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Magic Leap Gets Half-billion Dollar Boost Ahead of Vision Pro Launch

Road to VR

Saudi Arabia has recently injected more than half a billion dollars into augmented reality company Magic Leap, which it hopes will rival Apple’s Vision Pro mixed reality headset. Will Magic Leap 2 be able to compete with Apple? It’s certainly worth watching.

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Magic Leap One first impressions review: it’s not a leap, but a step

The Ghost Howls

I thought it would have taken me a lot before I would be able to try the Magic Leap One , but luckily this has not been the case. If you follow me since a while, you should recall that I had a startup focused on full body virtual reality called Immotionar : we mixed VR headsets and Kinects to let you use your full body in VR.

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Virtual Reality in Healthcare and Compliance Meets Enterprise Training

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Extended reality (XR) is making a substantial impact on how companies train and upskill their employees. Combining virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR), firms can empower teams with bespoke, targeted immersive experiences. Changing the Way Companies Train Staff.

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Apple’s Upcoming Headset “so good”, According to Oculus Founder

Road to VR

When unicorn AR startup Magic Leap released ML1 headset in mid-2018, he called it a “tragic heap,” further stating the AR headset was “a tragedy in the classical sense.” Palmer Lucker donning ML1 | Image courtesy Palmer Luckey At the time, Magic Leap was just as secretive about its hardware as Apple is today.

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Virtual Reality is reaching a mature state according to Gartner

The Ghost Howls

Some days ago, while browsing the Facebook group VIRTUAL REALITY, I found a post comparing the Gartner Hype Cycle 2017 and 2018. The results of the comparison were basically two: Augmented Reality has not moved in the graph; Virtual Reality has disappeared. Gartner Hype Cycle for 2018 (Image by Gartner).

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Magic Leap to Launch ‘Avatar Chat’ Next Month, Developer Tools to Create Multiuser Apps

Road to VR

Magic Leap is slowly broadening its app offerings, and as a part of the company’s next steps to move forward to a fully-fledged consumer product, the company today announced at L.E.A.P. Con, the company’s first developer conference, that Magic Leap One is getting a bit more social in the next few months.

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VIEW Conference 2018 will host amazing XR talks and workshops

The Ghost Howls

VIRTUAL REALITY: Light, Color, & the Human Visual System” by Don Greenberg. We all want a virtual reality that appears as if it were real and for this, we want more resolution and FOV in our virtual reality headsets. Where we speak about virtual reality, we immediately think about visuals.