Road to VR

AUGUST 12, 2020

Nreal is getting ready to ship its Nreal Light AR headset to consumers in South Korea. The sunglasses-style AR headset is optionally being bundled with the recently announced Samsung Galaxy Note 20 in that country. Light AR will be available in stores there starting August 21st. 349,500 (~$295). 699,000 (~$590).

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Leaked concept video featuring two Samsung AR devices has come to light. Although just concepts and not functioning products as such, it’s clear the Korean tech giant is gearing up to compete with companies like Facebook and Apple as they inch ever closer to releasing consumer AR headsets.

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Next Reality AR

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Magic Leap One owners, start your virtual engines, as automotive virtual reality developer RelayCars has published an app to Magic Leap World that lets users customize and test drive a 2019 Kia Stinger.

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Road to VR

APRIL 8, 2019

AT&T and Magic Leap formed a partnership last year which looked a lot like the one between Cingular (now merged with AT&T) and Apple which led to the launch of iPhone. Magic Leap’s marketing for its first AR headset, the Magic Leap One ‘Creator Edition’, has been… curious, to say the least.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 7, 2024

Xreal Air 2 Ultra are true AR glasses, but they only work with two specific Samsung phones. Xreal, formerly Nreal, is a China-based company that actually launched the first consumer AR glasses in the US, Nreal Light , in late 2021. The company claims shipping will begin in March. There's an important caveat here though.

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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. The post Report Casts Doubt on HoloLens 3, Microsoft Says AR Headset is “doing great” appeared first on Road to VR.

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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

JANUARY 31, 2020

Spatial , a New York-based startup behind the eponymous real-time AR/VR collaboration platform, has secured $14 million in additional financing, bringing its overall funds to $22 million. Existing Spatial investors also include the likes of Samsung NEXT, Baidu Ventures, and LG Ventures to name a few.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Spatial , a team of 3D Design and AR/VR experts based out of New York and San Francisco, today unveiled their cross-reality collaboration platform after two long years in stealth. Using cutting-edge AR technology, Spatial promises a one-of-a-kind remote workspace experience via realistic holographic teleportations.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2023

More info Meta may partner soon with Magic Leap The Financial Times this week reported a very unexpected piece of news: Meta may be working on a partnership with Magic Leap for the production of AR glasses. Magic Leap has factories in the US and Mexico able to produce AR glasses.

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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

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

JANUARY 24, 2024

This week, AR instructional solutions provider Taqtile announced official support for Microsoft’s Unity-based Mixed Reality Toolkit 3 (MRTK3) in a move to broaden the usability of its Manifest application ready for a “growing number” of OpenXR devices in 2024.

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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. There are however too reluctant holdouts left; Apple and Magic Leap, but it remains to be seen what either are bringing to the table.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

The main one regards the 4 devices we were waiting for this year , which in our opinion should have changed everything: Quest 3, Apple Vision Pro, Google-Samsung Headset, and PSVR 2. They are Apple AR glasses!” Google and Samsung Prototype of the Samsung XR headset. Long story short: things are not good.

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

In spite of the fact we’re joking around and playing Angry Birds on Magic Leap, the whole thing feels very grown up, in the sense that these guys are in this for the long haul, and so, they reckon, is the business of making Mixed Reality. We’ve been saying all along we want more players, more competition.

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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.

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Upload VR

JULY 19, 2023

Meta is reportedly downgrading key specs of its in-development AR glasses to achieve a lower cost. Meta has been working on AR glasses for eight years now, spending tens of billions of dollars on what Mark Zuckerberg hopes will one day be an iPhone moment. So the consumer AR glasses will instead reportedly use LCoS.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Secretive augmented-reality start-up Magic Leap is partnering with online comic book publisher Madefire to deliver mixed reality comics to Magic Leap’s devices when they launch. The Magic Leap version will apparently feature spatial sound and comics will appear much crisper and more readable on it.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

Meta delays its plans for AR glasses. Meta has not officially answered this report, but Andrew Bosworth, the CTO of the company, has indirectly commented on it: “ We’re going to ship wrist wearables and AR glasses that bring completely new tech?—?like Other relevant news. Image by Meta). like EMG?—?to This is anyway good news.

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ARPost

AUGUST 4, 2020

If you are interested in this practice, Tai Chi Trainer XR is the right choice for you. It features: Full Tai Chi training; Quick Qigong morning routine (5 minutes session); AR Tai Chi; VR Tai Chi. Thus, as you become more advanced in your meditation technique, you can switch to the less immersive AR version of the app.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

But for now, let me do a recap of the best news of the past week in AR and VR! Oculus is going to announce something not only about VR but also about AR. Magic Leap is suing nReal. Magic Leap has sued Chi Xu, the founder of nReal. Stay tuned on my blog for updates about this new adventure of mine.

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2017

“2016 marked an important step for the AR and VR headset market with product finally arriving in end users’ hands and on their heads,” noted Ramon Llamas, research manager with IDC’s Augmented and Virtual Reality team. SEE ALSO What VR Headset Makers (not analysts) Have Actually Said About Sales Expectations.

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 4, 2018

This year was going to be the year of augmented reality, but by the end of 2018 market analysts were pointing to 2020 or 2021 as the “golden year” of AR. Magic Leap finally dropped to mixed reviews and BrainXchange published its Definitive Guide to Adopting Wearables, AR and VR in Enterprise.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 19, 2020

Are you ready to read some interesting AR and VR news from the week that has just finished? Mojo Vision teases the future of AR contact lenses. This is a startup that has just gone out from stealth, and that is working towards the creation of AR contact lenses. Magic Leap and nReal are trying to find an agreement.

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VRWorld

JULY 15, 2016

To bring the matters home to the readers of this website, graphene battery technology is one of key technologies we need for headsets such as Google Glass 2, which is currently being developed in conjunction with Luxottica , or a more recent development, Magic Leap prototype augmented reality glass.

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ARPost

JUNE 28, 2021

Spatial was on our list of AR remote work platforms. The company’s own co-founders, Anand Agarawala and Jinha Lee, have their own impressive pasts including working at Google, MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung. The platform works on just about any device, from HoloLens and Magic Leap to desktop and mobile, and even an Nreal beta.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 30, 2020

Other investors include Expa, Lerer Hippeau, Leaders Fund, Samsung NEXT and Andy Hertzfeld (of Macintosh fame). “We wanted to open that up, but we thought that it would be years out before we did, since it doesn’t make sense for an AR/VR platform to do something like that until there is actual market demand.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

In my opinion , the true error is with the Vive 1 , that will get a price that is higher than the one of all the competitors… and that will cost as much as a Samsung Odyssey, notwithstanding its far lower features. Magic Leap releases its SDK. It is so possible to start creating your Magic Leap application.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

Microsoft Magic Leap Varjo HP Acer Samsung ASUS Dell Biel AjnaXR FYR Medical ESight Canon IrisVision VRgineers Zappar Lynx Valve Microsoft Microsoft has been increasing its focus on the extended reality landscape in recent years, with the production of solutions such as Microsoft Mesh, and a metaverse environment for Microsoft Teams.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 8, 2017

With technologies like 5G, smartphones are still going to be the place where we see the leading edge of innovation occur with the benefits trickling down to the fledgling industries. The best examples of this are the Magic Leap prototypes, Microsoft Hololens and Qualcomm’s VR reference design.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

MAY 16, 2022

Delta Reality is creating extended reality (XR) immersive experiences for global brands to accelerate virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) adoption and assist firms in developing modern marketing strategies.

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VRScout

MAY 30, 2017

I’ve been a big fan of the cute little Samsung Gear 360 camera since its first unveiling in the spring of 2016, and always recommend it to people inquiring about the best consumer-friendly 360 cameras out there. After quietly settling a gender discrimination lawsuit recently, it turns out that Magic Leap is back on the fundraising trail.

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RealVision VR

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

With Hardware (cellphones) having enough processing power to overlay decent digital content over the real world when seen through a cellphone camera, it’s now feasible to play AR ‘games’ and tournaments such as Hado World that give e-sports a whole new meaning, exercising the body and not just a player’s thumbs!

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Road to VR

AUGUST 26, 2019

Ang is promising to showcase a number of VR headsets in his library, including Oculus Quest, Oculus Rift S, Samsung Odyssey Plus, Vive Pro, HP Reverb, Valve Index, Pimax 5K Plus, Pimax 5K XR, HTC Vive Cosmos, and StarVR One, a headset intended for the enterprise sector.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 23, 2023

Magic Leap Currently focusing its attention on the enterprise landscape, Magic Leap produces AR and MR headsets designed to address the needs of various industries. Biel Concentrating on the emerging smart glasses landscape, Biel’s headsets are designed to improve mobility for visually impaired people.

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