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VR Quiz Game ‘Go Guess’ Uses Google 360 Captures to Make You Guess Where You Are

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Go Guess (2018) is a new interactive VR quiz game from developers Oblix that tosses you into Google 360 captures and makes you to guess where you are. Google opened up its treasure trove of 360 Street View captures to developers late last year, although there was a proviso for developing apps and games with the data: it had to be free.

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The 2017 Lumiere Awards: Google and Dear Angelica Win Big

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HTC is the maker of the Vive VR headset , a monumental achievement in optics, controls and 3D positional tracking for VR. Google Earth VR. presented Google Earth VR with the Century Award for VR in service of environmental enrichment. Longtime Hollywood environmental activist, Ed Begley Jr. Ghostbusters . Dear Angelica.

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Google Wants Established YouTubers to Make VR Video With Jump 360 Rig

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Google is delivering a dedicated VR YouTube app in their newly announced Daydream platform. Google maintains that the new YouTube VR app will be “built for comfort and longer sessions,” including a host of normal functions such as search, discovery, and playlists to keep users watching just like on monitors and smartphones.

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All the biggest announcements from Google I/O 2022

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Google announced what felt like a million things across a two-hour keynote to begin its annual I/O developer conference. Instead of dancing around it, let's jump right into all the biggest things Google showed off. Credit: Google. Google didn't spend much time talking about Android 13's specific perks for phones, though.

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Augmented Reality in the Movies: When Fantasy Becomes Reality

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In the film, overruling aliens subconsciously control the humans on Earth through subliminal media messaging, encouraging them to consume, reproduce and obey. Items like Google Glass and Focals offer consumers today the ability to text, update their calendar and even control their smart homes directly from their glasses.

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Vuzix Medical Use Cases Show Value of AR Smart Glasses

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This allowed Special Forces to control and monitor situations remotely using robots and Oakley-styled headsets. With our smart glasses, they can get an expert from New York City, San Francisco, or [Baltimore-based] Johns Hopkins to join the theatre experience.

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CGS to Demo Immersive Learning Service at AWE 2023

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Using virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR), clients for the New York City-based firm can tap the new features to instruct and upskill their workforces. Global workforces can now leverage CGS’s TeamworkAR and LauchpadXR platforms to launch, scale up, and deploy learning tools.