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Google Launches Social Awareness VR Initiative ‘Daydream Impact’

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Daydream Impact focuses on three common bottlenecks with VR creation today: a lack of training on how to create VR video, difficulties accessing camera equipment and tools to showcase their content, and little exposure to how VR has been used creatively to tackle big challenges.

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

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Google offers the example of the melting of polar ice caps; it’s one thing to read about it or see a video, but it’s thought to be a more meaningful experience to be beside or on top of the glacier as the enormous sheets of ice calve off and crash into the ocean.

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Kathryn Bigelow?s VR Debut Can Be Seen At Tribeca Film Festival Starting Today

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World renowned publications like TIME Inc haven’t been shy about embracing VR and 360-degree video for their newest content, and rightfully so. The work of park rangers is largely thankless, but National Geographic’s Documentary Film division has announced a new project honed in on their mission in the Congo.

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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? Thereby, we quickly resolve issues that might end on production deferment, or something even more serious. It is really helping to revolutionize our operations. “How How do we get connectivity stable?” Michael: Exactly.

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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? Thereby, we quickly resolve issues that might end on production deferment, or something even more serious. It is really helping to revolutionize our operations. “How How do we get connectivity stable?” Michael: Exactly.

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

XR for Business Podcast

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. It wasn't, you hold up an AR device, and all of a sudden, this video plays over LeBron saying hi, or anything that would feel kind of gimmicky and not as impactful.

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

XR for Business Podcast

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. It wasn't, you hold up an AR device, and all of a sudden, this video plays over LeBron saying hi, or anything that would feel kind of gimmicky and not as impactful.