The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

Image by Apple). Apple has not announced any glasses at WWDC. Every year, we have the same ritual: we wait for an event by Apple, hoping to hear some news about an upcoming XR device, then nothing happens in this sense, we are disappointed and so we hope for a new reveal next year. Top news of the week. Other relevant news.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Generally, “the cloud” refers to remote servers that do work off of a device. While almost all non-Apple mobile devices run Android, it is also the backbone of many XR headsets.). For example, Magic Leap has had a partnership with Google Cloud for the past year now. But, what is the cloud anyway? Parents and Partners.

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AR Insider

MARCH 4, 2021

And the wild card to kick off that progression will be Apple. Apple’s projected market entrance in the next few years will be impactful. Always see chart date for context, and refer to newer projections if applicable. Beyond projected sales, what will Apple’s glasses be and do? It’s a matter of design tradeoffs.

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Upload VR

APRIL 26, 2024

It's unclear whether Kalinowski's comment refers to the original Oculus Rift developer kit, which over 10 years ago showed that relatively wide field of view VR was possible with affordable and mass-producible hardware, or the first consumer Rift which launched in 2016. She switched to Head of AR Glasses two years ago.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 30, 2023

As WWDC approaches, Apple continues to drop hints, leading spectators to assume an immersive device is coming that continues the transformative firm’s track record of distributing game-changing consumer hardware. An XR device from Apple could be massive. Apple’s putting a lot of money into this. Mark Zuckerberg is.

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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. Going into 2019, the industry eagerly awaits HoloLens 2 and Glass Enterprise Edition 2, as rumors swirl around the possibility of AR glasses from Apple and/or Facebook in the near future.

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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. Kalinowski refers to the six new technologies in Meta’s AR device as new technology introductions (NTIs), and the company wants to get them right before release. The device took a while to hit the market.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 8, 2019

In current devkits, this computational unit is a mini-PC called the Oreo, while in the production phase, thanks to Qualcomm Snapdragon reference design, it will just be your phone. No one from Magic Leap or nReal is authorized to talk about this topic, so I won’t address it here. Me trying the nReal glasses for the review.

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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?) Magic Leap 2 has inside-out tracked controllers. and price (will it be affordable for PS5 users?)

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

Maybe they will work with a phone, exploiting the new Qualcomm reference designs. Magic Leap is suing nReal. Magic Leap has sued Chi Xu, the founder of nReal. According to Magic Leap, the company has been able to create these intriguing devices so fast only because Chi Xu was a former Magic Leap employee.

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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. PHOTOGRAPH: CARSTEN KOALL/GETTY IMAGES.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

However, it appears that despite using the spatial computing term before Apple, Microsoft is dropping more support for its HoloLens and Windows Mixed Reality – a framework for enabling desktop-powered MR experiences. Instead, they understandably referred to the power of AI in this space.

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TechCrunch VR

APRIL 3, 2023

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. That does not, however, apply to Meta’s Quest headset, owing to what the executive refers to as its “closed system.” Pretty much all of the big players, outside of Sony’s PSVR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

However, it appears that despite using the spatial computing term before Apple, Microsoft is dropping more support for Windows Mixed Reality – a framework for enabling consumer-based desktop-powered MR experiences. Instead, they understandably referred to the power of AI in this space.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Here we use the term “AR glasses” broadly to reference head-worn devices that allow you to directly see the real world as well as digital content, whether basic 2D content or more immersive 3D experiences tied to the real world, sometimes called Mixed Reality. What is clear is that the attempts to date have fallen short. We’ll get into that.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

If you make a custom device for VR only, you can design it from day zero to be optimal to do only VR : this means that even if the Go is based an old VR 821 reference design, it has more power than a Gear VR mounting an S7 phone (and dissipates better the heat); The Oculus Go headset and controller (Image by Road To VR).

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AR Insider

JANUARY 24, 2020

Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Snap and Qualcomm are all making significant investments.” In the interest of time and brevity, we’ll refer you to McDowall’s calculations which we separately examined recently. Then there’s Magic Leap. Lots of that is likely going to AR & VR.

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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. It seems a clone of the Vive Focus Plus, and this is because actually it is based on a reference design provided by HTC.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

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. But Facebook has a big problem and that big problem is called Apple. Concept of a future AR glass by Apple (Image by iDropNews).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 19, 2020

The headset, dubbed “VR Classroom 2” should feature: Snapdragon 835 reference design 4K total resolution 75Hz framerate 64GB onboard storage + SD Card slot. Magic Leap and nReal are trying to find an agreement. From the specs, it seems a good VR viewer. News worth a mention. Image by nReal).

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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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Upload VR

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The “uncanny valley” refers to a well-known concept describing the discomfort people feel seeing faces that resemble humans but miss the mark in meaningful ways. Crossing The Uncanny Valley. And indeed, two other demos provided by Meta on either side of the live cross-continental call made clear just how far there is to go.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 8, 2017

The best examples of this are the Magic Leap prototypes, Microsoft Hololens and Qualcomm’s VR reference design. Simply put, nobody is going to go out and spend upward of $900 on an Apple AR headset if they cannot get the same or better applications that they had on their smartphone.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 22, 2018

I immediately remembered that, some times ago, Upload VR analyzing the jobs listing of Oculus found the reference to a Monterey headset. And if you remember well, it is the same technology used by Vrvana, the startup recently acquired by Apple. But he agreed that it would have a lot of sense.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

The circle will close with the release of XR glasses, and we know that Niantic is also working on a reference system for them. Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap has sold units of its first device for $550. Apple may unveil RealityOS at WWDC. Other relevant news. News worth a mention. or no reason?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

From Rift to Apple Watch to Snap Spectacles, the trend is toward wearable computing. Meta is working on an AR headset, which puts them in the same league as Microsoft and Magic Leap. The challenge facing today’s developers is to recognize that the paradigm for personal technology is shifting.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

BUT today is the day of the WWDC, and who knows if Apple will tease something about AR glasses. Tablet mode may be a reference to how to launch 2D Android apps because a Facebook employee has inadvertently revealed that employees can already use some 2D apps like GDoc inside the Quest. was a lot of money?).

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

They’ve already got, you know, in your Apple phone, RF detection is already built in. Kopin is one, but they made a reference design that they’re hoping other companies like RealWear will adapt and manufacture and market. Magic Leap a lot of great people running off doing different things. Alan: Interesting.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

They’ve already got, you know, in your Apple phone, RF detection is already built in. Kopin is one, but they made a reference design that they’re hoping other companies like RealWear will adapt and manufacture and market. Magic Leap a lot of great people running off doing different things. Alan: Interesting.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

So at least the collaboration with Valve is true, but notice that it has not been on the headset, so they got no reference design from Valve, it has just been on the software integration. Some years ago, she performed in The Life, a Mixed Reality art piece inside the Magic Leap One. Doug Lombardi, Valve. Learn more.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

Steve Mann is commonly referred to as the “father of wearable computing” for innovations like the EyeTap, which combined computer processing with graphical design and textual overlays. Magic Leap officially announced its One headset after years of speculation and rumors. Years of rumors paint a far less rosy picture, however.

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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. The term refers to many different technologies and tools which work together to improve human/machine interaction.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

That allows devices which don’t have the compute capabilities today — lightweight AR headset devices — to have the kind of capability that a higher-end device like a Hololens 2 or Magic Leap might have, or even better in some cases. We’ve got the Hololens silo, we’ve got the Magic Leap silo.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

That allows devices which don’t have the compute capabilities today — lightweight AR headset devices — to have the kind of capability that a higher-end device like a Hololens 2 or Magic Leap might have, or even better in some cases. We’ve got the Hololens silo, we’ve got the Magic Leap silo.

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TechCrunch VR

APRIL 30, 2019

Soon everyone will be wearing 3D-capable cameras to support augmented reality (often referred to as mixed reality) applications. This hard-wiring refers to people’s tendency to prefer avoiding a loss versus an equal win. The operating system services based on this data are referred to as the “AR Cloud.”

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

These technologies, all coming of age in the 21st century are often referred to as “exponential” — true to Moore’s Law, about every 18 months their capabilities and performance powers double for the same cost. This is a common effect of computing technologies, known as “Moore’s Law” for the co-founder of Intel, Gordon Moore.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 9, 2021

Internally the device is referred to as NGVR (Next-Gen VR), but honestly, I still believe it will be called PSVR 2. For sure it is establishing a dominant position, and the trial against Apple is also a way to challenge Cupertino on the dominance of the future technological platforms.

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