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The XR Week Peek (2020.06.13): Magic Leap exploring a sale, events are going virtual and more!

The Ghost Howls

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap is on sale. A report on Bloomberg informed us all that Magic Leap is exploring a sale of the company. The sales never skyrocketed and now Magic Leap is in desperate need of cash , after many layoffs, disappointing sales, and having put its IP as collaterals to a bank.

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Leap Motion’s North Star is the DK1 of AR: hands-on preview and how to buy it!

The Ghost Howls

The idea of Leap Motion is going against the current trend of augmented reality glasses, that is mostly based on expensive devices that have closed ecosystems (e.g. HoloLens or Magic Leap One ), but to create a headset that is: Affordable; Completely open, both from a software and hardware standpoint. On the downtown 3 train.

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Snapdragon AR2 to Empower AR Devices, Qualcomm Says

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Brian Vogelsang : Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen tremendous adoption of VR for commercial use cases in verticals like health and wellness, training and immersive learning, and others. Other devices from Magic Leap and Microsoft’s HoloLens headsets offer deeper levels of immersion.

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OSVR - a Look Ahead

VRGuy

Many game engines – such as Unity, Unreal and SteamVR- immediately support it. Maybe you have room to reach forward with your hands. Maybe you are on a train and can’t do so. Eye tracking software converts eye images into gaze direction. Hand tracking software converts hand position into gestures.

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XR Podcast Hosts Unite, with Voices of VR Podcast’s Kent Bye – Part 1

XR for Business Podcast

I said the other huge area that we’re seeing just enormous amount of applications is in training. And really when you’re training, you really want to ideally do it yourself and be immersed into the context of the environment, to have all the emotions that are coming up when you’re under pressure to make a decision.

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XR Podcast Hosts Unite, with Voices of VR Podcast's Kent Bye - Part 1

XR for Business Podcast

I said the other huge area that we're seeing just enormous amount of applications is in training. And really when you're training, you really want to ideally do it yourself and be immersed into the context of the environment, to have all the emotions that are coming up when you're under pressure to make a decision. It's amazing.

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XR Podcast Hosts Unite, with Voices of VR Podcast’s Kent Bye – Part 1

XR for Business Podcast

I said the other huge area that we’re seeing just enormous amount of applications is in training. And really when you’re training, you really want to ideally do it yourself and be immersed into the context of the environment, to have all the emotions that are coming up when you’re under pressure to make a decision.