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Is Virtual Reality The Next Big Break For B2B?

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Virtual reality is one of those technologies that has been hyped for several years. Especially with a host of low-cost VR devices such as the Google Cardboard and Samsung Gear headset, it’s already speculated that marketers will take advantage of this new messaging channel. 5 Ways to Use Virtual Reality in B2B Brands.

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Virtual Reality in the Movie Industry

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Filmmakers today are exploring virtual reality technology to increase immersive viewing dramatically. This is how the movie industry uses virtual reality. Often, the audience interacts with virtual reality using a headset , such as Google Cardboard , to experience an entire virtual realm.

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Community Download: Who ‘Won’ Virtual Reality In 2016?

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What many have spent the last 12 months calling the “year of virtual reality” is about to come to an end. ” However, as far as virtual reality is concerned, things have been going quite well. In 2016, virtual reality officially arrived. It is a holiday after all.

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Analysis: Meta opens up its walled garden to become the Android of XR

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Today a (positive) earthquake hit the virtual reality ecosystem: Meta has just opened up its walled garden, as a strategic move to expand its business in the virtual reality market. It has just authorized other VR OEMs to use its Quest operating system and blurred the lines between the Meta Quest Store and App Lab.

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Google Brings Web-based AR to Chrome in Latest Beta

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Last week Google released a beta of Chrome 81 for Android, Chrome OS, Linux, macOS, and Windows, which means a stable version is just around the corner. Google first included WebVR, the VR-focused predecessor to the WebXR API, in Chrome 66 back in April 2018. Image courtesy Google.

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How Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) can transform Education

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Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) applications are prominent options being considered. While students are learning about a specific region, Expeditions can take the students on virtual field trips and display interesting facts about specific landmarks they come across in their virtual travels.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.03.22): Quest to feature new parental control tools, Google acquires Raxium, and more!

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These tools include: The possibility for a parent to lock certain apps on the device for his/her children Automatic prevention of downloads of applications whose target audience age is higher than the age of the player (e.g. if the app is 18+ and the player is 15, the system won’t download it). It was even featured on Google News.

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