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The XR Week Peek (2020.05.11): new Quest is in the works, Magic Leap may pivot to healthcare, and more!

The Ghost Howls

If the rumor is true, probably this is the Del Mar headset , and the Jedi controllers may be like the Oculus Touch but more comfortable and maybe with full finger tracking. Or eye tracking?). Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap looks for a $100-million deal to save itself.

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

Road to VR

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. How does the eye-tracking work?

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A Tech Investor’s Take on the Apple Vision Pro

ARPost

However, Almeida said that he had been waiting for something like an Apple headset for even longer than that – ever since he was, like so many others, disenchanted by the Google Glass device that launched in 2013. If there are a few hidden gems on the Apple Vision Pro, eye tracking and hand tracking are among them.”

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XR Today Guide: What is Augmented Reality?

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Smart glass manufacturers and solution providers like Vuzix, Google, Nreal, RealWear, Lenovo, Magic Leap, and others offer full-spectrum devices capable of agile use cases. Google also revealed the world’s first smart glasses, Google Glass, in 2013. Google, Apple, and other map programmes offer this functionality to users.

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

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

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.”

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Meet & Greet in AR, with Spatial’s Jacob Loewenstein

XR for Business Podcast

So when he gave his TED Talk in 2013, he showed off these prototypes and showed off the work, and he met Anand, and they both realized that they were spirit animals. And so we have our Magic Leap build coming out very soon. And Jinha built the world’s first desktop AR computer, which he called SpaceTop.

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Meet & Greet in AR, with Spatial’s Jacob Loewenstein

XR for Business Podcast

So when he gave his TED Talk in 2013, he showed off these prototypes and showed off the work, and he met Anand, and they both realized that they were spirit animals. And so we have our Magic Leap build coming out very soon. And Jinha built the world’s first desktop AR computer, which he called SpaceTop.

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