On April 8, Google debuted its latest virtual reality platform, Android XR, live on the TED 2025 main stage in Vancouver, Canada.
In a TED Talk, Shahram Izadi — head of augmented reality and extended reality at Google — said that the device came at the heels of a career dedicated almost entirely to augmented reality.
“Augmented reality and virtual reality has moved computing from the rectangular screen, to the 360 immersive display, to now even the world itself becoming the display,” Izadi told the assembled crowd. “We now refer to this broad collection of experiences as extended reality, or XR.”
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