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Google Bringing WebVR Support to Android Chrome in JanuaryWebVR.

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Google Bringing WebVR Support to Android Chrome in January WebVR is gaining significant momentum; last month the biggest players in the browse space came together to discuss the future of VR on the web at the W3C Workshop on Web & Virtual Reality.

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Google Launching WebVR Support for Android Chrome in January, Desktop to Follow

Road to VR

There, Google said that the company soon plans to ship a public version of Chrome on Android with support for WebVR 1.1. It was there that Megan Lindsay, WebVR Product Manager at Google, announced that the company is working toward a public release of Chrome on Android that supports the latest WebVR 1.1

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Adobe To Launch AR Features ‘As Fast As We Can,’ Exec Says

VRScout

The San Jose-based company isn’t the first big fish to gush about AR. Apple CEO Tim Cook said last year that “AR will change everything” and make the iPhone “even more essential,” while Microsoft has been revamping its computing around VR and AR, or what it calls “mixed reality.”

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Is Personal Computing’s Next Conquest Your Face?

AR Insider

At an event in San Jose, California, Facebook introduced its plan for augmented reality glasses, where users will be able to pull up a visual display on top of what’s actually in front of them. Microsoft won the PC era and now has a tablet business, while Apple and Google have the dominant mobile operating systems.

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An Inflection Point for WebVR and the Open Metaverse

Road to VR

And then on October 19th and 20th, there was a historic W3C Workshop on Web & Virtual Reality where all of the major VR players gathered in San Jose to hash out the WebVR web standards for delivering VR and AR applications over the web.

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What F8 2017 Means for Mass Market Adoption of Immersive Technologies

VRScout

More than 4,000 people attended the event at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California, and more than 3 million worldwide watched the keynote via Facebook Live. Google I/O : May 17-19, 2017. F8 2017 was held on April 18th and 19th 2017. Apple WWDC : June 5-9, 2017.

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NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference Officially Announced

VRWorld

NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA), a world leader in AI computing technology, will host its eighth annual GPU Technology Conference (GTC) on May 8-11, at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center. We will cover the conference extensively.