Google Appears to Be Ramping Up R&D Efforts for “New and novel” AR/VR Lenses
Though there wasn't much groundbreaking in the Daydream news shared at Google I/O this year, the company is growing its AR/VR team at an accelerated rate, suggesting Google has a number of things up its sleeve yet. One recent...
Google & LG Detail Next-Gen 1,443 PPI OLED VR Display, ‘especially ideal for standalone AR/VR’
Ahead of SID Display Week, researchers have published details on Google and LG's 18 Mpixel 4.3-in 1,443-ppi 120Hz OLED display made for wide field of view VR headsets, which was teased back in March.
The design, the researchers claim in the paper,...
Report: Google is Developing a Standalone AR Headset to Rival HoloLens
Google is allegedly developing a standalone augmented reality headset that aims to offer users a tethereless AR experience, German tech publication WinFuture reports.
WinFuture maintains they've obtained documents proving the existence of the Google AR headset project, which internally carries the code name...
Google: Don’t Expect 6DOF Controllers for Lenovo Mirage Solo
If you're waiting on positionally-tracked controllers for Google's latest entry into the Daydream platform, the standalone 6DOF VR headset Lenovo Mirage Solo, you probably won't ever see it, at least not from Google.
Google's annual I/O dev conference was strangely...
Google Confirms Chrome is Coming to Standalone Daydream Headsets
The Lenovo Mirage Solo, the first standalone Daydream headset, launched just last week. In our review we noted it odd that the headset didn't have access to a VR web browser. But that's soon to change, as Google has...
Google to Support Multi-user Shared AR Apps with ‘Cloud Anchors’ in ARCore
Today at Google I/O 2018, Google announced upgrades to its ARCore augmented reality technology, including a new feature called Cloud Anchors which will let developers create multi-user applications where devices can share an augmented environment.
ARCore launched earlier this year,...
Google Teases AR Maps Integration to Help You Navigate By Sight
Aparna Chennapragada, VP of Product for AR/VR at Google, took to the stage at Google's I/O developer conference today to tease some of the work the company is doing to integrate augmented reality into Google Maps.
Chennapragada says the team...
Google Open Sources Seurat, a ‘Surface Light-field’ Rendering Tool for 6DOF Mobile VR
Google announced Seurat at last year's I/O developer conference, showing a brief glimpse into the new rendering technology designed to reduce the complexity of ultra high-quality CGI assets so they can run in real-time on mobile processors. Now, the...
Google Pays Homage to Film Pioneer Georges Méliès in VR Short ‘Back to the Moon’
Google is celebrating the life and artistry of French film pioneer Georges Méliès today with a charming VR short that commemorates his iconic silent films including the groundbreaking A Trip to the Moon (1902).
Releasing today, the 106th anniversary of his celebrated silent...
Google Demonstrates Promising Low-cost, Mobile Inside-out Controller Tracking
A number of standalone VR headsets will be hitting the market in 2018, but so far none of them offer positional (AKA 6DOF) controller input, one of the defining features of high-end tethered headsets. But we could see that...
Google Partners With CyArk to 3D Scan the World’s Historical Sites, Provide Open Access to Data
Google has partnered with CyArk, the non-profit studio behind VR app MasterWorks: Journey Through History (2018), to expand CyArk's mission to 3D laser-scan the world's historical sites and provide open access to the data. Called the Open Heritage Project, Google and CyArk...
Lenovo Mirage Solo Daydream Headset Now Available For Pre-order at $400
Lenovo's Mirage Solo, a standalone VR headset in the Daydream app ecosystem, has had an official release date and price for some time now: May 5th and $400. Pre-orders are now live for both the VR headset and Lenovo's...
Hands-on: ‘Dr. Splorchy’ is Another Justin Roiland™ Fever Dream That Defies a Concise Headline
Squanch Games, the studio behind Accounting+ (2018) and brainchild of Rick and Morty creator Justin Roiland, is coming out with a new Daydream exclusive that follows the exploits of the titular Dr. Splorchy, plopping you aboard a spaceship with dangerous bugs that you have to...
Google Opens ‘Maps’ API So Devs Can Create ‘Pokémon Go’-style Games
During the Google Developer Day presentation at GDC 2018, Product Manager Clementine Jacoby and Engineering Lead Patrick Donelan at Google Maps presented the team’s progress in bringing their technology and data to game developers. Several ‘location-based’ AR games using...
Google’s ‘Welcome to Light Fields’ VR App Reveals the Power of Volumetric Capture
Google has released a free app for PC VR headsets called Welcome to Light Fields. The company says the app serves as a showcase of "the emerging technology Google is using to power its next generation of VR content."
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