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Sharing the latest industry news and best practices!How to Embed A Google Street View Tour On To Your Website
Use the Embed Button from Google My Business Google Virtual Tours provides the ability to embed your published tour onto virtually any website or social media you would like. From your virtual tour, will need to click on the Menu on the top left of the tour: Option...
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On the Road to 50M: Growing the Number of VR/AR User Adoption
An interesting infographic was being widely shared on my Linkedin Newsfeed this past week - The Number of Years It Took For Each Product to Gain 50 Million Users. It portrays a comparative on product adoption for the biggest consumer technologies in the last 100...
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Facebook: “We’re making the camera the first augmented reality platform.”
Watch Mark Zuckerberg's full 2017 F8 Keynote on AR now: https://www.facebook.com/zuck/videos/10103658355917211/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFkEHEWPZSU
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It’s National Teacher’s Appreciation Week
It's National Teacher's Appreciation Week. Celebrate it by thanking ALL teachers and educators in your life, whether it's your kid's teachers, family members or professors or teachers in your life. Thank you Mr Dave Cosgrove, who first introduced me to a Macintosh,...
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What’s in a Name? Defining Virtual Reality
In 2006, I was working for a web hosting provider that sold server space from their data centers worldwide. Not long thereafter, we started hearing the terminology "cloud" hosting. It was the new and catchy term that IT folks were slinging and that marketing was...
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Facebook on VR/AR (F8 Observations)
What an amazing year in VR / AR technologies (so far). At this year's F8 Developers Conference, Mark Zuckerberg and team announce the world's first augmented platform. While Google Daydream / Google Cardboard, and a handful of other developers have created several...
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The 2017 Virtual Reality Industry Landscape
In 2017, Virtual Reality has continued it's explosive presence in the technology field. Companies like Google and Facebook see it's value and have since invested much into it's reality capture technology, tools and distribution for 360° and virtual reality. The VR...
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Let’s Not Forget: Augmented Reality
According to Fast Company, a report has surfaced that "the inclusion of 3D sensing functionality is likely... a robust augmented reality (AR) feature set..." will be part of the iPhone 8. It's not a secret that Tim Cook is a huge fan of augmented reality. Cook spoke...
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How to Market Your Matterport Virtual Tour
With a 3D Matterport Virtual Tour of your property or listing, you can now elicit real emotion to prospective buyers, as if they were onsite visiting the property. Here are several ways to leverage the Matterport Virtual tour in your marketing efforts. Remember: the...
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How to Market Your Google Streetview Virtual Tour
So you've got yourself a 360° Virtual Tour of your business on your Google My Business listing page. Way to stand out for the crowd, and give your prospective customers and clients an immersive experience as if they were physically there at your location! Now that...
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