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Google Opens ‘Maps’ API So Devs Can Create ‘Pokémon Go’-style Games

Road to VR

During the Google Developer Day presentation at GDC 2018, Product Manager Clementine Jacoby and Engineering Lead Patrick Donelan at Google Maps presented the team’s progress in bringing their technology and data to game developers. Building large virtual worlds is costly and time-consuming when done by hand.

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If ‘Ready Player One’ Doesn’t Suck, It Stands to Positively Impact the VR Industry

Road to VR

While basically none of the technology portrayed in Ready Player One reflects the current state of VR devices or software, leaving a clear gap in its ‘advertised’ benefits and the reality of the experience available to VR users today, it still has the potential to be a significant factor in VR adoption.

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Weekly Funding & People Roundup: Google acquires Owlchemy.

AllThingsVR

Weekly Funding & People Roundup: Google acquires Owlchemy Labs VR game studio, Improbable grabs $502M, Vivid Vision raises $2.2M, Oculus’s first employee just left 1) Google has acquired the VR game studio behind such popular gaming titles as Job Simulator and Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality. Read more here. Read more here.

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Meta has a sweet vision for VR, but it's a long way from reality for the rest of us

Mashable VR

Speaking to reporters from a room decorated with decals of California, Montana, and Hawaii (all states where he owns homes), Zuckerberg led a show-and-tell of Meta's VR research and prototyping. While the technology is promising, it won't become viable for consumer use for years. Meta calls this the "visual Turing test.".

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

The devices will use positional tracking (which will not require any external sensors) developed from expertise learned through creating Google’s Tango mapping technology and optimized for virtual reality. The beloved Austin, TX-based virtual reality content studio Owlchemy Labs has been acquired by Google. …and just a few more.

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Open House: Animation, Digital Art, and Computer Science Majors Invited to the Augmented & Virtual Reality Programme in Norway

EON Reality

These technologies are spreading far beyond the gaming world and into business and education, where its being used to train employees and better educate students. These skills will also enable students to work with product visualization, game creation, multimedia design, and broadcast media.

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Virtual Reality Training Academy and Development Lab at Lehman College (CUNY): Now Recruiting!

EON Reality

These technologies are spreading far beyond the gaming world and into business and education, where its being used to train employees and better educate students. Learn more and experience this technology first-hand during the on-campus Open House at Lehman College ! King Tut VR: Mobile app for tourism. CONTACT US.