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The Ghost Howls
DECEMBER 16, 2019
What we all feared could happen when Facebook bought Oculus in 2014 is actually started to happen. Magic Leap pivots towards enterprise. At the same time, Magic Leap has also shipped a new runtime for its hardware , with the addition of new nice features like vocal commands. Other relevant news.
ARPost
JULY 21, 2023
“The job descriptions first showed up across the internet and that started the rumors, I’m going to say back in 2014, 2015.” 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.
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The Ghost Howls
JUNE 29, 2020
Google is going to buy North. A report says tha t Alphabet, the company behind Google, is in the last stages of the acquisition of North, the Canadian startup that makes the Focals smartglasses. Google adds depth APIs to ARCore. The post The XR Week Peek (2020.06.29): Oculus kills the Go, Google buys North, and much more!
ARPost
JULY 31, 2019
There is now a growing market including Magic Leap , Epson, Nreal , ThirdEye , and now Norm. Magic Leap has some entertainment experiences, but the price and size make them more of a tool. This was around 2014,” said Charles Sun, founder of Human Capable. So, where do Norm AR glasses fit in?
Road to VR
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
Making an AR headset accessible enough for consumers is a vastly different challenge to producing higher cost enterprise headsets— just ask Magic Leap. The team has demonstrably thinned out over the last few months, with HoloLens veterans such as principal optical architect Bernard Kress leaving the company recently for Google Labs.
The Ghost Howls
MARCH 23, 2020
I’ve used Google search to find all the pages with references to Del Mar in the Oculus website, and all the docs are identical to the previous versions. Google will delay the release of Chrome 81 , the one that should have included WebAR. Yes, Android, Google. Magic Leap reveals updates and new enterprise solutions.
TechCrunch VR
MAY 31, 2023
In 2014, the social media giant purchased Oculus for nearly $3 billion. Google revealed Glass the same year the first Oculus prototype hit the scene. The following year, Google introduced Cardboard, a super cheap and extremely clever smartphone accessory. Image Credits: Apple Magic Leap is far from alone in those struggles.
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