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Oculus Founder Serves up Scathing Review of Magic Leap One, Calling It A “Tragic Heap”

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While Palmer Luckey provided his own Magic Leap One headset to iFixit for their tear down, the founder of Oculus certainly had his chance for a proper review before the spudgers and screwdrivers came out, and he isn’t pulling any punches either. image courtesy Magic Leap. ” Biting.

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Ford Granted Multi-Plane Automotive AR Patent

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Currently, this stands at 1,770 deaths in 2013 alone. The solution uses Raythink’s OpticalCore imaging system, which feeds drivers data on their destination waypoints and navigation, speed, assistance, and other functionality directly to windshields. Serious injuries have increased roughly 8 percent since 2021.

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Is Personal Computing’s Next Conquest Your Face?

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Google took an early stab at a product in 2013, with Google Glass, which failed to gain traction among consumers but later found a market on factory floors and assembly lines, where workers now have hands-free access to computers. Meanwhile, heftier VR products from Facebook’s Oculus and Magic Leap have mostly been for gamers.

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XR Today Guide: What is Augmented Reality?

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Simply put, AR allows its users to supply digital overlays of data, creative content, or holographic images with unlimited potential. AR and applications designed for it provide sensory information to users with spatially-anchored data. Data linked to specific positions in the physical world come to life with AR technologies.

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CityXR: A Vision For Augmented Cities In The Shadow Of Hyper-Reality

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It's notable that this vision of augmented reality layers is also very similar to one shared by the earlier days of Magic Leap, before the company laid off many of its workers. For certain implementations, Psychic is using geographic data provided by the Japanese government for development uses cases like this.

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When is the time to talk about consumer-facing AR apps in enterprise?

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The release of Magic Leap One was supposed to be the “magic moment” for consumer AR, the development that finally got consumers excited about augmented reality glasses. I can see Magic Leap finding a niche in B2C use cases, which would increase consumer exposure to wearable AR beyond in-store retail apps and social media.

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Holographic Waveguides: What You Need To Know To Understand The Smartglasses Market

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Magic Leap. For a secretive company, we can learn a lot about Magic Leap from their patent filings and acquisitions, namely that they launched without a clear path to executing their vision. In April of last year Abovitz landed himself on the cover of Wired magazine with what was dubbed the Magic Leap “photonic chip.”