XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 29, 2023

This also applies to companies like IKEA and Amazon, where customers can superimpose virtual furniture, electronics, and clothing stocks in physical locations. Additionally, Microsoft has included AI-powered avatars for people using its Teams platforms, enabling people’s real-time interactions in meetings.

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Magic Leap finally dropped to mixed reviews and BrainXchange published its Definitive Guide to Adopting Wearables, AR and VR in Enterprise. After years of secrecy and hype, Magic Leap finally released its first developer kit in August for $2,295. The company’s direction is unclear.

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Road to VR

MAY 24, 2022

It looks like Magic Leap is holding a barn burner of a sale on its first AR headset, Magic Leap 1, as the one-time $2,300 device can now be had for $550. As first reported by GMW3 , Magic Leap appears to be flushing excess stock of the 2018-era AR headset via the Amazon-owned online retailer Woot. .

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

Another leak regarded the release date: an Amazon listing put the availability date of the Quest 3 starting from October, 10th. 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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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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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

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. Johnson has worked at Microsoft and Qualcomm before, and she is a very respected executive. Top news of the week.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 19, 2023

This also applies to companies like IKEA and Amazon, where customers can superimpose virtual furniture, electronics, and clothing stocks in physical locations. Additionally, Microsoft has included AI-powered avatars for people using its Teams platforms, enabling people’s real-time interactions in meetings.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 11, 2021

Now what’s going to happen to the malls Amazon doesn’t want as warehouses? A year later Magic Leap ran out of cash and laid off half the company. 350 million came in at the last minute to allow a new CEO, Peggy Johnson, from Microsoft, to focus on enterprise business. Social media giants have a lot to answer for.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

” Rival firm Microsoft bought Activision Blizzard to expand its portfolio of solutions in a historic $68 billion deal. This has greatly expanded Microsoft’s future ambitions for metaverse technologies such as cloud computing, digital avatars, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and others.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Amazon wants AR for product visualization, pursuant to boosting e-commerce sales and reducing returns. Microsoft wants to double down on a longstanding position in enterprise productivity, and Facebook wants AR (and VR primarily) to boost social engagement and ad revenue. For Apple, AR’s job is to sell more hardware.

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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). Stake in Magic Leap Riyadh also acquired a majority stake in Magic Leap, allowing the firm a seat on the board of directors.

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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. Microsoft (enterprise) 4.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 30, 2020

” He also pointed out the development over at Amazon, where last month the company announced AWS Wavelength for ultra-low latency 5G computing at the edge, something that will have a direct impact on using and building the next generation of AR and VR headgear.

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ARPost

MARCH 24, 2020

Amazon has a system, Microsoft has a system, Magic Leap has a system. In order for autonomous vehicles to get where they’re going safely, they don’t only need to know where they are going – they also need to know where other objects and vehicles are along the way. Spatial Computing and AR as an Operating System.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 19, 2020

Facebook has permanently cut down the price of the Oculus Go to $150 , the same price that made it sell incredibly well on Amazon during the Cyber Monday. Microsoft admits display problems on HoloLens 2. Microsoft negated the issue, but now, after continuous reporting from users, it has been forced to admit it. Image by nReal).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

After the report of last week by Insider, in which Alex Kipman was accused of improper behavior at work, especially towards women, Alex Kipman has resigned from Microsoft. 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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Charlie Fink

JUNE 7, 2019

Apple begins its World Wide Developer Conference on Monday, June 3rd; Microsoft, Facebook (Oculus), Google, Amazon, Snap, and Magic Leap, had theirs earlier in the year. AWE is a snapshot of a developing industry, though it does not have participation from major players with developer conferences of their own.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 6, 2023

With Qualcomm’s industry-leading Snapdragon Spaces platform , Xiaomi can also develop programmes on OpenXR and Microsoft’s MRTK toolkit. Both companies and Microsoft, Google, Snap, Amazon, and many other US tech firms launched a massive wave of workforce layoffs in recent months to streamline operations.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Also keep in mind that there are plenty of private companies worth investing in, and some public companies listed below have invested in them like Magic Leap who has investments to the tune of $1.39 Amazon – NASDAQ: AMZN – VR Content & Game Engine. Amazon – NASDAQ: AMZN – VR content. Unconfirmed.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Traditionally, leading tech vendors have invested in distributed network infrastructure, but many of them (such as Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft) are adapting to a new paradigm to support localized, persistent, collaborative, shared, multiuser interactions. 5G) and there are extra-technological concerns about it (e.g.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 30, 2024

On the other hand, firms like Magic Leap and XREAL are receiving millions in funding to potentially leapfrog the forecasted success of Apple’s Vision Pro. He explained that MR displays from vendors such as Magic Leap and HoloLens may not replace classic AR in the short term “because of some regulations and safety aspects.”

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Someone invokes saviors like Google and Amazon, but even if they managed to succeed, they are other data-harvesting companies , so in any case, we are f**ked. That’s why even Microsoft took Epic’s stances : Microsoft uses UE4 to develop some products also for Apple devices, and this decision hurts also its business.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft). Google can count on the acquisition of North, the experience he has matured by producing Google Glass and investing in Magic Leap, and the fact that it owns the most-used mobile operating system. Magic Leap will meet its fate. Duck Face, Magic Leap One, and me.

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EON Reality

JULY 30, 2021

For infrastructure, EON Reality is able to rely on the world’s largest hosting company, Amazon Web Services , to provide a cloud-based backbone. billion people already own, as well as VR- and AR-specific devices from companies like Microsoft , Facebook , Apple , Magic Leap and other technological giants.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Even if they are not general-purpose glasses like Hololens or Magic Leap, these glasses feature inside so many technological innovations that made all we of the tech communities fall in love with them, and with their creator Jeri Ellsworth. Amazon announces Echo Frames smartglasses. Minecraft Earth is close to its release.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 20, 2019

I dragged my camera down to meet her and her team in their offices in Marina Del Rey, near Los Angeles, to get a look at the business visualizations they are building for use in both Spatial Computing headsets, like Magic Leap, and VR, for HTC Vive, Oculus Quest or Rift, or others. Think about dwell times in retail stores.

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Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

It isn’t alone, we know of many companies that are spending billions on same, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sony, Magic Leap, Huawei, and others. Literally everyone in the industry other than Magic Leap and Apple uses Qualcomm’s spatial computing tech stack).

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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. Kinect version 2.0

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

When I worked at Microsoft I got in trouble with the lawyers over patents so they made me sleep with a lawyer (true story, that was my punishment). I also am invested in Apple competitors, Qualcomm, Snap, Microsoft, Amazon, and about 50 other companies in a diverse portfolio. Just get Amazon’s latest iPhone app.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

He has a very interesting working story, having worked for great companies like Microsoft and Fast Company. We all know that this thought has not aged well, and that Microsoft has failed completely entering the phone market, with billions of loss because of that. Why can’t it be Facebook, or Magic Leap ?

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Amazon Prime has a series coming up called Good Omens, which is about angels and devils among us in the days before the apocalypse. Charlie: Yeah it’s it’s a series on Amazon. But I think the companies that Microsoft included in the survey were those large companies that have innovation offices. Alan: Amazing.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Amazon Prime has a series coming up called Good Omens, which is about angels and devils among us in the days before the apocalypse. Charlie: Yeah it’s it’s a series on Amazon. But I think the companies that Microsoft included in the survey were those large companies that have innovation offices. Alan: Amazing.

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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. Some recent acquisitions include AltspaceVR (Microsoft), and Escher (Niantic). Find out more details, dynamics and submission guidelines here. .

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

Just to make you understand how much money this could mean, my reader Sir Gamedev has sent me a link where one of the previous Xbox executives has revealed that the initial undercost sales of the first Xbox units cost Microsoft between $5B and $7B. Magic Leap partners with AMD for its next-generation device.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 18, 2024

Saudi Arabia-owned Magic Leap took $500+ million more from the "sovereign" investment arm of the state to continue developing its technologies for transparent optical AR. Microsoft formally killed its PC VR platform. A few researchers at Meta, and maybe Google or Amazon, are likely waiting for those exact same benchmarks.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Anne-Marie: Magic Leap’s doing a workshop. Amazon will be there talking about Sumerian, and then a couple other with immersive storytelling and volumetric capture, that will be announced this week too. There’s Telus, Facebook, Siemens, Raytheon, Viacom, Microsoft, Lenovo, Niantic, Canadian Tire.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Anne-Marie: Magic Leap’s doing a workshop. Amazon will be there talking about Sumerian, and then a couple other with immersive storytelling and volumetric capture, that will be announced this week too. There’s Telus, Facebook, Siemens, Raytheon, Viacom, Microsoft, Lenovo, Niantic, Canadian Tire.

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