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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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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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap 2 has been teased. Magic Leap is back: CEO Peggy Johnson has just unveiled in a post on the company blog the Magic Leap 2 , the new version of the AR glasses from the company in Florida. Other relevant news. On the other side, you know, Facebook….

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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. Magic Leap glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 18, 2018

“VIRTUAL REALITY: Light, Color, & the Human Visual System” by Don Greenberg. We all want a virtual reality that appears as if it were real and for this, we want more resolution and FOV in our virtual reality headsets. Where we speak about virtual reality, we immediately think about visuals.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Immersive technology has been around for longer than most people realise, and the recent market growth has led to new opportunities to work in virtual reality (VR). Grandview Research believes that the VR market will grow at a rate of 2.16% until 2027, and the extended reality (XR) market could soon be worth billions.

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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. When you are in virtual reality, you see the objects closer than they actually are. Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2023

I’m also working on a cool tech prototype and I will share it with you very soon in the next few days on this blog. More info Meta may partner soon with Magic Leap The Financial Times this week reported a very unexpected piece of news: Meta may be working on a partnership with Magic Leap for the production of AR glasses.

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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 since virtual reality is a rather new topic, and UE4 already supports VR, this means that all these studios could advance together in creating a VR toolset for their future games. According to a blog post on the company’s website, Linden Labs has already been sold to an investment group led by Randy Waterfield and Brad Oberwager.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Dispelling Common VR Myths and Misconceptions Despite the relatively widespread acceptance and use of virtual reality technology, there are still some myths and misconceptions that surround it. The Park Playground’s Vindevogel adds that virtual reality will increasingly grow to become a part of our daily lives. “

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ARPost

APRIL 12, 2021

They are the leading voices growing awareness and shaping the evolution of virtual reality. The LA-based startup brings together blogs, videos, and a weekly podcast. Willmot’s videos explore the intersections of virtual reality, perceived reality, and society. Virtual Reality Oasis (YouTuber) #36.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

More info (PSVR 2 unveiled) More info (Official blog post on PSVR 2 headset). Magic Leap 2 has inside-out tracked controllers. During a presentation, Magic Leap has unveiled some more features about its headset and controllers. More info (Magic Leap presentation) More info (Close up of the controllers).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2022

Image by Magic Leap). First previews show Magic Leap 2 qualities. This week some selected journalists from popular online magazines like CNET and The Verge have been able to have a preview of the upcoming Magic Leap 2 glasses. Other relevant news. And their feedback has been quite positive. Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 31, 2022

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap 2 to feature dynamic dimming. At Photonics West, Magic Leap’s VP of Optical Engineering Kevin Curtis has revealed some new interesting details on the upcoming Magic Leap 2. To be exact, the eye box is twice as large as the one in Magic Leap One.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2022

There I have tried some interesting devices like Weart haptic gloves, OWO haptic suit, but especially the Magic Leap 2, which I found to be a very well-made piece of hardware! More info (Galea on Road To VR) More info (Galea on my blog The Ghost Howls). News worth a mention. Image from OpenBCI). OpenBCI and Varjo announce Galea.

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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

JUNE 23, 2019

Stay tuned on my blog for updates about this new adventure of mine. This is very intriguing: Oculus has just finished announcing its full line of first generation Virtual Reality headsets (Go, Rift, Quest) and now it has to start talking about its next generation. Magic Leap is suing nReal. Top news of the week.

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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.” Current key players in the field are Microsoft, Magic Leap, and Meta.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 15, 2018

Another year has passed by and this little place on the web around Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Startup and stuff is now 2 years old! It has been a dream of mine for at least five years… and now it has become reality, also thanks to the kind help of my Chinese assistant Miss S; I got to know tons of cool people.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

I think this new pricing strategy is very important: $299 has historically been considered as the golden price to start getting mainstream adoption , and Facebook proposing this in the months that lead to the Christmas Holidays may cause a big spike in sales of virtual reality headsets. Image by Magic Leap).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2024

In the video, he shows various inventions of Disney Research and one of them is a sort of magic floorpad that acts as an omnidirectional treadmill that can also be used for Virtual Reality. It’s kinda cool stuff, even if I’m pretty sure it will never be released to the general public as a product.

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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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VeeR VR

JANUARY 14, 2018

As virtual reality is still very much new for many people, you probably have a lot of questions about it. Breaking into the Field Read Tee Jia Hen 's answer to What are the skills needed to learn virtual reality and what are the resources to learn virtual reality?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 5, 2020

This is the first roundup of news of this new year, and to signal a change with the past, I’ve changed the name from “VR Week Peek” to “XR Week Peek”, because, hey, I like talking about all immersive technologies and not only Virtual Reality. It’s a new year, and I need your support more than ever to keep this blog running.

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AllThingsVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Weekly Funding Roundup: Tipit raises $2.5M, Zappar Gets $3.75M & Magic Leap Acquires Dacuda 3D Tech 1) Tipit is a small augmented reality startup looking to bring these AR feature sets to a more diverse set of applications through its own body/face/object-tracking SDK. The company is announcing today that it has closed a $2.5

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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

APRIL 17, 2023

This is because Valve has a lot of expertise in VR devices and has faith in the medium of VR and VR games” There is a lot of talk about a possible upcoming standalone headset by Valve , that evolves the Steamdeck design into a virtual reality helmet. They have provided many hints, but never explicitly talked about it.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Next week, the Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Association (VRARA) will host over 100 speakers from various extended reality (XR) firms to explore new immersive technology innovations and opportunities to match a diverse and emerging industry demand.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 17, 2019

Some names that have caught my attention have been: The Collider (that has been highly appreciated at Tribeca) Game of Thrones: The Dead Must Die (GOT experience on Magic Leap) Buddy VR (winner of a prize at Venice Film Festival) Ello Echo Doctor Who: The Runaway Spheres (one of the first VR movies to be sold for millions of dollars).

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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. Magic Leap, Niantic, etc…) and by two big countries (USA and China). Facebook Reality Labs continues working on cool stuff related to AR and VR. Some XR fun.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 8, 2023

While the concept of phone holders is dead for good in VR, there are a few companies that are trying to bring it to augmented reality, exploiting also the fact that true AR headsets (like Magic Leap 2 ) are very expensive and cost thousands of euros. I will leave you the link to do that below.

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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.

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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. As a medium for content, learning and interactivity, Virtual Reality has been proven to produce empathy. Smart Cities, VR and Sustainability.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2022

One of the samples is a giraffe in the hands, which clearly recalls the elephant in the hands of Magic Leap. Like last week, also this week in this final paragraph I won’t ask you to donate for my blog, but to the poor people that are facing the consequences of the war. But this time, it’s for real. Learn more. Some XR fun.

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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! More info (HoloLens 2 news) More info (Firefox Reality releases on HoloLens).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

More info (Sony’s MicroOLED displays) More info (ZEISS Prescription inserts) More info (Monarch: Legacy Of Monsters) Magic Leap 1 to be discontinued soon Magic Leap 1, the device of the hype and the fall of Magic Leap, is going to be discontinued soon. It’s the end of an era. Happy Birthday, Tom!

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