The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

HTC advertises it as a headset for relaxation and productivity because it wants to position it as a different product than a gaming machine like Oculus Quest 2. Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap 2 has been teased. The device will be sold exclusively as an enterprise device, starting from 2022.

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Upload VR

APRIL 15, 2024

Wolvic is the open-source successor to Firefox Reality , which was a web browser for early standalone headsets like Oculus Go, the original Oculus Quest, Vive Focus, and HoloLens 2. Today Wolvic is available on Meta Quest, Pico, Magic Leap 2, and Huawei VR Glasses. It first launched on Oculus Go’s store in 2018.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

This week has mostly been in the sign of Oculus, with many news and updates from the brand controlled by Facebook. Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap 2 is coming in Q1 2022. Even if most of this roundup will be about Oculus, I have decided to put another brand on top of it and it is Magic Leap.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

GDC 2022 featured many VR companies, but few announcements. I guess we have to wait a bit more for all the big announcements we are waiting for this 2022. Magic Leap 2 bridges AR and VR. The interest in Magic Leap 2 is growing. I hope this season will bring you joy, happiness, and love! Top news of the week.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Magic Leap. Focused primarily on the business world and corporate uses for Extended Reality, Magic Leap produces a range of powerful headsets with built-in speakers, sensors, and spatial audio. The company already offers one of the most accessible forms of VR headset on the market with the Oculus Quest.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Relative to enterprise-focused AR headsets like Magic Leap 2 and HoloLens 2, it’s also less expensive due to the inclusion of cheaper and less complicated optics, called ‘birdbath’ optics, which project light from a microdisplay to the eye via what’s essentially a curved see-through mirror (among other things).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap pivots to enterprise, lays off 1,000 employes. With a long post on Magic Leap’s blog, in the end Rony Abovitz has admitted that the company is not going that well, and has announced a new course, that should eventually lead to Magic Leap 2. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2022

Image by Magic Leap). First previews show Magic Leap 2 qualities. This week some selected journalists from popular online magazines like CNET and The Verge have been able to have a preview of the upcoming Magic Leap 2 glasses. I can’t wait to discover more on Q3 2022 when the headset should be launched.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2022

There I have tried some interesting devices like Weart haptic gloves, OWO haptic suit, but especially the Magic Leap 2, which I found to be a very well-made piece of hardware! In the latest Oculus SDK, Meta has included Room Setup functionalities. It looks like the Infinadeck, but much less bulky. Some news on content.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 31, 2022

It’s called AI Research SuperCluster (RSC) and it will be the fastest AI supercomputer in the world when it will be fully built out in mid-2022. Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap 2 to feature dynamic dimming. To be exact, the eye box is twice as large as the one in Magic Leap One. Other relevant news.

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AR Insider

APRIL 6, 2020

Within VR, IDC projects the greatest growth for standalones like Oculus Quest and VIVE Focus. Oculus Quest — the fastest growing standalone — sold about 425,000 units in 2019 according to our calculations. This category includes Magic, Leap One and Nreal Light. Vantage Points. million units (see above).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Meta Oculus and Aptiv. Turning to the Leadership Network, and leveraging the power of Oculus for Business, Aptiv achieved phenomenal results. With the Oculus Quest headset, Aptiv has been able to reduce in-person training times significantly, with most courses now only taking between 4 hours and 2 days.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 17, 2023

For instance: Meta: Meta’s Oculus devices not only work alongside a wide range of different hardware solutions, but they’re also designed to support countless different types of software too seamlessly. There are even various SDKs for the most popular development environments.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 11, 2021

Magic Leap, for instance, supports two focal planes and jumps between them as needed. Oculus’ Half Dome prototypes do something similar, with support for a larger number of focal planes. While its AR and VR prototypes are still fairly large, by 2022, the company says it expects its tech to fit into yet smaller form factors.

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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 (@akipman) February 3, 2022. Alex Kipman wearing HoloLens 2, Image courtesy Microsoft.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Nreal, Meta, Magic Leap, and RealWear produce AR devices that suit consumer, enterprise, or industrial environments. For example, the two firms teamed up to present an immersive broadcast of the Tour de France in 2022. Magic Leap Magic Leap’s most recent AR smart glasses market offering is the Magic Leap 2 device.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

After Oculus, that has expressed concerns on the manufacture of the Quest, this week Tilt Five has stated that it will have difficulties in shipping devices to the first backers, while nReal , that is based in Beijing, has completely stopped its production. More info (Use Google Translate). Magic Leap plans dev days and dev programs.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

When Magic Leap One was revealed, Rony Abovitz stated he was already working on Magic Leap Two and Three, for instance; Facebook believes a lot in having avatars that truly represent ourselves in XR , and it is a field in which they will invest a lot. How it does feel publishing on Oculus App Lab Funny link.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

According to Gajsek, “Anyone that decided to buy from the Oculus store or use Meta’s products essentially becomes a ’subscriber‘ in Meta’s user base. See Also: Metaverse Safety Week 2022 He goes on to say that these metaverse platforms will become open to asynchronous content, as not all users can be found online at the same time.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 17, 2023

The journal has been able to access some internal statistics by Meta, and especially three points are relevant: Across its lifetime up to October 2022, Beat Saber has generated over $255 million in revenues and was played monthly by 1.47 million monthly active players as of October 2022. This is going to be big!

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Magic Leap 2 has inside-out tracked controllers. During a presentation, Magic Leap has unveiled some more features about its headset and controllers. More info (Magic Leap presentation) More info (Close up of the controllers). Oh look, we have again an Oculus account on Twitter! News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

In the interview with me, he talked about many topics, like the rumors he heard on Apple Glasses, on the Oculus Quest 2 , the America vs China war, XR entrepreneurship, Tesla, and more! But of course, the technology is still not there: the Oculus Quest is still uncomfortable, we can’t read texts in it, and so on.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

The Oculus Quest 2 continues its march towards mainstream adoption. It wouldn’t be a normal week without some news about Facebook and/or the Oculus Quest. The first one is that the Quest 2 has now sold in some months more than all the other Oculus headsets (with the exclusion of Gear VR) combined in all these years.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2020

This has been the week of the launch of the Oculus Quest 2, and this event has been so big that basically, it will take half of this roundup to describe. Facebook releases the Oculus Quest 2. Even if with the Quest 1 was possible to play Oculus Go games, this support has been abandoned on the Quest 2. Top news of the week.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 30, 2023

2022: Laying the Foundations for a Transformative Year for XR 2022 saw the immersive industry explode like never before. This month, Oculus – the original development firm behind the Quest portfolio – Founder Palmer Lucky confirmed the development of the Meta Quest 3 and Apple’s upcoming device.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

I’m honestly not that convinced by this feature , having seen similar features for PCVR headsets (Oculus Rift Home, SteamVR Home) never gaining ground, but maybe with Quest will be different. The best summary of Apple WWDC 2022 so far Funny link. You may end up working with me and my cool and crazy team! Apply for this job!

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 29, 2020

Original image by Oculus). Oculus kills the Go and opens to content on Quest. In the end, the time of the Oculus Go has come. Devices like Oculus Quest , Pico Neo 2 , and Vive Focus Plus have proven that 6DOF VR is more interesting and has far more retention. Top news of the week.

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2017

It’s a belief that started at least as far back as when he advised and invested in Oculus prior to the company’s 2014 acquisition by Facebook. So if you look at the shape of my line there, through at least 2022 or thereabouts, I’m a little under the industry forecast. These guys have invested billions.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

I expect the smartglasses from Facebook, first of all, to be Facebook-branded (so, goodbye Oculus), to be very stylish (remember that Luxottica is the leading company for glasses and sunglasses), and to be able to connect to the smartphone without a tether. while we have seen the complicated life of Oculus hands-on booths at Best Buy.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

It seems that so the Quest 2 Pro will be at least unveiled during the next Facebook Connect , for a potential launch in 2022. It doesn’t seem to be on par with the Oculus Quest 2, but as a first device by Nolo, it is not that bad. Magic Leap partners with AMD for its next-generation device. was a lot of money?).

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 15, 2021

” A proper unveiling of ‘Reality’ is said to take place at CES 2022 in January. This month has already seen the unveiling of HTC’s standalone Vive Flow and Magic Leap 2. and a sneak peak of code name “Reality”: a new product that’s several generations ahead of anything currently on the market.”

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 11, 2022

Here are some of the main companies you should be watching in 2022. For years, the company has been delivering some of the most powerful and accessible XR experiences around, with tools like the Oculus Quest. Unity and Magic Leap. Meta is also working on new technology to track your eyes and face in the Metaverse.

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Robert Scoble

JUNE 4, 2019

The Apple Privacy Wall/Strategy Analysis of How Apple will Come at Oculus Next Year. Irena and I are hearing that one of the devices, er, AR/VR head-mounted displays, Apple is considering launching next year could go directly after Oculus Quest and the rest of the VR space. Go after Oculus Quest as “not capable enough.”

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2023

The Oculus Quest had a good Christmas. After the wonderful Christmas of the year 2021 , also in 2022 the Quest had a growth of sales due to the Holiday season. Saudi Arabia fund gets control of Magic Leap. More info (Meta acquires Luxecel) More info (Limbak got acquired) More info (Probably Apple acquired Limbak).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 5, 2021

The first interesting forecast is about the number of sold Oculus Quest 2 headsets. 10M is the magic number for a self-sustaining ecosystem, and 2022 seems to be the year when finally Quest will take off and can start chasing other home appliances like gaming consoles. The revenue from the sold headsets is so around $2.4B

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2020

The story goes on telling that Apple VR headset had realistic visuals and sound, it was super-cool and probably we’ll see a release date of 2022/2023. Ready At Dawn was already collaborating with Oculus since various years, so this is not surprising. Nreal wins first round against Magic Leap in the IP theft trial.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

Arrives in 2022, with glasses to follow sometime before 2025). ” He was talking about the product that is coming in 2022. If you haven’t seen a Microsoft Hololens or a Magic Leap you probably have no clue about how amazing this will be. New 3D experiences for inside cars. Eventually a new car service itself.

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