ARVR

MARCH 16, 2023

As we roll into 2023, it’s time for our annual ritual of synthesizing the lessons from the past twelve months and formulating the outlook for the next twelve. Our research arm ARtillery Intelligence’s recent report Spatial Computing: 2022 Lessons, 2023 Outlook tackles these questions. Beyond the “if?” is the question of “what?”

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 24, 2024

This week, AR instructional solutions provider Taqtile announced official support for Microsoft’s Unity-based Mixed Reality Toolkit 3 (MRTK3) in a move to broaden the usability of its Manifest application ready for a “growing number” of OpenXR devices in 2024.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 4, 2023

Vuzix won numerous awards at CES 2023 this year. Read up on the latest news here. Latest Vuzix News Magic Leap Magic Leap specializes in the creation of AR and MR solutions, for enterprise users. The Magic Leap 2 headset is the most recent solution provided by the company for the AR smart glasses landscape.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 23, 2024

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. ” In the same month, ARway partnered with Microsoft to integrate its solutions into the HoloLens 2 headset. .”

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MAY 20, 2022

Apple is ramping up development of the operating system for its headset, with a plan to launch in 2023, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports. Early prototypes in 2016 used jury-rigged HTC Vives and software running on Microsoft Windows, with one being so heavy it had to be suspended by a small crane.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

AUGUST 25, 2023

After having a quiet first half of 2023 in terms of XR, Microsoft is starting to grow its emerging immersive technology promise by combining its upcoming MR services alongside the firm’s genAI investments to innovate workplace communications. Magic Leap hopes to drive the scalability and flexibility of MRTK3.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

Microsoft Magic Leap Varjo HP Acer Samsung ASUS Dell Biel AjnaXR FYR Medical ESight Canon IrisVision VRgineers Zappar Lynx Valve Microsoft Microsoft has been increasing its focus on the extended reality landscape in recent years, with the production of solutions such as Microsoft Mesh, and a metaverse environment for Microsoft Teams.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Given that, what are all the rumors about an Apple headset launching in Spring 2023? But if Apple does indeed keep its plans for AR glasses in the long term, it will likely be a lighter form of AR than what we see in devices like Microsoft HoloLens. Specifically, Microsoft is seeing some turbulence in its landmark U.S.

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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.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 4, 2023

Goertek NReal Lenovo Iristick Vuzix Magic Leap XYZReality Longan Vision Rokid ThirdEye Google Toshiba Epson RealWear Microsoft Lumus TCL RayNeo Goertek Offering a variety of extended reality products for virtual and augmented experiences, Goertek has a range of smart glasses included in its portfolio.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The company recently won an award during the CES 2023 show for its lightweight smart glasses. Magic Leap Magic Leap specializes in the creation of AR and MR solutions for enterprise users. The Magic Leap 2 headset is the most recent solution provided by the company for the AR smart glasses landscape.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

With the debut of Vision Pro and spatial computing hitting the mainstream, audiences could reasonably assume that firms with established XR projects and products, such as Microsoft or Snap, would re-establish their investments in XR. Profoundly suggesting that Microsoft is dropping support for the two products.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

With the debut of Vision Pro and spatial computing hitting the mainstream, audiences could reasonably assume that firms with established XR projects and products, such as Microsoft or Snap, would re-establish their investments in XR. Profoundly suggesting that Microsoft is dropping support for the product.

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AR Insider

APRIL 16, 2021

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. It’s clear that Microsoft made some hard but strategic decisions along that sliding scale.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 23, 2023

Microsoft Microsoft has been increasing its focus on the extended reality landscape in recent years by producing solutions such as Microsoft Mesh and a metaverse environment for Microsoft Teams. The company’s flagship mixed reality headset offering is the HoloLens series.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 8, 2024

Goertek XReal Lenovo Iristick Vuzix Magic Leap XYZReality Longan Vision Rokid ThirdEye Google Toshiba Epson RealWear Microsoft Lumus TCL RayNeo Goertek Offering a variety of extended reality products for virtual and augmented experiences, Goertek has a range of smart glasses included in its portfolio.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Magic Leap 1, the AR headset that helped the Plantation, Florida-based startup attract over three billion dollars in funding, will be completely defunct by late next year. The company announced this week that Magic Leap 1’s cloud services are due to be shut off on December 31st, 2024.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 15, 2023

Jake Steinerman spoke with XR Today last week, addressing the firm’s most recent user-generated content toolkit, company vision, and the state of the Metaverse in 2023. For example, Spatial’s Unity Creator Toolkit beta model powered the 2023 Metaverse Fashion Week on Spatial between 28 to 31 March. ”

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

But still, 3 years ago, no one would have bet on Sandbox VR still making millions in 2023, so this is in any case a remarkable result. This week, Microsoft announced that MRTK will migrate to an independent GitHub account and that the project will be supported by a consortium including Microsoft, Magic Leap, and Qualcomm.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 31, 2023

These include Oracle Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Caregility Joins Informa’s Arab Health Conference 2023 The news comes as the Eatontown, New Jersey-based company expands its operations across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). With Bob Zimmermann from.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

At the start of the year, the technology industry faced layoffs as some major firms, such as Meta, started 2023 cautiously. Despite the 2022 Metaverse boom that swept imagination and scepticism equally, 2023 was tough during H1 for the immersive industry. However, the narrative quickly switched towards the middle of the year.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

For example, Lenovo’s A3 and Magic Leap 2’s smart glasses are designed for prolonged use, low latency, and industrial environments. Magic Leap also pivoted to healthcare , with the Florida-based firm designing its AR headsets for surgeons and medical professionals.

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AR Insider

APRIL 6, 2020

Microsoft committed 100,000 units to the U.S. This category includes Magic, Leap One and Nreal Light. Given Magic Leap’s rumored 6K unit sales and Nreal’s late-year launch, 250,000 units in 2020 would have to rely on hefty enterprise HMDs sales. Army, but that’s amortized over several years.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Microsoft and Zoom have also released their respective apps into the Vision Pro this week. The Future of Magic Leap After Ross Rosenberg was appointed Magic Leap’s CEO in October 2023, the company has since focused on its enterprise roadmap for 2024; targeting its XR devices towards enterprise and industrial clients.

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JANUARY 18, 2023

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that standalone Apple Glasses had at one point years ago been planned for 2023. Meanwhile, Microsoft and Magic Leap have opted for a bulkier goggles form factor targeted at businesses and government entities, hoping to eventually miniaturize the tech for consumers. Glasses Shelved.

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TechCrunch VR

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Despite short-term questions, games software/hardware to top $200 billion by 2023. Yet Facebook , Microsoft and others are arguably more important to where the market is today. VR/AR startup valuations reach $45 billion (on paper).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

This WWDC has not been an exception in this sense, and now all the Apple analysts (including Kuo and Scoble) already envision a reveal of the Apple headset for January 2023. Rumors already talk about a new AR headset produced by Microsoft in collaboration with Samsung that should substitute it, but we have no sure info about it.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 2, 2023

BlueJeans has remained a longstanding partner of immersive solutions providers like Microsoft, Vuzix, Magic Leap, Mootup, and Google Glass Enterprise. Widely used across XR devices such as Microsoft’s HoloLens 2, Microsoft Teams has recently launched real-time 3D (RT3D) avatars to boost meeting attendee engagement.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Microsoft, Google and Apple all have their own approaches to augmented reality and virtual reality, but the race for the face is particularly critical to Facebook and Amazon, because they have yet to establish computing gateways. Meanwhile, heftier VR products from Facebook’s Oculus and Magic Leap have mostly been for gamers.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The news follows HTC’s announcement of its XR Elite MR headset at CES 2023 last month. Alongside devices such as the Magic Leap 2, Meta Quest Pro, and Pico 4, HTC is a leading vendor in enterprise-grade and consumer-grade XR/MR. Delivering artists and entertainers into all environments real and meta.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

In the meantime, Bloomberg published a report saying that Apple is going to launch its XR headset in the “next several months” (a timeline that goes from now to 2023, I guess), and that it is probably waiting until there could be physical events again before doing it. Microsoft signs a $22B deal with the US Army. News worth a mention.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

See Also: The Future Is Now: 2023 Metaverse and XR Predictions Worth Looking Into Think how Microsoft revolutionized personal computers, or how Apple changed the mobile phone market forever. Magic Leap 2 Magic Leap jumped the starting gun and played their cards early. What Is Everyone Working On?

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 6, 2023

Unveiled at the Mobile World Congress 2023 , the new device includes a trove of innovative features such as a “retina-level” electrochromic adaptive display, lighting adjustment, Snapdragon Spaces tethering, and hand tracking, among others. Therefore, it remains to be seen what Xiaomi’s IIB strategy is with potential buyers.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Who doesn’t want to do that can still use his/her Oculus account to log in until 2023 , but he/she won’t be able to use all the social functionalities of the device (like Venues, Horizon, etc…). After 2023, the devices won’t be guaranteed to work with an Oculus login. China is launching real name identification in games.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 17, 2023

million active devices As of February 2023, more than 200 apps have made more than $1M on the Meta Quest Store, up 44% compared with the year prior Meta Quest had 6.37 million monthly active players as of October 2022. This is going to be big!

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JUNE 9, 2023

Google chickened out , Microsoft got distracted , and it's totally understandable if you lost interest in VR when they did. I'll go so far as to wager it's probably game over for Magic Leap and HoloLens and some other optically transparent approaches. Vision Pro did AR in VR that well. I peeked at a future with augmented vision.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 11, 2023

Full report: [link] #MedTech #DigitalHealth #AugmentedReality #smartglasses #telementoring pic.twitter.com/TrHG3ypUfZ — Rods&Cones (@RodsCones1) July 10, 2023 The report also explored numerous use case considerations, such as current and future sentiments, expectations, and applications.

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