The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Magic Leap pivots towards enterprise. At the same time, Magic Leap has also shipped a new runtime for its hardware , with the addition of new nice features like vocal commands. At the same time, Magic Leap has also shipped a new runtime for its hardware , with the addition of new nice features like vocal commands.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

First of all, Google has to keep the work on the headset very secret also internally , because Samsung is afraid that Google will steal its expertise to build a competing product. Google is working in parallel to build the Android XR operating system for this headset and a Micro XR operating system for AR glasses.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Over the past three years Magic Leap have been one of the darlings of Augmented/Mixed reality. billion in funding from investors such as Google, Andreessen Horowitz and Alibaba. Rony Abovitz also went on to publish a short blog post giving what he describes as a “glimpse behind the scenes at Magic Leap.”

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2023

This and the next editions of the newsletter are going to be full of cool pieces of news. On the work side, it has been busy, very busy. I’m also working on a cool tech prototype and I will share it with you very soon in the next few days on this blog. Magic Leap has factories in the US and Mexico able to produce AR glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap 2 has been teased. Magic Leap is back: CEO Peggy Johnson has just unveiled in a post on the company blog the Magic Leap 2 , the new version of the AR glasses from the company in Florida. Pimax and Varjo are ready to announce new headsets.

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Everything VR & AR

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Magic Leap. To this date we have seen no real life demonstrations, but a number of short videos that can make your jaw drop as you watch whales leaping out of a gymnasium floor while numerous school children cheer or the destruction of enemy robot attackers inside a home office. billion dollars?

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 8, 2023

While the concept of phone holders is dead for good in VR, there are a few companies that are trying to bring it to augmented reality, exploiting also the fact that true AR headsets (like Magic Leap 2 ) are very expensive and cost thousands of euros. I will leave you the link to do that below.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 18, 2018

As you can see, these are topics that interest all of us… and I guess that you, like me, are most excited by the last point. Of course the other ones are pretty cool and pretty inherent to AR and VR, too (for instance all the talks about graphics can be useful also for the graphics of XR applications, of course).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

Having had the chance to play with it for some days , I can tell you that it is really an interesting product (I’ll write a review about it here on this blog, so register to my newsletter to not miss it!). Magic Leap releases its SDK. We still haven’t seen a Magic Leap device , but at least now we can see its SDK.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2022

It was able to provide an SDK and various templates to make companies create easily robust AR experiences that ran directly from the web, without forcing the user to download an app, as it happens for AR applications made with ARCore/ARKit. Image by Magic Leap). First previews show Magic Leap 2 qualities.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

On this special day, let’s all talk about AR and VR! More info (Announcement link) More info (News on my blog) More info (Error in one of the screenshots). Apple now lets add you add “buy” button to AR Quick Look. More info (Use Google Translate). Magic Leap plans dev days and dev programs. Image by MWC).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2018

I’m not as important as other people you interviewed … I am just like a kid in the candy shop trying to eat some of the candies, enjoying AR and VR while I also have a daily job. From that moment, I forgot about big data and started focusing on AR and VR. He works on the AR division of the company.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 29, 2023

Shoppers can use AR try-on technologies to test clothing before visiting physical stores, significantly reducing returns. Companies such as Varjo, Magic Leap, Meta, Pico, and HTC VIVE rely on AI to assist in foveated rendering. Across retail, VR is also providing new ways to enhance the customer experience.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

This fall promises to be very interesting for AR and VR, and in this first week of September we had many interesting XR news that are going to heat up the competition in the space! FRL Research is working towards giving you audio superpowers in AR. One is devoting to give you more realistic audio in AR and VR.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

When I interviewed Kevin Williams , an expert in the LBVR market, he said that there are also some experiments with location-based augmented reality and he mentioned a Japanese arcade AR game called HADO. Well, after that article, I discovered that the CTO of MeLeap , the company behind HADO, is one of my readers! teams for Japan.

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CraneMorley

JUNE 27, 2023

Back to Blog Page The whole term and concept of Mixed Reality (MR) was first introduced to us by Paul Milgram and Fumio Kishino in their paper titled “A Taxonomy of Mixed reality Visual Displays.” As of today, some of the key players in tech have or are in the development stage of their mixed reality headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2022

But enough talking about me… let’s dig into the best AR/VR news of the week! The serial leaker Brad Lynch has shared on his Youtube channel what he claims are CAD renders of the upcoming Quest 3. Tim Cook has spoken again about XR and told again that AR will be revolutionary for our lives. Top news of the week. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 10, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Google) Samsung XR headset may have been delayed The new rumor in town is that Samsung has delayed its upcoming headset that it is building in partnership with Google and Qualcomm. It’s been another interesting week in immersive realities, so let’s see what happened in our field in the past few days!

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

It’s again that time of the week where I tell you the most important news in AR and VR! Are you ready? You can read from the blog post all the UX choices they took to make the subtitles interface to appear in a way that is unobtrusive and comfortable for the eyes. All the others are getting breadcrumbs.

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VRWorld

JULY 7, 2016

However, this relationship should be prepared to add a new addition into their lives: Augmented Reality i.e. AR. this technology is also beginning to be marketed as Mixed Reality or MxR (blame Magic Leap for that one). The addition of AR and VR within mobile shopping couldn’t have come at a better time for e-commerce.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

You can imagine that after it has been released through two official blog posts, an enormous backlash from the community started to happen. 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. The same on Twitter.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 6, 2024

One of my biggest highlights has been that my article about Social AR has been featured in the famous New World Notes blog that I usually read… I’ve felt very honored about this! In my opinion, it will be the latter: Apple’s goal is still winning the AR race among the masses. This week has been quite cool for me.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

But Huawei is not only in the VR market: it is also releasing a new version of its AR smartglasses called Huawei EyeWear 2, made in collaboration with the fashion brand Gentle Monster. Some years ago, she performed in The Life, a Mixed Reality art piece inside the Magic Leap One. Simple WebXR” aims at bringing WebXR to Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

OMG, it’s almost 3 years that I write these roundups… the first week peek was exclusive for my blog subscribers and it featured as best news the release of Google Blocks and in the other news something about Samsung Gear VR… how much time has passed since then! Magic Leap raises other $350M. This is the 150th Week Peek!

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Today I am very happy to host on my blog Kura Technologies , one of the most interesting augmented reality startups out there. Kura promises to deliver lightweight AR glasses with astonishing features like 150° FOV, 8K resolution per eye, and outdoor use thanks to some breakthrough innovations they are working on.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The device also features an RGB camera, so that to provide color passthrough AR. The great news from this week is that the company has brought Niantic Lightship VPS into its engine, so now it is possible to use VPS from a web AR application. The headset is also very small and lightweight thanks to the use of pancake lenses.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

Don’t forget to read the coverage about it on my blog… Before leaving you to the news, I have to publicly compliment Emerson for having given the most correct answer to my contest. VPS is a technology that implements the AR Cloud and creates a bridge between the real and the virtual world. Image by Magic Leap).

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2, the company’s most recent smartglasses (or rather smart glass ), was only available to partner companies when it launched in May 2019. Now Google is allowing its third-party hardware vendors to sell the headset direct to developers. Image courtesy Google.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I’m sorry about that, but it’s still a miracle I’ve managed to write it… Top news of the week (Leaked image from Samsung video) Samsung is back to XR with Google and Qualcomm The big news of the week is that Samsung is back to XR. What is even more interesting is that this device will be built in partnership with Google and Qualcomm.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 4, 2017

This article is not meant to be a scholarly treatise, but rather an accessible overview, providing the reader with a baseline understanding of the waveguide marketplace, and how advances in the field of optics are changing the landscape in the smartglasses market. Magic Leap. Near-eye Optics Basics.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 23, 2019

For the next two days, I will feature on this blog a long interview I made with Suzanne Borders, the CEO of BadVR. But it is very interesting , because it will touch a lot of hot topics, like: Data visualization in XR; Magic Leap; Being a woman working in XR; How is XR in Asia. There are a lot of different benefits.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2019

But the more you stay there, the more you notice that there are differences. Taiwanese people are more chill and more open towards the West. In Taiwan, all western websites work and so you don’t need to set up a VPN just to use Google. In my visit, I tried a lot of AR/VR experiences , most of them just for few minutes.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2019

He doesn’t only write with a great style on important magazines like Forbes, but he is also always able to find great content to talk about , like innovative AR startups or interviews to big names of the immersive industry like Rony Abovitz. Hello Charlie and welcome to my blog! And still dozens more are sponsors.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Stay tuned on this blog, because in some days I will publish an EXTRAORDINARY interview related to one of the most awaited VR games of 2021! Google makes Tilt Brush opensource. Google has just announced that the VR painting program Tilt Brush has been put opensource on GitHub. I’m sure you will love it, so don’t miss it!

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

At its 2020 Snap Partner Summit , Snap, the company behind the popular social media Snapchat, has made some very interesting announcements, that confirm that it is one of the most important companies in the AR landscape. And these people use AR around 30 times per day. If this is not mainstream adoption, I don’t know what it is.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

A sought-after authority on interactive media industry, Carter has presented at every event around the world, including Casual Connect, the LA Games Conference, and the VR/AR Global Summit. Carter: I’d say the main thing is augmented and mixed reality are growing fast, but mainly in the enterprise space.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

A sought-after authority on interactive media industry, Carter has presented at every event around the world, including Casual Connect, the LA Games Conference, and the VR/AR Global Summit. Carter: I’d say the main thing is augmented and mixed reality are growing fast, but mainly in the enterprise space.

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