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Latest Google Doodle Accompanied By 360 VR Experience

VRScout

Celebrate the life and genius of French illusionist & film director Georges Méliès in this adorable Google Spotlight Story. If you’ve logged onto the Google homepage at some point today you may have already noticed a particularly interesting Google Doodle posted above the search bar.

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Google Has A New VR Camera And A ‘Roadmap’ For Answering Facebook

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Google’s JUMP team is announcing a new, virtual reality camera today that is smaller and lighter than its predecessors. It is known as the YI Halo and Google is referring to it as the “next generation” for its JUMP platform. This new camera was built in partnership with YI technologies.

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Why The 360 Film Industry is in the Midst of a Reboot – Part 2: Workforce

Road to VR

The 360 film industry is still young and it’s maturing rapidly. With his name on more than 22 360 film projects to date, Armando Kirwin has had an inside view as to where things started, where they’re going, and why. This is how all production works, including the commercial, TV, and feature film industries.

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40 essential LGBTQ films to stream this Pride Month

Mashable VR

With a fine wit, bold style, and a big heart, writer/director Todd Stephens's film pays dazzling tribute to a generation of gay men who were decimated by AIDS and societal indifference. This film has rightly been called some of the most impactful filmmaking in history, a perennial meditation on abuse, regret, pain, and acceptance.

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OVER’s Map2Earn Beta Program to Make the Creation of 3D World Maps More Accessible

ARPost

To access the Beta program, download the OVER app on Google Play or the App Store and follow the directions, which you can find under “Map2Earn”. The Map2Earn Beta program is backed by an intuitive UX that guides the users through the capture process.

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Google Doodle ‘Back to the Moon’ Returns in AR Form

Peter Graham

In 2018, Nexus Studios in collaboration with Google Spotlight Stories created the first virtual reality (VR) Google Doodle in the form of Back to the Moon. Google closed the Spotlight Stories studio in 2019 after six years but that hasn’t stopped Nexus taking the project and moving it into augmented reality (AR) this week.

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‘The Secret Of Retropolis’: A VR Adventure Built In A Bunker

VRScout

At first, it’s not clear which conflict Geva is referring to, especially given the number of obstacles he and his team had to overcome to get their game from an early tech test to its selection as part of Cannes XR. Conflict is good for us,” he tells me as he finishes his drink that VRScout organized at the Cannes Marche Du Film.

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