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The 5 most important XR-related pieces of news from Google I/O 2023

The Ghost Howls

Last week, Google delivered its most important event of the year, the Google I/O. Of course, AI has been the star of the show , with the public release of Google Bard and the announcement of a new language model, but there have been also interesting pieces of news about XR.

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Big XR News from Apple, Google, XREAL, and Meta Reality Labs

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Google Axes Hundreds of AR Hardware Jobs Recent reports suggest that Google is downsizing a significant part of its 1P AR hardware team, which raises doubts about the future of its in-house XR product portfolio. The Seattle department filed its most recent citation in mid-December, and Meta plans to fight the filing in June.

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Google Promoting Pixel and Daydream VR Through Livestreamed Music Festivals

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Google is entering the music festival realm this year with news that it’s sponsoring and livestreaming a series of five shows spread across five cities, in support of five different good causes. With GoodFest, Google is following in the footsteps of Apple, which has offered its own annual music festival for the last 10 years.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

GOOGLE DAYDREAM SCORES NETFLIX AND HBO APPS. Google Daydream has exclusive access to YouTube’s considerable 360 video library (although admittedly curation could be better) as well as its massive 2D video archive. valuation) from huge names like Google, Alibaba, and Andreeson Horowitz. MAGIC LEAP’S CONTROVERSY.

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Pixvana Reveals 10K VR Video Player and Publishing Platform ‘SPIN’

Road to VR

In a mission to make 360 video less terrible, the Seattle-based company has developed a number of technologies since they came out of stealth last December. As ‘platform agnostic’ player, we’re sure to see apps available for headsets such as Samsung Gear VR, HTC Vive, Google Daydream, and Oculus Rift.

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Making the Invisible Visible in AR, with Curie's Michael Agustin

XR for Business Podcast

and Waze and Yelp and Google Maps. It's kind of like what Samsung is doing here by building their experience centers. Michael: Oh, we have offices in Austin and Seattle. And the reason why I'm here in Seattle is that where there is oil, there are refineries; where there is data, there's AI. for your camera.

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Making the Invisible Visible in AR, with Curie's Michael Agustin

XR for Business Podcast

and Waze and Yelp and Google Maps. It's kind of like what Samsung is doing here by building their experience centers. Michael: Oh, we have offices in Austin and Seattle. And the reason why I'm here in Seattle is that where there is oil, there are refineries; where there is data, there's AI. for your camera.

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