Tech Trends VR

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

The Venture Reality Fund , which invests primarily in immersive applications and games, has just released its latest quarterly update covering Q1 and Q2 of 2019. For consumers, we are seeing launches of specialized hardware, like North’s Focals smart glasses, Form’s AR swimming goggles or BOSE AR’s audio-only sunglasses.

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Upload VR

APRIL 26, 2024

Meta's Head of AR Glasses Hardware claims they give the same "Oh my God, wow! Kalinowski was previously the Head of VR Hardware at Oculus for the consumer Oculus Rift, Oculus Touch, Oculus Go, Rift S, Oculus Quest, Quest 2, and Quest Pro. I can't believe this!" reaction as the original Oculus Rift.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Magic Leap pivots towards enterprise. At the same time, Magic Leap has also shipped a new runtime for its hardware , with the addition of new nice features like vocal commands. At the same time, Magic Leap has also shipped a new runtime for its hardware , with the addition of new nice features like vocal commands.

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ARPost

JANUARY 13, 2020

2019 was a big year for XR headsets, applications, and technology. Here, we’ll be taking a look at the AR and MR headsets and glasses that caught our attention in 2019 and that we’ll be keeping an eye on going into 2020. Tethered MR headsets require a hardware connection to a computer. Magic Leap 1.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

It is intriguing that many companies are already experimenting with this new chipset, and one of these partners is Niantic, that is thinking about going the AR hardware route after all its hard work on gelocalized AR games like Pokemon Go. Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap may be in trouble, but its CEO remains confident.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

First identified in the Chinese city of Wuhan towards the tail-end of 2019, Chinese authorities are now reporting thousands of confirmed cases across the massive country. Still, nCoV-2019 Tracker serves as an excellent example of VR’s potential as a data visualization tool.

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

In spite of the fact we’re joking around and playing Angry Birds on Magic Leap, the whole thing feels very grown up, in the sense that these guys are in this for the long haul, and so, they reckon, is the business of making Mixed Reality. Alice Bonasio (@alicebonasio) February 2, 2019. pic.twitter.com/UMhQbxgH1g.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2019

The MWC 2019 in Barcelona has finished some days ago. In my opinion, there are 3-4 pieces of news that are really worth a mention and I’m going to tell you about them in this post so that reading it you will have a clear picture of what has happened at MWC 2019 for what concerns XR. So, ready for this short roundup of mine?

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 23, 2024

We have been waiting for this moment since 2019 and I’m extremely excited to announce that it has finally arrived. ARway: 2023 in Review On the other hand, ARway also works with Magic Leap to create purpose-built navigation solutions for the firm’s XR device product portfolio.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Nreal, the Chinese startup behind the Nreal Light AR glasses which made a splash back at CES 2019, has now expanded to the United States, making the smartphone-tethered device available through select Verizon stores starting today. Image courtesy Nreal. Rollout in that country comes first to select brick-and-mortar Verizon stores.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Magic Leap Inc. , As stated, they are thinking of taking part in a new financing round of more than $500 million, bringing Magic Leap valuation close to $6 billion. Magic Leap’s last financing round, led by Alibaba , valued the company at $4.5 a Florida-based startup that’s raised more than $1.3

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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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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

All-in-all, Ray-Ban Stories is an impressive piece of hardware that—while not an AR headset—represents a major step in the right direction for immersive technology. Let’s dive into this exciting piece of hardware, shall we?

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Current AR glasses, such as Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 and the Magic Leap One, can pack a lot of punch in terms of augmented reality. Compared side-by-side to the HoloLens or a Magic Leap One, the differences in power are significant. Unfortunately, they’re not the most stylish headsets around.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 21, 2022

And there’s no doubts about it: Kress says he’s focusing on creating consumer AR hardware at Google. Bavor also oversaw the 2016 launch of Google’s Daydream VR platform (subsequently abandoned in 2019 ), and the development of ARCore, the software development kit for smartphone-based AR.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Conference time and everyone is only talking about Magic Leap in these days. It seems that Microsoft has worked a lot to make the device more ergonomic and elegant , but the style remains anyway less classy than the one of Magic Leap. It’s L.E.A.P. Also showcasing an old interaction of the device has no sense.

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AR Insider

APRIL 16, 2021

M icrosoft’s Hololens2 isn’t a new device, having released in November 2019. The enterprise focus is comparatively what Magic Leap failed to do — at least at first. That underlying challenge of wearability versus graphical UX is currently the AR hardware industry’s greatest barrier.

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Magic Leap finally dropped to mixed reviews and BrainXchange published its Definitive Guide to Adopting Wearables, AR and VR in Enterprise. Going into 2019, the industry eagerly awaits HoloLens 2 and Glass Enterprise Edition 2, as rumors swirl around the possibility of AR glasses from Apple and/or Facebook in the near future.

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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2022

” None of that’s particularly uncommon practice when it comes to hardware development—just ask Magic Leap insiders from the early days—however the report notes the company’s MR headset hasn’t gained the same support from Apple’s current CEO, Tim Cook, that Steve Jobs had for iPhone’s development. .”

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Making an AR headset accessible enough for consumers is a vastly different challenge to producing higher cost enterprise headsets— just ask Magic Leap. Alex Kipman wearing HoloLens 2, Image courtesy Microsoft. If true, it would represent a significant change of course for the HoloLens product line.

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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 9, 2019

There’s just over a week to go until the European leg of the Augmented World Expo (AWE) 2019, offering a chance for virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) professionals from around the world to get together, share ideas, and test the latest immersive technologies. Image credit: AWE USA 2019. Image credit: AWE USA 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Magic Leap plans dev days and dev programs. We all know that Magic Leap is in big trouble, and it seems that one of the paths it is trying to follow to exit the quicksands is trying to get more developers onboard. New SteamVR devkit aims at making custom hardware easier. More info (Use Google Translate).

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

In mature markets like smartphones, hardware players disclose figures — especially if public — but it’s a lot quieter on the early-stage front. Moreover, annualizing Quest’s sales, given an average 83,000 units per month, yields 583,000 units (seven-month sales runway in 2019). Holiday spending is the wild card. VR’s Palm Pilot.

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Road to VR

MARCH 18, 2019

OpenXR is a work-in-progress standard that aims to unify the underlying connections between VR and AR hardware, game engines, and content, making for a more interoperable ecosystem. OpenXR’s ‘working group’, under which representatives from member companies are actively developing the standard, is facilitated by Khronos Group.

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ARPost

JULY 16, 2019

As software, hardware, and applications improve, so do the mental health and medical fields. Being able to just pick up a piece of hardware, put it on, and get started is amazingly helpful in actually getting people to use your application.” . Technology improves over time. The report has lots of interesting use cases for AR and VR.

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AR Insider

MARCH 4, 2021

Putting some numbers behind that, ARtillery projects AR glasses revenue to grow from $822 million in 2019 to $13.4 Of course, all of the above easier said than done and there are sizeable design challenges and UX tradeoffs when shedding hardware bulk. billion in 2024. And the wild card to kick off that progression will be Apple.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

” Meta’s video, which it released during its Connect developer conference in October, is less a roadmap and more a marketing barrage—like a hundred Magic Leap ‘whale’ moments smooshed into one. To think, HTC and Oculus were once competitors back in the early days of consumer VR.

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VRScout

APRIL 22, 2019

When the Magic Leap One (ML1) originally shipped and went to market, I eagerly tried the headset the first moment I could. I’d like to consider that what we did together took hardware and twisted it, turned it, put it in heels making it cool, casual hardwear. It’s what I believe in and what I want to see.

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JULY 19, 2023

MicroLED Downgraded To LCoS The Orion developer/demonstration glasses will reportedly use microLED displays from Plessey, the supplier Facebook secured the entire future output from in 2019. LCoS microdisplays were used in HoloLens 1 and are used today in Magic Leap 2.

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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. Other industry leaders ready to support standardisation for cross-platform XR applications are hardware firms like Xreal, OPPO, and Pico.

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ARVR

JUNE 29, 2020

Recent advances in computer hardwares and AI assistants are charting a path for AR devices to to re-emerge into a more technology-savvy generation. Compare that number with another survey conducted in February 2019, the percentage of adults who own a smartphone jumped to 81%. Don’t forget to give us your ?? !

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MAY 20, 2022

The standoff between Rockwell and Ive reportedly lasted months, when CEO Tim Cook sided with Ive in 2019. To get support for the project, team members apparently warned that companies like Facebook and Magic Leap could end up owning the sector.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

While discussing the earning calls for Q3 2019, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has admitted that VR is taking longer than expected to become successful. If we want to be super-bullish and think that Quest hardware sales make up 50% of total extra-ad earnings by Facebook, Quest has sold 340,000 units in Q3. Are you ready?

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TechCrunch VR

OCTOBER 14, 2021

I had the chance to demo the headset in-person in San Francisco and my first impression of the device was around just how compact and well-designed the hardware appeared. HTC is embracing several hardware features designed around miniaturization that we haven’t seen in other headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

Plus it’s even weirder that HTC needed 2 years to bring it to the market (it was announced in 2019). And the number is also that big because Facebook had no hardware department, so it had to create everything from scratch (i.e. This comes as no surprise since the hardware is always built in this kind of iteration cycles.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

And they do it in a way that it is like they invented everything : “Oh, look, now Apple engineers have invented something incredible like DOCUMENTS YOU CAN EDIT TOGETHER” Typically when Android users hear these things, they make a face similar to this one Is it 2019? There are some exceptions (e.g.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Meleap (pronounced “may-leap”) is a combination of the words “Merry” and “Leap”. As of 2019, we are an expanding private company with about 40 people based in Japan and funded by Japanese venture capitalists. What are the software and hardware platform used by HADO? What is Meleap?

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