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2019 AR Funding Exceeds $1.3 Billion

AR Insider

Data Point of the Week is AR Insider’s dive into the latest spatial computing figures. It includes data points, along with narrative insights and takeaways. For an indexed collection of data and reports, subscribe to ARtillery Pro. How did funding in the AR sector fare in 2019? Header Image Credit: Magic Leap.

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We need camera access to unleash the full potential of Mixed Reality

The Ghost Howls

I had some wonderful ideas of Mixed Reality applications I would like to prototype, but most of them are impossible to do in this moment because of a decision that almost all VR/MR headset manufacturers have taken: preventing developers from accessing camera data. So, how we empower the developers without hurting the user?

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Report: Apple AR Headset Could Rely on iPhone for Rendering & Connectivity

Road to VR

Kuo suggests that Apple will likely begin production on its AR headset sometime between Q4 of 2019 and Q2 of 2020, 9to5Mac reports, citing Kou’s translated statements in Money UDN (Chinese). SEE ALSO Report: Apple Nearly Acquired Leap Motion but the Deal Fell Through.

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#BuildYourNorthStar Workshop Brings AR to Life in 48 Hours

Leapmotion

In support of the event, our team donated Leap Motion Controllers. Our CTO David Holz and engineer/ AR tennis champion Jonathon Selstad joined the workshop, along with former Leap Motion engineer Adam Munich. He had experience building homebrew data gloves and mocap systems for years before discovering Leap Motion.

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Augmented reality is reaching a mature state according to Gartner

The Ghost Howls

Gartner Hype Cycle 2019. Security — establishing hierarchies for data capture and protection. Compliance — the impact of massive physical data collection on regulations such as GDPR. Digital ethics — guidelines to manage and capture content as well as segregating data into public and private realms.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.07.15): Apple kills its AR glasses, Oculus full-steam ahead on 2nd gen VR and much more!

The Ghost Howls

This would have happened on May 2019, in the same period when Apple’s senior manager of prototype development Avi Bar-Zeev left the company. After some years of silence, Elon Musk will give us an update of Neuralink on July, 18th 2019. Elon Musk will detail Neuralink soon. Companies are studying foveated rendering for AR glasses.

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Varjo Expands Enterprise Headset Lineup With VR-2 & VR-2 Pro

Peter Graham

Varjo’s 20/20 Eye Tracker technology has also been upgraded offering faster and more accurate calibration performance, giving applications access to precise eye data. Additionally, the Varjo VR-2 Pro also comes with integrated Ultraleap (formerly Leap Motion) hand tracking technology.