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YouTube Video in 3D is Coming Anyway.

It’s formal: you can’t escape 3D. At the moment, James Cameron’s epic disaster romance Titanic is back in theaters after 15 years. Why? Because at the present it’s in 3D. So, in the age of 3D blockbusters, 3D televisions and 3D smartphones, it makes sense that YouTube in 3D wouldn’t be far behind as well. According to YouTube’s blog, the site will now be automatically converting all 1080p videos into 3D. Meaning, you can select 3D viewing in the Quality settings (click on the gear icon) on the YouTube player, then pop on your 3D glasses and see YouTube in another dimension. Here’s one of our favorites: Video!

 

YouTube has had a tool in beta for a while now that lets people convert their own videos into 3D. Now, though, it will be doing all of the work for you, meaning your smartphone masterpieces will ultimately be converted for all the world — or the small percentage who have 3D glasses at home for some reason — to wonder at. To view videos in 3D, all you have to do is click on the gear icon, which will present you with an option to watch the video in another dimension. Google has been improving its converting abilities by studying the original 3D videos uploaded to the site for insight on depth estimation and other video characteristics. Why is Google doing this? Fairly, I have no knowledge. I can’t imagine tons of people were demanding for this feature. Still, it’s coming, so you might as well go out and purchase some 3D glasses to watch delightful videos the way they were meant to be seen… alone in your room with comical eyewear on.

Google’s Project Glass: Visualizing the business enhancement, A new way to see the World:

Project Glass is part of the Google X Lab at the company, which has worked on other futuristic technologies, such as a self-driving car. The product is not expected to be available for purchase soon. The proposed determination of Project Glass products would be the hands free displaying of information currently available to most smartphone users, and allowing for interaction with the Internet via natural language voice commands, in a way similar to the iPhone application Siri. The software powering the glasses will be Google’s Android operating system. Google has sketch and delineated a little additionally about its Project Glass, an effort to deliver smart glasses that would enhance your visual reality a decent bit with data on the fly. I’ve been a little uncertain about this undertaking of Google’s, which by the way will deliver ads right to your eyeballs. Though, it is value thoughtful some of the business uses for these innovative glasses. Here are a few business use cases, some of which could be evidently a stretch.

 

Tourism: The benefit is that Google’s goggles could be the trendy way to provide lead and guided tours of almost everything. The shortcoming is you’ll get plugs and ads from your friendly neighborhood tourist trap. 

Shopping and marketing: See that jacket you’ve been craving? With Google’s specs you’ll be able to customize colors and order from your eyes. Shoppers will affection a little virtual reality with the shopping experience. The disadvantage is impartially obvious: Google can track what your eyes are doing and line up ads accordingly. 

Local, Native merchant marketing: Holy coupons Batman! It’s one thing to walk by a restaurant and get a deal sent to your smartphone. It’s fairly another deal to get those coupons sent to your specs. The positive and negative here are the same thing certainly. 

Real estate: Real estate agents think QR codes are cool. Just wait until they get their hands on Google glasses. You walk into room of a house you’re eyeballing and promptly get the dimensions. You also get redecorating guidelines and tips. Advantage: You’re more informed about a house and can better make a purchasing decision. Disadvantage: You may also be able to call up your credit rating to remind you that you’re totally stretching for your McMansion. 

Business meetings are swelling: If you’re like me you hardly remember your own name half the time. Google’s goggles will allow you to scan your list of contacts — with the assistance of facial recognition — and then you’ll remember that executive’s name (or as a minimum pretend to). There is no shortcoming to this excluding that in other words used to hide the fact I can’t remember your name. Another bonus: You can pretend you’re paying attention in that 10th meeting of the day and surf the Web without anyone knowing. 

The “augmented reality” glasses project is just one of many calm undertakings currently under way at Google X, which the New York Times calls “a secretive laboratory near Google’s main Mountain View, Calif., campus where engineers and scientists are also working on robots and space elevators”. 

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Wi-tribe Promotes Technology Leadership in Pakistan:

Wi-tribe live-streams the Google Technology User Group event held at SZABIST, Islamabad! 

Karachi – 3rd April, 2012: Having hosted a number of live streaming projects under the aegis, umbrella of wi-tribe LIVE, wi-tribe Pakistan recently live streamed the first Google Technology User Group (GTUG) event held at SZABIST, Islamabad Pakistan. Themed around “Google Outreach and Innovation”, the event aimed to promote Google’s latest technology amongst budding developers and technology evangelists. Speakers at the event included Ahmad Hamzavi, Head of New Business Development, MENA & Central Asia, who spoke on the subject of innovation at Google, and TilekMamutov, New Business Development Manager, Central Asia and Central South Asia who spoke about Google outreach. “GTUG is a great event that imparts knowledge, information about the latest Google technology. The event provided a great learning opportunity to Pakistan’s young and aspiring, ambitious developers. 

With wi-tribe LIVE, our aim and objective is to widen the outreach of such informative sessions, making them available online to as big an audience as possible. At wi-tribe, we pride ourselves on providing and promoting platforms that can act as key enablers for the development of Pakistan’s future technology leaders,” said Ali Fahd, Director of Marketing, wi-tribe Pakistan. By taking such initiatives and steps, wi-tribe aims to open doors of new possibilities a prospect for the hard-working youth of the country. By creating limitless access to events like GTUG with live streaming, wi-tribe envisions a more technology advanced Pakistan where the youth becomes the driving force behind ICT development. 

For more information on wi-tribe LIVE, please visit wi-tribe.pk/live

 

Source: Syntax Communications Pakistan!

Privacy group take legal action to impede Google policy change.

A consumer advocacy group filed a lawsuit, proceeding to undertake to derail Google plan to merge user data from YouTube, Gmail, Google plus and other services in individual all-inclusive profiles. The Electronic Privacy Information Center urged a federal court to block Google from implementing the change on March 1 as planned and to direct the Federal Trade Commission to get involved and intervene. Google announced the change to its terms of service in January, explaining that it will essentially “treat you as a single user across all our products” when it comes to use patterns tracked for targeting services, content or ads.

 

EPIC charged that the change would go against and violate an agreement that the commission negotiated with the California Internet giant last year to address privacy concerns raised by the launch of a failed Google Buzz social tool in 2010. Combining user data as planned without approval from the people involved would infringe the consent verdict signed by Google, EPIC argued. Google, facing pressure from US lawmakers over the new privacy policy, said on January 31 that it remains committed to protecting consumer data as it creates a “seamless and easy” Web experience.

The Internet giant sent a letter to lawmakers and posted comments on its public policy blog defending the changes, which will consolidate the policies of its offerings such as search, mail, video and map usage. Google said in a blog post at the time that said the change will make Google’s privacy policy “simpler and more understandable” and will “make our users’ experience seamless and easy by allowing more sharing of information among products when users are signed into their Google Accounts.” Some privacy advocates have expressed apprehension that users will not be able to “opt out” of the new policy, which will allow advertisers to develop, build up personalized messages based on Web searches, use of Android mobile devices or activity on other Google products.

Google set out social with Facebook opponent:

Google, the ruler of Internet search but an out of order on the social front, launched its opponent to Facebook, a social networking service called Google Plus+.

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Google breaks billion-visitor obstruction on Internet:

Statistics, figures released by industry tracker comScore credited Google with being the first online operation to draw in excess of a billion visitors in a single month. To some extent in excess of a billion people went to Google websites in May in what comScore billed as an extraordinary turn-out on the Internet.

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Solar Energy, Power System for Google Company Headquarters:

Google Incorporated. Strategy to construct a enormous solar-electricity system to assist power parts of its Mountain View, Calif., campus that it articulate will advantage both the environment and its bottom line or end result. The system, to be manufactured by EI Solutions, a unit of Energy Innovations Inc., of Pasadena, Calif., will utilize 9,212 solar panels and have an overall capacity of 1.6 megawatts, or adequate electricity to provide 1,000 average California homes. That will assure 30% of the campus’ peak electricity requirements.

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Google Changed Android Smartphone into good Interpreter:

Google has commenced somewhat converting, Android-powered Smartphone into interpreters with tentative software that allow the handsets translate conversations in real time. An in-the-functioning and working edition or version of “Conversation Mode” was made accessible as the California-based Internet monster modernized a content text translation mark and featured it added to Android Smartphone one year before. In conversation mode, merely press the microphone for your language and begin speaking.

Google Android Smartphone 

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Google Earth Display the Effects of Global Warming:

Google Earth:

Google Company in recent times launched Earth Outreach as part of an attempt to provide non-profit and public advantage organizations the knowledge and resources they require to reach and attain hearts and minds in the continuing struggle to increase awareness about global warming and climate change. Their environment and science platform provides links to some of the additional supportive and informative tools in the collection. In this respect you need, Google Earth installed in order on your computer system to analysis the files.

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Google Has Introduced an advanced Torrent:

Google has launched an ultimate barrage of innovations in expectation of the approaching cheerful season. The American company has just exposed the "Nexus S", a subsequent model in its range of smartphone. It is manufactured by Samsung; it will be prepared and equipped with a marvelous “AMOLED” screen display.

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