Google & Song Exploder Create ‘Inside Music’ VR App to Help You Better Appreciate Songs
Song Exploder, the popular music podcast that lets musicians explain every part of their songs, has gotten some help from Google to create a new app that throws you in the middle of song so you can experience it...
5 Google ARCore Experiments That Inject Magic into Everyday Life
Google released a preview version of ARCore for Android yesterday, the company's answer to Apple's ARKit. Since ARKit was released a few months ago, we've seen a bevy of really cool experiments and potential apps to come from developers from...
Google Releases ARCore for Android, The Company’s Answer to Apple ARKit
In an answer to Apple's recently released ARKit, a developer tool used for making augmented reality apps and games that run on newer iPad and iPhones, Google today released a preview of a new Android-compatible software development kit (SDK) called ARCore.
Google prides...
Google’s AR/VR Team Just Keeps Growing
Google first started its venture into virtual reality with Google Cardboard back in 2014. Since then we've seen the company's ambitions in VR and AR continue to grow with the introduction and launch of the Daydream headsets in 2016,...
NextVR Developing Longer Format Original VR Content, Starting With ‘Paranormal Evidence’
NextVR, a platform known for its VR live broadcasting of sporting and concert events, is creating original VR content in the form of a suspenseful show called Paranormal Evidence. The California-based VR broadcast company developed the program, described as...
Google Expects 11 Daydream Ready Phones Available by Year’s End
In a few years' time Google expects to operate Daydream on "Android scale," one day opening the VR door to "hundreds of millions of users." But in order to get there, the company needs a much wider selection of Daydream ready...
Google Tests Interactive Learning with VR Espresso Machine, “People learned faster and better in VR”
The team behind Daydream, Google's mobile VR platform, is currently conducting experiments with the aim of broadening virtual reality's usecase to include more interactive learning. With an experimental VR espresso maker at the ready, the team says "people learned faster and better in...
Google Glass is Back, Glass ‘Enterprise Edition’ Unveiled
Google Glass, the iconic heads-up display (HUD) introduced back in 2012—known for spawning the portmanteau "glasshole"—is finally back, this time albeit it as a special business model dubbed Glass Enterprise Edition.
Before today, fans of the original 'Explorer Edition' could only hope that...
Google Announces ‘Blocks’, a VR App Like ‘Tilt Brush’ for Modeling 3D Objects
Google wants to make it easier for VR/AR app developers to create 3D objects with its new app revealed today called Blocks, a program designed to let you build assets for the immersive mediums from within the VR headset itself.
Creating objects for...
Google Begins Experimenting with VR Ads
According to a recent entry on the Google Developers Blog, the company has begun experimenting with advertising formats suitable for placement inside of virtual reality experiences. Focusing on mobile VR platforms, the first idea they've shared for a native...
HTC Vive & Lenovo Standalone Headsets to be Based on Qualcomm Reference Design, Components Detailed
Just about the only thing we know so far about the new Daydream standalone VR headsets in the works from HTC and Lenovo is that they are... in the works. Now however we're getting a little more clarity about...
Google’s Tango Engineering Director, Johnny Lee, on AR Capabilities Enabled by Depth Sensors
Augmented Reality has played a huge role at the developer conferences for Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and Google, which is a great sign that the industry is moving towards spatially-aware computing. Microsoft is the only company to start with head-mounted...
For Google, the Future of VR Is on the Open Web with WebVR & WebAR
Google's mission is to organize the world's information, and so they've been long-time advocates for the open web. At Google I/O last week, the company announced that they'll soon be shipping Google Chrome for Android with WebVR, and that...
Daydream 2.0 Platform Update to Bring Major Improvements to All Daydream Devices
Daydream's 2.0 software update, called Daydream Euphrates, is going to bring along with it some major changes that are set to reach down to the core of the upcoming Android 'O' operating system. In a AR/VR press briefing, Google told...
Daydream’s Chrome Browser Will Soon Let You Seamlessly Navigate From 2D to Web-based VR Content
Announced during the second day of Google’s annual I/O developer event, Daydream VR will soon have access to the Android Chrome web browser. Because of Chrome's official support for WebVR, this means that users will be able to navigate...



















