Road to VR

MAY 29, 2020

Magic Leap pivoted to the enterprise space recently after an extended lukewarm reception by consumers for its $2,300 AR headset. Abovitz released a statement on the Magic Leap blog explaining the move, saying that a change in his role was “a natural next step” to bringing about the next phase of the company.

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VRScout

APRIL 10, 2018

If you’re looking to add accurate hand-tracking technology to your VR or AR experience, there are few options outside Leap Motion technology. In whole it has fewer parts and preserves most of our natural field of view,” the blog post continues. “We ended up with something roughly the size of a virtual reality headset.

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Road to VR

MAY 31, 2019

Leap Motion, the pioneer in optical hand-tracking, has been acquired by Ultrahaptics, the enterprise-focused immersive haptics company. According to the Wall Street Journal , Ultrahaptics reportedly acquired Leap Motion for approximately $30 million. At the time of this writing, a Leap Motion tracker can be purchased for under $80 new.

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VRScout

APRIL 26, 2018

With Leap Motion’s Project North Star set to hit the streets in the coming months, the American-based hand-tracking depth sensor manufacturer has officially begun teasing the various ambitious design concepts made possible by the open source AR development kit. A foldaway user interface could bring new levels of productivity to AR workspaces.

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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. Funny link. Donate for good.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Magic Leap recently announced some new programs that aim to get developers creating for the its AR headset, Magic Leap 1. The company additionally released dates for its developer conference, LEAP Developer Days, which will be held in May at Magic Leap’s headquarters in Florida.

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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. But while we were great on the technical side, we weren’t good at doing business and marketing (I only started my blog in summer 2016 ), so in 2017 we closed the curtain on our crazy adventure.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Leap Motion, the optical hand-tracking firm, was acquired by Bristol, UK-based haptics company Ultrahaptics earlier this year. Before the acquisition of Leap Motion and the subsequent rebranding, Ultrahaptics was best known for its mid-air haptic technology which uses ultrasound to project tactile sensations onto users’ hands.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Mozilla has just released an early developer preview of a web browser for the Magic Leap One AR headset. Magic Leap One already boasts its own native browser called Helio, which serves up both the 2D and 3D web. Magic Leap bills Helio as “the web as it should be: liberated from the confines of flat browsers.”

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MAY 22, 2023

Meta is in talks with Magic Leap over a potential "multiyear agreement", the Financial Times reports. The original Magic Leap One launched in 2018 as the first AR headset available to consumers, priced at $2300. That IP could include some of the company's augmented reality (AR) waveguide patents.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Playing in the same universe, strangelets (cute alien creatures) find themselves “trapped in pockets between dimensions,” the studio writes in a Magic Leap blog post. SEE ALSO Magic Leap Releases Toolkit With Pre-built Components for Easier AR Development.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

And if you need some pieces of advice regarding how to professionally survive this quarantine, I have written a blog post on the topic you can read. Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap is on sale. Also because the brand “Magic Leap” is not as shiny as before , when we were all expecting great things from it.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

The Florida-based Magic Leap has raised $1.9 Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz revealed in an interview last night at the Code Media conference that the recently unveiled Magic Leap One headset will be have an application for watching basketball. The app is being produced through a partnership with Magic Leap, Turner and the NBA.

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Next Reality AR

MARCH 19, 2018

Following the surprise release of Magic Leap's SDK on Monday, March 19, Unity, Unreal Engine, and Mozilla followed up by announcing official partnerships with the company. "We We are proud to partner with Magic Leap to integrate the Magic Leap platform with Unity," Unity announced on its official blog.

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VRScout

JULY 16, 2018

Leap Motion dreams big with an ambitious new project that could open ‘alternative dimensions of reality, layered over the physical world.’. As well as transforming our environments, Mirrorworlds can also transform the physical objects within it,” states Leap Motion’s VP of Design, Keiichi Matsuda, in an official company blog post. “We

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Next Reality AR

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Magic Leap continues to launch new AR apps on its fledging app store before the door closes on 2018, and this time the app is a sequel from a veteran VR developer and early Magic Leap development partner.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

leaps onto VR headsets today, available on Quest, PSVR 2 and PC VR for $19.99. will see you play as a monkey grabbing onto pipes, handles, tree brances and more as you fling and leap around the open sky. In an interview on Meta Quest blog , Agera Games says there's still "more content to come" for Toss! post-launch as well.

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Next Reality AR

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Ten days after Magic Leap declared that it had selected the winners of its Independent Creators Program, the company has officially released an almost full list of grant recipients. Grant recipient Resolution Games has already ported Angry Birds to Magic Leap One. We're looking forward to seeing what the coming months.

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Next Reality AR

MARCH 19, 2019

Visitors to the Unity booth at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco will get a special augmented reality treat courtesy of Magic Leap and Weta Workshop.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Born out of the founder’s lifetime love affair with sci-fi, surrealism, and a fortuitous road trip across the US, the story of Magic Leap’s founding reads like a beat generation novel about discovering magic in ordinary experiences. image courtesy Magic Leap. image courtesy Magic Leap. to Stryker for $1.65

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Road to VR

JUNE 11, 2018

Leap Motion builds the leading markerless hand-tracking technology, and today the company revealed a update which they claim brings major improvements “across the board.” Image courtesy Leap Motion. The company details the developer-level changes on their blog here. Updated Tracking.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 5, 2017

Magic Leap is a mystery. Now founder and CEO Rony Abovitz offers a bit more in his recent blog post entitled Creativity Matters , where he speaks about some of the changes coming to the company in 2017, and for what it’s worth, says it’ll be “a big year for Magic Leap.” Probably several.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2017

A recent report from Tom’s Hardware indicates Magic Leap is acquiring the 3D scanning assets of Dacuda — a company known historically for creating pocket scanners and recently for its 3D SLAM technologies. Tagged with: acquisition , Dacuda , Magic Leap , report , slam , tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

You can finally buy the Leap Motion v2 accessory. The time for us XR developers to buy a Leap Motion 2 has finally come. Leap Motion 1 has been used by almost every developer and researcher , both in VR and not. Yes, the price is higher than the cheap Leap Motion 1, but this is also a far better device. Funny link.

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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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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2018

Vive Pro date and price, Magic Leap announcements, Nvidia’s real-time ray-tracing, and Budget Cuts resurfaces. Magic Leap announcements. image courtesy Magic Leap. Magic Leap has launched the SDK for the device’s Lumin OS , with support for Unity and Unreal engines. Image courtesy HTC.

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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. 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.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2018

At GDC 2018 Magic Leap has announced the release of the Lumin SDK , that is the tools that we should use to develop for this AR glass. I started toying around with it , because I want to review it on this blog next week (stay tuned for updates… maybe subscribing to my newsletter using the hello bar above!)

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Road to VR

AUGUST 27, 2018

While Palmer Luckey provided his own Magic Leap One headset to iFixit for their tear down, the founder of Oculus certainly had his chance for a proper review before the spudgers and screwdrivers came out, and he isn’t pulling any punches either. image courtesy Magic Leap. Captured by Road to VR, image courtesy Magic Leap.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 31, 2016

Leap Motion has announced it’s to early access to the beta of its Interaction Engine , a set of systems designed to help developers implement compelling, realistic and hopefully frustration-free input with just their hands. It also uses a secondary real-time physics representation of the hands, opening up more subtle interactions.”

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 7, 2016

The new Leap Motion Mobile Platform consists of hardware and software optimised for VR and AR hand tracking on mobile devices. Building on the success of the original Leap Motion device, the brand new hardware aims to be tightly integrated into future mobile VR headsets.

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AllThingsVR

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Leap Motion’s ‘Interaction Engine’ Unlocks More Natural Human Input for VR Leap Motion’s release of Interaction Engine’s Beta completes another piece of the peripheral-free VR input puzzle that the company has dedicated itself to over the last couple of years. Read more here.

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DECEMBER 14, 2016

Update: We received the following statement from Magic Leap about the departure: “Andy Fouche will no longer serve as VP of Public Relations for Magic Leap, Inc. As we sprint full steam ahead toward the launch of Magic Leap One, we are excited to have Brenda Freeman on board as our Chief Marketing Officer.

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Next Reality AR

APRIL 3, 2018

All those early prototype images Magic Leap is so fond of showing off are great, but they rank a far second when compared to a new set of images just revealed by Microsoft in relation to the HoloLens. Accompanying the images are direct accounts from the team who worked on the device beginning in Sept.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

In an official Oculus blog post , the company states that while the popular studio will be joining the Oculus Studios team, it will remain independent of Facebook in terms of content development. The studio will join Oculus Studios, but continue operating independently. .

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AllThingsVR

AUGUST 24, 2016

Leap Motion shows off Interaction Engine for their VR hand-tracking tech VR makes the most sense when you don’t have to learn the controls and stuff just works. In a blog post, the company calls the engine “a layer that exists between the Unity game engine and real-world hand physics.”

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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. The post Google Acquires MicroLED Startup Raxium to Bolster AR Ambitions appeared first on Road to VR.

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