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The XR Week Peek (2023.06.20): Samsung to change its XR plans, Upload made a cool showcase, and more!

The Ghost Howls

More info Quest Gift Cards are now available in more countries Quest Gift Cards, which let you gift friends some credit for the Quest Store, are now also in the UK, Canada, Ireland, Germany, France, and Japan. I think they are great for simple gifts to friends and for giveaways from us content creators, so I’m happy they are expanding.

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Q&A: How Sketchfab Is Making 3D Models Accessible

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Sketchfab was founded in France and has since become one of the premier names in 3D hosting and modeling. Do you see Google Project Tango as a big part of the company’s future? Google Tango is one of the leaders and the first to have shipped a product on the market, along with Intel Realsense. Microsoft Hololens. on Sketchfab.

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Eido Inoue tells us everything we need to know about HADO and location based augmented reality

The Ghost Howls

Between that, I worked on consumer cloud software with Google for five years… managing engineering teams for Gmail, Japanese mobile, Google Labs, and social (Blogger etc.) Software-wise, we use Unity, Vuforia, and OpenCV. Google is also a company that is investing a lot in AR and VR (Image by Road To VR).

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.11.11): Cardboard becomes opensource, HoloLens 2 and nreal shipping and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Image by Google). Google completely opensources Cardboard. With a surprise move, Google has announced with a blog post that it ha opensourced completely Cardboard. Google affirms that Cardboard has been a huge success to introduce people into VR, and more than 15 million headsets have been distributed.

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Reaching into 3D Data, Exploring CAD Designs, Virtual Meetings, and More

Leapmotion

Recommended: Google Chrome. Recommended: Google Chrome. Created by recent engineering graduate Bastien MaureilleI, SmartApp was a winner at last month’s SmartApp contest in Nice, France. It even includes a sandbox mode featuring a variety of custom signs (e.g. Like, Dislike, Rock, Lizard, Spock) and the ability to add new signs.

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Digital Real Estate in AR, with Darabase’s Dominic Collins

XR for Business Podcast

In terms of who’s on the flip side of that marketplace, actually– we’re about to launch our first SDK and that’s– we think of it much more at a Unity level, than necessarily as an Apple or a Google level. And yes, that will work across all of the major platforms. Dominic: Oh, yeah.

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Digital Real Estate in AR, with Darabase’s Dominic Collins

XR for Business Podcast

In terms of who’s on the flip side of that marketplace, actually– we’re about to launch our first SDK and that’s– we think of it much more at a Unity level, than necessarily as an Apple or a Google level. And yes, that will work across all of the major platforms. Dominic: Oh, yeah.