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. fast replacement of a broken unit).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2019

That’s why in this blog I have always kept an eye open to this field. But usually, I have discussed Virtual Reality adult entertainment … but what about Augmented Reality instead? Many readers on this site will likely have a good idea of what augmented reality is. Image by AR Porn Tube).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

Google is also hiring high-profile people for it, like Bernard Kress, principal optical architect on Microsoft’s HoloLens team, and Paul Greco, the previous CTO of Magic Leap. Image by Microsoft). Microsoft is acquiring Activision Blizzard for $68.7B. Other relevant news. News worth a mention. Image by Varjo).

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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. And with the Augmented and Virtual Reality market projected to reach $162 billion by 2020 , some would call that a fair price. The Florida start-up was valued at $4.5 billion and attracted nearly $1.4

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Road to VR

MAY 5, 2022

The acquisition was previously reported by The Information in March, however now Google has confirmed in a blog post that it has indeed acquired Raxium, a five-year old startup building microdisplays for use in AR and VR headsets. Earlier this year Google snapped up Bernard Kress, principal optical architect on the Microsoft HoloLens team.

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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. The limit will start to be the device, that is the smartphone, which is unsuitable to enjoy augmented reality experiences. Image by Magic Leap).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

This week, Microsoft announced that MRTK will migrate to an independent GitHub account and that the project will be supported by a consortium including Microsoft, Magic Leap, and Qualcomm. That’s fantastic news for all Unity XR developers! in the reviews! I will leave you the link to do that below.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Microsoft is talking for the first time today about a new customer of its HoloLens augmented reality headset: publicly traded medical device company Stryker. While Magic Leap has faced questions about the state of its technology in recent months, the venture-backed startup does represent competition to the HoloLens.

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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. I suggest you to follow her as well!).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap pivots to enterprise, lays off 1,000 employes. With a long post on Magic Leap’s blog, in the end Rony Abovitz has admitted that the company is not going that well, and has announced a new course, that should eventually lead to Magic Leap 2.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

And all of this comes in a period when other partnerships between tech giants are happening: remember that some weeks ago, Microsoft closed its streaming service Mixer and allied with Facebook Gaming to fight the quasi-monopoly of (Amazon-owned) Twitch. Peggy Johnson is the new CEO of Magic Leap. I can’t wait to read it.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

Stay tuned on my blog for updates about this new adventure of mine. What is interesting the most of this announcement is that in the invitation to the event it is stated “Join us to begin a new chapter of virtual and augmented reality”. Augmented Reality. Magic Leap is suing nReal.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

Magic Leap 2 bridges AR and VR. The interest in Magic Leap 2 is growing. If headsets like Lynx or Project Cambria implement AR on a VR headset, Magic Leap 2 implements a bit of VR on an AR headset. The object is not reconstructed as a 3D mesh, but the system calculates all the possible views of it via AI.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

Just to make you understand how much money this could mean, my reader Sir Gamedev has sent me a link where one of the previous Xbox executives has revealed that the initial undercost sales of the first Xbox units cost Microsoft between $5B and $7B. Magic Leap partners with AMD for its next-generation device. Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

The news is overly important because Alyx is already changing the virtual reality landscape for these reasons: It is increasing awareness towards VR a lot (all mainstream gaming media are talking about it); It is increasing sales of VR headsets a lot; It will probably show us new interactions in XR that will affect the UX of many games after it.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Stay tuned on my blog for more articles about my Chinese experience in the upcoming days! Image by Microsoft). Microsoft wants to play safe, though, so it is now launching it only in two small countries , so that to identify possible problems only in a small subset of the worldwide population before the big launch.

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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 4, 2017

Magic Leap. For a secretive company, we can learn a lot about Magic Leap from their patent filings and acquisitions, namely that they launched without a clear path to executing their vision. In April of last year Abovitz landed himself on the cover of Wired magazine with what was dubbed the Magic Leap “photonic chip.”

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

As pointed out in one of the Unity Developers’ blog posts , aside from the exponential rise of development businesses, we’re also seeing more developer tools, such as the Unity and Unreal engines, becoming more accessible. We’re already seeing key metaverse players coming together in the collaboration between Meta and Microsoft.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

This week has been pretty amazing for my blog. With a new post on its blog, Facebook has shared some more statistics on the games published on its store, and they are quite impressive: 60 titles have generated revenues superior to $1M on the Quest store, and 6 are above the $10M mark. Magic Leap Two is coming at the end of the year.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

Given its great expertise in image analysis and its big user base, Snap is another company to keep an eye on for the future of augmented reality. Microsoft signs a $22B deal with the US Army. It seems that this test has been a success, and so now Microsoft has won now a bigger contract to carry on the project: $21.88B (!!)

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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! MREAL S1 is a passthrough mixed reality headset: it features two high-definition front cameras through which is possible to have augmented reality and augmented virtuality.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

More info Microsoft is still committed to HoloLens 2 All this bad press about Microsoft leaving Mixed Reality has made the company release a press statement in which it states its commitment to HoloLens 2, IVAS, and mixed reality in general. I will leave you the link to do that below.

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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. We started talking with other professionals in the field, and they always kept saying to us “If Microsoft can’t do it, how can you do it?”. It’s like 2 years (!!) What is the expected price?

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

How Augmented Reality (AR) is Reshaping the Food Service Industry 3. Microsoft has done well in the mixed reality space as it relates to enterprise adoption. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. How VR could bring transhumanism to the masses 2. ExpiCulture?—?Developing Developing an Original World-Traveling VR Experience 4.

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JUNE 6, 2018

At Leap Motion, we envision a future where the physical and virtual worlds blend together into a single magical experience. At the heart of this experience is hand tracking, which unlocks interactions uniquely suited to virtual and augmented reality. As a result, we used our next-generation ultra-wide tracking module.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

After the report of last week by Insider, in which Alex Kipman was accused of improper behavior at work, especially towards women, Alex Kipman has resigned from Microsoft. Rumors already talk about a new AR headset produced by Microsoft in collaboration with Samsung that should substitute it, but we have no sure info about it.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2024

There is even Microsoft Word! Twitter account M1Astra started sharing information about some of them, like an app about the Bible, a Lego building game, the J.Crew app to buy clothes in an immersive way, and so on. Please donate to the Red Cross to handle the current humanitarian situation in Ukraine.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

Late to the party after Oculus and Microsoft already released prototypical implementations, but finally Valve has implemented OpenXR into its runtime SteamVR. In a blog post, Unity has detailed its MARS solution, that lets you create easily augmented reality experiences , even with little coding knowledge. Well, maybe.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

When Magic Leap One was revealed, Rony Abovitz stated he was already working on Magic Leap Two and Three, for instance; Facebook believes a lot in having avatars that truly represent ourselves in XR , and it is a field in which they will invest a lot. Read about Microsoft’s Ignite conference.

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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. That’s why even Microsoft took Epic’s stances : Microsoft uses UE4 to develop some products also for Apple devices, and this decision hurts also its business. The same on Twitter.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 5, 2021

and also why the $2+B investment in Magic Leap was not enough to bring it to success. Microsoft too had to lose $10B to let Xbox enter the gaming console market and compete with PlayStation. Image by Microsoft). People that donate to this blog to support it are!! News worth a mention. Funny link.

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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! Image by Microsoft). Magic Leap raises other $350M.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 17, 2023

Once, this technology was available only to dedicated expensive glasses like HoloLens and Magic Leap, but now that Qualcomm has integrated them in Spaces, we are going to see it very soon also in consumer-ish AR glasses connected to the phone. This is going to be big! I will leave you the link to do that below.

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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

JANUARY 5, 2020

If the Reverb will actually switch to 4 cameras, it may be that either Microsoft is going to release a new reference design featuring 4 tracking cameras, or that HP is going to its own route because WMR has died. Microsoft SharePoint Spaces to launch in the first half of 2020. This is something worth discovering. Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 17, 2019

I’m trying to solve this issue appealing to Google, but more than ever consider donating money on Patreon to sustain this blog , that takes me a lot of time and various expenses, to keep it alive. Microsoft is working on addressing privacy concerns of the AR Cloud. Does Magic Leap want to create a big reality show?

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