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

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

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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‘HeadOffice.Space’ Brings VR Coworking To The Moon

VRScout

What’s exciting about HeadOffice.Space is that it is interoperable, flexible, and accessible across multiple platforms, with Mac, iOS, Android, Oculus Rift, Google Cardboard, and Oculus Quest support currently in development. The custom planet option allows brands to create an extended experience for their brand, culture, and values.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.05.17): Apple Glasses are sleek, UE5 rises hype, NVIDIA releases CloudXR SDK, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Unreal Engine 5 may change the rules of game development. Out of nowhere, Epic Games has teased the next version of Unreal Engine, Unreal Engine 5, due to be released in 2021. It means that you can take whatever model, even with billions of polygons, and put it in your Unreal Engine project. Other relevant news.

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On the ground with TechCrunch at GDC 2019

TechCrunch VR

VR, gaming engines, Unity, Unreal and Epic were just some of the topics we touched upon. But perhaps the biggest of all was Google’s new game-streaming service Stadia. The Game Developers Conference was held last week in San Francisco and we wanted to get together to discuss what we saw at the show for Extra Crunch members.

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

The Ghost Howls

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. More info (Camera Path and Google Drive backup) More info (Sketchfab exporting). Google MediaPipe can now track 3D objects.

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XR Programs?—?a Starter Pack

ARVR

Unity Website Unreal // Unity’s higher fidelity sibling Unreal Engine is the world’s most open and advanced real-time 3D creation tool. Unreal Website AR specific SDK and dev platforms Admittedly I know less about these but they’re just as important players in this space! at Google scale.?—?

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Mike Highlights VR Artists?—?Danny Bittman

ARVR

He’s worked with Google, Under Armor, Hyundai, VMWare, and more. 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 What I think is still lacking though, but is in development!

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