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Charlie Fink on his new book Convergence and the future of XR

The Ghost Howls

Charlie is also a book author and after the success of his previous book Metaverse , now he’s launching his new book, “Convergence” , that is all about the present and the future of augmented reality. I’ve not been able to read the book yet (I’m preparing for the VEC !),

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Exposing Homelessness Through Eviction With ‘These Sleepless Nights’ Mixed Reality Mini-Doc

VRScout

The Magic Leap-powered AR exhibit premiers at the Venice Film Festival. In the United States alone, it is estimated that approximately 553,000 Americans were experiencing homelessness on a single night in 2018, this according to data accumulated by a Point-in-Time (PIT) count , also known as a “street counts” or “homeless counts”.

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Interview to Eduardo Siman: virtual reality makes data visualization fun, we should all work together to make AR and VR to succeed

The Ghost Howls

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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Time for Enterprise to Enter the Magicverse, with Magic Leap's Brian Kane

XR for Business Podcast

Until recently, Brian Kane has been highlighting more experiential demos - like one that puts a porthole to the ocean in your living room - to highlight the power of the Magic Leap, and of spatial computing in general. Magic Leap is one of these Magic Leap devices, you put it on, and your whole world is spatial computing.

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Spatial Beats: Oculus, Google & Snap

AR Insider

Seems like they’re zeroing in on Maps as the sweet spot for XR and tossing everything else, like their Daydream headset, their investment in Magic Leap, Poly, and finally Tilt Brush, overboard. HaptX Ready To Ship Enterprise Data Gloves. See his books here. What is up with Google and XR? And you don’t need a headset.

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Spatial Beats: Oculus, Snapchat and new XR Funding

AR Insider

A Rec Room employee, Shawn Whiting, used the free social game’s download data to project Quest 2 sales could be as high as 3M since its October 2020 launch. Immerse 3D is available for smartphones, HoloLens, and Magic Leap. See his books here. The company brought it $911.3M Jadu launched the Curse of Calypso.

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All the best AR/VR news from CES 2023

The Ghost Howls

Since this is a concept, we have no data about the price and expected release date. Of course, they are not meant for XR playing, but for e-book reading. The idea is to let people read books when lying down on a bed without having to keep a tablet or e-book reader in their hands. It is going to be released this year.

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