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‘Google Earth VR’ Lets You Experience the Total Solar Eclipse Right Now

Road to VR

Whether or not you’re in the narrow band of ‘solar eclipse totality’ that’s making its way across the continental United States on Monday, August 21st, Google Earth VR has seen a recent update that will let you experience the rare event from the comfort of your own HTC Vive or Oculus Rift. image courtesy NASA.

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Architects and the Mental Visualization FallacySince I joined.

AllThingsVR

The demo was a plugin inside a robust and complicated 3D modeling tool called Revit used in the design and construction of buildings large and small. I put on the Oculus Rift, and was amazed. With some of the tools we’re building out, however, drawings might even be given new life. Read more here.

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XR Education in 2021

ARPost

In March of this year, the company announced a “joint effort” with Qualcomm and Atlanta’s Morehouse College to offer classes in virtual reality with select real-time classes taught by Morehouse professors in a digital-twin campus on Oculus headsets donated by Qualcomm. Arthur and Georgia State University.

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