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Google-backed Magic Leap Reveals Mixed Reality Music App

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Way in October, Magic Leap , the still-in-stealth-mode company developing an augmented-reality headset, announced that it has raised $502 million in Series D equity funding , led by Singapore investment firm Temasek Holdings. The post Google-backed Magic Leap Reveals Mixed Reality Music App appeared first on VR World.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.03.28): GDC, GTC, Snap’s acquisition of NextMind, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Magic Leap 2 bridges AR and VR. The interest in Magic Leap 2 is growing. If headsets like Lynx or Project Cambria implement AR on a VR headset, Magic Leap 2 implements a bit of VR on an AR headset. HTC adds more parental control tools to its headsets. News worth a mention.

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XR Interaction Toolkit (eXtended Reality Technology Platforms)

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WebXR is a JavaScript application programming interface (API) that enables applications to interact with augmented reality and virtual reality devices, such as the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Google Cardboard or Open Source Virtual Reality (OSVR), in a web browser.?—?Wikipedia Documentation What is WebXR? ? Wikipedia WebXR API Design Principles:

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The XR Week Peek (2021.04.26): Magic Leap 2 coming in 2022, Quest gets Air Link and new Avatars, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap 2 is coming in Q1 2022. Even if most of this roundup will be about Oculus, I have decided to put another brand on top of it and it is Magic Leap. Magic Leap won’t pursue anything that isn’t aimed at getting more enterprise deals. Image by HTC Vive).

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The XR Week Peek (2020.09.07): new Quest is coming at $299 and $399, NVIDIA RTX3070 is powerful and affordable and more!

The Ghost Howls

HTC CEO Yves Maitre resigns. HTC, you did it again. And I think that he was doing a good job: he understood that at this point, HTC can’t compete with Oculus and its ridiculously low prices, so it should all focus on the enterprise market, where instead HTC shines. Image by Magic Leap). News worth a mention.

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Virtual Reality is reaching a mature state according to Gartner

The Ghost Howls

Reading the various XR magazines, I think that the consumer world is some years behind the enterprise world. Magic Leap has created lots of hype, but in the end it is just a dev-kit). Header image by HTC). Virtual Reality has many applications in which it is already useful. It will just take time.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.02.28): PSVR 2 revealed, Meta working on AI and 5G, and more!

The Ghost Howls

In an interview with a magazine (quoted by Upload VR), he said the following sentences: One of the things [Steam Deck] represents is the battery-capable, high-performance horsepower that eventually you could use in VR applications as well. Magic Leap 2 has inside-out tracked controllers. News worth a mention.