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How VR and AR Headsets Can Help Avoid The In-Flight Laptop Ban

VRScout

Many passengers may find a better option with mobile VR headsets like the Samsung Gear VR or Google Daydream View. Samsung Internet lets you browse the internet and work inside powerful web-based apps like Gmail or social media. Australian airline Qantas has even started offering the Gear VR to its first class passengers.

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

Road to VR

Development is divided evenly across the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift platforms, each accounting for 31% of projects created, with other major VR platforms such as Samsung Gear VR, OSVR, and Daydream rounding out the bottom numbers. Bahçesehir University (BAU), Turkey. Middle East Technical University, Turkey.

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VR Experiences to Introduce Your Family to Virtual Reality Over Thanksgiving

Road to VR

The turkey is in the oven, the cranberry sauce is in the can, and your VR setup is in the box ready to be shown off to the family at Thanksgiving. Google Earth VR. Most are short enough to plug in a person for a quick 10-20 minute play session. Oh, and definitely play Moss. Rift & Vive (and Windows VR). Space Pirate Trainer.

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Web-Based Augmented Reality for E-Commerce, with Seek’s Jon Cheney

XR for Business Podcast

And now, due to some of the new partnerships that we have that we brought to the table with Google for them, we’re enabling some of their content through Google AR Search. Alan: Yeah, the new Samsung 10 does it. Let’s talk turkey here. Jon: Right. It does it, but it’s still not quite there.

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Web-Based Augmented Reality for E-Commerce, with Seek’s Jon Cheney

XR for Business Podcast

And now, due to some of the new partnerships that we have that we brought to the table with Google for them, we’re enabling some of their content through Google AR Search. Alan: Yeah, the new Samsung 10 does it. Let’s talk turkey here. Jon: Right. It does it, but it’s still not quite there.

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Web-Based Augmented Reality for E-Commerce, with Seek's Jon Cheney

XR for Business Podcast

And so we're using a lot of the technologies that Google and Apple have been working on -- the ARKit and ARCore and things like that -- of being able to measure the room around you, and then be able to engage with it and start to interact with it and start to answer those what-if questions without having to order--. Let's talk turkey here.

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Web-Based Augmented Reality for E-Commerce, with Seek’s Jon Cheney

XR for Business Podcast

And now, due to some of the new partnerships that we have that we brought to the table with Google for them, we’re enabling some of their content through Google AR Search. Alan: Yeah, the new Samsung 10 does it. Let’s talk turkey here. Jon: Right. It does it, but it’s still not quite there.