It’s the perfect pair. Take home Star Wars: The Complete Saga on Blu-ray, and embark on the six-film adventure to a galaxy far, far away. But it doesn’t end there. Every true fan needs a Astromech Droid by their side and BB-8 is as good as it gets. This authentic robot will explore, record, and
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Google has made a few moves, including appointing of a head of virtual reality, over the last month that point to a greater commitment to VR in the future, and today Google’s blog is highlighting how far it has come with VR already.
Google Cardboard is unquestionably the most widely used VR platform in history, with over 5 million having shipped since the launch 19 months ago. It may not be remotely the equal of the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, or even Samsung’s Gear VR, but it is still capable of delivering amazing experiences at a fraction of the cost of anything else on the market.
There are now over 1,000 Google Cardboard compatible apps in Google Play and over 25 million Cardboard apps have been installed from Google Play, with 10 million of those coming in the period from October to December. The top 5 apps for Cardboard are Chair in A Room, Vrse, Lamper VR: Firefly Rescue, Caaaaardboard! and Proton Pulse.
Over 350,000 hours of YouTube content have been watched in VR and since the launch of Cardboard Camera in December, and over 750,000 VR photos have been captured with it.
Highlighting the educational opportunity offered by Cardboard, over half a million students have now used it to take a virtual field trip with Google Expeditions.
These are impressive statistics for something that many people assumed was a joke when it first launched. In an exclusive interview with Time today, Clay Bavor, the aforementioned new VR head for Google, had a few comments on the future of VR at Google. When asked about new higher-end Cardboard “hardware,” he made it clear that Google’s primary focus was on making sure that everyone could have access to VR, but that Cardboard in its current form is “not the end of the line.” “I think if you imagine the types of things that a company with the ambition and the technical resources and the know-how of Google would be working on, we’re working on a lot of those things,” he said.
While Google may not be pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with VR right now, it is positioning itself as the company that delivers VR to the masses, and that is potentially an incredibly valuable place to be at the dawn of mainstream VR.
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NASA’s rover Opportunity has just marked its 12th anniversary on Mars, quite a feat for a machine that was only supposed to last three months.
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Personalisation is the new frontier for e-commerce – it’s an opportunity for marketers to show consumers only the things they want to see and none of the things they don’t, save them time, and give them just the right amount of choice. That’s the view of one ex-Google employee Maximilian Madile, the Austrian born, London dwelling entrepreneur behind the fashion personalisation site Custom.cm.
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Like millions of other people, I’ve had a surge of Star Wars nostalgia thanks to the release of The Force Awakens. The film was, against all odds, pretty amazing, nitpicks aside, and as such it sparked something in me to go out and simply consume…more Star Wars.
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Netflix wants to go global, but the globe may not want it.
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“Selfie stick. Snap. Upload to Facebook. 52 likes in a matter of minutes. These likes include people from all over the world who simply have to look at your Facebook wall to keep up to date with your life.” That’s how my “millennial” colleague Parveen Sehra described practicing immigration law to me recently. She added, “encountering ‘millennial age’ couples, between the ages of 20-40 has been an eye opening experience. These couples meet online, on trips, volunteering abroad together or in professional programs. They have fascinating backgrounds in terms of employment and travel history and are often interracial, intercultural or same-sex couples.” For the practitioner these are the couples that keep our jobs interesting. There are many benefits to a spousal sponsorship case for couples like this. For example, many of them have an organized history of the couple’s interactions through Skype history, Watsapp chains, and Facebook posts. This all helps to establish that the relationship is in fact genuine in an application. It makes it much easier for practitioners to piece together the relationship development as opposed to just some photographs where the couple has to try and remember when and where they were taken.
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Biologists believe the black-and-white bands don’t help zebras hide from predators.
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What is it like living on Earth after living in space? This question was originally answered on Quora by Garrett Reisman.
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These days, whether they’re in banking, retail or telecommunications, business leaders agree that “it pays to know your customer.” But what about the world of healthcare, where health systems invest in doctors, nurses, hospitals, clinics and supplies, with a laser focus on the delivery of care? Investment in a holistic view of the customer, or in this case the patient, is often forgotten.
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