The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2018

It started with big data , and I started blogging about that at the end of 2015 basically because I couldn’t find anyone to talk about it with (laughs). In early 2016, I run into a paper from a professor at Caltech that was talking about data visualization in virtual reality and that blew my mind.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

As usual, Jensen introduced it saying that it was the biggest generational leap ever released by the company (he always says so) The first GPU released of the Hopper family will be the H100 , targeted at data centers, that features impressive performances on AI tasks. It can train a model 6–7x faster than the previous data center GPU.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

.” They partnered with Visyon , a Barcelona-based practical immersive technology company, to provide a widespread selection of technical experiences in VR from Oculus and Vive, and AR through Magic Leap, HoloLens, and Moverio glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

Stay tuned on my blog for updates about this new adventure of mine. Magic Leap is suing nReal. Magic Leap has sued Chi Xu, the founder of nReal. According to Magic Leap, the company has been able to create these intriguing devices so fast only because Chi Xu was a former Magic Leap employee.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 29, 2023

Conversely, artificial intelligence backs the creation of technological advancements that can analyse, respond, and create based on data sources. Companies such as Varjo, Magic Leap, Meta, Pico, and HTC VIVE rely on AI to assist in foveated rendering.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

This week there’s been a new AMA from Andrew Bosworth (I guess AMA now stands for Andrew’s Massive Answers), this time together with her data majesty Mark Zuckerberg. A decent budget for Microsoft and Facebook… but something impossible for companies like HTC or Magic Leap (do you remember when we all thought that $2.5B

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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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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

More info (Announcement link) More info (News on my blog) More info (Error in one of the screenshots). Magic Leap plans dev days and dev programs. We all know that Magic Leap is in big trouble, and it seems that one of the paths it is trying to follow to exit the quicksands is trying to get more developers onboard.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 19, 2023

Conversely, artificial intelligence backs the creation of technological advancements that can analyse, respond, and create based on data sources. Companies such as Varjo, Magic Leap, Meta, Pico, and HTC VIVE rely on AI to assist in foveated rendering.

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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. Facebook already had full control of my Oculus and Facebook accounts, so it had already my XR data. Sideloading will still be permitted in all cases because it is an Android feature.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

More info (PSVR 2 unveiled) More info (Official blog post on PSVR 2 headset). An analysis of the job postings of Meta shows that the company is trying to add cellular data to its headsets. Magic Leap 2 has inside-out tracked controllers. More info (Magic Leap presentation) More info (Close up of the controllers).

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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! More info (Statistics by Superdata) More info (Statistics by AR Insider) More info (Statistics on all headsets by AR Insider) More info (Palmer Luckey disagreeing on the data). We have new developments on the Magic Leap vs nReal lawsuit.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2023

It is a tradition of this blog to have a long roundup of the best XR news from CES every year. Since this is a concept, we have no data about the price and expected release date. The data is transmitted wirelessly via a belt-worn module using Wi-Fi 6E technology to a nearby computer. Could I make an exception for this year?

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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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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! When I tried the Looxid Labs add-on for the Vive I’ve found it interesting, but its data were pretty noisy, and some community members defined it as “another random numbers generator”.

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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. Moreover, they can leverage AI to come up with more accurate results.

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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. Absolutely Not.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

You can read from the blog post all the UX choices they took to make the subtitles interface to appear in a way that is unobtrusive and comfortable for the eyes. New statistics data on VR from Steam, SuperData, and DigiCapital. This week, we had a bunch of new analytics data on the VR market.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

More info (Ready At Dawn shuts down Echo VR) More info (Meta CTO on Echo VR shutdown decision) More info (John Carmack comments the news) More info (An editorial from a Echo VR community manager) Meta’s financials are improving, but at what cost… Meta has released its financial data for its past quarters and the situation is slowly getting better.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Zuckerberg has been under fire for many months as has Facebook about the data mining activities of the company, and to some extent the new branding and launch of Meta was seen as shadowing the allegations the company is currently facing in the courts. VR training is one of the standout examples and has many benefits.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 29, 2018

For sure this is the case of Rob Farquarson-Cole , that you surely know because he comments a lot on this and other VR blogs under the nickname “R FC” He’s not only a VR enthusiast but a professional Industrial Designer that works on “Exploration of Immersive Computing” at Proof Research and Development in London, UK.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2019

Hello Charlie and welcome to my blog! The catchphrase of the book is “How the world will be painted with data” So, what can we expect from the future of AR in the short, medium and long term? Buildings, streets, and business will all have a geolocated data layer that can be revealed by mobile AR. What kind of data?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2022

Some people also suspected that by abandoning the Facebook login, it will be less easy also to subsidize the price of the headset with the data, but honestly, I don’t think that there won’t be data harvesting on Meta accounts. Disclaimer: DeoVR is one of the Patrons of this blog). Learn more. Donate for good.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

It is the console business model: selling the hardware undercost so that subsidize it with exclusive software, and your data in this case. You’re paying only $299 because you are not paying only with your money, but also with the data that Facebook will harvest from you to propose to you better ads. Accessories.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2024

I would be curious to hear the opinions of other creators, so if you have any data to share about your success on PSVR2 please reach out to me and let me know. If an indie studio says that it was able to sell 10K units of its game in a month on PSVR 2, it means that as a platform it is not that bad.

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EON Reality

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Of course, we have the brains and the ingénues at Magic Leap to thank for bringing the very idea of ‘Spatial Computing’ to top of mind as a key concept in global innovation. The values of sustainable development and pro-human innovation are central to the user-centric, data-powered approach to advancing VR and AR technology.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 5, 2021

The most interesting insight of the week comes from analyst Mark Mahaney, that, among other things has analyzed Facebook’s Virtual Reality business, and has reported very interesting data. and also why the $2+B investment in Magic Leap was not enough to bring it to success. People that donate to this blog to support it are!!

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Robert Scoble

JUNE 28, 2022

He played a key role in the early development of Magic Leap, an augmented reality company that just won best of show at the industry’s biggest gathering, AWE (for Augmented World Expo). In Giant AI’s case it moves the hands through these radiance fields, which are unlike any 3D data structure we’ve ever seen before.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

These are all great news for the ecosystem, but someone in the communities pointed out that we should beware of companies claiming vague data about sales without absolute numbers (for instance, it may also be that previous headsets sold worse than we thought). It’s nice to see how Facebook is updating the Quest software constantly.

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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. Does Magic Leap want to create a big reality show? Top news of the week. Image by E3).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

Also because you have to consider that with 170M users using this camera-based app, it won’t be that difficult for Snap to gather data to build the AR Cloud. In a blog post, Unity has detailed its MARS solution, that lets you create easily augmented reality experiences , even with little coding knowledge. Keep an eye on Snap.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

All these data together make me a bit skeptical about the capabilities of this company: developing such kind of a high-quality headset requires a lot of expertise, while the company is very small and features no known expert in the field. Some years ago, she performed in The Life, a Mixed Reality art piece inside the Magic Leap One.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Thus Google controlled almost the entire stack that the client web software used — right down to the hardware in the data centers. As platforms for LBAR is conceptually better Hololens or Magic Leap? Magic Leap is one of the most popular AR glasses in this moment(Image by Magic Leap).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 5, 2020

It is possible to read very interesting data on AR/VR from the latest SuperData report on Gaming. VRKiwi (that pays for posts on this blog) is offering various free keys for the artistic relaxing game Art Pulse , that I describe enthusiastically in this post. The acquisition of Ctrl+Labs by Facebook may be important in this sense.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2019

It is an augmented reality glass that is being developed in China by a former Magic Leap engineer. I have also reviewed it on my blog , highlighting how the idea is interesting, even if it needs some refinements. Atraxa has claimed that its solutions are already used in headsets distributed in the market (uhm… Magic Leap?)

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Whenever someone contacts me for my blog promising some interviews about the metaverse, I roll my eyes at 360°. I just know about Neal Stephenson because he was “Chief Futurist Wizard” at Magic Leap and that the company with him as a Wizard has gone close to bankruptcy (probably he made the wrong spell as a wizard).

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

VR can create experiences which provide new and seasoned professionals with fresh insight, data, and guidance. Additionally, immersive hardware experts like Magic Leap , Nreal, and others are designing enterprise solutions. Enhanced Productivity and Business Outcomes.

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