The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Maybe Magic Leap, before people got to know that the device was sort of a HoloLens 1+, had such attention to it. So at the end of the day, “no one cares about which is the better product, period” The perception of the importance of Vision Pro in the whole community is enormou s.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

Then the wish to compete with Apple may not become a reality: when the Vision Pro was announced, Samsung didn’t expect such cool features from it, so it delayed the announcement of the headset to have the time to increase its capabilities. That’s fantastic news for all Unity XR developers!

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

First of all, the magazine states that Meta is going to release in 2024 a new Quest model that should cost less than $200. Cloud services are due to be shut off on December 31, 2024 , and because of a cloud check that the device must perform, every headset will be bricked after that date. It’s the end of an era.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 10, 2023

The release date should have been early 2024, but it seems that the Korean company has informed its suppliers that this date may have been moved forward of “one to two quarters”. But the bad news is another one: it seems that the release schedule of the Apple Vision “had to be pushed back”, probably into 2026.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 19, 2024

Cloud-based XR streaming is a big story to come out of NVIDIA GTC 2024. HoloLight is at NVIDIA GTC 2024 to announce that its Hub solution will be integrated into the Omniverse package. “We see more and more interest in topics like CloudXR,” Susanne Haspinger, the COO & Co-founder of HoloLight, noted during the event.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

A report this week shows how these changes have been quite important: The first version of the “Project Nazare” glasses will be still released in 2024 as originally planned, but it will be targeted only at developers (a bit like today’s Snap Spectacles). This shows the ongoing efforts at Meta at making virtual reality more social.

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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. In 2024, the previous “Oculus for Business” offering will disappear entirely, giving companies plenty of time to transition to the new service.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

At Tilt Five, we designed a really clever system that only works on tabletop experiences but it has features that are just leaps and bounds above what the big Magic Leap or HoloLens type AR systems are. Let me compare it to virtual reality. We kind of knew it was us that was causing all the interferences (laughs).

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 11, 2022

As the XR landscape continues to grow, accelerating towards an expected value of $300 billion by 2024, immersive technology is evolving at an amazing rate. Best-known in the gaming world, Valve helps developers and creators to design a host of unique and immersive experiences for their users in virtual reality.

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Road to VR

JUNE 28, 2023

At the time, the prototype was said to be a standalone, ski goggle-like headset providing onboard power, computing, and outward-facing cameras for world sensing capabilities—similar in description and function to headsets like HoloLens or Magic Leap. Project Iris was said to ship as early as 2024.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 5, 2024

As the Meta Quest 3, Apple Vision Pro, HTC VIVE XR Elite, Pico 4 Enterprise, Lenovo VRX, and, most recently, the Varjo XR-4 walk the extended reality (XR) runway, a gradual but measurable uptick in renewed consumer interest in all things immersive builds momentum. 2024: The Year of XR Learning? billion USD uptick.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

Then we have a new report from The Verge that says that the upcoming Apple visor is coming with an M2 chip (we knew that); Kuo saying that Apple will release its visor in January 2023 (we knew that); Apple AR glasses (not the headset, but the glasses) have now entered the design development stage and should release in 2024 (again, we knew).

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

You’ve seen it from pre-DK1 days — where [it was] probably a cobbled-together a collection of flat screens, wires, and duct tape — and what it is today, where you have real consumer-grade virtual reality that’s not even connected to computers. I don’t know about Magic Leap yet.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

You’ve seen it from pre-DK1 days — where [it was] probably a cobbled-together a collection of flat screens, wires, and duct tape — and what it is today, where you have real consumer-grade virtual reality that’s not even connected to computers. I don’t know about Magic Leap yet.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 30, 2020

Waiting until now would mean that next VR game by Valve would come out in 2024–2025… do you really think they don’t want to make the ecosystem to grow now? The same day of the launch of Half-Life: Alyx, Hewlett-Packard has announced its new virtual reality headset, the Reverb G2 , made in collaboration with Microsoft and Valve.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

You've seen it from pre-DK1 days -- where [it was] probably a cobbled-together a collection of flat screens, wires, and duct tape -- and what it is today, where you have real consumer-grade virtual reality that's not even connected to computers. You've written countless articles on virtual and augmented reality.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

You’ve seen it from pre-DK1 days — where [it was] probably a cobbled-together a collection of flat screens, wires, and duct tape — and what it is today, where you have real consumer-grade virtual reality that’s not even connected to computers. I don’t know about Magic Leap yet.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Someone in A REAL STREET playing with someone else in AUGMENTED REALITY. The metaverse is something that encompasses all devices, not only virtual reality, and Meta knows that well. That’s why its greatest bet is AR glasses that are coming from 2024 or 2026. So, Magic Leap was even cheap in comparison.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

The product is still being built, and the expected release date is 2024. Google is also hiring high-profile people for it, like Bernard Kress, principal optical architect on Microsoft’s HoloLens team, and Paul Greco, the previous CTO of Magic Leap. Flat Earth VR” is the new experience by Lucas Rizzotto.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2022

Meta plans AR glasses for 2024. According to him, Meta’s master plan is to enter the AR field in 2024 with the glasses codenamed Project Nazare , which will weigh around 100g, be connected to an external computational unit wirelessly, and feature some sensors (like eye-tracking).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 27, 2021

The only thing that is harder than being a futurist is being THE CHIEF FUTURIST , the job that Neal Stephenson had a Magic Leap. You get paid monthly… and how much do you get paid just to smoke some weed and dream about the future? I ask for a friend, of course. You live ahead of anyone else, today you are already in 3021.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The fact that the studio behind such a popular game has decided to have a VR port is the sign that Virtual Reality has started to become interesting for famous indie studios. And the fact that there will be a VR version of this important game will give virtual reality even more awareness and popularity inside the gaming community.

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