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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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Vancouver Emerging As Top Five VR and AR Hub

VRScout

I would put it together with San Francisco, L.A., Seattle, and Austin. It’s very competitive to hire people in San Francisco, L.A., Seattle, or Portland, because you’re going up against giants like Google or Microsoft. The other is to find talent for our portfolio of 21 companies.

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Uber Explore adds reservations, activities to the ride-hailing app

Mashable VR

But instead of having to search Google or Yelp, you won't have to leave the Uber app for it. Paul, New Orleans, New Jersey, upstate New York area, Orlando, San Antonio, San Francisco, and Seattle) and Mexico City. Another button is coming to the Uber app home screen: Uber Explore.

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

XR for Business Podcast

It was the VRARA gathering in San Francisco, and then we went from there to Verizon's head office and we went for a meetup where we learned from Apple and a bunch of other people about what's coming up in virtual reality. and Waze and Yelp and Google Maps. Michael: Oh, we have offices in Austin and Seattle.

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

XR for Business Podcast

It was the VRARA gathering in San Francisco, and then we went from there to Verizon's head office and we went for a meetup where we learned from Apple and a bunch of other people about what's coming up in virtual reality. and Waze and Yelp and Google Maps. Michael: Oh, we have offices in Austin and Seattle.

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Tesla’s data advantage. Can Apple, or others, keep up?

Robert Scoble

I do too, and go even further than she does in studying this industry (I had the first ride in the first Tesla with Elon Musk and had the first video on YouTube of Google’s self-driving car, and have interviewed many in the industry, and also have a Twitter list of people and companies building autonomous cars ). Can Google match this?

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