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Street View Comes To Google Earth VR

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The new update brings Street View imagery from 85 countries. Last year Google launched a VR version of Google Earth , letting you visit locations around the world in 3D. Much like traveling in reality, whether visiting the familiar or discovering the new, Earth VR is an experience that everyone can enjoy.

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Justice League VR Coming to HTC Vive & Oculus Rift

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The Vive experience will debut at New York Comic-Con. The first taste of the VR experience is already available for Google Cardboard as part of a promotional demo in partnership with Gillette. Located at the Javits Center, New York Comic Con runs from October 5 through October 8. Outrace your enemies as Batman. .

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Report: Meta is Considering Physical Stores to Sell Its Vision of the Metaverse

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A New York Times report maintains that Meta has been planning its own retail stores that aim to eventually span the world. The report cites people with knowledge of the project in addition to internal company documents shared with The New York Times.

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VR Quiz Game ‘Go Guess’ Uses Google 360 Captures to Make You Guess Where You Are

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Go Guess (2018) is a new interactive VR quiz game from developers Oblix that tosses you into Google 360 captures and makes you to guess where you are. Google opened up its treasure trove of 360 Street View captures to developers late last year, although there was a proviso for developing apps and games with the data: it had to be free.

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‘Oculus Launch Pad’ Is Silently Populating The VR Content Pool

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As a little-known initiative, Oculus is actively funneling in talent with the promise of training, tools and other resources that developers — new and old — can use to build projects for the Oculus platform as well as for the greater VR ecosystem. The majority of our team consists of USC students. .’

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Which Startups Are Hiring for Augmented Reality Jobs?

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billion in 2019, with many billions more being invested in R&D by the likes of Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and many more. Their Oculus app allows real-time collaboration without ever leaving your home. As of November 2020, they’re hiring for both New York and San Francisco positions.

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Social VR Platform ‘vTime’ Gets Preliminary Video Support in New Theater Update

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Social VR/AR platform vTime released a new update today that includes a few theater spaces where you can chat with friends and watch select sports programming on big screen TVs. Programming is admittedly thin at the moment, which only includes select clips from Manchester City Football Club matches.