Tech Trends VR

MAY 21, 2018

Google harnesses the power of photos and street view to deliver simplified VR development for teachers and students. At its annual I/O Developer Conference in Mountain View, California Google announced the launch of Tour Creator , a new tool that easily allows anyone to create interactive content in Virtual Reality.

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VRScout

APRIL 8, 2018

Seattle, and Austin. Seattle, or Portland, because you’re going up against giants like Google or Microsoft. Visiting Metro Vancouver for the first time two months ago for the Women in Tech seminar, he’s now looking to make an investment in the region. “My I would put it together with San Francisco, L.A.,

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Full Dive Gaming

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Originally spawned at MAGFest, it now envelops cities from Seattle to NYC. Each week, we release NEW EPISODES on all Your Favorite major platforms: Spotify, Apple, Google. We educate, advocate and promote VR games to the general public with partnerships with the VR industry and VR communities around the world. 0:00 What is VRZone??

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AR Insider

MAY 26, 2021

That could be wayfinding with Google Live View , or visual search with Google Lens. As you can tell from the above examples, Google will have a key stake in this “Internet of Places.” Synthesizing these factors, one of AR’s battlegrounds will be in augmenting the world in location-relevant ways.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 1, 2022

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. To start, Uber Explore is available in 14 U.S.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 3, 2017

Software Development Manager in Virtual Reality to work in its Seattle offices, according to a new job listing. The listing notes that experience with “Oculus Rift, Gear VR, HTC Vive, PlayStation VR, or Google Daydream” is a bonus, so we’d expect this service to come to multiple platforms too.

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VRScout

JUNE 8, 2016

The business is an attempt by the Seattle-based agency to further its involvement in the 360-degree and VR industries by providing an impressive collection of over 12,000 high-res 360-degree premium images collected over the past four years.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

” Part of the technology that enables Holo’s dynamic AR imaging is Google’s Project Tango. ” 8i made headlines last month when it announced its new CEO Steve Raymond as well as a Seattle-based research facility that seems to be working on bringing holographic telepresence to mass-communications.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 10, 2017

Through a partnership with Seattle-based startup Pixvana, Valve is also launching a VR video section aimed at bringing many of the benefits of distributing a 360-degree video on Facebook or Google’s YouTube to PC users consuming content through Steam.

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VRScout

JULY 21, 2016

Working out of a modest two-story house tucked away in a historic Hollywood neighborhood, Christian Bretz is giving me a demo of his Stonehenge VR experience, just days before he has to pack up everything and make the journey to the Pacific Science Center in Seattle. Bretz is one of those new breed of VR creators.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 6, 2017

In fact the company has already run pilot lessons using the headset in classes at Renton Prep in Seattle, Washington, and Castro Valley Unified College in California. You may have already heard of Lifeliqe; last year the company partnered with HTC to make educational VR experiences for the Vive headset.

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ARVR

JUNE 2, 2021

That could be wayfinding with Google Live View , or visual search with Google Lens. As you can tell from the above examples, Google will have a key stake in this “Internet of Places.” namely Google and Niantic?—?simply Point your phone (or future glasses) at places and objects to contextualize them. But it’s not alone.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Up north in Seattle, Amazon announced Echo Frames, lightweight glasses with the Alexa voice assistant embedded in them. Microsoft won the PC era and now has a tablet business, while Apple and Google have the dominant mobile operating systems. Google (search). There's now an arms race to capture the next computing platform.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 21, 2020

We’ve generally stated “tens of billions” for the collective investment scale of the big five — Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple. Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Snap and Qualcomm are all making significant investments. But our standards of precision are higher, and you deserve better.

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VRScout

AUGUST 15, 2020

Running now until August 23rd at the Seattle Design Festival in Seattle, Washington, the AR exhibition allows visitors to access virtual art inspired by original BLM street paintings which have since been taken down by the city, offering passer-by’s a chance to relive a piece of Seattle history.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 4, 2021

Talking about a purely digital event, the digital CGI show around the Space Needle in Seattle was surely beautiful. Analyzing the data from Google and the subscribers of the VR-related subreddits on Reddit, it is possible to see that the interest in VR, especially the one branded by Oculus, has skyrocketed at the end of 2020.

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AllThingsVR

JULY 22, 2016

In other words, there’s an incredible amount of data contained within some of the highest resolution 360-degree video files, so companies like Facebook and Google need to intelligently push that detail out to VR headsets so people don’t have to wait for long downloads or look at faces with unrecognizable features.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

Did Seebright just release the augmented reality equivalent of Google Cardboard? In a clear Google snub, you can view Facebook 360 photos with a Gear VR… but not with Cardboard. Augmented Reality Gets Its First Smartphone-Powered Headset and a BIG Partnership Between Hollywood-Backed Giants.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Pluto is a new social app currently in alpha from the Seattle-based startup Pluto VR. Opening Google Earth VR, a notoriously bandwidth-hungry app that loads world geometry in real-time, I didn’t notice any significant disruptions in the chat as we kept on our discussion about Pluto’s vision of the future.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

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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Bernard Marr

AUGUST 8, 2022

Basically, if the metaverse is the new internet, then everyone wants to be the new Google - holding the keys to the huge amounts of money to be made from selling advertising there. at the University of Washington in Seattle, US, for example, you can take advantage of the opportunity to learn at the U.W. MS, or Ph.D.)

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VRScout

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The Impact Reality Summit—hosted by Kaleidoscope and Vulcan, and held at Vulcan’s Seattle Headquarters Jan. Vulcan Productions has teamed up with Kaleidoscope to launch the Impact Reality Summit, a two-day event celebrating the very best in “XR for Good” storytelling.

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Tech Trends VR

MAY 8, 2018

Live from Seattle, Tech Trends scoops up all the tastiest bites from the #MSBuild2018 developer’s conference. “We We need to ask ourselves not only what computers can do, but what they should do,” said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in his opening keynote at Build. The era of the intelligent cloud and intelligent edge is upon us Click To Tweet.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

But its new Alexa products are clearly a response, at least in part, to new smart speaker offerings from Google and Apple. The company held its event on the 30th floor of one of its high-rise buildings in Seattle, where it had created a living room and kitchen to test how the Alexa devices worked in a homelike setting.

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Bernard Marr

MARCH 17, 2023

The Seattle-based software giant brought office and home PCs into the mainstream in the eighties, thanks to its Windows and DOS operating systems. The interesting element of this is that it represents Microsoft directly challenging Google for the title of king of search – a title that Google has held for over 20 years.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Pluto , a Seattle based VR startup which reeled in a $14 million Series A investment last year, today launched their unique Pluto application in Early Access via Steam.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 6, 2017

Tobii showed its technology integrated with the popular multiplayer world Rec Room while SMI allowed me to chat with someone in Seattle as if he was standing right next to me. In Valve’s booth at GDC, both SMI and Tobii demonstrated a 3-person social VR experience in which I hung out with other folks in VR and had a conversation.

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Robert Scoble

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 11, 2017

Other teams in this group include Survios ( which is funded by investors to the tune of $50 million ) and Owlchemy Labs ( acquired by Google ). They recall demos of Owlchemy’s Job Simulator, Google’s Tilt Brush and Valve’s early robot demo, each of which made excellent use of those hand controls.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 14, 2020

and Waze and Yelp and Google Maps. 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. and Waze and Yelp and Google Maps. for your camera. So think about all the times you use G.P.S. for your camera.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 14, 2020

and Waze and Yelp and Google Maps. 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. and Waze and Yelp and Google Maps. for your camera. So think about all the times you use G.P.S. for your camera.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 14, 2020

and Waze and Yelp and Google Maps. 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. and Waze and Yelp and Google Maps. for your camera. So think about all the times you use G.P.S. for your camera.

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HaptX

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

A couple months ago on a murky Seattle day, my colleague Andrew and I were at the HaptX office discussing the upcoming release of Ready Player One. A search on Google Trends reveals more searches for “VR gloves” than “haptic gloves.” By Greg Bilsland | Former Sr. Communications Manager.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 18, 2023

Orlando’s digital twin could be viewed as a more in-depth version of Google Maps that allows decision-makers to experience a “flyover” of the region with overlays of relevant data points. Canada, and Mexico.

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Upload VR

MAY 26, 2022

The technology is similar to large-scale visual positioning systems in active development at Google and Snap. These locations are mainly spread across six key cities — San Francisco, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York City and Seattle — and include “parks, paths, landmarks, local businesses and more.”

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

San Francisco, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York City, and Seattle?—?for This is why Tim Sweeney, talking about the metaverse, rants about how we should avoid having again companies like Google and Apple that may decide the destiny of the others thanks to the immense power they have. Other news. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Projects must be viewable via Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Samsung Gear VR, or Google Cardboard. Seattle International Film Festival Date: May 17 - June 10 The Seattle International Film Festival is the largest film festival in the United States, with more than 155,000 people attending each year. Follow YVRFF on social media.

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