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Field in View: Google Earth VR Gave Me The Trip Of A Lifetime Inside My Kitchen

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In between the 55 miles of water separating Russia and Alaska, there sits a tiny island. But here’s the amazing thing: Big Diomede is Russia, Little Diomede is America. The second I dived into Google Earth on the HTC Vive, I knew where I had to go. I can see myself using Google Earth a lot in the coming years.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

THE STANDALONE MOBILE HEADSET THAT HTC IS KEEPING IN JAPAN. Remember, HTC is the Taiwanese-based hardware manufacturer and the HTC Vive Tech Corporation is a subsidiary that partners with American-based software company Valve for content via their huge Steam library. Russia-based company Antilatency has raised a $2.1M

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.26.11): Half-Life: Alyx revealed, Oculus Link out, XBox not considering VR and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Google announces The Relightables. Google has just invented a new system to shoot volumetric videos of avatars. Rikard Steiber departs HTC. Rikard Steiber, a very well known personality in HTC, is stepping down from his role of Viveport President. It seems that farmers in Russia are using VR to let cows make more milk.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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The Touch controllers are priced at $199 (which puts the total Rift package at the same price point as the HTC Vive, which included native controllers in its spring launch). Daydream is Google’s entire-pipeline solution, from hardware to software to content, and the first Daydream-ready hardware is here.

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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.) The Vive Pro Eye just launched by HTC at CES (Image by HTC). Google is also a company that is investing a lot in AR and VR (Image by Road To VR).

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Honey, I Shrunk the XR, with MEL Science’s Kai Liang

XR for Business Podcast

And I can’t help but notice that the difference from auto-stereoscopic 3D, VR was a technology and an ecosystem that is joined by a lot of leading global brands such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Huawei, etc. Labster is great, and also supported by Google. We support the Google platform.

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Honey, I Shrunk the XR, with MEL Science’s Kai Liang

XR for Business Podcast

And I can’t help but notice that the difference from auto-stereoscopic 3D, VR was a technology and an ecosystem that is joined by a lot of leading global brands such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Huawei, etc. Labster is great, and also supported by Google. We support the Google platform.