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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...

Samsung Partners with Google & Qualcomm to Release Android-powered XR Device

Samsung's 2023 Unpacked event was all about the company's Galaxy S23 hardware, although at the end of its hour-long presentation the South Korean tech giant announced it was working with Qualcomm and Google to develop an XR device. TM Roh,...

Google’s Project Starline Starts Real-world Testing, Bringing Light-field Video Calls to Enterprise Partners

Google's Project Starline is an experimental system for immersive video chatting that aims to close the distance between people without needing an AR or VR headset. At Google's annual Cloud Next conference, the company announced it's rolling out the...
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Google’s Project Starline is a Light-field Display System for Immersive Video Calls

This week Google revealed Project Starline, a booth-sized experimental system for immersive video chatting, purportedly using a bevy of sensors, a light-field display, spatial audio, and novel compression to make the whole experience possible over the web. This week during...

Google Makes ‘Tilt Brush’ Open Source as Active Development Comes to a Halt

Google announced it has stopped active development on Tilt Brush (2016), the company's VR paint app. All is not lost though. As the team pivots to creating immersive AR experiences, Tilt Brush has officially gone open source, allowing anyone to modify 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 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...

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):...

Google Shuts Down Internal VR Film Studio Spotlight Stories

Google is shutting down Spotlight Stories, the group tasked not only with pushing forward virtual reality as a storytelling medium, but creating a number of highly polished and thoughtful VR pieces in the process. A copy of an email written...

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...

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,...

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 ‘Tour Creator’ Lets You Build VR Tours Using Streetview & Your Own 360 Photos

Google today launched Tour Creator, a web-based tool that lets you easily build a VR 'tour' using imagery from Google Street View and even your own 360 photos. The company released the tool as a part of Teacher Appreciation...

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...
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