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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

We’re a long ways off from that and it won’t happen with the first generation Apple Vision Pro. The technology “would be able to recognize different types of events happening around you: people having conversations, the air conditioning noise, dishes and silverware clanking. Imagine never losing your keys or wallet ever again.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Here is it, today, the Apple Vision Pro finally falls into the hands of US customers. With significant events occurring every month, bringing together XR firms and end-users, 2024 is already becoming a year of incubation that could potentially propel XR into the office space and beyond.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

We at VRrOOm are hiring to do our innovative XR events, check the “Friends” section of this newsletter if this opportunity can interest you! Image by Apple). Apple has not announced any glasses at WWDC. And regarding this… would you be interested in working with me? Top news of the week. Other relevant news. Image by Meta).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

The rumors on the Apple Glasses are intensifying. It is not a secret that Apple is working on an XR device: the mystery is when it is going to release it and what it will actually be. The hype is rising, and Apple is playing with it. (My usual terrible image to wish you Happy Easter, if you celebrate it). Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Magic Leap has just organized its first developers’ event, dubbed “L.E.A.P.” It is the first event of this kind organized by Magic Leap: we can say that LEAP Con is like the Oculus Connect of Magic Leap and will probably become always more important, year after year, exactly as it has happened to Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This would be a total pivot for Meta, which would so migrate away from the social importance of having eye and face tracking to compete directly with Apple in offering a consumer device totally dedicated to mixed reality. More info (Lenovo Thinkreality VRX) More info (CloudXR on ThinkReality VRX) More info (Headset launch video).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap pivots to enterprise, lays off 1,000 employes. With a long post on Magic Leap’s blog, in the end Rony Abovitz has admitted that the company is not going that well, and has announced a new course, that should eventually lead to Magic Leap 2. Top news of the week.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Apple is gearing up for the Vision Pro debut. However, a key difference and benefit that Apple has over some of its competition is the already-established iOS ecosystem of products and software. On the other hand, Apple is not the only XR firm pushing for interoperability and cross-pollination of hardware and software.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2022

Here it’s being amazing for me: together with VRrOOm’s Maud Clavier we are going around for the SXSW event meeting interesting new people and trying some XR experiences! I will write a little report soon, in the meanwhile, you can enjoy a video of me riding a mechanical bull shot by Charlie Fink: [link]. Image by Magic Leap).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 8, 2023

T he event will be presented by Oculus Studios Executive Producer Ruth Bram like last year, but introduce new pre-event and post-event sessions. There are two interesting speculations happening about this event. Apple WWDC is where the Apple Reality headset may be announced, and it is taking place on June, 5th.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

JULY 26, 2023

The Apple Vision Pro has made sensational headlines across global media outlets, leading to renewed interest in virtual, augmented, mixed, and extended reality (VR/AR/MR/XR) technologies. Due to the immense secrecy of the Vision Pro, many had to wait until after the big reveal at the annual event.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Nreal, Meta, Magic Leap, and RealWear produce AR devices that suit consumer, enterprise, or industrial environments. The lite-smart glasses solution provides consumer-grade features like voice assistance, AR games, and video calling via a lite-weight, designer frame. The firm is also exploring new healthcare-related usage.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

There is no official confirmation on this, and I hope to be wrong because having to use earphones would be a big hit to its comfort Release date and price : of course the release date (will it come before or after an Apple headset?) The first news comes directly from an AI event that Meta has organized for this week.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Apple now lets add you add “buy” button to AR Quick Look. A piece of simple news, but a very important one, has hit the AR industry this week: Apple now lets companies add custom buttons (usually the “Buy” one) to AR Quick Look. Magic Leap plans dev days and dev programs. More info (Use Google Translate).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Graeme Devine, Chief Game Wizard at Magic Leap, took the stage today at the DICE Summit 2017 in Las Vegas to talk about the future of mixed reality. Tagged with: DICE , Ghost Girl , Graeme Devine , Magic Leap. But designing games in mixed reality will have its own set of challenges.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

The most important info shared Friday is a (weird) video with the external new design of the device. What is interesting the most of this announcement is that in the invitation to the event it is stated “Join us to begin a new chapter of virtual and augmented reality”. Magic Leap is suing nReal. Yes, you’ve read it well.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 15, 2023

During the ceremonious week, the event highlighted Spatial’s ability to showcase branded fashion, interoperable avatars, and Web3 products. Steinerman noted that Spaital started as a platform solely available on XR headsets such as Microsoft’s HoloLens and the Magic Leap. What does it mean for the Spatial Metaverse?

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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! If you don’t have 2 hours, don’t worry, here below I have extracted the most interesting tidbits of the videos for you to enjoy!

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TechCrunch VR

APRIL 3, 2023

And then we did a small event in Austin with Cline signing the books. The move is especially interesting in light of the relatively recent shift toward enterprise customers that’s been explored by Meta, Magic Leap and HTC. We have these videos with over 30 million views. We had a wooden prototype at the time.”

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2020

This has been the week of the launch of the Oculus Quest 2, and this event has been so big that basically, it will take half of this roundup to describe. Apple launches iPhone 12, Pro models have Lidar sensor. Lucas Rizzotto has made another awesome video of his.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Next week, on 25th and 26th, Oculus will hold its main yearly event , and as always, it will talk about the milestones reached by the company and then it will show future hardware and software. But what can we expect from this important event? So, I expect no actual hardware announcements from this event.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 1, 2023

Ori Inbar, Founder, Super Ventures and Co-founder and CEO, AWE kicked off the event with a ChatGPT-powered avatar presentation. Speaking on the upcoming Apple Reality Pro headset, he explained how Lucky Palmer, Founder, Oculus said Apple’s device was “excellent.”

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Recapping the top stories covered on the VRScout Report , a weekly live video show and podcast discussing the best in VR, hosted by Malia Probst. As the virtual reality medium is physically more immersive than traditional video games, the potential for this real world overlap is significantly higher. AppleEyes, anyone?

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Apple’s AR Glasses are Hiding in Plain Sight. With all the phone and watch and TV and game and chip and other chip news coming out of Apple’s big event, it was easy to forget the company’s longest-running background process: an augmented-reality wearable. by Peter Rubin, WIRED. Hard to StarBoard.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

Rony Abovitz steps down from Magic Leap CEO. This was a very good thing and attracted many people to Magic Leap. I hope that Magic Leap will benefit from it and will recover pretty soon. Road To VR) More info (Qualcomm’s Wi-fi 6 chips?—?Upload Upload VR). In the end, it has happened. CR Deck Mk.1”

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

As with every big event, I’m writing a post to try to summarize the most important news that have come out from the GDC 2018 … so that if you have lost something, you just need to read this post to get in par with the rest of the world. people walking around), so I don't have an apples-to-apples comparison against Santa Cruz.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 28, 2023

There is also a video version of this article if you prefer watching videos to reading text! Dynamic generative applications The lightbulb in my brain powered on by reminding my interview with the amazing John Gaeta (when he still was at Magic Leap). This is the logical succession of events, in this exact order.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Also, Apple’s long-awaited headset is expected to release in 2023 , following ongoing revisions. Devices can use them to project documents, images, text and video streams on a user’s FoV. New devices like the Magic Leap 2 are set to completely disrupt the AR market with cutting-edge technologies for enterprise use cases.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 13, 2018

We are in the days of the Magic Leap hype : developers that have bought it are posting videos everywhere and every one of us is trying to understand if the device is valuable or not. So, here you are my editorial regarding Magic Leap. So, here you are my editorial regarding Magic Leap.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2022

He also is aware of Apple entering the market, and said his employees that the battle between Meta and Apple is a battle between open ecosystems vs closed ecosystems. Another interesting thing is that Pico is not copying Meta or Magic Leap in proposing inside-out tracked controllers : these ones still have a tracking ring.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

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. Do you remember that viral video where someone using a smartphone was able to take a picture of an object and then paste it into Photoshop by just framing the PC with Photoshop with the phone

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

And Sony will give a “Sneak peek” of PSVR 2 games at its upcoming State Of Play event on June 2nd at 3 PM PT. Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap has sold units of its first device for $550. Apple may unveil RealityOS at WWDC. News worth a mention. Let’s see if this is finally the right time for a reveal….

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EnterpriseWear

JANUARY 10, 2019

The release of Magic Leap One was supposed to be the “magic moment” for consumer AR, the development that finally got consumers excited about augmented reality glasses. After all, the Apple Watch has made watch-wearers out of people who never used to wear a watch. Needless to say, it wasn’t. Source: Vuzix.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

This week has not been very important for AR and VR: no major event has happened. BUT today is the day of the WWDC, and who knows if Apple will tease something about AR glasses. The second one is a Chinese video comparing some technical characteristics of consumer Pico Neo 3 and Oculus Quest 2. May he rest in peace.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

A video that got popular this week has a bit shocked me: in it, you can see a user pointing its Lidar-powered iPad towards some objects and in like 2 seconds being able to reconstruct an exact clone of that 3D object, fully meshed and textured. LiDAR on iPhones and iPad can make scanning 3D objects a commodity. Learn more. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

And it’s not over on the content side: they are going to launch the Pico Video app with 600+ videos on day 1 , and are partnering to have immersive concerts with Wave. The annual GTC event for NVIDIA has been a blast. Pico is also going to have its first exclusive title: Just Dance VR, a popular game good for all ages.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2019

I had the pleasure of participating to the “VR Visionaries” event in Kaohsiung and then I headed to Taipei to meet some XR companies (like HTC ) and people. The first night there, while we were having dinner, I asked Michael (one of the organizers of the event) if people speak well English there. It was just WONDERFUL.

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