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The Future of Mixed Reality Is Much Bigger Than Magic Leap

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Over the past three years Magic Leap have been one of the darlings of Augmented/Mixed reality. More recent videos from Magic Leap do clarify that you’re looking at the actual tech, but those videos show holograms that are – perhaps unsurprisingly – fuzzier and less impressive than the earlier one.

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What’s the Sales Outlook for AR Glasses?

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One such exercise recently zeroed in on headworn AR revenues. For one, market-leading Microsoft (HoloLens 2) has experienced headwinds, including turbulence in its massive U.S. Meanwhile, the previously-beleaguered Magic Leap has quite a turnaround underway. Army contract, and some key personnel scandals/departures.

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Is Facebook Building a ‘Social Layer’ For the Spatial Web?

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So predicting AR’s trajectory becomes an exercise in “ following the money.” Microsoft wants to double down on a longstanding position in enterprise productivity, and Facebook wants AR (and VR primarily) to boost social engagement and ad revenue. This is simply to future proof massive sums of revenue.

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How Do AR Advertising Platforms Stack Up?

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ARtillery Intelligence recently performed this exercise including compatible hardware bases and active users (see below). Furthermore, this mobile AR market-sizing exercise reveals another factor: platform fragmentation. Magic Leap is building a software ecosystem around its product.

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The AR Show: Projecting AR’s Fate in 2020

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AR Insider’s ongoing coverage of The AR Show episodes is an exercise in deconstructing and synthesizing the musings of spatial computing’s top minds. This “ follow the money ” exercise is a key AR confidence signal. Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Snap and Qualcomm are all making significant investments.”

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The High-end VR Room of the Future Looks Like This

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But despite the option to “jack in” in the distant future, plenty of people will still opt to use the treadmill and haptics combo for the exercise benefits. Hand and finger tracking, gesture interfaces, and grip simulation: Leap Motion: Manus VR: Neurodigital: Gestigon: Handpose: Usens: Dexta Robotics: Minority Report (film).

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.09.30): OC6, Pimax Day, Huawei VR glasses, Minecraft Earth and much more!

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Even if they are not general-purpose glasses like Hololens or Magic Leap, these glasses feature inside so many technological innovations that made all we of the tech communities fall in love with them, and with their creator Jeri Ellsworth. Minecraft Earth is close to its release. The time is coming! Two short news on content.

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