AR Insider

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Why Facebook and Amazon have joined the race to bring computing to your face. — Facebook and Amazon each discussed computer glasses at launch events this week. — Amazon’s approach is to get a lightweight product out now, while Facebook is promising advanced technology in a few years. by Kif Leswing, CNBC, 9/29/19.

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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! 2022 may be the key year when they actually buy it, also thanks to Apple , an d finally, the market will reach the magic number of 10 million devices.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 6, 2023

Regarding hand tracking, Xiaomi’s latest AR smart glasses boast micro gesture controls, leading to enhanced human-computer interfacing (HCI) capabilities. These allow users to swipe virtual pages in manuals and eBooks, exit apps, navigate maps, and other controls.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Regarding the glasses, I have not big hopes for true AR glasses, but I think that thanks to Facebook and Apple, finally we’ll have some important smartglasses entering the market , making the mainstream think about wearing something on their face to enjoy notifications from the phone. Phone AR will be always more popular.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The author of the video has used a free app available on the Apple Store and with it, it was able to scan 3D objects with a quality and a speed never seen before. There are also two simple 6DOF controllers through which you can interact with the augmentations. ZapBox is like a Cardboard for AR, that for only $40 lets you enjoy AR.

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VRWorld

APRIL 28, 2017

Since Magic Leap’s inception in 2011, there has been great innovation in the technology sector focused in the virtual reality (VR)/augmented reality (AR)/mixed reality (MR) space with Magic Leap trying to create a new hardware interface designs. Enter Magic Leap.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

BUT today is the day of the WWDC, and who knows if Apple will tease something about AR glasses. The Sonic seems a good device: 4K resolution, 101° FOV, 72Hz refresh rate, 256GB, and 6DOF controllers. I personally don’t expect a launch or a full reveal, but maybe they could at least hint something. was a lot of money?).

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

It’s been called the AR Cloud by many, the Magicverse by Magic Leap, the Mirrorworld by Wired, the Cyberverse by Huawei, Planet-scale AR by Niantic and Spatial Computing by academics. An Apple AR headset has been a mainstay of the rumor mills for several years, and we expect Facebook to be creating an AR Oculus device.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

So originally when North was founded, it was actually called Thalmic Labs, and the product was a gesture control armband. You could make motions with your hand and it would detect your muscle movements and you could control computers, music, do presentation control. The ring that controls your interface.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

So originally when North was founded, it was actually called Thalmic Labs, and the product was a gesture control armband. You could make motions with your hand and it would detect your muscle movements and you could control computers, music, do presentation control. The ring that controls your interface.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 30, 2020

We can speculate that this will be an enterprise headset costing at least $600, evolving the Reverb fixing the problem with controllers and improving the audio. Valve could provide some audio-visual improvements, while Microsoft its WMR platform, with inside-out tracking of controllers. Apple ARKit 3.5 More info (ARKit 3.5

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

So originally when North was founded, it was actually called Thalmic Labs, and the product was a gesture control armband. You could make motions with your hand and it would detect your muscle movements and you could control computers, music, do presentation control. The ring that controls your interface.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 2, 2023

We discussed his company’s waveguide and materials research, using AR for medicine and surgery, and the Apple Vision Pro. This is due to several “false starts” with Google Glass , Microsoft HoloLens2, and Magic Leap, although the companies remain potential customers.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

In 2013, after 10 years of creating video games, he joined Magic Leap where he was promoted to senior director, overseeing content and SDK teams. At Magic Leap, Paul recognized the lack of accessible tools for non-game developers that was hindering widespread adoption of immersive and spatial computing technologies.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

In 2013, after 10 years of creating video games, he joined Magic Leap where he was promoted to senior director, overseeing content and SDK teams. At Magic Leap, Paul recognized the lack of accessible tools for non-game developers that was hindering widespread adoption of immersive and spatial computing technologies.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

At the end of the month, Oculus officially delays the release of Touch controllers until the last half of 2016. This offers a window to HTC and Valve making the Vive the only room-scale hand-controlled VR platform on the market for most of 2016. Google transitions Clay Bavor into a position as head of VR. February 2016. April 2016.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

In 2013, after 10 years of creating video games, he joined Magic Leap where he was promoted to senior director, overseeing content and SDK teams. At Magic Leap, Paul recognized the lack of accessible tools for non-game developers that was hindering widespread adoption of immersive and spatial computing technologies.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

HTC did something with Batman; that Game of Thrones thing; some of the demos that Magic Leap had really. The one thing that created that image now, in the streets, that I would have expected like XR to do; it’s those air pods from Apple. Seeing that Apple, of course, at one point bought… what was the company again?

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

HTC did something with Batman; that Game of Thrones thing; some of the demos that Magic Leap had really. The one thing that created that image now, in the streets, that I would have expected like XR to do; it’s those air pods from Apple. Seeing that Apple, of course, at one point bought… what was the company again?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

I can ask Google questions now; Voice, Amazon, Alexa, and Google Voice. There’s Magic Leap– Alan: Still a challenge. Magic Leap for sure. I mean, everybody’s saying Magic Leap is not so good, and they oversold what they ship. From the control, it’s way better than the HoloLens.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

I can ask Google questions now; Voice, Amazon, Alexa, and Google Voice. There’s Magic Leap– Alan: Still a challenge. Magic Leap for sure. I mean, everybody’s saying Magic Leap is not so good, and they oversold what they ship. From the control, it’s way better than the HoloLens.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2018

Not to mention how 3D technologies are being adopted and developed by major companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple. On the other hand, the threshold for anyone to develop a small project (a short movie or video, a game, etc.) has become really low, because you no longer need a full design team for most projects.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

If we sum the market share of the Oculus Rift CV1, Rift S, and the highlander DK2, we obtain that now Oculus controls 50% of the market on Steam. And i ts 2021+ timeline for XR makes me wonder if Huawei plans to release its headset around that date … that is more or less the same that we predict for Apple glasses. That is huge.

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Robert Scoble

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Here is our first analysis (located at: [url]) on why we should all be paying attention to what is happening in humanoid robots and consumer electronics, which include autonomous vehicles that are now arriving to people’s garages and, soon, Augmented Reality devices from Apple and others. The robot brings other robots.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Thanks to this, Facebook now controls more than 56% of the SteamVR market. Because all these numbers smell of monopoly: if this is the trend, we risk that by the end of the year, Facebook controls 99% of the consumer standalone market and 75% of the PC VR market, giving it too much power. Please someone come and help the VR ecosystem.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. Apple headset may be very lightweight.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

You go in VR and you learn how to run it; everything, from turning on the key, to turning on the fan, radioing, to controlling the bucket, and all of these things. And I think nobody really knows what Apple is working on. They’ve taken heavy machinery operating — their first module was an excavator. It could be your phone.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

You go in VR and you learn how to run it; everything, from turning on the key, to turning on the fan, radioing, to controlling the bucket, and all of these things. And I think nobody really knows what Apple is working on. They’ve taken heavy machinery operating — their first module was an excavator. It could be your phone.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

You go in VR and you learn how to run it; everything, from turning on the key, to turning on the fan, radioing, to controlling the bucket, and all of these things. Companies like Magic Leap and Hololens, those are great devices where most of the compute is done on the headset. When I first did, I knocked out some people.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 23, 2019

I think people were all moving towards glTF, and then Apple decided, “hey, we got our own file format, USDZ” — how do you manage a hundred different…? We were launching partners of Apple for USDZ and we’re working on it. Let’s just take it, for example, in comparison to YouTube. So we will, yes.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 23, 2019

I think people were all moving towards glTF, and then Apple decided, "hey, we got our own file format, USDZ" -- how do you manage a hundred different.? We were launching partners of Apple for USDZ and we're working on it. Alan: Today, Magic Leap just released a press release. YouTube has MP4s, and maybe MOV files.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 23, 2019

I think people were all moving towards glTF, and then Apple decided, “hey, we got our own file format, USDZ” — how do you manage a hundred different…? We were launching partners of Apple for USDZ and we’re working on it. Let’s just take it, for example, in comparison to YouTube. So we will, yes.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

And it’s funny, because you look at something like Magic Leap, they raised $3.5-billion, I am quite sure that the folks that Magic Leap are going to recognize how much value there is in the enterprise space, and figure out that they’ve got to have certain characteristics. And that’s a great example.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

And it’s funny, because you look at something like Magic Leap, they raised $3.5-billion, I am quite sure that the folks that Magic Leap are going to recognize how much value there is in the enterprise space, and figure out that they’ve got to have certain characteristics. And that’s a great example.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

And it's funny, because you look at something like Magic Leap, they raised $3.5-billion, I am quite sure that the folks that Magic Leap are going to recognize how much value there is in the enterprise space, and figure out that they've got to have certain characteristics. Mike: We have no idea what Apple will do.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

The documentation was the same as before, if not for the fact that in the page about headset Input page, there was also a reference to “Oculus Jedi” controllers. Even the modified one with the header file talking about controllers just leaks the constant of their name. Something like the Valve Index controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Resolution (per-eye) : 1,832 × 1,920 LCD Refresh Rate: 90Hz Processor : Snapdragon XR2 RAM : 6GB Battery Life : 2–3 hours Controllers’ battery life : 4x the one of the Quest Field of View : Same of Quest IPD Adjust : 58mm, 63mm, 68mm Weight : 503g Storage : 64GB or 256GB Connectivity : Bluetooth/Wi-Fi 6. Let’s dig a bit into it.

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