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‘Google Earth VR’ Launches For Free To Let You Fly Around The World

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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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The XR Week Peek (2020.06.13): Magic Leap exploring a sale, events are going virtual and more!

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The VR route is instead being pursued by HTC (with its VEC event happening soon) and IEEE. This means that if you are in Google Earth VR in a green room where there is a friend of yours, you can see the city that you are visiting all around you, and the real image of your friend being there with you. Who knows….

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Mike Highlights VR Artists?—?Danny Bittman

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He’s worked with Google, Under Armor, Hyundai, VMWare, and more. So I began to pick up 3D modeling, and just months later the HTC Vive was released. This ideally would be some kind of VR editor in a gaming engine, but luckily Unity, Unreal Engine, and Blender are all deep in development on this. MIKE HIGHLIGHTS // VR Artists?—?Danny

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All the most important AR and VR news from the GDC 2018

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HTC has finally revealed the price of the Vive Pro : it will cost $799 just to have the headset (no controller and no base stations, so you must already have a Vive 1 kit) and will be available for pre-orders since April, 5th. But, as Road To VR has stated, maybe HTC should have clarified that in all its marketing material.

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Exclusive: Here’s How Fantastic Contraption VR Devs Generated More Than $1 Million

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It released with the launch of the HTC Vive in early 2016 and Facebook’s Oculus Touch controllers for Rift late in the year. Other teams in this group include Survios ( which is funded by investors to the tune of $50 million ) and Owlchemy Labs ( acquired by Google ). “It is definitely both,” Colin Northway said.

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12 Can’t Miss VR Talks You Have To See At GDC 2017

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Survios came out swinging with the pre-release version of Raw Data and ended up with big success , so they’re definitely a team you should listen to if you’re considering this route for your VR game. Rikard Steiber (HTC), Joel Breton (HTC). Alon Or-bach (Samsung Electronics), Kaye Mason (Google).

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What Does the XR Industry Think about Apple’s Vision Pro?

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They continue to support and collaborate with outside companies, of course — you’ll probably be able to use Google Maps on the Vision Pro, for example — but I wouldn’t expect the competitive atmosphere to change much. At the time, they didn’t understand why we would shoot in high definition when no one had HDTVs.