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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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Oculus Brings Rift to 90 Libraries in California for Public Access VR

Road to VR

Oculus has announced a pilot program to place 100 Rifts and Oculus Ready PCs in 90 libraries throughout the state of California, from the Oregon border down to Mexico. SEE ALSO Google Expects "Tens of Millions" of Daydream-Ready Devices on the Market By Year's End.

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LGBTQ spaces are needed now more than ever. Here’s what people mapping them have to say.

Mashable VR

Gonzaba was using Damron's guides in his research into gay male nightlife post-Stonewall; Regan, a digital historian who created software for fellow scholars, agreed there was potential to do more with the guides, as well as preserve a kind of oral history that is easily forgotten or erased. Credit: Everywhere Is Queer.

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Lighting the Torch for In-App AR Development, with TORCH’s Paul Reynolds

XR for Business Podcast

But its reputation as a video game engine can also be intimidating — especially to those who want to create AR software for enterprise. Paul has been a software developer and technology consultant since 1997 – since before the interwebs! He chats with Alan about his claim to flame. Paul, welcome to the show.

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Lighting the Torch for In-App AR Development, with TORCH’s Paul Reynolds

XR for Business Podcast

But its reputation as a video game engine can also be intimidating — especially to those who want to create AR software for enterprise. Paul has been a software developer and technology consultant since 1997 – since before the interwebs! He chats with Alan about his claim to flame. Paul, welcome to the show.

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Lighting the Torch for In-App AR Development, with TORCH's Paul Reynolds

XR for Business Podcast

But its reputation as a video game engine can also be intimidating -- especially to those who want to create AR software for enterprise. Paul has been a software developer and technology consultant since 1997 - since before the interwebs! In 2016, Paul moved to Portland, Oregon, where he founded Torch to address this very problem.

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Taming the Jungle of Ideas, with The Wild’s Gabe Paez

XR for Business Podcast

Gabe has over a decade of experience leading experiential product teams and has designed immersive software products for a diverse roster of Fortune 100 companies including Google, Samsung, Nike, AT&T, and Verizon. They were just trying to grasp on to “OK, how do I actually implement this as a software that we use every day?”

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