The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Well, with this new chip, headsets will: Have a resolution of 3K per eye ; Have up to 7 cameras used simultaneously (12 in total for the device). Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap may be in trouble, but its CEO remains confident. More info (Report on Magic Leap) More info (Rony Abovitz’s tweet).

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Microsoft debuts their latest mixed reality device at Mobile World Conference 2019. Over these past three and a half years, Microsoft has been listening to their customers, claims HoloLens inventor and Microsoft Technical Fellow Alex Kipman as he took his turn on stage. Microsoft HoloLens 2 / Image Credit: Microsoft.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 19, 2022

To date, Microsoft HoloLens 2 continues to receive rave reviews for its stunning performance and versatility. Microsoft later announced the HoloLens 2 at the 2019 Mobile World Congress (MWC) with several upgrades. Inside Microsoft HoloLens 2. According to Microsoft’s spec sheet, here are its key features: Display.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 15, 2023

To date, Microsoft HoloLens 2 continues to receive rave reviews for its stunning performance and versatility. Microsoft later announced the HoloLens 2 at the 2019 Mobile World Congress (MWC) with several upgrades. Compared to the first version, Microsoft has upgraded the display resolution from 1280×720 to 2048×1080.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Magic Leap has just organized its first developers’ event, dubbed “L.E.A.P.” It is the first event of this kind organized by Magic Leap: we can say that LEAP Con is like the Oculus Connect of Magic Leap and will probably become always more important, year after year, exactly as it has happened to Oculus.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 15, 2024

The OpenXR API is a core piece behind many XR headsets from vendors such as Acer, ByteDance, Canon, HTC, Magic Leap, Meta, Microsoft, Sony, XREAL, Qualcomm, Valve, and Varjo. Moreover, RT3D development services like Autodesk VRED, Blender, Godot, NVIDIA’s Omniverse, StereoKit, Unreal Engine, and Unity support OpenXR integration.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 5, 2020

and look like standard sunglasses; NReal has partnered with 7Invensun and is going to add eye tracking to its cheap AR glasses ; Pimax is going to unveil the price of the Artisan, its new low-price headset with amazing FOV and resolution. The eye-tracked model costs only $900. They are incredibly light (10 grams!)

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Peter Graham

JANUARY 30, 2020

Earlier this month VRFocus caught up with Spatial – which is building a collaborative augmented reality (AR) platform for enterprise use cases – at CES 2020, with the company showcasing its latest version on Microsoft’s HoloLens 2. Spatial featured during the HoloLens 2 launch at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

The advantage of using 72 Hz is that everything appears smoother, plus the display becomes brighter and the colors warmer ; Fixed foveating : we all know what foveated rendering is and we all know that to be implemented it requires eye tracking. But we also know that when in VR, most people just look forward with their eyes.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Today, at MWC 2019, Alex Kipman went on stage together with Satya Nadella and Julia White to announce the new HoloLens 2. They teased a lot of interesting features and services of the device, and left the remaining technical details to some technical sheets on Microsoft website. Woman wearing a HoloLens2 device (Image by Microsoft).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

We started talking with other professionals in the field, and they always kept saying to us “If Microsoft can’t do it, how can you do it?”. High-precision 6DOF tracking, eye tracking, gesture inputs, with dedicated input controllers The SDK will support Unity , with Unreal coming Soon. All APIs have a plain C version.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2. So training is the magical use case for virtual/augmented reality, and I think right across any enterprise, that is going to be more and more applicable. A lot of companies focusing on it. A lot of companies picking up on it.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2. So training is the magical use case for virtual/augmented reality, and I think right across any enterprise, that is going to be more and more applicable. A lot of companies focusing on it. A lot of companies picking up on it.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And then, as of 2019 — by the end of this year — they’ll kind of cross. If companies raise money now — the end of 2019/2020 — I think it’s the perfect time, because we’re only just starting to see these real ROI-driven things come out. Alan: The VIVE Pro Eye. Dean: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And then, as of 2019 — by the end of this year — they’ll kind of cross. If companies raise money now — the end of 2019/2020 — I think it’s the perfect time, because we’re only just starting to see these real ROI-driven things come out. Alan: The VIVE Pro Eye. Dean: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And then, as of 2019 -- by the end of this year -- they'll kind of cross. If companies raise money now -- the end of 2019/2020 -- I think it's the perfect time, because we're only just starting to see these real ROI-driven things come out. you know, they did an eye-tracking version of the HTC Vive here. Dean: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2. So training is the magical use case for virtual/augmented reality, and I think right across any enterprise, that is going to be more and more applicable. A lot of companies focusing on it. A lot of companies picking up on it.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And then, as of 2019 — by the end of this year — they’ll kind of cross. If companies raise money now — the end of 2019/2020 — I think it’s the perfect time, because we’re only just starting to see these real ROI-driven things come out. Alan: The VIVE Pro Eye. Dean: Yeah.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

It got the attention of all the press at CES 2019 revealing an AR glass that is light, fashionable, and affordable. At the time of writing it doesn’t work with Unity 2019, but only with Unity 2018. The tracking is not perfect, but it is good enough to work. And here comes another discussion about the platform.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

There is no point if you have face tracking and it doesn’t work well… and the positional tracking alone is very difficult to provide well even for established companies (only Oculus’s one is very fluid) In the video they say confusing things like “R&D is cheap now” (really? All of this for $450 and free shipping.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

It took nearly 20 years, but 2019 is the year when digital advertising will overtake spend on traditional media (billboards, newspapers, TV etc.). Microsoft Capture Studio is offering such services scanning celebrities and performers for entertainment and education purposes. The Evolution of Out of Home and Product Placement.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

After many years of waiting, and even a second iteration of the device scrapped away, Microsoft is finally going to announce the next generation of HoloLens. HoloLens vNext will be launched on February, 24th 2019 in Barcelona, Spain, at the Mobile World Congress. Microsoft has bet on the all-in-one design since the beginning.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 12, 2021

It has been launched in 2019, but because of its very high price and the pandemic that prevented me to travel, in these two years, I have never had the opportunity to try it. For instance, in the box I’ve found a cleaning cloth for an Oculus device… and I don’t think it actually comes with a Microsoft HoloLens!

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 2, 2023

This is due to several “false starts” with Google Glass , Microsoft HoloLens2, and Magic Leap, although the companies remain potential customers. Named X-Vision, Augmetics produced the device in Israel, which the FDA approved in 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 27, 2019

600,000); We have always predicted that Quest would have sold 1–2M units in 2019. Image by Microsoft). Microsoft wants to play safe, though, so it is now launching it only in two small countries , so that to identify possible problems only in a small subset of the worldwide population before the big launch. Other relevant news.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2019

You know, I watched your 2019 keynote from AWE again, and put on these these welding glasses that you had back in 2009. I think there’s an inherent risk of collecting eye tracking data, and positional head tracking data, and more data about individuals. I think Magic Leap calls it the Magicverse.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2019

You know, I watched your 2019 keynote from AWE again, and put on these these welding glasses that you had back in 2009. I think there’s an inherent risk of collecting eye tracking data, and positional head tracking data, and more data about individuals. I think Magic Leap calls it the Magicverse.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2020

A worker wearing HoloLens 2 (Image by Microsoft). I was reading my predictions for 2019 to prepare myself for this article, and to my surprise, I found it incredibly actual. It has not changed that much from when I wrote that article at the beginning of 2019. My duck-face while wearing Magic Leap One glasses.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

” Alan: In my last interview, we were talking about 2019 as that year where it goes from, “you’re doing VR — you’re ahead of the game, you’re a future company,” to, “you’re not using VR? We’re not tied to Microsoft. We’re not tied to Magic Leap.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

” Alan: In my last interview, we were talking about 2019 as that year where it goes from, “you’re doing VR — you’re ahead of the game, you’re a future company,” to, “you’re not using VR? We’re not tied to Microsoft. We’re not tied to Magic Leap.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 22, 2019

You’ve got mobile phone-based AR, eye tracking set devices, taste experiments, hot and cold devices, thermal devices, and then tracking systems for motion capture, and of course, treadmills for omni-directional walking. It’s also the eyes. There is a demo by Microsoft, that you are reading a text.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Alan: In my last interview, we were talking about 2019 as that year where it goes from, "you're doing VR -- you're ahead of the game, you're a future company," to, "you're not using VR? And the next generation of headsets that will come out in the next 24 months will all have eye tracking and head tracking.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 22, 2019

You've got mobile phone-based AR, eye tracking set devices, taste experiments, hot and cold devices, thermal devices, and then tracking systems for motion capture, and of course, treadmills for omni-directional walking. It's also the eyes. There is a demo by Microsoft, that you are reading a text. Antony: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 22, 2019

You’ve got mobile phone-based AR, eye tracking set devices, taste experiments, hot and cold devices, thermal devices, and then tracking systems for motion capture, and of course, treadmills for omni-directional walking. It’s also the eyes. There is a demo by Microsoft, that you are reading a text.

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