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Magic Leap’s John Gaeta talks about the future of cinema, storytelling and mixed reality

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He has joined Rony Abovitz at Magic Leap and now he’s there, trying to build the MagicVerse as the SVP of Creative Strategy of the Florida company. People knew it was not possible to do that: the film resonated because only in a simulation, only in virtual reality you can cheat time and space. Magic Leap glasses.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.09.28): The debate on Facebook continues, Microsoft acquires Zenimax, and more!

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The game is very different from its predecessor, and it is less a realistic combat simulator and more an adrenaline multiplayer game, like Unreal Tournament or Quake Arena. Magic Leap may partner with AWS. This partnership with AWS would be a great idea to favor the business use of Magic Leap 1.

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Top XR Stories of 2019

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Bumpy Road For Magic Leap. Magic Leap then announced it was pivoting towards enterprise customers following damning reports of extremely weak sales. By far the most compelling use case for immersive tech at the moment is in training and simulation, and those applications are virtually endless.

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All the most important AR and VR news from the GDC 2018

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Magic Leap releases its SDK. We still haven’t seen a Magic Leap device , but at least now we can see its SDK. The Florida company has released during the GDC the Lumin SDK, that is the development kit that has to be used to develop for LuminOS, the custom operating system of the Magic Leap device.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.10.26): DecaGear is an intriguing VR headset, HTC is working on a new device, and more!

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Image by MegaDodo Simulation Games). Some years ago, she performed in The Life, a Mixed Reality art piece inside the Magic Leap One. My friend Nicolas Esposito of Enter Reality has released Project Rigel, his solution to provide full-body tracking and motion capture for Unreal Engine. Top news of the week.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.04.05): Rumors on a Apple headset intensify, Quest 2 sales grow fast, and more!

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Two years ago, the company had won a $480M deal with the army to produce the first evaluation units (beating Magic Leap in this contest and condemning it to a sad fate) that should have increased soldiers’ efficiency and lethality. This is a new drawing application in VR that will come to light on May, 5th.

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Jake Rubin talks HaptX gloves and the future of haptics

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For those who aren’t familiar with HaptX, we build technology that simulates touch sensation with unprecedented realism. DK2 is designed specifically for professionals in training and simulation, industrial design, and robotics. They deliver unprecedented realism, with more than 130 points of tactile feedback per hand. 4 kg) each.

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