Mashable VR

MARCH 18, 2022

EDT Google Maps is back up and running all over the world as of Friday afternoon. Google Maps went down Friday, March 18, for some users, making it difficult to find directions for driving, walking, biking and modes of transportation. Definitely down. Other apps that use Google Maps are experiencing issues as well.

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OCTOBER 4, 2016

Tilt Brush remains the definitive creative app for VR, and soon people will be able to more easily bring what they make in the app into other software. Google today released the Tilt Brush Toolkit , a set of scripts that people can download for free on GitHub that allow developers and creators to interpret.tilt files in different ways.

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MARCH 7, 2017

Google’s Play Store, the official marketplace for Android apps and more, is turning five this month, and to celebrate the company is doing a number of things. For fans of its new ecosystem, Google Daydream, it’s got a sale in store. to $6.49, which we’d say definitely makes it worth a look. As for new games?

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JUNE 19, 2017

In addition, Google-owned YouTube released a few insights into the behavior of people watching these videos. ” This information shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise to seasoned 360-degree video creators, but hearing it come from Google definitely adds more weight to the advice. .”

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2017

During the opening presentation at today’s Unity Vision Summit, Nathan Martz, Developer Platforms Product Manager at Google, took to the stage to talk about new tools that the company is releasing to help developers create high-performance apps for Daydream, Google’s high-end Android VR platform.

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VRScout

JUNE 21, 2018

Adobe’s Stefano Corazza said “there’s no obstacle” stopping Google from natively supporting USDZ on Android because the format is open source. When asked to comment on USDZ coming to Android, a Google spokesperson didn’t rule it out. “Dimension is just at 1.0 Image Credit: Adobe.

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ARVR

JULY 15, 2022

the alphabet soup gets worse while industry insiders can’t even agree on definitions. And this before we even open the metaverse definitional can of worms. This is why our ears perked up when hearing the most recent example: “ captions for the real world ,” which Google used at its I/O conference to describe visual search.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Samsung has partnered with Google to make an XR headset, although the South Korean tech giant hasn’t tipped its hand on what to expect just yet. The answer may be Google, but only if it can commit. What we do know is the company is working with Google to provide software, and Qualcomm for its XR chip expertise.

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Mashable VR

MAY 11, 2022

Google is finally looking to give AirPods Pro a run for their money. At its annual Google I/O keynote , Google unveiled the new Pixel Buds Pro. Credit: Google. Google also confirmed the Pixel Buds Pro would get an update to support spatial audio sometime later this year. Credit: Google.

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AR Insider

MARCH 31, 2021

A fter expanding and contracting in various VR initiatives, Google continues to be committed to AR. If search and AR had a baby, it would be visual search — Google’s prevailing AR play, otherwise known as Google Lens. This is Google’s version of an AR cloud. The AR Location Wars, Part I: Google.

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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2016

Google may have shipped over 5 million Cardboard smartphone adapters, but it seems the company is significantly elevating their commitment to virtual reality with the announcement made today at Google I/O. “We’ve rebuilt YouTube from the ground-up for VR,” Bavor told the crowd at Google I/O 2016.

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JANUARY 26, 2017

The designer, who worked on both HTC’s smartphones and its Vive VR headset at its San Francisco office, yesterday confirmed that he was leaving the Taiwanese company to join Google, where he’ll work on the company’s new Daydream mobile VR ecosystem. Tagged with: Claude Zellweger , Daydream , google , htc.

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Cats and VR

MAY 4, 2018

Created in conjunction with Google, Blade Runner: Revelations will also be specially bundled with the debut of the Lenovo Mirage Solo headset while stocks last. Audiences will be able to download Blade Runner: Revelations for the Daydream View or Lenovo Mirage Solo from the Google Play Store: [link] . on the Google Play Store.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2016

No, not the launch of Sony’s PlayStation 4 Pro , we’re talking about the arrival of Google Daydream, the company’s new mobile VR ecosystem. After adding 360 degree videos to its enormously popular platform some time ago, Daydream will hopefully prove to be the definitive way to watch YouTube content with a headset.

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VRScout

MARCH 6, 2021

They also feature a similar design that—while not quite as bulky as the HoloLens 2—definitely appear more futuristic than conventional glasses. Everything is managed through Epson’s Moverio Link app, available free on the Google Play Store. that supports Google Mobile Services (GMS). Image Credit: Epson.

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AR Insider

JUNE 18, 2021

That could be wayfinding with Google Live View , geospatial gaming experiences from Niantic, or location-specific social AR experiences like Snap’s Local Lenses. We’re featuring the video and takeaways for this week’s XR Talks, continuing here in Part I with insights from Google, Niantic and ARWay. First Steps. Showing the Way.

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JANUARY 16, 2024

It became pretty viral the news that Apple does not want developers to define their apps as AR, VR, or MR, but just as “spatial” when writing the store definitions. This comes a few months after the rumor that stated that Google had killed its internal AR hardware project, codenamed Project Iris.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 6, 2021

It’s also naturally monetizable and Google is highly motivated to make it happen. As background, visual search has several meanings including reverse-image search on Google desktop. It takes form so far in Google Lens. So how will Google develop these opportunities? As mentioned, Google is not alone.

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VRScout

MARCH 8, 2020

In February Facebook has canceled its annual F8 developer conference citing concerns over coronavirus, meanwhile, Google has canceled I/O 2020 , its largest in-person event, due to similar fears. Travelers are seeing empty seats on their flights while many corporate companies have halted travel plans for employees.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 15, 2019

This post is adapted from ARtillery Intelligence’s latest report, Hearables: Broadening the Definition of AR. Picking up where we left off last week in examining Apple’s hearables strategy, what’s Google’s counterpoint? With Apple out of the way, we’ll now tackle Google (and Bose next week).

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AR Insider

MARCH 15, 2021

For more of the latter, Google has new figures that support AR’s utility as a shopping tool. Specifically in cosmetics — a product category where the technology has found fertile soil — 43 percent of mobile shoppers now expect it according to Google’s report. Does AR Really Reduce eCommerce Returns?

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Ryan Schultz

APRIL 6, 2023

If metaverse was the buzzword of 2022, AI is definitely the buzzword of 2023! One rather interesting feature of Neeva is that it includes an AI-generated “summary” of information on your search topic (something that both the Google and Bing search engines are also tinkering with).

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VRScout

JANUARY 18, 2020

VR should be better than reality, and Madison’s project definitely fully embraces that ideology. This means the virtual table in his dining room could actually be leaned on; the sofa in his virtual living room is, for all intents and purposes, a real sofa. However, these are no ordinary pieces of digital furniture.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

But there’s growing realization that this definition is too limiting. Bose is already there with Bose AR, while Google has developed live language translation apps and Apple will enter a bit later, as it often does. In fact, it’s already conditioning this behavior through Google Assistant and voice search.

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ARPost

MARCH 8, 2022

With partners like Google, Salesforce, and Shopify, high-tech trends like big data analytics and online retail are not new to the company. With more and more business and sales being conducted in virtual worlds, one digital marketing agency with physical offices in California is expanding its services into the metaverse. So, what’s new?

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Road to VR

MAY 21, 2021

Snap Inc is making some definite strides into augmented reality territory as of late. It’s setting itself up to be in direct competition with Google and Facebook as those companies reveal further working on their own respective consumer AR headsets. As confirmed by The Verge , Snap has agreed to acquire the UK-based startup.

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Road to VR

APRIL 18, 2023

The interview wasn’t widely shared in the English-speaking side of the Internet until it landed on Reddit , Google-translated to English. Nevertheless, I can definitely say that we are continuing to develop VR headsets recently. Valve has a lot of expertise in VR devices and has faith in the medium and VR games.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Time and time again, tech companies have promised a future where commuters will be able to zip around in the flying cars from The Jetsons. And time and time again, that just hasn’t happened. Read more.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2016

This is Google Earth VR. Google Earth VR is a surprise project from Google’s Geo team that is being both announced and released today. This is the team behind Google Maps and the original Google Earth. Google Earth VR’s primary locomotion system is flight. This is not the real Mt.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 27, 2021

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. It offers high-definition 3D models of 75 major cities.

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ARVR

JUNE 29, 2022

Here is my summary of the new things I found (definitely not the only good things, but the things I cared about). This is something Google doesn`t yet have. VR AR Assicuation Global summit 2020 Between 1st and 3rd of June 2020, we had the annual summit of the VR AR Association. This is something AR has been waiting for in a long time.

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AR Insider

APRIL 30, 2021

Tackling definitions and strategic implications, it’s the topic of this week’s XR Talks (video and takeaways below). The metaverse of course is a broad term with several definitions and connotations that continue to morph. The AR Location Wars, Part I: Google. Level Setting . Think Natively.

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ARVR

OCTOBER 20, 2022

All-things metaverse are shrouded in ambiguity so require some definition… which is somehow missed in generalist punditry about how the metaverse will change everything. This is analogous to the SEO they already do to rank in Google SERPs and Maps. Will the same happen for metaverse marketing?

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Road to VR

JANUARY 9, 2018

Lenovo today unveiled the first standalone VR headset in Google’s Daydream mobile VR ecosystem, the Mirage Solo. Revealed today at CES, the headset integrates Google’s WorldSense six degrees of freedom (6DoF) positional tracking alongside the headset’s 3DoF controller. ” image courtesy Lenovo.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Notably, Luxottica partnered with Google in 2014 to design and distribute additional frames for Google Glass in effort to make the smartglasses a high fashion item. The report mixes both terminologies, so it’s unclear exactly which end of the spectrum the proposed device should fall on.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 15, 2021

Starting with the broader definition of aggregation theory, you may know the term. This is the case with Facebook’s social graph, Google Search, Apple hardware, and Amazon’s “everything store” Demand First. Facebook (and Google to a lesser degree) has moved in this direction over time. Spatial Implications.

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ARVR

APRIL 6, 2021

After expanding and contracting in various VR initiatives, Google continues to be committed to AR. Google’s prevailing AR play, otherwise known as Google Lens. As examined in our Location Wars series, this also takes form in what we call Google’s Internet of Places. at least AR’s strict definition. ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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