ARPost

JUNE 28, 2021

Spatial was founded in 2016 driven by an impressive line-up of investors including Macintosh co-founder Andy Hertzfeld and Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger. The company’s own co-founders, Anand Agarawala and Jinha Lee, have their own impressive pasts including working at Google, MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung. Meet Spatial.

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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.

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Road to VR

JULY 18, 2018

and Google’s ARCore 1.2, along with Magic Leap support. Updated AR SDKs & Magic Leap. As with the Oculus Runtime, Apple and Google have since updated their ARKit and ARCore SDK—the foundation for building AR applications on those platforms—and the newest versions are now available with UE 4.20: ARKit 2.0.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 29, 2017

The term Dogmented Reality was first coined for a 2016 April Fools gag from Meta, but now it’s very much a real thing for some smartphone users. The platform stands as a rival to Google’s new Tango platform for Android devices. A very good, 11/10 app may soon be heading to an iPhone or iPad near you.

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2017

” 2016 saw the arrival of 3 major consumer virtual reality headsets, the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR. Samsung confirmed at CES in January that its Oculus engineered Samsung Gear VR headset had passed an install base figure of 5 Million and more recently Google affirmed that it had shipped over 10 Million Cardboard viewers.

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Upload VR

APRIL 26, 2024

It's unclear whether Kalinowski's comment refers to the original Oculus Rift developer kit, which over 10 years ago showed that relatively wide field of view VR was possible with affordable and mass-producible hardware, or the first consumer Rift which launched in 2016.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

It’s been called the AR Cloud by many, the Magicverse by Magic Leap, the Mirrorworld by Wired, the Cyberverse by Huawei, Planet-scale AR by Niantic and Spatial Computing by academics. Both Azure Spatial Anchors and Google Cloud Anchors are leveraging existing strengths in mapping towards the AR Cloud. Who Will Own the Metaverse?

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

left, plays the new video game “Eagle Flight VR” during an Ubisoft news conference before the start of the E3 Gaming Conference on June 13, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. Google revealed Glass the same year the first Oculus prototype hit the scene. Palmer Luckey, co-founder of Oculus VR Inc.,

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VRScout

MAY 30, 2017

I’ve been a big fan of the cute little Samsung Gear 360 camera since its first unveiling in the spring of 2016, and always recommend it to people inquiring about the best consumer-friendly 360 cameras out there. The cost is lower than the 2016 version with a pricetag of $229 and you can record in up to 4K resolution. Apparently the $1.4B

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Apple is constantly improving its ARKit solution, adding always more features, and also Google is (slowly) updating ARCore. pic.twitter.com/59g2tWJZxT — alban denoyel (@albn) August 22, 2016. Magic Leap 2 is going to launch this year. Selected companies have already received it (Image by Magic Leap).

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

In November 2016, Intel acquired virtual reality company Voke whose 360 replay technology has been widely used in the sports world (the company also counts the Sacramento Kings among their investors). The notoriously secretive mixed reality company Magic Leap has acquired parts of Dacuda , a B2B computer vision software company.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 7, 2023

When I entered VR in 2014, I was expecting the market to enter the mainstream in 2016, with the release of Oculus CV1. This, together with the local dimming of Magic Leap 2 , show that now the AR and VR categories are starting to blur, and we could call the headsets AR-first or VR-first, and not AR or VR anymore.

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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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The Ghost Howls

MAY 8, 2023

While the concept of phone holders is dead for good in VR, there are a few companies that are trying to bring it to augmented reality, exploiting also the fact that true AR headsets (like Magic Leap 2 ) are very expensive and cost thousands of euros. In China, companies are already using AI to substitute illustrators.

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Road to VR

JUNE 15, 2016

The money comes from investors Horizons Ventures Limited, Banyan Capital, Comcast Ventures, GQY and Tencent and represents a significant show of faith in the company and its products: it’s competitors, namely Microsoft’s Hololens and Google-backed Magic Leap , are already well-funded, to say the least.

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Upload VR

JUNE 9, 2023

Google chickened out , Microsoft got distracted , and it's totally understandable if you lost interest in VR when they did. Yes, Google might still be resurgent with Android, powered by Owlchemy's insights and Samsung's hardware , and other companies might surprise with a novel strategy too. Vision Pro did AR in VR that well.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The New York Times distributes more than 1 million Google Cardboard phone VR viewers to subscribers with the launch of The Displaced , a 360-degree video project focusing on children driven from their homes by war. Eye-tracking startup Eyefluence, which raises $14 million this month, is acquired about a year later by Google.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: Episode 28 of the VRScout Report, we got new 360 toys on iOS, Hololens is helping elevator technicians, VR might help you control your dreams, Apple CEO Tim Cook on augmented reality, VR/AR industry funding wrapup, and more… iOS NOW CAN TAKE 360 PHOTOS WITH GOOGLE CARDBOARD CAMERA, TOO.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2018

In early 2016, I run into a paper from a professor at Caltech that was talking about data visualization in virtual reality and that blew my mind. The company officially started in August 2016, but then things skyrocketed because it basically gives the customer what the customer wants. Magic Leap glasses.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Google, Apple, and other map programmes offer this functionality to users. 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. People are now finding AR embedded in many devices. How Does AR Work?

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AllThingsVR

JANUARY 12, 2017

Magic Leap also received a boatload of speculation about the tech it used to raise $1.4 Pokémon GO delivered $600 million in mobile AR revenue in its first three months alone, making more money through the year than the entire VR games software market in 2016. non-PC full system costs hit $798 — the same as HTC Vive).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

diagonal, which feels so 2016. Google unveils Starline communication solution. At Google I/O, Google has announced Project Starline, an interesting project it has worked on for five years. It is about creating a bridge between two distant people. It feels like magic.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Magic Leap Two is coming at the end of the year. At the end of 2021, we will discover what will be the fate of Magic Leap. Magic Leap must compete with Microsoft, which has a long expertise in B2B, and that thanks to Azure can offer many services attached to the HoloLens 2.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

“When you change the way you see the world, you change the world you see, and this is what has happened with the HoloLens,” said Satya Nadella as he kicked off the much-anticipated launch, over 3 years after the device was first launched in 2016. Let’s be honest, 2016 seems like a very long time ago now.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 11, 2016

They accounted for 86% of the number of investors in AR/VR startups in current quarter of 2016. Certainly Magic Leap won big by attracting Google, Qualcomm, Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins, among other investors. And that is the 9th straight quarter of investment trending upwards.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2018

It is one of those places where people look for 3D models , alongside other marketplaces like the Unity Asset Store, Google Poly or Turbosquid. Not to mention how 3D technologies are being adopted and developed by major companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple. Back in 2016, we posted an infographic about 3D models and VR.

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2017

billion in 2016 alone. My friend Clay [Bavor, VP of VR] at Google, he’s investing and building… he’s creating something. He’s not creating Google VR. These guys have invested billions. Absolutely invested billions and they have many billions to go. You know what he’s creating?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2016

They do magical things. But these revenue forecasts for the early years — they’re going to miss their numbers in 2016 by 80 percent. In fact, SuperData Research did recently retreat from a rosy VR forecast for 2016. million VR headsets in 2016. That’s pretty scary for the AR industry because Magic Leap raised $793.5

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2019

Magic Leap has stated in their guidebook that adult content is not allowed on the device. These work similar to how the Google Cardboard does for VR, offering a way of experiencing immersive HMD entertainment with our smartphones. billion valuation in 2016. Aryzon v1 headset (Image by Aryzon ). The AR industry is growing.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

In 2013, after 10 years of creating video games, he joined Magic Leap where he was promoted to senior director, overseeing content and SDK teams. At Magic Leap, Paul recognized the lack of accessible tools for non-game developers that was hindering widespread adoption of immersive and spatial computing technologies.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

In 2013, after 10 years of creating video games, he joined Magic Leap where he was promoted to senior director, overseeing content and SDK teams. At Magic Leap, Paul recognized the lack of accessible tools for non-game developers that was hindering widespread adoption of immersive and spatial computing technologies.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2019

I have also launched a Kickstarter campaign to create a medical metaverse in 2016, but with little luck. Layered structure of the MagicVerse, the metaverse envisioned by Magic Leap. Its structure reminds a lot what Kim is telling in this interview (Image by Magic Leap). What is your job? And from a business one?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

I mean, we have access to the world’s information — I can Google pretty much any details — but it just gives me the information. I can ask Google questions now; Voice, Amazon, Alexa, and Google Voice. Now, I don’t even have to pull my phone out; I can just ask Google and every answer is there.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

I mean, we have access to the world’s information — I can Google pretty much any details — but it just gives me the information. I can ask Google questions now; Voice, Amazon, Alexa, and Google Voice. Now, I don’t even have to pull my phone out; I can just ask Google and every answer is there.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

In 2013, after 10 years of creating video games, he joined Magic Leap where he was promoted to senior director, overseeing content and SDK teams. At Magic Leap, Paul recognized the lack of accessible tools for non-game developers that was hindering widespread adoption of immersive and spatial computing technologies.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’d say that through at least 2022, the enterprise will account for the majority of augmented and mixed reality headsets like Hololens and Magic Leap. We tried to making a Google Cardboard thing,” and they made a little marketing kitschy thing. Enterprise will account for the majority of those through at least 2022.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’d say that through at least 2022, the enterprise will account for the majority of augmented and mixed reality headsets like Hololens and Magic Leap. We tried to making a Google Cardboard thing,” and they made a little marketing kitschy thing. Enterprise will account for the majority of those through at least 2022.

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