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Google Helps Preserve Endangered Historical Sites in VR

VRScout

Referred to as the Open Heritage project, the operation had CyArk utilize their advanced 3D laser-scanning technology to record critical data at important sites and render the information into a detailed VR recreation. You are also free to apply for the data thanks to the Google Cloud Platform.

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VR Tour App ‘MasterWorks’ Uses Photogrammetry to Bring You to 4 Fully Explorable Heritage Sites

Road to VR

Spanning over 3000 years of human history, you’ll be able to visit: The historical city of Ayutthaya, Thailand, the second capital of the Siamese Kingdom. Chavín de Huántar, a pre-Incan temple in the Peruvian Andes. Mesa Verde Native American cliff dwellings of Colorado.

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

VRScout

Right after leaving the NYT, Roberts tweeted, “This was the last AR project I worked on at the Times, based on a belief that geolocated experiences that create a data layer over our physical environment has great potential. I think the team did a stellar job bringing it to life.”. Image Credit: New York Times.

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5th International VR Awards Finalists Announced

ARPost

and Eminent Air (Thailand) Co. The Omnicept is one of the best headsets on the market, not only in terms of display, but in terms of data collection capabilities. for “ NEWVIEW SCHOOL ,” a curriculum for “XR as a comprehensive art form.”. Techno Brave Asia Ltd. for their “V irtual Air Condition Installation ” training experience.

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

The Ghost Howls

By players-and-plays, it’s actually more popular outside of Japan (60% of our business) than inside it… especially in southeast Asia (Thailand, Korea, Malaysia, and Singapore). Thus Google controlled almost the entire stack that the client web software used — right down to the hardware in the data centers.

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Pivoting Game Dev Skills into XR Utility for Enterprise, with Extality’s Arash Keshmirian

XR for Business Podcast

One story that was really coming out in the news at the time we were working on this project was the Thai cave rescue, where these soccer players got stuck in a cave in Thailand and they were stuck in there for quite some time. And looking at how do we get that data? And there are a lot of technical challenges. Does it come from CAD?

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Pivoting Game Dev Skills into XR Utility for Enterprise, with Extality’s Arash Keshmirian

XR for Business Podcast

One story that was really coming out in the news at the time we were working on this project was the Thai cave rescue, where these soccer players got stuck in a cave in Thailand and they were stuck in there for quite some time. And looking at how do we get that data? And there are a lot of technical challenges. Does it come from CAD?

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