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Project Goa Will Bring Virtual Reality To Any Smartphone

VR Game Critic

Project Goa, led by Google veteran Anush Elangovan, wants to nail high-quality virtual reality for the average consumer, by making the smartphone-based experience better. Nod, the tech startup developing Goa, hopes to tap into the enthusiasm around VR to expand past gaming into applications like real estate, medicine, museums, and tourism.

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Visit the Principality of Monaco in VR with DWorld!

The Ghost Howls

The alpha of the experience has been officially unveiled two years ago, so I can talk with you about this application that aims at mixing virtual tourism and e-commerce in a pretty interesting way. It’s a project that unites virtual tourism, v-commerce, and green economy. Yachting and Real Estate. What is DWorld?

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Funding Roundup: InstaVR Raises $2M & iStaging Raises $5M.

AllThingsVR

Founded out of Taiwan, iStaging caters specifically to the furniture and real estate industries, offering platform-specific apps for mobile devices and VR headsets to help end users visualize and experience an environment without physically being there. Read more here. and Greater China. Read more here. and Greater China.

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Crytek-Incubated ‘VR First’ Program to Double Number of Academic VR/AR Labs in 2017

Road to VR

In fact, games only account for 35% of projects underway, as the rest are focused on fields like psychology and neuroscience (12%), education (7%), tourism (7% ), and architecture and real estate (6%). Currently VR First is boasting more than 50 projects in development at the labs, and not just games.

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New Feature Spotlight: App Usage Analytics (aka Reports)

InstaVR

Previously, users could tie their InstaVR account to Google Analytics to pass some data points into that tool. For instance, if you distribute WebVR, and a majority of users are accessing the page from an Android device instead of their laptop, perhaps it would make sense to publish a standalone app for the Google Play Store?

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Getting started with Augmented Reality (AR)

ARVR

Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. Augmented Reality (AR)  — It overlays digital content in the real world. ARCore   — ARCore is an AR SDK released by Google in 2018 for building augmented reality experiences. onto the actual camera view.

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The Best 360º Cameras: VR Professionals Weigh-In

VRScout

Whether for the sake of storytelling, real estate tours, medical content, art, or tourism, they often ask the same question: What 360º camera should I be using? I’m also a huge fan of all of the Google Jump cameras [such as the Yi Halo]. It functions reliably and the Google Jump stitching platform is truly game-changing.

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