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Photo-Realistic VR Tour Of The Palace Of Versailles Now Available Free On SteamVR

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Developed by makemepulse in collaboration with Google Arts & Culture and Château de Versailles, VersaillesVR – The Palace Is Yours , a free app available now on SteamVR-compatible headsets that allows you to tour a hyper-realistic recreation of France’s famous Palace of Versailles in VR. Image Credit: Google Arts & Culture.

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Making the Physical World Clickable, Part I

AR Insider

One historical parallel is the mighty Google. In fact, Google is a natural candidate to build this “Internet of Places.” After spending years assembling a knowledge graph on the web, Google has the building blocks for a “spatial web.” ” XR Talks: Lessons From Building AR for Google Maps, Part I.

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Will 3D Cities Unlock Immersive Experiences?

AR Insider

It let you essentially fly around a city, sort of like Google Earth but in three dimensions. In fairness, Google Earth offers 3D features. In fairness, Google Earth offers 3D features. And Google Earth VR , lets users fly around cities in strikingly immersive ways. Geospatially Sound.

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Google has made some neat tech that makes VR headsets "transparent" for MR use.

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pic.twitter.com/L4tln5SM8I — Google VR (@googlevr) February 22, 2017. Google has made some neat technology that makes VR headsets "transparent" for Mixed Reality use. Next, we use an HTC Vive, modified by SMI to include eye-tracking, to capture the person’s eye-gaze from inside the headset.

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HTC Vive Bringing ‘A Few Surprises’ And More To Sundance Film Festival

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HTC is bringing a line-up of apps to the event as part of the VR on the Mountain exhibit running from Janauary 20th – 22nd, which is separate to the New Frontiers division of the festival that has its own range of VR content. Tagged with: htc vive , sundance , vr movies. This year, however, it’s not alone.

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Most Innovative XR Collaboration Vendors to Watch in 2022

XR Today - Virtual Reality

In the construction industry, professionals can work together on digital twins of schematics, blueprints, and products in a shared VR world. For most people interested in the Extended Reality landscape, the name “HTC Vive” will be familiar.

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Big News From Meta, Samsung, Microsoft, and HTC VIVE

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Groups like Microsoft are leveraging a collapsing military contact to keep its IVAS device lineup alive for further funding, and HTC VIVE took note to explain the importance of enterprise end-users in discussion with the World Economic Forum. Meta’s Q2 Earnings, Startup Program, and Quest Security Upgrades It was a busy month for Meta.

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