The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Magic Leap pivots towards enterprise. At the same time, Magic Leap has also shipped a new runtime for its hardware , with the addition of new nice features like vocal commands. I hope for Magic Leap that the next device, Magic Leap 2, will be better. Google ARCore now adds depth detection.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 11, 2021

This week, we dive into the top-ten tech stories of 2020. B from Google, Disney, AT&T, Alibaba Group, JP Morgan, Kleiner Perkins, Qualcomm, and other brand name investors to make see-through AR glasses, and the content, optics, chips, and AI that go in them. A year later Magic Leap ran out of cash and laid off half the company.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

At the beginning of 2020, the American company will finalize its reference design based on this chipset, and in the second half of the year we will see the first headsets implementing this technology. Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap may be in trouble, but its CEO remains confident. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

Magic Leap. Me, wearing a Magic Leap One. The most important news has been for sure the launch of the Magic Leap One. Rear view of the Magic Leap One. On the contrary, Microsoft has worked a lot on the platform, to make it more appealing to enterprise customers. Magic Leap.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Over the past three years Magic Leap have been one of the darlings of Augmented/Mixed reality. billion in funding from investors such as Google, Andreessen Horowitz and Alibaba. And with the Augmented and Virtual Reality market projected to reach $162 billion by 2020 , some would call that a fair price.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 24, 2020

And what can we expect in 2020? Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Snap and Qualcomm are all making significant investments.” For example, struggles that counterbalance 2019’s progress include Microsoft’s challenge in scaling up Hololens II production. Then there’s Magic Leap.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Magic Leap Inc. , As stated, they are thinking of taking part in a new financing round of more than $500 million, bringing Magic Leap valuation close to $6 billion. ’s Google, which invested directly in the firm and put Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai on the board. Google was one of the first to invest.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

As a long-time AR enthusiast, and one of the first to have tried Google Glass in Italy, I have to admit that I will consider AR mainstream only when it will be on glasses that we will wear all day , when we’ll live in a completely shared mixed reality world (the AR Cloud). Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft). Sounded good.

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ARPost

MAY 12, 2022

Magic Leap. Miesnieks has been around the AR block a few times but is probably best known for leading 6D.ai, an AR cloud program developer that was acquired by Niantic in 2020. Early on day two, Khronos Group ’s Neil Trevett is joined by Microsoft ’s Aysegul Yonet and Epic Game ’s David Morin. Niantic (and 8th Wall ).

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ARPost

JUNE 4, 2020

Brands like Bosch, Nreal, 0glasses, and Am Glass by Pacific Future joined Magic Leap, Vuzix, Microsoft HoloLens, and Epson Moverio this year, delivering a new way to experience 2D and 3D content and features. See Also: Reasons Why Brands Will Be Using WebAR Marketing In 2020. They will also impact the e-commerce industry.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 9, 2019

I got immediately hyped about this: we are all dreaming about AR glasses like Magic Leap or HoloLens 2 , but what if the future was made of AR contact lenses? Me doing a duck face with a pair of Magic Leap on. HoloLens 2 are already used by the military in the US (Image by Microsoft). in the future.

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TechCrunch VR

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Yet Facebook , Microsoft and others are arguably more important to where the market is today. Facebook has talked about its long-term potential to launch smartglasses, but in 2020, its primary presence in the AR market is as a mobile AR platform (note: Facebook is also a VR market leader with Oculus ). Apple ARKit, Google ARCore ).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

More info (Use Google Translate). Magic Leap plans dev days and dev programs. We all know that Magic Leap is in big trouble, and it seems that one of the paths it is trying to follow to exit the quicksands is trying to get more developers onboard. Google Chrome now supports WebAR. Image by Microsoft).

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 19, 2019

What’s in store for 2020? Will the 2020’s finally hail the age of XR? Bumpy Road For Magic Leap. Magic Leap then announced it was pivoting towards enterprise customers following damning reports of extremely weak sales. Google Ends the Daydream. Literally, where has this year gone?

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2020

Spatial works from the smartphone to the Magic Leap One. It is compatible with: Microsoft HoloLens Oculus Quest Magic Leap One PC VR headsets PC/Mac/smartphone/whatever through the web portal. Considering that Google searching is fundamental in all brainstormings, having such a feature is very handy.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Google makes Tilt Brush opensource. Google has just announced that the VR painting program Tilt Brush has been put opensource on GitHub. The bad news is that this means that Google has abandoned it. Google is becoming well-known for abandoning the interesting project it creates. This is both bad and good news.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

All of this shows how Apple is most probably testing internally its AR glasses and so the launch may be not that far away (probably in 2020). Kura claims that they want to showcase a product, a real AR glass at CES 2020. It seems that DAQRI hasn’t managed to find new investors; The competition of Microsoft. DAQRI shuts down.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

Google unveils Starline communication solution. At Google I/O, Google has announced Project Starline, an interesting project it has worked on for five years. It is about creating a bridge between two distant people. It feels like magic. I think it can become just the nth XR project that Google will abandon.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

OMG, it’s almost 3 years that I write these roundups… the first week peek was exclusive for my blog subscribers and it featured as best news the release of Google Blocks and in the other news something about Samsung Gear VR… how much time has passed since then! Image by Microsoft). Magic Leap raises other $350M.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Viveport is improving a lot, and now HTC is also launching the Vive XR Suite , which will be distributed thanks to the support of a strong network of partners like HP, NVIDIA, Baidu (the Chinese Google), and Accenture. Facebook and Microsoft publish two interesting research projects for VR. Learn more.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Reports from Bloomberg News and Taiwanese analyst Ming-Chi Kuo have long claimed that Apple would be beginning production on an AR headset this year for release in 2020—one that acts more like a peripheral than an all-in-one device, depending on the iPhone to handle the processing power. What that thing might be depends who you ask.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

In December, finally Pimax will start shipping also most of the accessories that it has promised during the Kickstarter campaign: Hand-Tracking: $170; Eye-tracking: $300; Modular Audio Strap: $120; Vision comfort kit: $50; 10-meter cable: $100; If you don’t see mention of the new Sword controllers is because they are delayed again until March 2020.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Then why Magic Leap hasn’t delivered a solid product with 2B?) In the meanwhile, its adoption is getting better, too: the popular Unity game engine promises the first implementations of OpenXR for the end of the year with a complete implementation coming in 2021, and Microsoft has already completely switched to an OpenXR runtime.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

Late to the party after Oculus and Microsoft already released prototypical implementations, but finally Valve has implemented OpenXR into its runtime SteamVR. On the occasion of CVPR 2020, Facebook has just published online a very long list of computer vision-related articles , many of which include also artificial intelligence features.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

While not swapping anything out, Google is attempting to make the world an ad through its visual search app–Google Lens. Influencer Marketing is expected to grow to an $8 billion industry by 2020 with 62% of marketers saying they are growing their influencer marketing budgets. The Evolution of Brand Ambassadors.

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Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

It isn’t alone, we know of many companies that are spending billions on same, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sony, Magic Leap, Huawei, and others. Qualcomm told me that by the end of 2020 we will see a ton of them announced (Qualcomm makes the core technology that Facebook’s Oculus Quest uses.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Side note that AR will be much bigger than VR, in both the diversity of use cases and market size (analysts predict $30B for VR versus $90B for AR by 2020), but I still believe that most homes will have a dedicated VR space for total immersion. Check out the bottom of this post for a list of VR inspiration. Body movement.

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Robert Scoble

JUNE 4, 2019

In two years Spatial Computing, including Facebook’s Oculus VR headsets (we hear Facebook is working on Spatial Computing glasses too, along with many others like Microsoft, with its HoloLens, and Magic Leap) will have very advanced 3D imaging technologies and eye sensors, along with cameras and microphones.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2019

Microsoft reported to have only sold 50,000 copies of the first Hololens last year, and these were only purchasable by developers, educational institutions and businesses. Magic Leap has stated in their guidebook that adult content is not allowed on the device. Aryzon v1 headset (Image by Aryzon ). The AR industry is growing.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Across the many “Top Technologies for 2020” lists compiled by the leading research firms around the world, a recurring pattern emerges. Magic Leap has put forth the term Magicverse, a more playful version of a global digital twin that inspires visions of the fantastical.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

— David Heaney (@Heaney555) September 16, 2020. Pepperidge Farm remembers when people wearing Google Glasses were called “Glassholes” and kicked out of shops (a nice prize for having spent $1500 on a new device) and Facebook wants to see if in 2020 there could be similar problems (“Ariassholes” sounds good).

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

We are not living in this future yet , but there is a strong case to be made that we are accelerating towards it, in 2020, faster than ever before. This has 3 main components to it, dictated by hardware: Wait, how is this different from things like Microsoft’s Hololens? We’re looking at you, Google Glass.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Billion & mind you i haven't added the overall population of #asia.Ignore us at your own risk #facebook #microsoft & the curators of those lists. Most people know Xu due to his dispute with American virtual reality company Magic Leap. However, in June 2020, a U.S. The company was later acquired by Google in 2010.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’d say that through at least 2022, the enterprise will account for the majority of augmented and mixed reality headsets like Hololens and Magic Leap. Outside of that, we’ve worked with companies like PayPal, Microsoft, Accenture. Enterprise will account for the majority of those through at least 2022.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’d say that through at least 2022, the enterprise will account for the majority of augmented and mixed reality headsets like Hololens and Magic Leap. Outside of that, we’ve worked with companies like PayPal, Microsoft, Accenture. Enterprise will account for the majority of those through at least 2022.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

I'd say that through at least 2022, the enterprise will account for the majority of augmented and mixed reality headsets like Hololens and Magic Leap. Alan: Although Magic Leap did publish some photos of a model wearing the Magic Leap glasses the other day. So they're. We have a number of reports available.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

And the company predicts that AR will be a $90 billion market by 2020. GB: There are predictions from Digi-Capital, a tech advisor, that AR is going to be a $90 billion market by 2020. GB: Magic Leap is a big presence in the AR discussion. GB: Google Glass. They’re very bullish on AR. VR is inherently isolating.

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