Google Confirms Glass Team is Not Working With AR/VR Team
Amidst a lot of exciting AR/VR news from Google this week during I/O 2017, a bit of sad news comes for any fans of the company's 'Project Glass'. The team within Google that worked on Glass is not collaborating...
Google’s ‘Seurat’ Surface Light-field Tech Could Be a Graphical Breakthrough For Mobile VR
Google has revealed a new 'surface light-field' rendering technology that it's calling 'Seurat' (after the famous Pointillism painter). The company says that the tech will not only bring CGI quality visuals to mobile VR, but it will do so at...
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...
Hands-on: Google’s Standalone Daydream Headset Prototype with WorldSense Tracking
Over the last 12 months or so we've been keeping an eye on Google's aggressive hiring for its AR/VR team which, among other things, suggested that the company was working on new “mass production” hardware that would go beyond the...
Google Expects “Tens of Millions” of Daydream-Ready Devices on the Market By Year’s End
During Day 2 of Google I/O 2017, following major announcements of support for standalone VR headsets and a ‘2.0’ release of the Daydream software platform, Mike Jazayeri, Director of Product Management for Daydream, stated that “tens of millions” of...
Daydream Standalone Headsets to be Priced Similar to Rift and Vive
Daydream-compatible standalone headsets are coming, revealed on stage at Google I/O yesterday, but the big question remains: how much is one of these inside-out positional tracking headsets going to cost? Google tells that although prices are dependent on the individual...
Watch Google’s ‘Visual Positioning Service’ AR Tracking in Action
At today’s annual Google I/O developer conference, Clay Bavor, VP of Virtual Reality at Google, announced a new augmented reality service called Visual Positioning Service, the latest development for the Tango platform that promises to not only precisely map...
Google Announces ‘WorldSense’ Inside-out Tracking for Standalone Daydream VR Headsets
Google today announced that standalone VR headsets are coming to Daydream, the first of which will be made by HTC and Lenovo. Supporting these new devices is an inside-out positional tracking system that the company is calling 'WorldSense', which...
First Glimpse of HTC’s Standalone Vive Headset Powered by Google Daydream, Launching Later This Year
Google and HTC are partnering up on Google's new standalone Daydream VR initiative which will see fully-self contained mobile VR headsets built on Android. HTC is bringing its Vive brand to Daydream, today announcing that the company will build...
