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Snap Launches Long-Anticipated Custom Landmarkers Tool

ARPost

This week, Snap rolled out the long-awaited “Custom Landmarkers” developer tool for creating AR experiences anchored to geographic locations. To showcase the tool, five locations around the world already have their own Custom Landmarkers created through partnerships with early access developers. The Road to Custom Landmarkers.

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“War Remains” Provides Immersive Experience of World War I

ARPost

MWM Interactive gifted the War Remains location-based experience to the National WWI Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri. This experience is unlike anything that Kansas City has hosted before,” said Matthew Naylor, President and CEO of the National WWI Museum and Memorial. “ Immersive VR Experience.

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‘Google Earth VR’ Lets You Experience the Total Solar Eclipse Right Now

Road to VR

Released in an August 12th update, Google has added a new menu function that lets you activate Monday’s total solar eclipse, which can be seen as it passed through 14 US states: Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Wyoming.

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Here’s How VR is Helping Athletes Prepare for Games

VRScout

EON Sports has helped Major League Baseball’s Tampa Bay Rays and National Football League’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers as well as college teams such as Kansas, UCLA and Ole Miss. many teams find VR to be a great training tool. Dutch company Beyond Sports has soccer clients such as Football Club Ajax and Royal Dutch Football Association.

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Oculus Venues Arrives for Oculus Go and Gear VR

VRScout

Oculus also designed Venues with safety in mind from the start, building other tools like being able to block someone and even report activities that violate Oculus’ Code of Conduct. June 27 // MLB: Kansas City Royals @ Milwaukee Brewers // 11:10 am PT. June 20 // MLB: Atlanta Braves @ Toronto Blue Jays // 9:37 am PT.

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Vigilant amateur asteroid hunters keep watch for menacing space rocks

Mashable VR

His club's facility in Northeast Kansas, Farpoint Observatory , is about 20 or 30 miles away. That love for tinkering and learning how things work drove him to eventually become a machinist, someone who makes tools and parts for mechanical equipment. Gary Hug photographed the sky from his backyard in Kansas. Credit: Gary Hug.

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Put the Car of Your Dreams in Your Living Room, with ZeroLight’s Barry Hoffman

XR for Business Podcast

I thought, “that’s a nice marketing tool.” Or, they can do it themselves with a tool called Spotlight. We’ve got like a whole range of tools to deliver things in real-time, with as little use of manpower as possible. They’d say, “it’s amazing!” They can make images.