ARPost

JUNE 3, 2022

AWE day two started off with back-to-back keynotes from mixed reality display maker Magic Leap and AR commerce solution Avataar. A Look at the Magic Leap 2. Magic Leap’s Head of Product Management, Jade Meskill, presented “Magic Leap 2 and the Augmented Enterprise.”

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 10, 2023

The reason is the one I’ve already reported in this newsletter a few weeks ago: after the announcement of the Apple Vision Pro, Samsung has been caught a bit off guard by the announced features and it is now trying to power up its headset so that it will be able to properly compete with Apple’s device.

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JUNE 6, 2023

We went hands on with Apple Vision Pro at Apple Park in California during WWDC23 and were blown away by the best headset demo ever made. Personas are what Apple calls human scans performed by the Vision Pro headset that are locked to the scanned individual to prevent others from wearing them.

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JUNE 9, 2023

A conversation could be coming to your home in the next five years and it is probably as unavoidable as those previous ones: Are you on a Meta Quest or do you have Apple Vision? But, right now, Apple just showed up to VR in a very big way and validated almost all the most forward - thinking work at its fastest-moving competitor.

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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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ARPost

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Hand Tracking. The big news is, the Quest is getting full hand tracking support. There will always be a place for hand-controllers, especially in games,” he says. Optimistically, he says, “hand-tracking will allow for much more accessible and intuitive experiences, which can help broaden the reach of VR.”.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

Apple Glasses may release in 2021 for $499. In the end, technologist Jon Prosser has revealed the main details he knows about the Apple Glasses. Well, on another website, I’ve been able to find someone that reading some Apple’s documents has found pictures of strange colored circular tags that may act as QR Codes for Apple devices.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

Peggy Johnson is the new CEO of Magic Leap. Magic Leap has finally a new CEO: Peggy Johnson. Johnson will have the not easy task of deciding a clear route for Magic Leap, making the company become profitable in the enterprise market after so many failures in the consumer one. News worth a mention.

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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. “Everyone was even waiting till Apple announced something. It is not sure what they are building in their garage,” he said.

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MAY 20, 2022

A detailed report from The Information charts the decisions behind the apparent years-long delay of Apple’s upcoming AR/VR headset. Apple’s VR/AR team is called Technology Development Group (TDG) and is led by former Dolby executive Mike Rockwell.

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MAY 4, 2024

Apple Vision Pro 2 reportedly targets a late 2026 launch, over 50% of Fortune 100 companies are using Vision Pro, Tilt Five is on sale, and Quest 3 is nearly tied with Valve Index on SteamVR. Originally built for Quest, it now supports "any platform capable of providing skeletal hand tracking data."

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CraneMorley

JUNE 27, 2023

” Published in 1994 the article details MR “as a particular subset of Virtual Reality (VR) related technologies that involve the merging of real and virtual worlds somewhere along the “virtuality continuum” which connects completely real environments to completely virtual ones.” Spatial sound.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

Then the wish to compete with Apple may not become a reality: when the Vision Pro was announced, Samsung didn’t expect such cool features from it, so it delayed the announcement of the headset to have the time to increase its capabilities. More info Is Apple working on the Vision Pro since 2007?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

He has also recently written together with Irena Cronin “The Infinite Retina” , a great book about the technologies of the future, like XR, AI, and autonomous vehicles. But of course, the technology is still not there: the Oculus Quest is still uncomfortable, we can’t read texts in it, and so on. Not now, but soon.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

We all know that AR glasses (or hybrid AR/VR glasses) are the technology that will eventually replace smartphones, and Facebook of course wants to conquer that new platform. And to be the leader in some years, it has to start going public now, also to begin competing with Apple, that will probably announce its AR glasses next year.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

See Also: The Future Is Now: 2023 Metaverse and XR Predictions Worth Looking Into Think how Microsoft revolutionized personal computers, or how Apple changed the mobile phone market forever. We’re on the cusp of another life-changing piece of technology and the race is on. Let’s take a look at the technology coming our way.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

In particular, it envisions: XR headsets (especially AR ones) being tethered to the smartphone now; XR headsets wirelessly connected to the smartphone (via Wi-fi or similar technologies) in 1–4 years; Fully standalone lightweight XR headsets, connected via 5G, in 5–10 years. Rony Abovitz steps down from Magic Leap CEO.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 6, 2023

Unveiled at the Mobile World Congress 2023 , the new device includes a trove of innovative features such as a “retina-level” electrochromic adaptive display, lighting adjustment, Snapdragon Spaces tethering, and hand tracking, among others.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Meta plans to fight Apple thanks to the help of LG, a company that has deep expertise in manufacturing hardware and displays. Talking about content, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is one of the first series shot with Apple’s ‘Immersive Video’ format and is set to debut on Apple TV+ in late 2023. It’s the end of an era.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Now it’s time to make some forecasts about its companion technology, that is augmented reality! This won’t be the year of AR : exactly as I said for virtual reality, let’s not hype the technology and think that this is the year when mainstream adoption of wearable AR glasses is going to happen. Sounded good.

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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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SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Jim Henson’s The Storyteller: The Seven Ravens , an AR experience that uses Magic Leap 2, brings a physical book’s pages to life – keep an eye out for more on that from Ian Hamilton soon. An interesting idea, though I’m unconvinced the technology is ready for this. I wasn’t sold on Tulpamancer though.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

This year, I’m just watching the conference from home The conference has been interesting, and it has been the usual mix of technology and politics. Facebook has showcased how thanks to the use of hand-tracking gloves, it has been able to let people touch-type in VR. Maybe there is hope for broken Rift CV1 cables. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2020

Apple announces ARKit 4, amongst new rumors of XR headsets. The story goes on telling that Apple VR headset had realistic visuals and sound, it was super-cool and probably we’ll see a release date of 2022/2023. More info (New rumors about Apple and XR) More info (Apple ARKit4). We all can’t wait. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Most probably this announcement has been made to envision a future competition with Apple, bringing to XR the battle Android vs iOS (and Samsung vs Apple) that we already have on phones. I guess the purpose is to reassure its existing customers, to prevent them all from going to Magic Leap 2. Don’t miss them!

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 11, 2022

As the XR landscape continues to grow, accelerating towards an expected value of $300 billion by 2024, immersive technology is evolving at an amazing rate. Increasingly, vendors and innovators are searching for new and improved ways to immerse users in unique experiences, using powerful and disruptive technology.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Although spatial technology has existed for some time, companies like Apple have spawned new interest. It’s an umbrella term referring to various technologies influencing how we interact with computer systems. This includes XR headsets, sensors, artificial intelligence software, and cloud technology.

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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. Apple XR headset may weight less than 150g. Pico CEO wants the Neo 3 to sell 10x the Neo 2.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

When you’ve been a journalist on the XR technology beat for 20 years, like VentureBeat’s lead writer Dean Takahashi has, you develop a hunch or two about the direction the industry might go. There’s been a number of kind of false starts with this technology. It’s an expensive technology.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

When you’ve been a journalist on the XR technology beat for 20 years, like VentureBeat’s lead writer Dean Takahashi has, you develop a hunch or two about the direction the industry might go. There’s been a number of kind of false starts with this technology. It’s an expensive technology.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

After Valve, I started an AR company called CastAR where we were doing augmented reality very similar to the technology we’ll be talking about today. We can track wands… this [shows a device in front of the camera] is our six degrees of freedom wand that comes with it. That’s where I got started with augmented reality.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

When you've been a journalist on the XR technology beat for 20 years, like VentureBeat's lead writer Dean Takahashi has, you develop a hunch or two about the direction the industry might go. There's been a number of kind of false starts with this technology. It's an expensive technology. well, failing. well, even ODG.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

When you’ve been a journalist on the XR technology beat for 20 years, like VentureBeat’s lead writer Dean Takahashi has, you develop a hunch or two about the direction the industry might go. There’s been a number of kind of false starts with this technology. It’s an expensive technology.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

The fact that is going to come later, that it is stereo (so it can calculate the depth of objects) and that it is in high-resolution made some VR journalists wonder if this is the new device that is going to track reliably the PSVR 2 headset, maybe in conjunction with another special tracking technology (like ultrasound) for the controllers.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Varag: So Clay is a software company, we're specializing in hand tracking and gesture recognition, mostly in the AR and VR space. We did a project just using Google's hand tracking library. And hand tracking needs to be there. Alan: I think this whole technology stack of XR is moving.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Varag: So Clay is a software company, we're specializing in hand tracking and gesture recognition, mostly in the AR and VR space. We did a project just using Google's hand tracking library. And hand tracking needs to be there. Alan: I think this whole technology stack of XR is moving.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Varag: So Clay is a software company, we're specializing in hand tracking and gesture recognition, mostly in the AR and VR space. We did a project just using Google's hand tracking library. And hand tracking needs to be there. Alan: I think this whole technology stack of XR is moving.

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