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Google Helps Preserve Endangered Historical Sites in VR

VRScout

Google assists CyArk in saving our heritage by preserving the wonders of the world in VR. In an effort to help capture and preserve endangered historical sites around the world for future generations to enjoy, Google has teamed up with 3D laser-scanning non-profit CyArk to virtually catalogue the world’s most at-risk historical wonders.

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NYT Uses AR To Compare The World’s Most Polluted Air With Your City’s

VRScout

Graham Roberts was the creative lead for the NYT’s pollution AR app before leaving the publication to join Google as their Digital Design Lead at Google’s Brand Studio , an innovation lab that looks at how the company can create meaningful experiences that will connect Google products with customers.

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CrowsNest’s Anna is the future of hospitality

The Ghost Howls

CrowsNest XR is a startup in Shanghai and when Covid hit China the previous Winter, Eloi decided to fly to Thailand to avoid the imminent lockdown and do some business development abroad. But if you use her inside Google Chrome on Android or the WebXR Viewer on iPhone, you can trigger also an AR mode.

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Eido Inoue tells us everything we need to know about HADO and location based augmented reality

The Ghost Howls

Between that, I worked on consumer cloud software with Google for five years… managing engineering teams for Gmail, Japanese mobile, Google Labs, and social (Blogger etc.) At Google, the change was rapid but much easier to control , as everything from the software to even the servers were designed in-house. teams for Japan.

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5 things Marketing and AD Agencies need to know about Virtual and Mixed Reality

RealVision VR

Queuing to wear a headset at a trade show, or even the energy needed to slip a phone into a give-away Google Cardboard viewer might soon lose it’s novelty. For instance: A trip to a 5 star resort in Krabi, Thailand, has it’s own luxury attached to it. What most advertisers and Marketing depts.

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Pornhub Gets Half A Million VR Views A Day

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The site’s new infographics confirm that it gets around a massive 500,000 daily views of its 360 videos, which you can watch with mobile VR headsets like Google Cardboard. Thailand is the most popular country for VR content. Not surprisingly (though somewhat disturbingly), those views surpassed 900,000 on Christmas day.

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EON Reality recognized as Top 100 Company Supporting Education Excellence by OCBJ and IPSF

EON Reality

On the Top 100, EON Reality is joined by organizations such as Google, The Hoag Foundation, and Kia Motors America, Inc. EON Reality has been recognized by the Irvine Public Schools Foundation (IPSF) and Orange County Business Journal (OCBJ) as one of the Top 100 Companies Supporting Education Excellence.