Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

It was really interesting to see Microsoft pivot towards enterprise with the HoloLens and I think it was absolutely the right move for them to make Click To Tweet. Alice Bonasio (@alicebonasio) February 2, 2019. For starters, they’re based in Oregon as opposed to Silicon Valley. 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. Image by Microsoft). HoloLens 2.

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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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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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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. The post OpenXR Standard Ratified, Microsoft, Oculus, & Others to Release First Implementations appeared first on Road to VR.

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AR Insider

APRIL 16, 2021

M icrosoft’s Hololens2 isn’t a new device, having released in November 2019. XR Talks: Microsoft Doubles Down on AR. This is the reason that Microsoft has solely targeted the enterprise for HoloLens 2. The enterprise focus is comparatively what Magic Leap failed to do — at least at first.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 21, 2022

Bernard Kress, principal optical architect on Microsoft’s HoloLens team, has left the company to take on the role of Director of XR Engineering at the recently formed Google Labs. And there’s no doubts about it: Kress says he’s focusing on creating consumer AR hardware at Google.

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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.

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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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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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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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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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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. Image by Microsoft). New SteamVR devkit aims at making custom hardware easier.

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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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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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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

They may be AR glasses or smartglasses, but what is sure is that Niantic is working to support AR hardware within its platform. confirmed with the company that it may not be a Niantic-branded pair of glasses, but a reference design that Niantic is building with Qualcomm since 2019. Microsoft signs a $22B deal with the US Army.

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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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AR Insider

JANUARY 24, 2020

What progress did we see in 2019? We are fundamentally visual creatures who think in three dimensions and live in a physical world […] As Kevin Kelly penned in his article entitled Mirrorworld in 2019, we are entering the photonic era, an era shaped by light.” Other signals abound if you consider all the AR action in 2019.

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TechCrunch VR

DECEMBER 8, 2020

When Chi Xu left Magic Leap and returned to China, he had big ambitions. Xu, now chief executive of Nreal, one of China’s highest-funded AR startups , is among a group of entrepreneurs uniquely positioned to build world-class hardware. Magic Leap sucked all the air out of the room. ”

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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

Basically, they are: Hyper-optimization : since this is a standalone headset, Oculus has been able to optimize the hardware and software for VR usage. This seems to confirm that we’ll see in the future (maybe 2019) a new tethered headset, as I had already suggested in a previous post of mine. Oculus announces Hardware Reports.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 30, 2019

Considering that Microsoft owns part of Facebook, this wouldn’t sound impossible to me, even if I thought that Xbox would have been compatible with WMR headsets. nReal answers to Magic Leap. In a preset PR statement, nReal answers the Magic Leap claims defining them “False and anticompetitive”. DisplayPort 2.0

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Silicon Valley’s advent calendar clearly marks September as the traditional time for Apple to talk finished hardware, not secretive projects. Not long after, on the day of the hardware event, Apple released Xcode 11, the newest version of the company’s macOS development environment. That’s by design.

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Road to VR

MARCH 18, 2018

We expect that when Valve reveals a near-final version of Knuckles, it’ll come at the same time (or near to it) that they reveal their first VR title, which probably won’t happen until later this year, if not 2019. Continued on Page 2: Sony, Magic Leap, LG & Microsoft ». So What Will Valve Be Showing?

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 7, 2019

As Upload points out, this means that the Cosmos will be the only major new headset of 2019 coming with a wireless solution already on the market. Microsoft is shipping Azure Kinect. Microsoft is finally shipping its Azure Kinect devkits. As promised, Microsoft has released the documentation on its website.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft). Google can count on the acquisition of North, the experience he has matured by producing Google Glass and investing in Magic Leap, and the fact that it owns the most-used mobile operating system. Magic Leap will meet its fate. Duck Face, Magic Leap One, and me.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 29, 2023

This offering could be the key to helping the tech giant preserve its market share, as innovators like Apple , Microsoft, and Magic Leap all increase their focus in the business world. The bundle included Oculus hardware, touch controllers, sensors, and facial interfaces intended for business use.

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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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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

As I’m thinking back to it now, this was actually on HTC VIVE — first gen, which was only maybe 3, 4 years ago now — and I was so impressed with the first generation of hardware that I was like, “well, this is ready for prime time.” 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

As I’m thinking back to it now, this was actually on HTC VIVE — first gen, which was only maybe 3, 4 years ago now — and I was so impressed with the first generation of hardware that I was like, “well, this is ready for prime time.” A lot of companies focusing on it. A lot of companies picking up on it.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2, the company’s most recent smartglasses (or rather smart glass ), was only available to partner companies when it launched in May 2019. Now Google is allowing its third-party hardware vendors to sell the headset direct to developers. Image courtesy Google.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

As I'm thinking back to it now, this was actually on HTC VIVE -- first gen, which was only maybe 3, 4 years ago now -- and I was so impressed with the first generation of hardware that I was like, "well, this is ready for prime time." One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

The promise of Augmented Reality hardware has been immense, but so have been the number of misses. Can Jio’s next hardware play be any different? Reliance Jio’s foray into mixed reality started in 2019 when they acquired majority stake in deep-tech startup Tesseract which has a few hardware products in XR space.

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TechCrunch VR

MARCH 13, 2022

Remember Magic Leap? This week, I spent an hour or so playing around with the unreleased next-generation Magic Leap headset, all while discussing the augmented reality company’s wild ride with Magic Leap CEO Peggy Johnson and other members of their executive team. So, let’s talk about it.

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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?”. People at Kura love to experiment with hardware going very hands-on the technology (Image by Kura Technologies). The entrance to the big WCVRI VR exhibition in Nanchang China, in 2019.

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