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Google & LG Detail Next-gen 1,443 PPI OLED VR Display, ‘especially ideal for standalone AR/VR’

Road to VR

Ahead of SID Display Week, researchers have published details on Google and LG’s 18 Mpixel 4.3-in ” The researchers attached to the project are Googl’es Carlin Vieri, Grace Lee, and Nikhil Balram, and LG’s Sang Hoon Jung, Joon Young Yang, Soo Young Yoon, and In Byeong Kang. Specification. Upper bound.

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Defining a Tech Cycle and Where Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Stand

ARPost

Many leading technology companies such as Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, and Google are investing billions into developing these technologies. In a particularly interesting case, there is a business in Japan that offers first-class flights and vacationing to any location using VR. The Beginnings of a New Tech Cycle.

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‘Google Earth VR’ Launches For Free To Let You Fly Around The World

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In the blink of an eye the world around me dissolves and the restaurants of East Fourth Street are replaced by the brilliant purple face of Japan’s Mt. This is Google Earth VR. Google Earth VR is a surprise project from Google’s Geo team that is being both announced and released today. This is not the real Mt.

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Escaping from Augmented Reality

Tech Trends VR

For those not familiar with the concept, an escape room is a location-based experience where a group of people – family, friends, colleagues – go to role play and solve interactive puzzles as part of a narrative adventure, typically lasting around an hour, but it can vary. Such is the case with Scriptum, which is bringing escape rooms to AR.

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Test Your Puzzle-Solving Skills In This AR Escape Room

VRScout

For those not familiar with the concept, an escape room is a location-based experience where a group of people – family, friends, colleagues – go to role play and solve interactive puzzles as part of a narrative adventure, typically lasting around an hour, depending on your skills.

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HTC’s New ‘Link’ Mobile VR Headset is (bizarrely) Not Part of the Vive Brand

Road to VR

The move comes just a week after the company announced a mobile standalone Vive headset in partnership with Google. Curious still, the Link headset is only due to be released in Japan, HTC tells Road to VR. Meanwhile HTC itself has yet to offer a Daydream ready phone that would work with Google’s Daydream View headset.

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8th Annual Lumiere Awards For Creative Filmmaking Expands VR Categories

VRScout

For their 8th ceremony however the organizers of the non-profit group are shaking things up by generously expanding their categories for achievements in virtual reality. In an unexpected turn of events, the society’s incredibly rare Century Award will be given to the massively successful Google Earth VR application.