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. to Pico and Nreal in China. For example, chips.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

Magic Leap. Me, wearing a Magic Leap One. The most important news has been for sure the launch of the Magic Leap One. Rear view of the Magic Leap One. Meta is having funding issues because of the new trade wars between America and China. Magic Leap.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 8, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Meta) Meta Quest Gaming Showcase is back on June, 1st The Meta Quest Gaming Showcase is back! The first one is that since the Gaming Showcase is happening on June, 1st, it seems positioned in a way to make Meta perform some announcements right before the Apple WWDC. This feature is not new.

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Tech Trends VR

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

The Venture Reality Fund , which invests primarily in immersive applications and games, has just released its latest quarterly update covering Q1 and Q2 of 2019. Neither Microsoft, Magic Leap nor others have announced when their consumer versions will be available. Seven Key Facts about AR. Mobile AR 2.0 AR is Growing.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2023

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. Magic Leap has factories in the US and Mexico able to produce AR glasses.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Day Two Day two only has one proper keynote scheduled, this time with Magic Leap. Last year, the company’s Head of Product Management, Jade Meskill, took the stage to talk about the Magic Leap 2 and “augmented enterprise.” Trying them out can be a glimpse into the future. Also, Tilt Five will be returning.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

You know well that I’ve been at SXSW , but, shame on me, I haven’t stayed a few days more to attend the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. It has been interesting to watch the reportages of Alex VR and Skeeva from the show floor , where they met many game studios and had meaningful interviews with them.

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Peter Graham

AUGUST 5, 2019

Developed by ONTOP Studios , its arrival in China is thanks to a collaboration with Chinese publisher NetEase ( Nostos, Stay Silent ), making the puzzle experience the very first ARCore compatible videogame available to the massive Chinese consumer market. It’s not just mobile AR that ONTOP Studios has been interested in.

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Peter Graham

AUGUST 5, 2019

Developed by ONTOP Studios , its arrival in China is thanks to a collaboration with Chinese publisher NetEase ( Nostos, Stay Silent ), making the puzzle experience the very first ARCore compatible videogame available to the massive Chinese consumer market. It’s not just mobile AR that ONTOP Studios has been interested in.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Pico 4 launches in China, while new info is shared in the West. First of all, Pico 4 has been launched in China, priced at 2699 yuan and 2999 yuan (with a 200 yuan discount at launch). First of all, Pico 4 has been launched in China, priced at 2699 yuan and 2999 yuan (with a 200 yuan discount at launch). Only time will tell….

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ARPost

JUNE 8, 2022

Magic Leap VP Product Marketing and Developer Programs, Lisa Watts, presented the Auggie for Best Enterprise solution to Avataar. Best Game or Toy. Chicken Waffle CEO, Finn Staber, presented the Auggie for Best Game or toy, saying “Games are so important to us. Best Enterprise Solution. Best Head-Worn Device.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Coronavirus, otherwise known as the 2019 novel coronavirus, is primarily affecting China. SEE ALSO 'Moon Rider' is a WebVR Game That's Quietly Amassed Thousands of Daily Players. If you’ve having trouble wrapping your head around the virus’ spread, this WebXR app may bring some much-needed insight.

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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 23, 2019

If the Paradise was in China, its name would be Qingdao. This could also be a nice testbed for the new Libra cryptocurrency created by Facebook; New info on the AAA VR game that Respawn Entertainment is making for Oculus and that has been teased months ago (this is actually the only confirmed news). Magic Leap is suing nReal.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

” Meta’s video, which it released during its Connect developer conference in October, is less a roadmap and more a marketing barrage—like a hundred Magic Leap ‘whale’ moments smooshed into one. To think, HTC and Oculus were once competitors back in the early days of consumer VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 8, 2019

Entrance of nReal offices in Beijing, China. nReal has been sued by Epic Games for the name too similar to Unreal and by Magic Leap that claims that nReal CEO Chi Xu has stolen the technology of the American company while working there. Anyway, it is a big step forward from HoloLens or Magic Leap One.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 10, 2023

More info Discover the games in the Steam Summer Sale In a very interesting thread on Reddit, people in the VR community discuss what are the best VR games to get discounted during the Steam Summer Sale and why. If you want to buy some PCVR games, I suggest you give it a read! This is very good to hear. It’s a decent deal.

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AR Insider

JULY 5, 2021

The free VR social world has exploded since adding game consoles and Apple devices. China remains Kuaishou’s key market. Magic Leap CEO Peggy Johnson tells Venture Beat’s Dean Takahashi how they’re getting traction with their enterprise pivot. Rec Room To Add Android App.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 9, 2021

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. HTC, a strategic partner and shareholder of VR Education, has also started selling its ENGAGE-based product, VIVE Sessions, in China. link] Dissections in VR are FREE.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

With a tweet on its account, Valve has announced that the most awaited VR game of the year, Half-Life: Alyx is going to be released on March, 23rd. The game will be available only on Steam, but it will be compatible with all PC VR headsets. The price is €50, but the game is free for Index owners. I’m hyped, and you?

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 17, 2019

Yes, I am returning again to China. I will depart my lovely Italy on Saturday, to attend the Sandbox Immersive Festival (SIF) in Qingdao, China. If you will be in China, let me know. When you see a title of mine written in Chinese, you already know what is going to happen. Yes, new adventures await me. I hope to meet you all!

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Investors included iDreamSky, a China-based app developer, along with Hargreave Hale and You & Mr Jones, an investor in Pokemon Go developer Niantic. With iDreamSky’s help, China should be one of those regions. Today, it’s raised a significant amount of funding to help it do so.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Global tech giants such as NVIDIA, Lenovo, Unity, Epic Games, HTC VIVE, and others have already entered the metaverse space race. New mixed reality (MR) headsets such as the Meta Quest Pro, Magic Leap 2, Lenovo VRX, and Pico 4 Enterprise have dramatically stepped up the XR industry.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Quest 3 is better for gaming and has precision controllers. It has another price (a huge price) and another purpose (“spatial computing” vs gaming), so comparing them makes sense up to a point. Maybe Magic Leap, before people got to know that the device was sort of a HoloLens 1+, had such attention to it.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 8, 2019

is one enormous VR exhibition held in Nanchang, China. Anyway, for a lost opportunity, a new opportunity came to light, and we of New Technology Walkers were given a booth to showcase our upcoming fitness MR game HitMotion: Reloaded ! I love going to China, but I love more my Italy. Are you going to meet me there?

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

It’s a new month, we’ve reached level 6 of this Jumanji game that is 2020. Keep in mind that this device has a pixel density far superior even to the one of the Valve Index, so it is perfect not only for gaming but also for prototyping, design and architecture. Rony Abovitz steps down from Magic Leap CEO. Image by HP).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2019

I’ve just had my first day in Nanchang, China. I’m here to attend the WCVRI , a very big event about Virtual Reality in China, where I am exhibiting HitMotion: Reloaded , the mixed reality fitness game of my agency New Technology Walkers ( contact us if you need some VR development!). Is it really important?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 27, 2018

Virtual Reality can help children to become creative, as Lenqiy is doing in China. Magic Leap has created lots of hype, but in the end it is just a dev-kit). A lot of business people trust Gartner and if it says that virtual reality is a mature technology, they will all believe so.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

There’s an antitrust rule in Germany that prohibits Product A to force you to use Product B , and this basically means that you can’t be forced to use the social media Facebook to use the gaming device Oculus. Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap now is worth a bit more than $450M. Magic Leap and its magic drop.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

The problem is that we had no idea about the release date for us western people because the device had been announced and released only in China. 72 Hz may not be useful for your app and you should activate it only if you think that your game can run at that frequency (so the graphics should be simple, for instance).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2022

Another interesting thing is that Pico is not copying Meta or Magic Leap in proposing inside-out tracked controllers : these ones still have a tracking ring. deaf people) which were using mods to be able to use the application and communicate with other people in the game. You can now try games on the Oculus Store.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

(Image by Cloudhead Games). Pistol Whip is going to be the next great VR game. Pistol Whip, the new game by Cloudhead Games, is slated for release on November, 7th for Oculus Quest, Rift and SteamVR. On the same day, an arcade version of the game will be released in LBVR locations through Springboard VR.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

What other devices are so cheap, have the best games, a continuous stream of updates? I remember many people laughing at me when we of New Technology Walkers released a fitness game for the Vive Focus Plus ( HitMotion: Reloaded ) because they said it was a big and overpriced headset. Image by Epic Games). Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Image by MegaDodo Simulation Games). Some of its features are: 2,160 × 2,160 resolution per eye 90Hz framerate 4-cameras inside-out tracking (like the Quest) Touch-like controllers with Knuckles-like finger-sensing Face tracking Hips tracking (for better orientation in games) Integration with SteamVR games Wireless add-on.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 7, 2019

Others can’t make most games to run on the PC because the 120/144Hz mode is too demanding. You know that I’m very interested in the Chinese market… and in China, with WeChat you can do almost everything. Unluckily for us Europeans, it will currently ship only in the US and China, for $399. You may wonder why you should care.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

It is some kind of magic. Me trying the Realmax glasses in Nanchang, China… am I not supercool? This is a simpler mechanism than the waveguides employed by Microsoft HoloLens 2 or by Magic Leap, and while it may provide a bit less immersive holograms, it is the only way to provide affordable wide-FOV glasses at the moment.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 15, 2018

And then, some days later, I’ve seen also my name quoted on Forbes… so I felt like a rich rock star that has a bath in a Jacuzzi filled with champagne; I have traveled to China , where I got in touch with various Virtual Reality startups. And yes, the best VR game ever is Robo Recall.

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