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My predictions for augmented reality in 2019

The Ghost Howls

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. Leap Motion. You may ask why I’m adding Leap Motion here.

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2019 AR Funding Exceeds $1.3 Billion

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Magic Leap, the top-funded company, raised $280 million compared to $1.25 billion in 2018 and $502 million in 2017. — There were some high-profile flameouts in 2019, including Meta, ODG and Daqri, while others exited below previous funding totals (a veritable down-round), including Leap Motion. .

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RealMax Qian review: wide FOV AR is amazing!

The Ghost Howls

In my unboxing video, you may see that I’ve found an additional Leap Motion v1 controller + Leap Motion mount for RealMax + USB-C cable for Leap Motion. Since having a 3DOF controller with a 6DOF headset is weird (HTC and Lenovo know this well), RealMax has decided to add also support for Leap Motion.

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Analyzing Oculus Santa Cruz patent images

The Ghost Howls

The only headset that has such kind of strange thing on one side is the Magic Leap One , that uses it to track the controllers with magnetical fields… but we all know that Oculus actually uses optical tracking to track the controllers. attaching Leap Motion through an adapter).

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Augmented reality is reaching a mature state according to Gartner

The Ghost Howls

Position and Adoption Speed Justification: Similar to AR, aspects of the AR cloud have existed for decades, but the emergence of the AR cloud as a concept has re-emerged as recently as 2017. Header image by Leap Motion). 5G) and there are extra-technological concerns about it (e.g.

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

The Ghost Howls

But it was too early and there was no clear applications for them, if not for some makers or enterprise projects, and so the project was shut down in 2017. Magic Leap reveals updates and new enterprise solutions. With various posts on its blog, AR startup Magic Leap has revealed a bunch of new updates.

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