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Google makes sure SideQuest does not go sideways

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Tristan Perona

Invests $12 million in the unofficial Meta Quest app store. Google’s investment arm, Google Ventures (GV), has shaken hands with ...

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Putting AR eyewear into focus

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Jon Peddie

Not your grandfather’s glasses, that’s for sure! The golden dream is that one day we will have inconspicuous, robust, and ...

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Google gives up on VR

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Kathleen Maher

Abandons Daydream to the island of broken toys. Google came up with a great name and a great industrial design ...

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Make your obsessions pay; Google empowers DIY stock photo

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Kathleen Maher

Google Images adds “licensable” badge for photographers. Google has plans to make it easier for people to sell their images ...

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Google’s Project Stream showcases realtime software streaming

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Johan Keyter

The concept of local processing power may eventually lose its meaning as full software streaming becomes reality. Google recently conducted ...

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Lytro no more

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Kathleen Maher

While Lytro is shutting itself down, some of the company’s talent has been hired by Google. One of the tech ...

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3D augmented reality on the web, for everyone

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Jon Peddie

Google is here to save the day. Google wants to popularize 3D on the web and on Android devices. The ...

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Google acquires cloud rendering service Zync

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Randall Newton

Zync offers an on-demand render farm service that scales from one core to thousands of CPUs. Amazon loses a small ...

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Demonstration shows off Chromebook as thin-client graphics workstation

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Randall Newton

VMware, Nvidia, and Google team up to run high-performance graphics via cloud technology. Today in San Francisco at VMworld 2014, ...

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Google acquires mobile 3D graphics expert drawElements

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Randall Newton

Android gains a way to standardize 3D graphics, testing for OpenGL/OpenCL compliance.  Google has purchased drawElements, a Finnish software company ...