Road to VR

MAY 5, 2022

Google is adding to its portfolio of XR microdisplay designs and talent, as the company announced it’s acquired microLED (µLED) designer Raxium. The Information’s report held Raxium was sold to Google for $1 billion, however official details of the acquisition are still murky. Image courtesy Raxium, Google.

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2021

Bet on games of Blackjack and Roulette in this blockchain-powered virtual casino coming soon to major VR & AR devices. XR technologies are changing the way we interact with each other and eliminating the need for expensive equipment,” said XR Casino CEO Dan Martinez in an official release. For more information visit here.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

Image by Google). Project Iris is the codename of Google’s AR glasses. According to a report on The Verge, Google is working on AR glasses. The AR headset is codenamed Project Iris , and it should be a standalone headset resembling ski goggles that is able to perform mixed reality. Image by Microsoft).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap is on sale. A report on Bloomberg informed us all that Magic Leap is exploring a sale of the company. The AR startup is in big troubles : after having overhyped its device for years and having collected billions of investments, it just delivered a HoloLens clone.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Microsoft’s enterprise-focused HoloLens 3 may be dead in the water, as a recent report maintains that internal divisions have hobbled the company’s efforts to release its next AR headset as planned. Alex Kipman wearing HoloLens 2, Image courtesy Microsoft. Microsoft Responds.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Magic Leap 2 reviews have surfaced after the successor to the Magic Leap 1, which launched in the early 2000s, debuted in September this year. Unlike the second version, the first iteration spent most of its early years in stealth mode, teasing its Magic Leap 1 headset in 2018. Inside Magic Leap 2.

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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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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 11, 2023

Google has unveiled its Geospatial Creator for Unity platform, allowing developers to preview 3D assets via the Unity Editor. Viewing spatially-linked assets on a hyperrealistic 3D planet map, the toolkit powers ARCore and Photorealistic 3D Tiles via the Google Maps Platform, it said on its website.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Magic Leap is one of the most well-funded startups in history, boasting $2.6 billion in overall funding—and that’s before calculating its latest financing round, the amount and specifics of which are still unknown at this time. Image courtesy AT&T, Magic Leap.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

Mothers and grandmothers are the best, and they care about us during the good and the hard times… their love is infinite. A big and warm hug to all of them And while we celebrate our mommies, let’s read some cool AR/VR news! Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap looks for a $100-million deal to save itself.

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Road to VR

JUNE 24, 2020

It seems now that many of Magic Leap’s recently laid-off employees are helping Apple with its own AR headset ambitions. Magic Leap was in hot water earlier this year, as reports surfaced that the well-funded startup was searching for a buyer. Image courtesy Protocol.

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ARVR

MARCH 16, 2023

2022 was an incremental year for AR & VR, which both continue to gradually push forward in gaining mainstream traction. Highlights include mobile AR engagement & monetization, continued R&D in AR glasses, and the gradual march of VR. There were many, but we’ll zero in today on the state of headworn AR.

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Tech Trends VR

AUGUST 8, 2018

Magic Leap finally materializes into a product some of us can actually buy, yet the real test will be whether developers take the bait. There are plenty of players like Microsoft HoloLens and DAQRI which consistently deliver not only cool demos, but real use-cases for holographic Mixed Reality Click To Tweet.

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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. I hope for Magic Leap that the next device, Magic Leap 2, will be better. Google ARCore now adds depth detection.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Khronos Group , the consortium behind the OpenXR project which aims to standardize the way applications communicate with AR and VR headsets, just added Microsoft to its ranks. Among its count of members, the OpenXR working group consisted of nearly every major player in the industry except Microsoft until now.

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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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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

It’s the beginning of 2019, and this means that this is that time of the year when we all make predictions for this year in AR and VR! Jokes apart, what has happened in AR in 2018… and what can you expect to happen in 2019? More or less AR in 2018 has gone as I predicted in 2017. 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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Road to VR

JUNE 22, 2023

At least from the outside, it appears Microsoft isn’t actively competing for a seat at the XR table, which is fairly odd coming from a company that pioneered enterprise AR while simultaneously wrangling some of its top OEM partners to make a fleet of PC VR headsets for consumers in 2017. If Microsoft goes in half-cocked, maybe.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 8, 2024

The demand for smart glasses in the AR space is accelerating at an incredible pace. In this industry, developers are experimenting with ever-more intuitive screens, lenses, and accompanying XR technologies, to create solution for a range of industries. So, which vendors are currently making waves in the AR smart glasses space?

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 9, 2022

In the manufacturing space, mixed reality headsets and AR solutions can allow users to access the support of remote specialists wherever they are. What’s more, in endless enterprise environments, companies are using XR to improve company culture, facilitate meaningful discussions, and improve meetings. Magic Leap.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Let’s start this week with a bunch of cool news about the past week in AR and VR! The best news of the week has not been the release of a new fantastic VR headset or AR glass, but of a technology that will make a new generation of XR headsets possible: I’m talking about the XR2 chipset by Qualcomm. Image by Magic Leap).

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

After the release of Magic Leap One earlier this month – the most anticipated launch in the sector – the industry’s best minds have shifted to content. . That trend has been keenly anticipated by the VR/AR Global Summit. The VR/AR Global Summit is poised to bring together apps from different corners of the sector.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 19, 2024

Big vendor news this week, Admist start-ups and fresh ideas; this week, big names like Meta, Microsoft, Google, and Apple took the headlines due to each firm’s optimisation of its XR product portfolio. Meta has not yet confirmed 8K streaming on its Quest portfolio.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 24, 2016

In an industry populated with giants such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft it is astounding that one of the most important names in the game is a startup known as Magic Leap. Earlier this year, Magic Leap raised an enormous round of fundraising when it pulled in $793.5 Currently sitting at a $4.5

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ARPost

APRIL 29, 2021

AR remote collaboration solutions are those that superimpose virtual elements over a user’s view of the world around them, while allowing them to communicate with coworkers, experts, or even devices. These solutions employ either a dedicated AR headset or a compatible mobile device like a smartphone or tablet.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

They are camera glasses without visual AR features but some audio AR foundations. The implication was that the footage was shot with Facebook’s AR Essilor Luxottica-partnered AR glasses, which may be unveiled tomorrow. Or the device’s AR features could be present but minimal, involving light notifications.

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

In many ways they’re your typical tech company – my demos are delivered in the familiar blueprint of a trendy open-plan office with exposed brick walls, which sits above a sushi restaurant – but it’s got a different vibe from a lot of similar start-ups. For starters, they’re based in Oregon as opposed to Silicon Valley.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 9, 2019

I got immediately hyped about this: we are all dreaming about AR glasses like Magic Leap or HoloLens 2 , but what if the future was made of AR contact lenses? Me doing a duck face with a pair of Magic Leap on. I’ve read that your team has just developed an AR contact lens! EN62471-2008).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Alongside Apple’s XR device debut, other firms, from Zoom to Microsoft, are jumping on the spatial computing bandwagon. Apple refers to its AR/VR/MR solutions brand as spatial computing, which differentiates itself from the market. The services are available and ready for the Vision Pro launch today.

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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

JANUARY 23, 2020

A worker wearing HoloLens 2 (Image by Microsoft). As Karl Guttag and all the other experts say, there are various breakthroughs in optics and other technologies that have to be performed before having mainstream AR, so until this happens, AR will still just be a niche. My duck-face while wearing Magic Leap One glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

2021 is going to be an interesting year for AR. 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. Can this count as AR having become mainstream?

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Microsoft debuts their latest mixed reality device at Mobile World Conference 2019. OK, I will be able give a more definite verdict after I actually get a hands-on demo first thing tomorrow, but in the meantime, here are our first impressions from having seen the live demos on the stage here at MWC Barcelona. Spatial Anchors.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

If you want to read better predictions about AR, I advise you to follow Tom Emrich , since he usually writes great posts on the topic! AR is in a growth stage (Image from the web). I think that in 2022 we’ll mostly see in AR the growth of the same trends that we saw in the second half of 2021. GENERAL TRENDS.

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AR Insider

JUNE 21, 2021

This week, we look at Snap’s latest lens craze, Niantic’s next AR gaming title, new XR funding and more Facebook/Oculus acquisitions. VR and AR are still only a tiny part of that. Niantic announces new Transformers AR game, coming later this year. Former Magic Leap SVP John Gaeta on his former employer.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 10, 2022

This means you can run the most complex VR and AR experiences from a remote server across 5G and Wi-Fi networks to any device, while embracing the freedom to move—no wires, no limits.”. See Also: Is 2022 the Year for Consumer AR Glasses? “At For example, Magic Leap has had a partnership with Google Cloud for the past year now.

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