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Researchers Are Using Google's App to See the Impact Smartphones Really Have on Your Wellbeing

GizModo VR

University of Oregon researchers are teaming up with Google to conduct a study on digital wellbeing using the Google Health Studies tool Dr. Nicholas Allen said in a Google blog post today. Read more.

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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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Predicting Big Tech's Antitrust Outcome With Oregon Trail Ended Miserably—But No One Died

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I downloaded a Mac OS 8 emulator a few weeks ago—not just because it looked cool, but because I had a serious hankering for some classic Oregon Trail. The app itself is pretty neat. It’s made by the same Slack developer, Felix Rieseberg, who also made a Windows 95 emulator. It’s not a fully functioning Mac OS 8… Read more.

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What’s Behind Google’s Latest AR Updates?

AR Insider

A fter expanding and contracting in various VR initiatives, Google continues to be committed to AR. If search and AR had a baby, it would be visual search — Google’s prevailing AR play, otherwise known as Google Lens. This is Google’s version of an AR cloud. The AR Location Wars, Part I: Google.

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100-Year-Old Man Reacts to His First VR Experience

VRScout

But recently, at Intel’s campus in Hillsboro, Oregon, Becker added another big experience to his life: VR. He soared over Florence and Wyoming in Google Earth VR. Fortunately for us, Intel filmed the experience so we could see firsthand what a man who has been alive for the entire past century makes of this new technology.

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How VR Is Changing College Tours

VRScout

North Carolina isn’t the only university trying to encourage future students with VR, The University of Oregon sent out VR cardboard goggles to all its accepted undergraduate students to entice students to check out the college’s own VR tour. Image Credit: Google AR & VR / GEAR UP / YouVisit.

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What’s Behind Google’s Latest AR Updates?

ARVR

After expanding and contracting in various VR initiatives, Google continues to be committed to AR. Google’s prevailing AR play, otherwise known as Google Lens. As examined in our Location Wars series, this also takes form in what we call Google’s Internet of Places. This is Google’s version of an AR cloud.

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