Google Home, Pixel 2 XL and more are on sale

It's a summer sale going on through July 17 Pacific Time and it involves smart speakers, over-the-top TV dongles and a whole lot more Google.

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2VR: a more minimalistic, compact and functional Cardboard on Indiegogo

When you think about a mass-market virtual reality experience, you think of Google Cardboard. And then you don’t want to think about a mass-market virtual reality experience anymore.Sure, it’s affordable and relatively easy to setup, but it’s not exactly the most portable form factor. Also, some Cardboard headsets come with straps while others don’t. And pressing your forehead and cheeks to stiff, corrugated paper isn’t the most pleasant feeling around.Well, one company ...

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Google Store Back to School sale hitting Chromebooks, Huawei Watch, Nexus 6P

Let’s face it: you probably most dreaded three words in that headline.“Back to School“. Back to torture. Back to long hours sitting at letting numbers and passages hit your skull. Back to making yourself just a bit smarter with the process getting all the more harder.Fortunately, technology can help dull the pain and the Google Store has an array of deals for you.Save ...

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Pokémon GO update brings Google Cardboard copyright acknowledgement

If you’re familiar with Pokémon GO, there’s a certain element to it that involves augmented reality. Those are the capture and battle stages of play: if you choose to turn the feature on, Pokémon and the whole game interface are overlaid what your camera sees.Perhaps you’d like to wear a headset and run ...

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No standalone Google VR Headset (and this is the right move)

Before the Google I/O keynote, we were awash in rumors pointing to a standalone virtual reality headset coming from Google. You always have to be careful with those rumors, as the reality of Google’s VR strategy doesn’t seem to hinge on the same high end hardware that Oculus and the HTC Vive utilize.Moving forward we’ll be talking about ...

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The Pocketnow Weekly Podcast 200th Episode Phone Giveaway!

Is Apple Music deleting your downloaded music? What does Lenovo have up its sleeve for the next generation of Motorola devices? What are we looking forward to at this Google I/O? Plus, we’re giving away TWO phones to celebrate TWO hundred episodes!We’ve been hard at work covering news stories and producing the next generation of phone reviews. We recently started a new series of videos delving deeper into camera performance and phone ...

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3 things we’re watching for at Google I/O 2016 (#io16)

T-minus five days … and counting.Google’s biggest developer conference of the year is happening at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, from May 18 to 20. If you weren’t lucky to be chosen to get tickets for the event, you can still grab a chair at one of the 471 (and counting) I/O Extended events. Better yet, you can stream select events live from the Google I/O app ...

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Samsung Bedtime VR Stories bring children and parents to a dreamland before dreamland

For the many uses of VR that we’ve yet to discover, we’d figure that some of them are going to be outrageously stupid. Who’d want to walk around town and into stores buying stuff with their headsets on? Seriously.Well, Samsung does have an idea that makes more sense that not only gets kids involved, but it also keeps busy parents close in touch, too. The R&D department are ...

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Get VR freaky for free with new virtual reality section on Pornhub

The world’s largest porn website in terms of content hosted has been pushing for years for the title of the most popular adult portal with publicity stunts ranging from controversial to hilarious to refreshingly original and outright weird.Remember when the Pornhub Space Program took to IndieGogo to try to raise $3.4 million for a “Sexploration” film set literally in space? That didn’t work out so well, with a measly $236K pledged by the site’s hordes of fans.But Pornhub generated way more enthusiasm for its philanthropic and environmental endeavors, planting over 15,000 trees ...

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If you’re “Feeling Lucky” at home, you can play the Google Store Claw on Twitter

If you’re in Austin this weekend for SXSW, we’re jealous. Major jelly going on. And for those of you who aren’t participating in the hours of tech, music, thought-provocation and the mad dash to Franklin Barbecue, you can grasp at the straws of fun or grasp at a few Nexuses or a Moto 360 or two.LIVE on #Periscope:

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Google Store picks up new category just for VR hardware

Between the start of HTC Vive pre-orders, and Microsoft inviting developers to pre-order HoloLens, we’ve totally got virtual reality on the mind today. And while expensive new hardware like those new options may give you a VR experience that’s second to none, you don’t need to break the bank in order to get started, and there are lots of affordably priced Cardboard-compatible viewers out there for you to use with ...

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Alcatel brings new Idol 4 and Idol 4S flagships to MWC 2016

Alcatel OneTouch has a new name, and as the straightforward “Alcatel,” the brand’s announcing its very first smartphones under this new identity, confirming the flagships we’ve been looking forward to for some time now (and saw leak pretty thoroughly earlier this month), the Idol 4 and Idol 4S.We already had a lot of these details from that inadvertent early publication of specs, but it’s nice to have launch-day confirmation all the same:

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Next-gen Google Cardboard may take advantage of Project Tango tech

Google Cardboard has opened the door on virtual reality for millions of smartphone users, but based on the recent hirings and shifting of resources Google’s been up to, it’s becoming clear that Cardboard’s only the start, and Google’s got some much larger VR ambitions; where will they take us? While Google hasn’t made any public proclamations of its future VR plans, evidence from at least one ...

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Google job postings, new hires point to serious interest in VR hardware

There’s a fair chance that you may be starting to get sick hearing about VR-this and VR-that all the time, but you’ve just got to open your mind a little. After all, while it was easy to talk big about VR in years past, in 2016 we’re finally seeing things go commercial in a really big way, connecting the dots between stuff like basic Google Cardboard viewers and the really immersive 3D worlds that once only seemed possible in sci-fi fantasies. As such, it’s only logical that Google appears to be paying more and more attention to the burgeoning market,

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Google Cardboard picks up spatial audio SDK support for impressive 3D sound

Google Cardboard already lets users dive into rich virtual worlds with just their existing smartphone and a cheap (if not outright free) viewer, seriously lowering the cost of entry for a stunning VR experience. But while Cardboard’s done a lot to transport our eyes to far away locales or 3D-rendered fantasy landscapes, it’s been missing a few pieces when it comes to giving our ears that same sort of ...

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