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Google Helps Preserve Endangered Historical Sites in VR

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Google assists CyArk in saving our heritage by preserving the wonders of the world in VR. In an effort to help capture and preserve endangered historical sites around the world for future generations to enjoy, Google has teamed up with 3D laser-scanning non-profit CyArk to virtually catalogue the world’s most at-risk historical wonders.

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NYT Uses AR To Compare The World’s Most Polluted Air With Your City’s

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Graham Roberts was the creative lead for the NYT’s pollution AR app before leaving the publication to join Google as their Digital Design Lead at Google’s Brand Studio , an innovation lab that looks at how the company can create meaningful experiences that will connect Google products with customers.

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Eido Inoue tells us everything we need to know about HADO and location based augmented reality

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Between that, I worked on consumer cloud software with Google for five years… managing engineering teams for Gmail, Japanese mobile, Google Labs, and social (Blogger etc.) At Google, the change was rapid but much easier to control , as everything from the software to even the servers were designed in-house. teams for Japan.