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My predictions for augmented reality in 2019

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More or less AR in 2018 has gone as I predicted in 2017. Magic Leap. Me, wearing a Magic Leap One. The most important news has been for sure the launch of the Magic Leap One. Rear view of the Magic Leap One. Magic Leap. Augmented Reality in 2018.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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GOOGLE DAYDREAM SCORES NETFLIX AND HBO APPS. Google Daydream has exclusive access to YouTube’s considerable 360 video library (although admittedly curation could be better) as well as its massive 2D video archive. MAGIC LEAP’S CONTROVERSY. valuation) from huge names like Google, Alibaba, and Andreeson Horowitz.

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One More Thing From Apple Vision Pro: Validation For An Industry

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"Apple's announcement today is a very good validation of the overall XR/spatial computing sector," Magic Leap founder Rony Abovitz wrote to me. Apple was built and then rebuilt over decades from Mac to iMac to iPod to iPhone, and now its leadership now sees a sizable market in the prospect of virtual worlds and augmenting vision.

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The NBA and TNT Partner With Intel For Biggest VR Push Yet

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In 2017, the NBA gave fans the ability to switch between multiple 360° courtside views. For this year’s game, fans will be transported into a virtual version of the NBA on TNT’s Studio J, where they will be able to interact and explore the room in VR. This isn’t the first NBA All-Star weekend to use VR for fan engagement.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.03.23): Half-Life: Alyx launches, Oculus Del Mar leaked, PS5 revealed and more!

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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.

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VR is dead, the metaverse is dead. Maybe.

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People have started wondering if Virtual Reality will ever become mainstream, and the metaverse has become kind of a joke, about which even Meta took some steps back. Think also about how Rayban Stories made wearing smartglasses in the street cool … it was unthinkable when Google Glass came out. XR will be there to improve this.

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Augmented reality is reaching a mature state according to Gartner

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I have also noticed that actually there is still something AR-related in the hype cycle, and it is the AR cloud , the system to create a complete worldwide mapping between the real and the virtual world. Considering that companies like 6d.ai mesh reconstruction of an environment from multiple cell phones.