Road to VR

MAY 4, 2017

Back in 2013 the company had announced and taken pre-orders for a $3,000 headset called the Meta Pro. SEE ALSO Hands-on: Meta 2 Could Do for Augmented Reality What Rift DK1 Did for Virtual Reality. SEE ALSO Exclusive: Meta 2 AR Demos Revealed in Full.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Microsoft, Google and Apple all have their own approaches to augmented reality and virtual reality, but the race for the face is particularly critical to Facebook and Amazon, because they have yet to establish computing gateways. Meanwhile, heftier VR products from Facebook’s Oculus and Magic Leap have mostly been for gamers.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Back in 2016, designer and filmmaker Keiichi Matsuda released Hyper-Reality, a concept film that imagined an augmented reality future where physical and virtual realities have merged, resulting in a "city saturated in media." I started making it in 2013. You know, that film came out in 2016," he said. "I

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

By the time Howard Rheingold’s “Virtual Reality” was published in 1991, the Sensorama was already a “slowly deteriorating” relic stashed away in a cabana next the pool at its inventor’s West Los Angeles home. NASA promotion shot of VIEW (Virtual Interactive Environment Workstation). Helig died in 1997 at age 70.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 4, 2017

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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EnterpriseWear

AUGUST 1, 2018

Ideas on the ground and on board: The airport industry first began toying with wearable technology with the release of the original Google Glass in 2013. More recently, the use of wearable augmented and virtual reality devices by airport and airline technicians to train, perform maintenance, and receive remote support has gained traction.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

I mean, part of the reason that my work with virtual reality really took off is because I moved into this new role, and had this freedom to innovate and to explore new technologies. So one of things that I was doing throughout our journey with virtual reality was documenting all of the projects that we were carrying out.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

I mean, part of the reason that my work with virtual reality really took off is because I moved into this new role, and had this freedom to innovate and to explore new technologies. So one of things that I was doing throughout our journey with virtual reality was documenting all of the projects that we were carrying out.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

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. Alan: Give us an example of this Spatial augmented reality, and why does it better in augmented reality versus virtual reality? Why would I want that?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

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. Alan: Give us an example of this Spatial augmented reality, and why does it better in augmented reality versus virtual reality? Why would I want that?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

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. Alan: Give us an example of this Spatial augmented reality, and why does it better in augmented reality versus virtual reality? Why would I want that?

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

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.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 27, 2021

For instance, this is the forecast of the analysts for the Google Glass adoption in 2013, that I used for a business plan. The only thing that is harder than being a futurist is being THE CHIEF FUTURIST , the job that Neal Stephenson had a Magic Leap. The best of them even see the numbers of the forecasts during lucid dreams.

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VRScout

JULY 17, 2016

MAGIC LEAP, THE NOTORIOUSLY SECRETIVE STARTUP, STEPS INTO SPOTLIGHT. Magic Leap has raised $1.5B for mixed reality lightfield technology that no one has actually seen (outside of a small number of people with ironclad NDAs), and is funded by giants like Google and Alibaba.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2019

But usually, I have discussed Virtual Reality adult entertainment … but what about Augmented Reality instead? According to analysts, Augmented Reality will have a bigger market and bigger turnaround than Virtual Reality, so I guess that this comparison should hold for AR adult entertainment as well.

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