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Spatial Beats: Facebook, Nreal & More Metaverse Hype

AR Insider

In an unhinged rant worthy of Rudy Guiliani, Cramer explained the metaverse is made by Unity, before correcting himself and crediting Nvidia instead. If you really want to understand the putative metaverse, listen to this conversation with Viacom/CBS futurist Ted Schilowitz and Magic Leap founder Rony Abovitz.

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Magic Leap’s John Gaeta talks about the future of cinema, storytelling and mixed reality

The Ghost Howls

He has joined Rony Abovitz at Magic Leap and now he’s there, trying to build the MagicVerse as the SVP of Creative Strategy of the Florida company. Douglas was not only focused on movies but on immersive media, in creating the future of cinema and he invented a lot in this sense (like the Imax format).

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The XR Week Peek (2021.03.16): HTC launches Tracker 3.0, Facebook has 10,000 people working on XR, and more!

The Ghost Howls

This is an enormous number: this means that now 15–20% of the total Facebook workforce is on immersive technologies, even if XR is currently a very little revenue stream for the social media giant. My friend Giambattista De Giorgis has published a book about learning how to develop AR/VR applications in Unity.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.06.01): HP Reverb G2 launched, Qualcomm goes bullish on 5G and Wi-fi 6 and more!

The Ghost Howls

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.

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SXSW Spanning Realities With Music (Panel: Amy LaMeyer, Tony Parisi, Rebecca Barkin, Eric Wagliardo)

The AR Show

Here’s a bit from the show guide: From Childish Gambino’s augmented reality dancing to Marshmello’s Fortnite concert in virtual reality to the mixed reality experience of Tonandi, immersive and spatial computing is closing the gap between the real and the virtual when it comes to music and art.

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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

Officially he is a VR angel investor, but he is much more than this: he is also an immersive technologies enthusiast and an influencer that can really foster healthy debates about the main questions that we all have around these technologies. The original idea of Virtualitics is to immerse yourself within the data. Magic Leap glasses.

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XR Celebrates Industry Revival at AWE USA 2023

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Numerous executives and officials have rallied the global tech community to sustain the momentum of a renaissance of immersive technologies. ” However, AI was a “good thing for XR and accelerates XR,” he added, noting examples of how AI could instantly generate content across immersive technologies.