TechCrunch VR

DECEMBER 8, 2020

When Chi Xu left Magic Leap and returned to China, he had big ambitions. He believed China would have its own augmented and virtual reality giants, just as how the domestic smartphone industry birthed global leaders like Huawei, Oppo and Xiaomi that rival Apple today. Magic Leap sucked all the air out of the room.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Metaverse Tech Will Be Built and Used by a More Diverse Group of People John Payne, CEO of Croquet , believes that metaverse technologies will be built and utilized by more diverse groups. This, he thinks, will prompt the growth of the number of VR consumers.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

people walking around), so I don't have an apples-to-apples comparison against Santa Cruz. Magic Leap releases its SDK. We still haven’t seen a Magic Leap device , but at least now we can see its SDK. It is so possible to start creating your Magic Leap application.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

Apple’s Vision Pro triggered new discourse on the future of virutal, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR). Revealed at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), the Apple Vision Pro has sparked both praise and criticism from the global XR community. Apple is adept at proposing something you didn’t think you needed.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The startup is pretty new, in fact, and its owner group is Megadodo, another unknown company that is working on an MMO game about which is difficult to find any information. With a lot of sadness, I’m here watching the photos and the videos of WCVRI , the big Chinese conference about VR that is held every year in Nanchang. Learn more.

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Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Mark Zuckerberg talks about the future of VR and AR at Facebook’s recent Oculus Connect conference. 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. The problem with reacting to Apple.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

But then there’s the Virtual Reality, Toronto; VRTO: That one is a small but very powerful group. Where you’ve got this small, intimate group talking about the future of technology. Anne-Marie: Magic Leap’s doing a workshop. Alan: That’s full conference pass? That’s important.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

But then there’s the Virtual Reality, Toronto; VRTO: That one is a small but very powerful group. Where you’ve got this small, intimate group talking about the future of technology. Anne-Marie: Magic Leap’s doing a workshop. Alan: That’s full conference pass? That’s important.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

But then there’s the Virtual Reality, Toronto; VRTO: That one is a small but very powerful group. Where you’ve got this small, intimate group talking about the future of technology. Anne-Marie: Magic Leap’s doing a workshop. Alan: That’s full conference pass? That’s important.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 29, 2021

If we exclude the major tech companies (Facebook, Valve, etc…) and the meteor Magic Leap, this is the first VR company to reach this status, and this is another sign of the health of the virtual reality ecosystem. The investment round has been led by Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures and includes Madrona Venture Group.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

We're going to dig into using Magic Leap and Hololens and mixed reality headsets as a tool for business. Apple featured it a whole bunch of times. And so we got-- our main first break as Extality was leveraging some of our game connections and things like that, to get close to Magic Leap. How is news made?

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

We're going to dig into using Magic Leap and Hololens and mixed reality headsets as a tool for business. Apple featured it a whole bunch of times. And so we got-- our main first break as Extality was leveraging some of our game connections and things like that, to get close to Magic Leap. How is news made?

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

We're going to dig into using Magic Leap and Hololens and mixed reality headsets as a tool for business. Apple featured it a whole bunch of times. And so we got-- our main first break as Extality was leveraging some of our game connections and things like that, to get close to Magic Leap. How is news made?

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

So I gave a talk there at a kind of optical conference, and I was able to control the presentation and look at my notes using Focals, which was pretty-- it was pretty cool. But we have a human-computer interaction group and we tested so many different aspects of control. We've got a Magic Leap, a Hololens, we have all the tech.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

So I gave a talk there at a kind of optical conference, and I was able to control the presentation and look at my notes using Focals, which was pretty-- it was pretty cool. But we have a human-computer interaction group and we tested so many different aspects of control. We've got a Magic Leap, a Hololens, we have all the tech.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Magic Leap kicks off the month with the announcement of an enormous $794 million fundraising round, backed by Alibaba. Closing out the month, HTC reveals the $800 price tag of the Vive ahead of pre-orders, while Mark Zuckerberg strolls onto a mobile conference stage in Barcelona and said “millions” would use VR this year.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

So I gave a talk there at a kind of optical conference, and I was able to control the presentation and look at my notes using Focals, which was pretty-- it was pretty cool. But we have a human-computer interaction group and we tested so many different aspects of control. We've got a Magic Leap, a Hololens, we have all the tech.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

He has creatively led over 150,000 hours of development in mixed reality, including as a Snap Lens Studio partner, preferred developer for Facebook, and showcase developer for Euphoria and Google, as well as an early adopter and early developer for Magic Leap. What does that typically look like? Who came up with that idea?

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

He has creatively led over 150,000 hours of development in mixed reality, including as a Snap Lens Studio partner, preferred developer for Facebook, and showcase developer for Euphoria and Google, as well as an early adopter and early developer for Magic Leap. Jason: A lot of it comes from innovation groups, so it's a different budget.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

I was working a school group here known as GESS -- which is the acronym for Jumeirah English Speaking School -- also broadly referred to as GESS Dubai now. He'd also chaired the Independent Digital Strategy Group for eight years there. I do a lot with Apple technology. And what are you doing now? I was becoming "the VR guy".

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

He has creatively led over 150,000 hours of development in mixed reality, including as a Snap Lens Studio partner, preferred developer for Facebook, and showcase developer for Euphoria and Google, as well as an early adopter and early developer for Magic Leap. What does that typically look like? Who came up with that idea?

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

I was working a school group here known as GESS -- which is the acronym for Jumeirah English Speaking School -- also broadly referred to as GESS Dubai now. He'd also chaired the Independent Digital Strategy Group for eight years there. I do a lot with Apple technology. And what are you doing now? I was becoming "the VR guy".

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Many products showcased at the conference included flagship releases of VR headsets and solutions such as the Meta Quest Pro, Magic Leap 2, Lenovo ThinkReality A3, and AT&T’s Volumetric Video Photo Booth, among many others. Currently, ExplodedView is iOS exclusive.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2019

He’s the founder and managing partner for Super Ventures and the CEO of AugmentedReality.org, a nonprofit that produces Augmented World Expo, the top industry conference for AR since 2010. Alan: With the Kronos Group announcing the OpenXR standards now, I think it’s going to become easier and easier for people to build on this.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

” After he gave his TED Talk on it, there’s interest from Apple, and Google ended up buying his company. I have to give myself a little bit of a self-shoutout, because we were just on stage with Satya Nadella for the second time at Microsoft Build, which is their big developer conference. That’s really exciting.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

” After he gave his TED Talk on it, there’s interest from Apple, and Google ended up buying his company. I have to give myself a little bit of a self-shoutout, because we were just on stage with Satya Nadella for the second time at Microsoft Build, which is their big developer conference. That’s really exciting.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2019

He’s the founder and managing partner for Super Ventures and the CEO of AugmentedReality.org, a nonprofit that produces Augmented World Expo, the top industry conference for AR since 2010. Alan: With the Kronos Group announcing the OpenXR standards now, I think it’s going to become easier and easier for people to build on this.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

After he gave his TED Talk on it, there's interest from Apple, and Google ended up buying his company. I have to give myself a little bit of a self-shoutout, because we were just on stage with Satya Nadella for the second time at Microsoft Build, which is their big developer conference. That's really exciting.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 13, 2020

And so when ARKit popped up from Apple and they said surprise, now everybody with an iPhone 6 and above and use augmented reality, it really changed the game. And then when our shoulders get tired, eventually Apple and others will sell us this integrated with a pair of glasses that don’t look too nerdy. We do projects on the Go.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 13, 2020

And so when ARKit popped up from Apple and they said surprise, now everybody with an iPhone 6 and above and use augmented reality, it really changed the game. And then when our shoulders get tired, eventually Apple and others will sell us this integrated with a pair of glasses that don’t look too nerdy. We do projects on the Go.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 13, 2020

And so when ARKit popped up from Apple and they said surprise, now everybody with an iPhone 6 and above and use augmented reality, it really changed the game. And then when our shoulders get tired, eventually Apple and others will sell us this integrated with a pair of glasses that don't look too nerdy. The next step is for our eyes.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

HTC has launched a new headset, we have another confirmation of Apple glasses, we read about the first hands-on on Kura glasses, and many other things have happened! All of this shows how Apple is most probably testing internally its AR glasses and so the launch may be not that far away (probably in 2020). Attend the View Conference!

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 9, 2019

” And I look at my teenage daughter — she’s 15 — she’ll be sitting with a group of her friends, and they’re all together, all on their phones. Now we saw with social media groups growing, and the power of social. Mike: Yeah, I’ve observed that a few times myself. Mike: Exactly.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 9, 2019

” And I look at my teenage daughter — she’s 15 — she’ll be sitting with a group of her friends, and they’re all together, all on their phones. Now we saw with social media groups growing, and the power of social. Mike: Yeah, I’ve observed that a few times myself. Mike: Exactly.

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 5, 2018

In other words, we’re dealing with advanced optic technologies, yet the two major groups of potential XR users don’t even perceive distance and space in the same way. By the way, it took until iOS 9 for the Apple Watch to finally track menstruation.). it took me a year to get the HoloLens to fit right for my head.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Most people know Xu due to his dispute with American virtual reality company Magic Leap. In June 2019, Magic Leap accused Xu of stealing AR glasses technology when he was an engineer working at the firm. However, in June 2020, a U.S. federal court threw out the case as #MagicLeap failed to make any viable claim.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The Facebook Connect is over, and as we had imagined, it has been a very important conference with many announcements , with the most important of all being the release of the Quest 2. Imagine being able from a Messenger group to start a multiplayer game together… that would be very nice! Privacy in AR. Image by Facebook).

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