The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

And all of this comes in a period when other partnerships between tech giants are happening: remember that some weeks ago, Microsoft closed its streaming service Mixer and allied with Facebook Gaming to fight the quasi-monopoly of (Amazon-owned) Twitch. Peggy Johnson is the new CEO of Magic Leap. News worth a mention.

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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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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 6, 2023

Chinese electronics manufacturer Xiaomi has debuted its Wireless AR Glass Discovery Edition, leading to the company’s first-ever wireless augmented reality (AR) smart glasses. 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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

You have to buy base stations and controllers separately from HTC or Valve. And the new delay with controllers is not helping with that, either. It is a set of AR glasses strictly focused on tabletop gaming that works together with a 6 DOF controller and a special board made with retro-reflective materials.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Facebook already had full control of my Oculus and Facebook accounts, so it had already my XR data. That’s why Avi Bar-Zeev in a tweet on this topic talked about “the illusion of control” of our data : actually, Facebook already had it all. Zuckerberg wrote in a letter some years ago that he wants full control of the XR platform.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

If the numbers are real, they are impressive: HoloLens 1 sold 50,000 headsets worldwide during its lifetime, Magic Leap has sold less than 10,000 glasses… and these companies had bigger funding than Nreal. There are also two simple 6DOF controllers through which you can interact with the augmentations.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 11, 2016

A computer mouse, real-time text editing, multiple windows with flexible view control and shared-screen teleconferencing – just to name a few. In the last 12 months, investments in virtual and augmented reality startups passed the $2.3 Alibaba and Amazon. billion dollar mark.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

Reading between the lines, he has confirmed the rumors but stated that Meta will still work hard to release its AR glasses with EMG-wrist device to control them. We have a new update on the Etee controllers: they should ship in the next two months. Amazon now offers the possibility to try-on shoes in AR on its app. Learn more.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

That is the basis for the new Apple and is important for a range of new products, from robots that will do things around your house, to cars that will drive you around, to augmented and virtual reality products that will bring new kinds of games and experiences to all of us. Just get Amazon’s latest iPhone app. Disclaimer.

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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

The Sonic seems a good device: 4K resolution, 101° FOV, 72Hz refresh rate, 256GB, and 6DOF controllers. It is a bit disappointing that it just has 2 tracking cameras, but the controllers are tracked with ultrasound beacons, so the tracking FOV should be good. Magic Leap partners with AMD for its next-generation device.

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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. Augmented vision is commonplace in futuristic films, from Minority Report to Iron Man. Who Will Own the Metaverse? by Marko Balabanovic.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

Why can’t it be Facebook, or Magic Leap ? Suzanne Borders, CEO and founder of BadVR, at the company’s office in Marina Del Rey, with a Magic Leap One on. They control all their ecosystem : software, hardware, chips. Amazon and Tesla could be two outsider of the XR ecosystem instead.

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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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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 adds support for LiDAR features.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

Once computers understand space, we can use these informed computers to edit our real world by placing digital objects and information in it and view this all through a transparent digital screen like smart glasses or even our smartphone: this is Augmented Reality or AR. Augmented Reality ads are not new. Source: Ikea.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

He has more than 15 years experience in augmented reality. And during that time — when computers for AR glasses were still carried in large backpacks — Björn holds a PhD in industrial augmented reality as a serial entrepreneur. That’s how we did augmented reality 15, 20 years ago.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

He has more than 15 years experience in augmented reality. And during that time — when computers for AR glasses were still carried in large backpacks — Björn holds a PhD in industrial augmented reality as a serial entrepreneur. That’s how we did augmented reality 15, 20 years ago.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Today’s guest is Paul Reynolds, the CEO of Torch, a really exciting augmented reality platform. It’s a mobile augmented reality development and deployment platform for enterprise. Paul has been a software developer and technology consultant since 1997 – since before the interwebs!

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Today’s guest is Paul Reynolds, the CEO of Torch, a really exciting augmented reality platform. It’s a mobile augmented reality development and deployment platform for enterprise. Paul has been a software developer and technology consultant since 1997 – since before the interwebs!

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Alan: Today's guest is Cameron Ayres, the director of innovation at Sector 5 Digital, a digital agency specializing in augmented reality and virtual reality applications for the enterprise. That's where virtual reality, and augmented reality, and a lot of other different media come into play.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Alan: Today's guest is Cameron Ayres, the director of innovation at Sector 5 Digital, a digital agency specializing in augmented reality and virtual reality applications for the enterprise. That's where virtual reality, and augmented reality, and a lot of other different media come into play.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Today's guest is Paul Reynolds, the CEO of Torch, a really exciting augmented reality platform. It's a mobile augmented reality development and deployment platform for enterprise. Paul has been a software developer and technology consultant since 1997 - since before the interwebs!

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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. March 2016.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 2, 2023

Augmented Reality (AR) technology is set to become one of the fastest-growing and most promising technologies among extended reality. As industry verticals like healthcare, military, remote guidance, warehouse picking, automotive , and others, augmented reality has a promising future among XR devices.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Alan: Today's guest is Cameron Ayres, the director of innovation at Sector 5 Digital, a digital agency specializing in augmented reality and virtual reality applications for the enterprise. That's where virtual reality, and augmented reality, and a lot of other different media come into play.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Alan: Today's guest is Cameron Ayres, the director of innovation at Sector 5 Digital, a digital agency specializing in augmented reality and virtual reality applications for the enterprise. That's where virtual reality, and augmented reality, and a lot of other different media come into play.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 28, 2019

controllers-only) still have longer waiting times , but the situation is changing from them as well. Oculus Quest and controllers (Image by Oculus). when controllers will be close to the headset). The Rift S has been upgraded as well, and the tracking of the controllers has been improved together with the one of the Quest.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

So why don’t we start with what you’ve seen as the progression of augmented reality over the last decade that you’ve been involved? And I learned that was called augmented reality; that ability to sort of blend digital information and the real world into what you see. And at the time, there was nobody.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

So why don’t we start with what you’ve seen as the progression of augmented reality over the last decade that you’ve been involved? And I learned that was called augmented reality; that ability to sort of blend digital information and the real world into what you see. And at the time, there was nobody.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

They’ve taken virtual and augmented reality for the automobile industry to the next level; from AR apps where you can see cars in your living room, to full VR simulators where you can drive the cars and see what they interact like. This company, just so you know, is really incredible. Alan: Yeah? How was it? Barry: It was great.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

They’ve taken virtual and augmented reality for the automobile industry to the next level; from AR apps where you can see cars in your living room, to full VR simulators where you can drive the cars and see what they interact like. This company, just so you know, is really incredible. Alan: Yeah? How was it? Barry: It was great.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 24, 2019

Mobile phone-based augmented reality? Bill: Yeah, we actually have four Magic Leaps. Magic Leap just met with Chicken Waffle. But it's actually going to be an open source thing that we've just recently did for Magic Leap. So we are working with Magic Leap in an AR capacity.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

So why don’t we start with what you’ve seen as the progression of augmented reality over the last decade that you’ve been involved? And I learned that was called augmented reality; that ability to sort of blend digital information and the real world into what you see. And at the time, there was nobody.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 24, 2019

Mobile phone-based augmented reality? Bill: Yeah, we actually have four Magic Leaps. Magic Leap just met with Chicken Waffle. But it’s actually going to be an open source thing that we’ve just recently did for Magic Leap. So we are working with Magic Leap in an AR capacity.

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