiative ‘Daydream Impact’

VRScout

Google Daydream will provide organizations with VR training and equipment rentals. That’s why Google is launching a new program dubbed Daydream Impact , with the hope of helping organizations and creators utilize virtual reality to take their programs to the next level.

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Google’s Daydream Impact Project Aims to Bolster Philanthropic Efforts With VR

Road to VR

Google’s newly announced Daydream Impact program is a philanthropy project that provides organizations, nonprofits, and advocates for change with resources, tools, and training to create immersive VR content to support their cause. Eastern Congo Initiative displays the struggles of living in the Congo and the resilience of its people.

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Sarah Hill of StoryUp VR

Everything VR & AR

On this episode we discuss a recent trip to Congo to capture a story about personal mobility devices that are necessary to help those in the area who have lost the use of their legs due to disease. Subscribe, Follow and Share Feedback To keep up with Everything VR & AR, make sure to subscribe to the show the on your favorite podcast app!

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Google VR Film Explores Artisanal Gold Mine In Democratic Republic Of The Congo

VRScout

“Every day you may hold a piece of the Congo in the palm of your hand.”. That’s the opening line of a new VR film from the Google Conflict Minerals Campaign entitled The Journey of Gold. The powerful 360-degree experience explores an artisanal gold mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

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The Right Displays for Challenging Tasks: XR on Oil Rigs, with Shell’s Michael Kaldenbach

XR for Business Podcast

If] we can’t make a podcast recording work, what are we supposed to do in an oil site in the middle of the Congo? When we started looking at these head-mounted displays about two years ago, we did try pretty much everything that’s out there in the market, ranging from the old-but-true Google Glass, to an ODG or Realwear.

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The Right Displays for Challenging Tasks: XR on Oil Rigs, with Shell’s Michael Kaldenbach

XR for Business Podcast

If] we can’t make a podcast recording work, what are we supposed to do in an oil site in the middle of the Congo? When we started looking at these head-mounted displays about two years ago, we did try pretty much everything that’s out there in the market, ranging from the old-but-true Google Glass, to an ODG or Realwear.

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Getting the ROI out of XR, with Sector 5 Digital's Cameron Ayres

XR for Business Podcast

I feel like some products, such as Google Cardboard, and some of the lower-end pieces of hardware, have actually done more harm than good to the reputation of virtual reality. People get in it, and they see, "this as a medium-to-low-quality image or video that I'm sitting in," and there's not much interaction if it's a Google Cardboard.