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GDC 2018 ‘Day 1’ Roundup – Vive Pro Pricing, Magic Leap SDK, Nvidia RTX, and More

Road to VR

Vive Pro date and price, Magic Leap announcements, Nvidia’s real-time ray-tracing, and Budget Cuts resurfaces. The improved headset is pitched as an upgrade for current Vive owners, as it works with the original controllers and base stations. It is still not known exactly when the improved controllers and SteamVR 2.0

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The XR Week Peek (2022.03.28): GDC, GTC, Snap’s acquisition of NextMind, and more!

The Ghost Howls

I have anyway selected four news that can be relevant for you: NVIDIA has announced a new GPU architecture, called Hopper, that represents the evolution of Ampere. Magic Leap 2 bridges AR and VR. The interest in Magic Leap 2 is growing. HTC adds more parental control tools to its headsets.

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Facebook’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Don’t Support AR, And That’s Okay

VRScout

All of the aforementioned technology is powered by a Snapdragon® processor and controlled using a capacitive touchpad located on the temple—or arm—of the glasses. The form factor drove a lot of decisions, from speaker architecture to the camera selection,” states Facebook in an official release.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.01.31): Meta builds a new AI supercomputer, Magic Leap 2 details unveiled, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The system is capable of quintillions of operations per second and it is able to speed up the machine learning process from 3x to 20x with regard to the previous supercomputer cluster architecture in use by Meta. Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap 2 to feature dynamic dimming. Image by Magic Leap).

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Metaverse To Target 3 Key Destinations, Unity Says

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

People can use AR for “trying on a Gucci shirt [or] running a manufacturing line for a manufacturer [or] controlling a smart city or a power plant,” to bridge the real and digital world as digital twins, he said. World augmentation would augment and reflect images and data via overlays on the real world.

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Virtual Battles on Your Coffee Table

Tech Trends VR

Predictably, however, there were some serious technical challenges in getting that complex architecture working: “We were attempting to do something pretty exotic, with tech not necessarily designed for this purpose. Wargaming are also interested in developing content that will work on headsets such as Magic Leap Click To Tweet.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.06.01): HP Reverb G2 launched, Qualcomm goes bullish on 5G and Wi-fi 6 and more!

The Ghost Howls

The Reverb was already a very good headset (as you can read in my hands-on impressions ) with good comfort and an astonishing resolution, but it had some problems with the display (mura, red smearing) and with the controllers (classical mediocre WMR tracking). Rony Abovitz steps down from Magic Leap CEO. Upload VR).