After Reports of Canned AR Glasses, Google’s XR Ambitions May Be Just a Daydream Without Samsung
Google has reportedly shelved a multi-year project that sought to commercialize an AR headset, known as Project Iris. Provided the report is true, it appears Google will now need to rely on Samsung to compete with Meta and Apple...
Google Reveals Latest Project Starline Prototype, Its Light-field Telepresence Platform
It's been nearly two years since Google first introduced Project Starline, a telepresence platform designed to facilitate natural-feeling remote communication between two people. While we haven't heard much about the project, the company recently confirmed it's still ongoing, recently...
Google Discontinues Glass Enterprise Edition Smartglasses
Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2, the company’s work-focused version of its iconic but once maligned smartglasses, is being discontinued.
Google says in a device support FAQ that, starting March 15th, it will no longer sell Glass Enterprise 2, adding that it...
HoloLens Optics Chief Joins Google Amid Reported Push for Upcoming Google AR Headset
Bernard Kress, principal optical architect on Microsoft's HoloLens team, has left the company to take on the role of Director of XR Engineering at the recently formed Google Labs. A report by The Verge maintains Google is also now gearing...
New Google Stadia Job Listings Suggest VR Cloud-gaming Ambitions
Stadia, Google's cloud-gaming company, is looking for new hires with a preference for virtual reality development experience.
Stadia is Google's cloud-gaming service which runs games on powerful computers in the cloud and then streams them to your PC, laptop, or...
Google’s ‘Tilt Brush’ Finally Comes to PSVR Today
Google has taken its sweet time bringing its VR creation app Tilt Brush (2016) to PSVR, although having recently slimmed down the app to fit on the modest mobile chipset of Oculus Quest may have given the company needed incentive...
‘Tilt Brush’ Update Adds Direct Sketchfab Export Function
Tilt Brush (2016), the VR art app from Google, now has the ability to directly export VR creations to Sketchfab, the popular online repository for 3D models.
Tilt Brush has had the ability to import from Sketchfab for some time now, although...
Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 Now Available for Direct Developer Purchase
Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2, the company's most recent smartglasses (or rather smartglass), was only available to partner companies when it launched in May 2019. Now Google is allowing its third-party hardware vendors to sell the headset direct to...
Google Discontinues Daydream View Headset, the Final Nail in the Coffin for its Android VR Ambitions
It was abundantly clear by earlier this year that Google's interest in its Android-based Daydream VR platform had withered, but now the company has put the final nail in the coffin by discontinuing the Daydream View headset and confirming...
Google Releases Real-time Mobile Hand Tracking to R&D Community
Google has released to researchers and developers its own mobile device-based hand tracking method using machine learning, something Google Research engineers Valentin Bazarevsky and Fan Zhang call a "new approach to hand perception."
First unveiled at CVPR 2019 back in June, Google's on-device, real-time...
Google to Shutter Jump VR Video Service in June
Google seems to be taking somewhat of a step back from VR, as Variety reports the company will be shutting down its Jump program for good next month.
Google posted an updated Jump FAQ recently regarding the shutdown of the VR video...
Daydream & VR Nowhere to be Seen at Google I/O
If you've felt that Google has been quiet about their Daydream VR initiative for a worrying amount of time, you aren't alone. Their annual developer conference, Google I/O, this week is the latest opportunity for the company update the...
Google’s VR Painting App ‘Tilt Brush’ is Coming to Quest at Launch, Cross-Buy with Rift
Already own a copy of Google's VR creation tool Tilt Brush (2016) from the Oculus Store? Then you'll be able to hop right into the company's intuitive painting app with Oculus Quest, the upcoming standalone VR headset.
Update (April 18th, 2019):...
Second Google Glass for Enterprise Appears in Leaked Images with USB-C & Modest Spec Bump
It's been nearly two years since Google launched its first Glass Enterprise Edition, something the company called "a new chapter" for the device. Originally introduced in its Explorer Edition in 2013 targeting early adopters and developers, it now appears the...
Developers Now Receiving Google’s Experimental 6DOF Controller Kits
As applications for the Lenovo Mirage Solo 6DOF controller dev kits come to a close recently, it appears Google has begun sending out its first wave of units, an experimental hardware add-on for Lenovo's Mirage Solo standalone headset that brings...

















