TechCrunch VR

DECEMBER 8, 2020

When Chi Xu left Magic Leap and returned to China, he had big ambitions. He believed China would have its own augmented and virtual reality giants, just as how the domestic smartphone industry birthed global leaders like Huawei, Oppo and Xiaomi that rival Apple today. Magic Leap sucked all the air out of the room.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

HP and Microsoft have a long track in offering enterprise hardware, so this headset may battle HTC on his own land (B2B). 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.

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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. Microsoft SharePoint Spaces to launch in the first half of 2020. Top news of the week.

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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. Read about Microsoft’s Ignite conference.

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Robert Scoble

MARCH 4, 2019

Thought I’d give you a little detail behind what brought 20 people together, and offer the community to come together to define, for Wikipedia, what Spatial Computing is (Magic Leap has been popularizing the term, but we think it is bigger than just their form of augmented reality glasses).

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Charlie Fink is a Forbes columnist and an author of two AR-enabled books – Charlie Fink’s Metaverse: A Guide to VR and AR, and Convergence: How the World Will Be Painted with Data. First of all I want to congratulate you on the launch of your new book Convergence, an AR-enabled book about AR.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Charlie Fink is a Forbes columnist and an author of two AR-enabled books – Charlie Fink’s Metaverse: A Guide to VR and AR, and Convergence: How the World Will Be Painted with Data. First of all I want to congratulate you on the launch of your new book Convergence, an AR-enabled book about AR.

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Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

It isn’t alone, we know of many companies that are spending billions on same, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sony, Magic Leap, Huawei, and others. Note that I’m not talking about the confusion that comes from what the industry is struggling to call next-generation augmented reality.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

By the time Howard Rheingold’s “Virtual Reality” was published in 1991, the Sensorama was already a “slowly deteriorating” relic stashed away in a cabana next the pool at its inventor’s West Los Angeles home. The year the book was published, Sega announced a VR peripheral for the Genesis.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

He has a very interesting working story, having worked for great companies like Microsoft and Fast Company. He has also recently written together with Irena Cronin “The Infinite Retina” , a great book about the technologies of the future, like XR, AI, and autonomous vehicles. Why can’t it be Facebook, or Magic Leap ?

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

It’s been called the AR Cloud by many, the Magicverse by Magic Leap, the Mirrorworld by Wired, the Cyberverse by Huawei, Planet-scale AR by Niantic and Spatial Computing by academics. Some recent acquisitions include AltspaceVR (Microsoft), and Escher (Niantic). It’s a set of ideas straight out of science fiction, literally.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

When I worked at Microsoft I got in trouble with the lawyers over patents so they made me sleep with a lawyer (true story, that was my punishment). I also am invested in Apple competitors, Qualcomm, Snap, Microsoft, Amazon, and about 50 other companies in a diverse portfolio. Why am I so confident? Disclaimer.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 24, 2019

One of the things that I got to do was drive an excavator in virtual reality, and I've never been in one before. Bill: Yeah, we actually have four Magic Leaps. Magic Leap just met with Chicken Waffle. But it's actually going to be an open source thing that we've just recently did for Magic Leap.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 24, 2019

One of the things that I got to do was drive an excavator in virtual reality, and I’ve never been in one before. Bill: Yeah, we actually have four Magic Leaps. Magic Leap just met with Chicken Waffle. So we are working with Magic Leap in an AR capacity. Bill: Yeah. The kids love VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 24, 2019

One of the things that I got to do was drive an excavator in virtual reality, and I’ve never been in one before. Bill: Yeah, we actually have four Magic Leaps. Magic Leap just met with Chicken Waffle. So we are working with Magic Leap in an AR capacity. Bill: Yeah. The kids love VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

He’s authored two books: Opening the XBox, and The XBox 360 Uncloaked. You’ve seen it from pre-DK1 days — where [it was] probably a cobbled-together a collection of flat screens, wires, and duct tape — and what it is today, where you have real consumer-grade virtual reality that’s not even connected to computers.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

He’s authored two books: Opening the XBox, and The XBox 360 Uncloaked. You’ve seen it from pre-DK1 days — where [it was] probably a cobbled-together a collection of flat screens, wires, and duct tape — and what it is today, where you have real consumer-grade virtual reality that’s not even connected to computers.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

He's authored two books: Opening the XBox, and The XBox 360 Uncloaked. You've seen it from pre-DK1 days -- where [it was] probably a cobbled-together a collection of flat screens, wires, and duct tape -- and what it is today, where you have real consumer-grade virtual reality that's not even connected to computers.

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EnterpriseWear

AUGUST 1, 2018

More recently, the use of wearable augmented and virtual reality devices by airport and airline technicians to train, perform maintenance, and receive remote support has gained traction. That year, SITA worked with Helsinki Airport to explore visualizing airport operations with the Microsoft HoloLens.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

He’s authored two books: Opening the XBox, and The XBox 360 Uncloaked. You’ve seen it from pre-DK1 days — where [it was] probably a cobbled-together a collection of flat screens, wires, and duct tape — and what it is today, where you have real consumer-grade virtual reality that’s not even connected to computers.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The 21st-century technologies introduced in this book also contain the power to burn both ways, albeit at a previously unimaginable level of power and scale. Our choices will not only determine the territorial lines of the web and the world, but also our very definition of the words humanity, civilization, and even reality itself.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2019

This is even truer in a new and complicated market like virtual reality. I wrote a review on Magic Leap One because my friend (and ex partner ) Gianni made me try it. Maquette by Microsoft). I have been featured in the amazing book Convergence by Charlie Fink because I asked him if I could help him for an article.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Alan: Today's guest is Cameron Ayres, the director of innovation at Sector 5 Digital, a digital agency specializing in augmented reality and virtual reality applications for the enterprise. That's where virtual reality, and augmented reality, and a lot of other different media come into play.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Alan: Today's guest is Cameron Ayres, the director of innovation at Sector 5 Digital, a digital agency specializing in augmented reality and virtual reality applications for the enterprise. That's where virtual reality, and augmented reality, and a lot of other different media come into play.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

I mean, part of the reason that my work with virtual reality really took off is because I moved into this new role, and had this freedom to innovate and to explore new technologies. So one of things that I was doing throughout our journey with virtual reality was documenting all of the projects that we were carrying out.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

Late to the party after Oculus and Microsoft already released prototypical implementations, but finally Valve has implemented OpenXR into its runtime SteamVR. Learn more (Virtual VR Awards announcement) Learn more (Call for support for creators). Other relevant news. Image from Khronos Group). SteamVR now supports OpenXR. Well, maybe.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Alan: Today's guest is Cameron Ayres, the director of innovation at Sector 5 Digital, a digital agency specializing in augmented reality and virtual reality applications for the enterprise. That's where virtual reality, and augmented reality, and a lot of other different media come into play.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Alan: Today's guest is Cameron Ayres, the director of innovation at Sector 5 Digital, a digital agency specializing in augmented reality and virtual reality applications for the enterprise. That's where virtual reality, and augmented reality, and a lot of other different media come into play.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

I mean, part of the reason that my work with virtual reality really took off is because I moved into this new role, and had this freedom to innovate and to explore new technologies. So one of things that I was doing throughout our journey with virtual reality was documenting all of the projects that we were carrying out.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk. Jinha had worked at Microsoft Research and he had offers to go back to Microsoft Research and Google and all these other companies and do serious hefty work for them on AR. Why would I want that?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk. Jinha had worked at Microsoft Research and he had offers to go back to Microsoft Research and Google and all these other companies and do serious hefty work for them on AR. Why would I want that?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk. Jinha had worked at Microsoft Research and he had offers to go back to Microsoft Research and Google and all these other companies and do serious hefty work for them on AR. Why would I want that?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

And also museums, you’ve got some boring things there, but then you could put the story over it as a new layer, and the story is being told through augmented reality. Alan: I recently read a book called “The Age of Smart Information” by Mike Pell, and he talks about how information now is just information. Alan: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

And also museums, you’ve got some boring things there, but then you could put the story over it as a new layer, and the story is being told through augmented reality. Alan: I recently read a book called “The Age of Smart Information” by Mike Pell, and he talks about how information now is just information. Alan: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

Carter: I’d say the main thing is augmented and mixed reality are growing fast, but mainly in the enterprise space. I’d say that through at least 2022, the enterprise will account for the majority of augmented and mixed reality headsets like Hololens and Magic Leap. Certainly for the time being, at least.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

Carter: I’d say the main thing is augmented and mixed reality are growing fast, but mainly in the enterprise space. I’d say that through at least 2022, the enterprise will account for the majority of augmented and mixed reality headsets like Hololens and Magic Leap. So they’re… [chuckles].

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

Carter: I'd say the main thing is augmented and mixed reality are growing fast, but mainly in the enterprise space. I'd say that through at least 2022, the enterprise will account for the majority of augmented and mixed reality headsets like Hololens and Magic Leap. So they're. Certainly for the time being, at least.

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