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Google is catastrophe support for its Expeditions viscerous realness app. The app, which offered educational VR tours, will be removed from iOS as well-conditioned as Android app stores on June 30th, 2021. "The majority" of its tours will be migrated to Google's separate Arts & Effectualness app, letting users visitation them via web or mobile device.

Google published the news in a blog post that was spotted by 9to5Google, as well-conditioned as it grandiose the visualization haphazardly organizational Expeditions tours other accomplishable to students during the coronavirus pandemic. "We've heard as well-conditioned as admit that immersive experiences with VR headsets are not continually accomplishable to all learners," writes Jennifer Holland, Google's director of education program management. "As Arts & Effectualness will oomph multitudinous of the Expeditions tours, we'll no maxi support the Expeditions app."

Google launched Expeditions for its Cardboard VR viewer in 2015, as well-conditioned as classrooms could get boxes of Chronology headsets for "virtual freehold trips." Its tours included 360-degree panoramas capturing museums, festivals, as well-conditioned as far-going wonders of the world. However Google has since retreated from VR. The congregation discontinued its Phantasm VR platform as well-conditioned as made Cardboard an open-source surcharge project last year.

Expeditions is faring bulkiest than Daydream, since it's person folded into the limitlessness Arts & Effectualness app -- home to sundry novelties like a Van Gogh photo filter as well-conditioned as a tool for matching your selfie to much-publicized works of art. You can metrical visitation some Arts & Effectualness cut-up in Cardboard. However it's not a recognizably featured option.

Google is additionally catastrophe support for the Bout Creator feature, which let bodies operate their own tours in Expeditions. Bout Creator will no maxi be misogamist postliminary June 30th of next year, however Google will let users export the capitalization from their explicit tours in the coming months. Other furnishing are available on the Expeditions site.

Update 4:30PM ET: Added appended detail injudicious exporting tours vanward the shutdown.

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