The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2022

Magic Leap reveals prices and availability of ML 2. Finally, Magic Leap has revealed information about the price and availability of Magic Leap 2. These are all right considerations, but it is also true that Magic Leap has much better visuals. Top news of the week.

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Road to VR

MARCH 22, 2018

At a sponsored GDC 2018 session, the still mysterious augmented reality company Magic Leap has revealed how their prototype hardware has evolved from 2014 to present day. SEE ALSO Magic Leap Launches Developer SDK, Confirms Eye-tracking, Room-scanning, and More. Eye tracking. Photo: Road to VR.

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2018

Today Magic Leap has launched the Lumin SDK, the toolkit which allows developers to build AR experiences for Lumin OS, the operating system that powers the Magic Leap One headset. Eye tracking. Gesture and hand tracking. 6DOF hand controller (Totem) tracking. Room scanning and meshing.

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VRScout

APRIL 20, 2023

Earlier this year we reported on the Audi activesphere , a unique concept vehicle featuring a virtual user interface powered by augmented reality (AR) technology. Credit: Magic Leap The Audi activesphere does away with conventional button and touchscreen controls in favor of a virtual interface accessible using AR glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

I thought it would have taken me a lot before I would be able to try the Magic Leap One , but luckily this has not been the case. At a certain point, I asked him: “oh, you said me that you have tried Magic Leap… how is it?” The three component of the Magic Leap One. I was amazed.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Magic Leap today revealed a collaborative AR project with Icelandic band Sigur Rós, a musical experience which fills the player’s surroundings with ethereal visuals and an interactive soundscape. Image courtesy Pitchfork, Magic Leap. When it’s over, I ask if I can go again. They look silly.

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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 sales never skyrocketed and now Magic Leap is in desperate need of cash , after many layoffs, disappointing sales, and having put its IP as collaterals to a bank.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap looks for a $100-million deal to save itself. Some reports by Business Insider and The Information talk about the current situation of Magic Leap, that seems always more complicated. More info (Magic Leap trying to raise $100M) More info (Magic Leap timing for the future).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 1, 2022

AR tech firm Magic Leap is set to launch in 19 countries across the world, Lisa Watts, Vice President of Product Marketing and Developer Programs for Magic Leap announced at the Immerse Global Summit (IGS) 2022 Europe on Madeira Island, Portugal. Magic Leap 2 stands on the shoulders of giants and the force.

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ARPost

JUNE 3, 2022

AWE day two started off with back-to-back keynotes from mixed reality display maker Magic Leap and AR commerce solution Avataar. A Look at the Magic Leap 2. Magic Leap’s Head of Product Management, Jade Meskill, presented “Magic Leap 2 and the Augmented Enterprise.”

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VRScout

MARCH 25, 2022

The latest Spectacles design was the first to include built-in AR (augmented reality) functionality, allowing the wearer to interact with existing Snapchat AR Lenses straight from the glasses in real-time. Another Lens had me interacting with an AR art project using the device’s built-in hand-tracking capabilities.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Hand Tracking. The big news is, the Quest is getting full hand tracking support. There will always be a place for hand-controllers, especially in games,” he says. Optimistically, he says, “hand-tracking will allow for much more accessible and intuitive experiences, which can help broaden the reach of VR.”.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2020

There are some that I miss experiencing, and one of my biggest regrets of the past was that I had never been able to try the now-defunct Meta 2 augmented reality glasses. Meta 2 hands-on. Meta 2 hands-on. It is decent for a devkit, but not comparable at all with today’s standards of Magic leap One and HoloLens 2.

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ARPost

APRIL 13, 2020

The Mixed and Augmented Reality Studio. One of the most exciting developments for 2020 is the arrival of Unity’s Mixed and Augmented Reality Studio (MARS),” said Gauthier. See Also: VR Technology and Hand Tracking in VIVE’s Second Developer Talk. Unity Reflect.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Vive Flow is a 6DOF headset that works with your Android phone as a 3DOF controller (hands tracking is coming in the future). Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap 2 has been teased. The headset looks like an improved Magic Leap 1, lighted, slimmer and more elegant, and with a single cable on the back.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Two days ago, I’ve given you my predictions for virtual reality in 2021 (read it, in case you missed it). Now it’s time to make some forecasts about its companion technology, that is augmented reality! This commercial video about Google Glasses led me to immersive realities. Magic Leap will meet its fate.

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ARPost

JUNE 8, 2022

Zappar was also nominated in the Best Developer Tool category for the ZapWorks SDK , and in the Best Head-Worn Device category for the new-and-improved ZapBox – a mobile phone adapter that includes targets and two hand-tracking controller wands. Gauld returned to the stage with the Best Creator Tool trophy still in hand.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Shrinking the HoloLens 2 into something more akin to glasses than a headset would put it in line with various other sleek AR devices, such as the Magic Leap One Creator Edition , along with newly revealed headsets like the Vuzix Blade AR glasses and NReal AR glasses. One of the biggest issues users had was with the devices size.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

It has hand tracking, and the Pro model also has eye tracking, like Apple’s device. Maybe Magic Leap, before people got to know that the device was sort of a HoloLens 1+, had such attention to it. Quest 3 is better for gaming and has precision controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

Road To VR reported about Manus VR’s new Quantum Metagloves with very precise hand tracking for enterprise use (cost: $9000). Magic Leap 2 bridges AR and VR. The interest in Magic Leap 2 is growing. But they are just tidbits of information, and nothing more. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

Peggy Johnson is the new CEO of Magic Leap. Magic Leap has finally a new CEO: Peggy Johnson. Johnson will have the not easy task of deciding a clear route for Magic Leap, making the company become profitable in the enterprise market after so many failures in the consumer one. News worth a mention.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

CES 2017, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas last week, was loaded with augmented reality smartglasses, which layer digital animations and information on top of the real world. Mainstream venture capitalists pumped up startups in virtual and augmented reality in the third quarter, with a record $2.3 Ellsworth: Right.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 14, 2019

According to the demo video (linked below), the unnamed “R&D prototype” looks to include both 6DOF head-tracking as well as hand-tracking, and appear to be a standalone unit similar to Microsoft HoloLens.

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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. Since MRTK was used especially for AR applications, it is natural that these three giants of augmented reality are interested in keeping it alive.

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CraneMorley

JUNE 27, 2023

As of today, some of the key players in tech have or are in the development stage of their mixed reality headsets. Current key players in the field are Microsoft, Magic Leap, and Meta. Some of these headsets may fall with the realm of extended reality but they are all focused on immersive and engaging experiences for users.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Other devices from Magic Leap and Microsoft’s HoloLens headsets offer deeper levels of immersion. Developers can gain access to its deep AR, perception, hand-tracking, 3D reconstruction, and other technologies. These range from the Lenovo A3 [and Magic Leap 2].

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

From that day, many people have started asking me more about this augmented reality device, so I understood it was time for one of my big reviews! is the second iteration of the Realmax augmented reality glasses (the first one was the Realmax 100). Are you ready to discover more about Realmax Qian? RealMax Qian.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2022

First of all, he got some CAD files about it, and from those, it is possible to see that the device includes two front tracking cameras, one RGB camera to colorize the passthrough of the tracking cameras and a depth sensor that may help with scene understanding and hands tracking. News worth a mention.

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Peter Graham

JANUARY 22, 2020

The was a lot going at CES 2020 this month when it came to virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) technologies, with Spatial ‘s collaboration tool of particular note. While available on the HoloLens store and Magic Leap World, Spatial has yet to officially launch.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

While virtual and augmented reality headsets have grown relatively commonplace in today’s landscape, mixed reality is an area that’s only just beginning to flourish. In fact, immersive headsets are becoming a commonplace investment for brands in the health, manufacturing, and construction sectors.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 6, 2023

Chinese electronics manufacturer Xiaomi has debuted its Wireless AR Glass Discovery Edition, leading to the company’s first-ever wireless augmented reality (AR) smart glasses. With Qualcomm’s industry-leading Snapdragon Spaces platform , Xiaomi can also develop programmes on OpenXR and Microsoft’s MRTK toolkit.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

Rony Abovitz steps down from Magic Leap CEO. This was a very good thing and attracted many people to Magic Leap. I hope that Magic Leap will benefit from it and will recover pretty soon. Road To VR) More info (Qualcomm’s Wi-fi 6 chips?—?Upload Upload VR). In the end, it has happened. Snapdragon 845 RAM ?—?6GB

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

The word “AR” changes everything since Oculus must now s hift also towards augmented reality. There’s only one exception to the above rule and it is augmented reality. MR & hand tracking? I see Oculus showcasing native hand tracking on PC, but still not releasing it.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

The next step will be continuing to refine UX and inputs, like its new hand tracking. And with each step, we are getting to a more immersive and natural experience… Hand tracking is great, it doesn’t require controllers. Today, Spark AR is the largest augmented reality platform for the phone.

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Upload VR

JUNE 6, 2023

It worked so well that I question how transparent optics, like those in use by HoloLens 2 or Magic Leap 2, will ever hope to match Apple's version of passthrough augmented reality in a VR headset. It's what made Apple's hand tracking feel like it "just works" and Meta's, well, doesn't.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 23, 2023

While virtual and augmented reality headsets have grown relatively commonplace in today’s landscape, mixed reality is an area that’s only just beginning to flourish. 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.

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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. Cubism is a great case study for hand tracking UX. Microsoft signs a $22B deal with the US Army. I really hope that this is going to happen.

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