Tag: view
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Googles Daydream View, Daydream-ready headset & controller
Daydream, is it Googles virtual answer to the internets prayers? Or is it quite the opposite? Well, nobody is entirely sure yet, apart from the lucky few who are developing it as you read this. Daydream is Googles platform for high-quality mobile VR. Google aim for it to simplify the complexity of VR; they believe…
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Google Brings Street View to World Cup 2014 Venues – Google Maps Too!
In just under a week another installment of the world’s greatest football phenomenon will kick off in Brazil. The FIFA World Cup is the world’s biggest sporting event, attracting fans from across the globe, united under one common passion, good old football. Jumping on the bandwagon, Google has now decided to show off some flashy…
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Netflix introduces “My List” feature to UK users
Netflix has finally deemed us UK watchers worthy of the long-awaited ‘My List’ feature today by announcing that it will be bringing the feature to Netflix UK users this week, long after our American cousins got the feature. With My List you could hear of a good show to watch (like Orange is the New…
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Harry Potter Diagon Alley Street View Added to Google Maps
Google has revealed its most magical Street View yet, allowing fans to take a walk down the fictional shopping district as seen in the film franchise.
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Nintendo Delivers More Retro Games for Wii U Virtual Console – Also Launches Panorama View
Super Mario World, Punch-Out! and F-Zero are among new titles in Virtual Console line-up and Nintendo offers 360 degree tours though Wii U.
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BBC Sport App Hits Facebook – Olympics and Wimbledon Streaming on Timeline
Yesterday Facebook and the BBC added a new BBC live sports coverage application add on to the network…
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Google Under Fire From Information Commission Over Gmail, Chrome Data & Street View Gathering
Google has again come under criticism over its shady methods of gathering information about the U.K population through the emails we send through Gmail and the data obtained through world’s most used web browser Google Chrome. The ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) is investigating Google’s seemingly unlawful tactics used to record a number of quite personal details…
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Google Under Fire From Information Commission Over Gmail, Chrome Data & Street View Gathering
Google has again come under criticism over its shady methods of gathering information about the U.K population through the emails we send through Gmail and the data obtained through world’s most used web browser Google Chrome. The ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) is investigating Google’s seemingly unlawful tactics used to record a number of quite personal details…
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New Facebook Pages App Will Allow Greater Social Promotion and Management
Facebook has launched a trial of a new app for mobile gadgets which allows businesses and popular personalities to view and manage their Pages in the same way as we do our regular personal profiles offering a greater opportunity for self-promotion on portable platforms. The trial for a mobile version of this feature is being…
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Google Maps to Explore New Depths with Panoramic View of Great Barrier Reef
Despite being a little bit borderline creepy, Google Maps is actually a pretty impressive bit of kit and it’s not just for providing very detailed and documented photographic tours of your neighbourhood to make it easy for stalkers to pinpoint your home on a the high tech map. Putting paranoia aside, Google Maps has also…
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Google Street View Feature Shows Japan Earthquake Destruction
Above, just one of the many images of smashed buildings and wrecked homes featured in Google’s new Japanese tsunami flavoured street view.The company promised to document the destruction in Northeastern Japan caused by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami earlier in the year, and, after a journey of more than 44,000 kilometres by the trusty…
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Creative Ad Agency Turns Google Maps Into First-Person-Shooter Game
An act of genius – or genuinely disturbing? Creative advertising agency Pool Worldwide utilised the immersive Google Maps location and tour guide with photographic Street View and provided its worldly travellers with a M4A1 assault rifle turning it into a first-person-shooter called Google Shoot View. Arming geographiles with the deadly weapon, the ad co. hijacked…