Road to VR

JANUARY 21, 2022

And there’s no doubts about it: Kress says he’s focusing on creating consumer AR hardware at Google. Bavor also oversaw the 2016 launch of Google’s Daydream VR platform (subsequently abandoned in 2019 ), and the development of ARCore, the software development kit for smartphone-based AR.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 30, 2017

With 2015 breaking previous records, industry observers entered 2016 wondering if VR/AR funding would be able to keep pace. In 2016, venture funding of VR/AR companies reached $1.8 While total venture funding for VR/AR showed major gains in 2016, VR/AR still only holds 1% of total venture funding. Dollars and Deals.

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VRScout

MARCH 25, 2022

Snap Inc’s AR Spectacles glasses are nothing short of black magic. First announced back in 2016, Snap Inc.’s Snap has opted instead to distribute hardware to a select group of creators familiar with Lens Studio , the company’s Lens-building software.

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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. But it’s reasonable to say that the high cost of VR headsets and the gaming hardware needed to support them, is keeping high-end VR accessibility low right now. billion in 2016 to $18.6 billion in 2021.

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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. Alex Kipman wearing HoloLens 2, Image courtesy Microsoft. If true, it would represent a significant change of course for the HoloLens product line.

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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2022

The report (via 9to5Mac ) details some anecdotes reaching back as far as 2016, when the company allegedly first showed off a number of AR and VR prototypes to industry leaders and Apple elite. Ive has since departed the company in 2019 to pursue his own design company, LoveFrom.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Several companies went through the bidding process, including HoloLens’s biggest competitor, Magic Leap, but it was Microsoft who ultimately won the bid to partner with the Army as a non-traditional defense contractor.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Despite the fact that a mere 6% of Americans will own a VR headset in 2016, future-looking venture capital firms have invested $500M in the VR/AR industry in Q3 of 2016 , with an average investment of $9.3M. Starting as a hardware company and evolving into a software company as well, Razer is now also growing into an investing company.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Japanese tech giant Canon today unveiled its next enterprise-focused AR headset which aims to replace its MREAL Display MD-10 , which the company launched in Japan in mid-2016 for the astounding price tag of ¥9 million (~$82,300). Interface cable (20m). MREAL display MD-20 / MD-10 common, interface cable (20m).

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TechCrunch VR

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The reasons are plentiful, but all tend to circle around the idea that it’s too early for software and too expensive to try to take on Apple or Facebook on the hardware front. On the hardware side, the ghost of Magic Leap’s formerly hyped glory still looms large.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 7, 2020

Intel was actually quite ahead of its time when it showed off one of the first standalone VR headset reference designs, codenamed Alloy, back in mid-2016. But in the mobile XR space, Nvidia only has its chips in one major headset: Magic Leap. While Sulon Q was said to launch in late 2016 , it was quietly cancelled and forgotten.

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Road to VR

JULY 16, 2016

Road to VR ‘s Ben Lang went hands on with the experience , that was shown at GDC 2016 in March and this is what he had to say about it: At only about 10 minutes long, Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine was only a tease that left me wanting much, much more. If ILMxLab has their way, it sees likely we will get just that.

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RealVision VR

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

With Hardware (cellphones) having enough processing power to overlay decent digital content over the real world when seen through a cellphone camera, it’s now feasible to play AR ‘games’ and tournaments such as Hado World that give e-sports a whole new meaning, exercising the body and not just a player’s thumbs!

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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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Road to VR

MAY 4, 2017

The Meta 2 augmented reality dev kit began pre-orders in March of 2016 and has apparently seen quite a bit of interest. By the end of 2016, the company says they began shipping the first Meta 2 dev kits, and by the end of 2017 they expect to ship some 10,000 headsets.

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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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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. Not 2x or 3x, but 26x.

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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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Upload VR

JUNE 9, 2023

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. It's still gestating, and Apple's known for updating hardware with significant new features years after initial release. The just-announced visionOS 1.0

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2017

billion in 2016 alone. But, the industry is still in its infancy and still seeking a firm footing that will truly form an ecosystem: a self-sustaining web of hardware builders, software developers, and consumer demand. John Riccitiello is the CEO of Unity Technologies , one of the world’s leading game engines.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Apple also recently stole some hot talent from Oculus as well as Magic Leap, so it’s only a matter of time before we’ll see a beautifully designed mixed reality product that will take iOS fanboys by storm. THE STORY OF THE 2016 NBA FINALS IN VR. AppleEyes, anyone? MONEY, MOVES, AND FUNDING. …and more. …and more.

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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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Road to VR

MARCH 18, 2018

When it comes to Valve and VR, two things immediately come to mind: 1) the fact that the company has said they’re developing “three full [VR] games, not experiments,” and 2) the Knuckles VR controllers that the company revealed all the way back in 2016. Continued on Page 2: Sony, Magic Leap, LG & Microsoft ».

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Today’s MR hardware seems a bit like a 1970’s IBM. Meta is working on an AR headset, which puts them in the same league as Microsoft and Magic Leap. Despite growing interest from big tech companies, commercial applications of BCIs have been hamstrung by prohibitively high costs and impractical hardware.

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JUNE 16, 2017

Even Magic Leap showed up to say much and show little. The enterprise-focused hardware strategy is ultimately wrong for AR glasses because this industry will not be segmented by user types. What we mean is that the vast majority of use cases do not require specialized hardware.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2016

Back in May, he said, “From a hardware and a software perspective, it’s a masking tape and twine year. They do magical things. But these revenue forecasts for the early years — they’re going to miss their numbers in 2016 by 80 percent. The hardware is not there. million VR headsets in 2016. That’s coming.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 31, 2016

At this year’s IMMERSE Summit , Road to VR sat down with Matt McIlwain , managing director at Madrona Venture Group (investor in Envelop VR and Pixvana ), and Patrick Eggen , managing director at Qualcomm Ventures (investor in Owlchemy Labs and Magic Leap ), to discuss their investing strategies when it comes to virtual and augmented reality.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 27, 2022

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. Technologies later improved from the 60s, when AR devices required enormous hardware components. AR’s Humble Origins.

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VRWorld

APRIL 28, 2017

Since Magic Leap’s inception in 2011, there has been great innovation in the technology sector focused in the virtual reality (VR)/augmented reality (AR)/mixed reality (MR) space with Magic Leap trying to create a new hardware interface designs. Google discontinued the interface in January 2015.

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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. It managed to outlive the Daydream platform the company introduced at its I/O 2016. Palmer Luckey, co-founder of Oculus VR Inc.,

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

In January 2014, he launched his second print titled The Startup Monthly in May 2016, he launched — what I love — VRVoice.co, a content vertical on all things virtual reality. One my the reasons I started looking at VR again in 2016 was because of that video gaming interest. Huge, huge gaming conference.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

In January 2014, he launched his second print titled The Startup Monthly in May 2016, he launched — what I love — VRVoice.co, a content vertical on all things virtual reality. One my the reasons I started looking at VR again in 2016 was because of that video gaming interest. Huge, huge gaming conference.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

In January 2014, he launched his second print titled The Startup Monthly in May 2016, he launched -- what I love -- VRVoice.co, a content vertical on all things virtual reality. One my the reasons I started looking at VR again in 2016 was because of that video gaming interest. Huge, huge gaming conference. It makes E3 look minuscule.

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Road to VR

JUNE 28, 2023

At the time, the prototype was said to be a standalone, ski goggle-like headset providing onboard power, computing, and outward-facing cameras for world sensing capabilities—similar in description and function to headsets like HoloLens or Magic Leap. Project Iris was said to ship as early as 2024.

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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. ARtillery Intelligence predicts $14B of consumer AR revenues by 2021, with only around $2B of that from hardware sales. by Marko Balabanovic.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

I ended up at Valve Software running their hardware department, putting the team together that created the HTC Vive. As hardware and software mature, awareness is driven by wonderful things like Pokemon Go. Instead of having to install applications to do this, it’ll be part of the OS and part of the hardware itself.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 5, 2021

In fact, Mr. Mahaney reports that due to the huge expenses for R&D, deals with game studios, and hardware sold at loss, “ [Facebook] will generate between $5.4 and also why the $2+B investment in Magic Leap was not enough to bring it to success. billion and $6.4 And these ones are just a tiny part of all the news I’ve read.

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