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This is Project Starline. Years in the making, it works like a magic window, bringing you together with friends, family, and coworkers, even when you're cities (or countries) apart.
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Flying at 37k feet, this is what it would be like to look out the window of a 747 vs. an SR-71 vs. a New Horizons.
http://t.co/ChVsgK77Rl
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We've taken what we’ve learned from Tango and are bringing AR to millions of Android phones, starting with Pixel and S8. Here's
#ARCore
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While experimenting with different AR navigation cues in Google Maps, at one point we tried using particle effects to represent paths and curves. Then one user asked why they were "following floating trash". So we moved on. :)
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ARCore 1.7 rolls out today. It includes a new Augmented Faces API, which gives you a tracked, 468-point face mesh to build all sorts of neat effects with. No depth sensor required.
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I doubt that there is any string of search keywords that would get you to the answer of what kind of car this is.
(It's a variant of a Nash Rambler. Thanks, Google Lens.)
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This is what we're seeing through
@NASA
's new James Webb Space Telescope. Full version here:
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If you were flying at 37,000 feet, this is what it would be like to look out the window of the Falcon 9 Heavy at Earth escape velocity.
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In Google Earth VR, you change the time of day by grabbing the sun and moving it in the sky.
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This is the very first Google Cardboard prototype. 10 million followed.
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Had a harder time than usual getting into the office this morning...
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If you're building for AR or VR, building just got a lot easier. Meet Poly: a place to find and download 3D objects.
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Earlier today we announced the ARCore Depth API. It gives developers per-pixel depth maps for occlusions, hit testing, meshing, synthetic lighting, and more… all using a single RGB camera. More here:
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In 2014, when we were making the first run of Google Cardboards, we used an engineer's credit card to buy $32,592 of magnets at Home Depot.
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Today we introduced a new feature in YouTube that we're calling AR Beauty Try-On. It lets you virtually try on makeup while following along with YouTube creators.
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To get 20/20 visual acuity over a ~200 degree field of view in a VR headset, you'll need ~40 4K TVs worth of pixels.
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So excited to announce the first Daydream standalone headset, the Mirage Solo from
@Lenovo
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The Poly API is out today. Programmatic access to thousands of high-quality 3D models. Works with Unity, Unreal, ARKit, and ARCore.
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Google Earth VR with Street View imagery from 85 countries is live. Biggest update since launch.
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In case you were wondering, this is how a Super Star Destroyer and Manhattan compare in size.
http://t.co/FXBjQGGtuh
http://t.co/l0Opxzl0K7
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Happy Earth Day. We've updated Google Earth VR with support for the Rift and with... search!
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Yesterday we open-sourced Seurat. It enables high-fidelity graphics on mobile VR hardware by processing complex 3D scenes into a representation that renders much more efficiently. More here:
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The web will be key for AR. To kickstart things, we built experimental AR-capable browsers for iOS & Android:
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Most people think of AR as an optics and displays problem. That's a big part of it. But first, it's a sensing problem: motion tracking, depth sensing, lighting, localization, scene segmentation, object recognition, and more.
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Daydream View hits the shelves on Thursday (and the Googleplex shelves today!)
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On Wednesday, I used Google Earth VR to see what sunset would look like at Moffett Field's Hangar One. On Thursday, I went and photographed it.
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ARCore 1.0 is here. We slipped in a bonus feature that allows you to attach objects to all sorts of things. Also, works in the snow!
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I wrote some thoughts on VR and AR – where we are, where we're going, and why it matters.
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Depth sensing without a depth sensor, on hundreds of millions Android phones. The ARCore Depth API rolls out today →
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A Cardboard made of Cardboards. (As seen in one of our offices.)
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Visualization of a how a VPS (visual positioning service) map gets generated. This map of a Lowe's store has 10M+ feature points in it.
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The Google keynote is over... but someone has decided to stick around.
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It’s one thing to read that a great white shark can be 18 feet long. It’s another to see one up close in relation to the things around you. Introducing AR in Google Search.
#io19
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We’re rolling out new experimental features for developers on the Lenovo Mirage Solo. Experimental 6DoF controllers, see-through mode, and any Android app in VR. Coming soon:
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The Google Expeditions app just got a big update, with over 100 new AR experiences. You can visualize everything from Da Vinci's inventions to viruses to elephants, at home or in the classroom.
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The camera in every Pixel 2 is individually calibrated to optimize it for AR. Dramatically improves tracking performance with ARCore.
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With ARCore's Cloud Anchors, we've made it easy to build shared AR experiences. Works across Android and iOS. More here:
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We built some neat technology that makes VR headsets "transparent", digitally.
@googleresearch
@googlevr
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Really excited to have this start rolling out to Maps Local Guides. A big step towards overcoming the blue dot / where am I actually problem.
Check out an experiment that aims to improve the position and orientation accuracy of the little blue dot in Google Maps using global localization, a technique that combines Visual Positioning Service, Street View, machine learning and
#AugmentedReality
→
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Tilt Brush, Blocks, Poly. There's a trend here. Our goal is to make 3D creation easy, and for everyone.
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Here's how we got scenes from Google Earth with millions of polygons and GBs of textures running in mobile VR.
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VR vs. AR cheat sheet:
VR can take you anywhere.
AR can bring anything to you.
Both are important.
Neither will "win".
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We had a lot of fun working on this one. :)
Who did it better?
@childishgambino
or our new Childish Gambino Playmoji? You decide.
#pixeldanceoff
#GRAMMYs
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Accurate lighting and shadows are key to making AR objects feel like part of the physical world. The artists behind “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” nailed many of the principles 30 years ago.
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This is what Moffett Field's Hangar One looks like after a storm. Taken at dawn.
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The average person's eyes are 63mm apart. That's exactly how far apart the lenses are on VR180 cameras.
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For my annual art project, last year I created a digital skylight. Here's how it works:
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"Do the thing that can only be done in VR, not the thing that can also be done in VR." Sage advice for developers from
@chetfaliszek
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Simulating Job Simulator at Google. We are absurdly excited to have
@OwlchemyLabs
joining us!
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This guy got Windows 95 running on an Apple Watch. Moore's Law and compound growth at work.
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To make amends for not taking a computer graphics course as an undergraduate, over the holidays I wrote a basic ray tracer. Here’s what 130 hours of render time on a 10-core iMac looks like.
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YouTube VR is now on Oculus Quest, with over 1M immersive videos ready to watch.
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Happy to introduce you to Daydream View! It's comfortable, super easy to use, and something you can make your own.
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A series of photographs that recreate computer renderings. Basically the inverse of photo-realistic rendering.
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WorldSense, ARCore, Cloud Anchors, and VPS are all direct descendants of Project Tango. Seeds planted in 2013 bearing fruit.
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We just announced Playground, a new creative mode in the Pixel 3 camera. It’s an evolution of AR Stickers – now with selfies, scene suggestions, and a bunch of awesome new content.
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If you have a Samsung S8 or S8+, you've now got a Daydream-ready phone. Updates rolling out now.
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This is the next-gen Jump camera, the Yi Halo. 8K x 8K, super portable, 1.5+ hrs on battery, and seamless stitching.
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If you're building cross-platform AR or VR content, the new Resonance Audio SDK is for you. High quality, mobile-optimized spatial audio for the Web, Unity, Unreal, iOS, and Android, with plugins for leading audio tools. Also, free.
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There are good ways and bad ways to enable users to move around in VR. Four lessons learned from Daydream Labs:
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Spent the morning in my back yard showing my kids how big different animals are, right from Google Search. Lions! Tigers! Bears! And also alpine goats, timberwolves, giant pandas, European hedgehogs, angler fish, and emperor penguins.
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New version of ARCore rolling out today. Also, a preview of what's to come: persistent Cloud Anchors. Think of them as the save button for AR.
New
#ARCore
updates to Cloud Anchors and Augmented Faces enable more shared cross-platform AR experiences. Learn more →
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"Intuitive, immersive, and ridiculously fun." Blocks, our newest 3D creation tool, is out today for Vive and Rift.
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We developed a better way to represent VR video called the "equi-angular cubemap". Here's how it works.
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You didn't know it, but you've been carrying a VR camera in your pocket this whole time.
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Before AR/VR, I worked on apps like Gmail to help people be more productive at work. It’s one of many reasons I’m excited Glass is joining our team now. Today, we're launching Glass Enterprise Edition 2 to help businesses work better, smarter, and faster.
Congratulations Glass team on the launch of Glass Enterprise Edition 2!
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Portals between Scotland and San Francisco with
#ARCore
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Prototyping portals...
#arcore
#portals
#ar
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#experiments
#unity
#google
#android
#pixel
#madewithunity
#dev
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Pssst. Daydream View in snow and crimson... now available for pre-order.
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YouTube is getting a new VR video format: VR180. Easy to shoot, edit, and livestream. And three cameras on the way.
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To design the lenses for the new Daydream View, we simulated 40 quadrillion individual light rays.
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Persistent Cloud Anchors rolling out today. They're like a save button for AR, with support for both Android and iOS.
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Our next step in enabling the world to see the world. Google Earth VR is here on the Vive. Enjoy exploring!
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An AR sticker with a 3D print of an AR sticker. (Because, why not?) 🍔
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Excited to be working with Samsung to bring ARCore to even more Galaxy devices. S8+ and Note8 coming soon. Future phones will support, too.
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When Cardboard came out ~1.5 years ago, people wondered if it was a joke. Last month, it helped save a baby's life.
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Every one of Vermeer's paintings, together for the first time with our AR "Pocket Museum".
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The second-generation Jump VR camera, the Yi Halo, is shipping now. 8K resolution. Integrated battery. Seamless stitching. Live preview.
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YouTube VR on Oculus Go!
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The new Daydream View hits shelves today. It's really, really comfortable, and the new optics are amazing. Also, looks great in coral.
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"It was just me, and math, and Google." -Andy Weir, on how he wrote The Martian cc:
@andyweirauthor
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In case you didn't notice, the Daydream logo is composed of many intersecting Fibonacci spirals. More on that here:
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Starting today you can upload your 3D models directly to Poly with the Poly Upload API, and new plugins for Maya, Blender, 3ds Max, and Cinema 4D.
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Had a great day visiting our NYC office! So many great virtual and augmented things happening here.
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Big update to Blocks out today! New environments, better snapping, loop subdivision, and more.
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Excited about the
@TiltBrush
launch on Oculus Quest today. Have at it!
Paint with an infinite canvas. Experience creativity, untethered.
#TiltBrush
is now available on
#OculusQuest
! ✨🎨🖌️
@OculusGaming
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Visual acuity comparison:
20 / 20 → "perfect" vision
20 / 70 → unfit to drive
20 / ~100 → present-day VR headsets
20 / 200 → legally blind
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With Poly, our mission is to organize the world's 3D information and make it universally accessible and useful.
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