VRScout

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

As the epidemic continues to spread, reports are now coming in of cases outside mainland China, including both the United Kingdom as well as the United States. That said, like other companies we’re expecting some additional impact to our hardware production due to the Coronavirus. But just how bad are things exactly? .

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Tech Trends VR

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

For consumers, we are seeing launches of specialized hardware, like North’s Focals smart glasses, Form’s AR swimming goggles or BOSE AR’s audio-only sunglasses. Neither Microsoft, Magic Leap nor others have announced when their consumer versions will be available. Consumer AR Content Alive and Well.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Meta 2 was an augmented reality headset released in 2016-2017 as an evolution of the original Meta 1 , which was a headset hacked from other existing commercial hardware (Epson Moverio and Intel Realsense). It is decent for a devkit, but not comparable at all with today’s standards of Magic leap One and HoloLens 2.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

At first China, then Korea and the next month they will also launch in Japan. Hardware is very hard to make, and creating a production pipeline for a worldwide distribution is very hard : that’s why Valve partnered with HTC for the first Vive, because HTC had this kind of knowledge. Someone asked me if Nreal may be a scam.

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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. That’s so sad.

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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.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Although primary, extended reality (XR) firms like Meta face ongoing hurdles with their refocused Metvaerse and immersive hardware ambitions. In the letter, he accused the Chinese firm of collecting data for the Communist Party of China via the TikTok social media and user-generated content (UGC) application.

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VRScout

AUGUST 15, 2018

Is it a coincidence that this announcement comes straight off of the heels of Magic Leap announcing their partnership with the online home goods store, Wayfair, to bring an AR shopping experience to their users? Alibaba will officially introduce the world to Taobao Buy at the upcoming Creativity Festival in Hangzhou, China.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Jokes apart, Lenovo’s new hardware, dubbed ThinkReality VRX , has innovative features you have seen in no other headset launched these weeks: Snapdragon XR 2 chipset, pancake optics, RGB passthrough. Pico 4 launches in China, while new info is shared in the West. Lenovo has announced a new headset. It’s like its 357th one. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 31, 2022

But Meta is not limiting itself to improving its hardware: always this week it has announced that it has invented a new self-supervised algorithm for machine learning training that can learn in the same way for speech, vision, and text. Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap 2 to feature dynamic dimming. Upload VR).

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 26, 2022

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. Telecoms such as AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, China Mobile, and many others are working to expand such infrastructure. Jobs for Metaverse Work.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

China is the factory of the world, and now that it has stopped because of the virus, all the other countries are having troubles as well. For now, I know today some offices in China are starting to open again, let’s hope that this terrible situation ends as soon as possible. ???? Magic Leap plans dev days and dev programs.

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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. In China, companies are already using AI to substitute illustrators.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

The feature itself does not count, Apple counts Apple is a hype machine (Original image by Apple) The Apple brand is super strong everywhere in the world (including in China) and people feel cool flexing their own Apple devices. 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

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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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. Read more on Tom’s Hardware. Read more on UploadVR.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

He said that Facebook still believes in the tech and will continue investing a lot in it, and this delay may even be an advantage for FB : since Facebook was not a hardware company, the fact that VR will take longer than expected means that the company will have more time to learn about hardware manufacturing.

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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. Basically, they are: Hyper-optimization : since this is a standalone headset, Oculus has been able to optimize the hardware and software for VR usage. Oculus announces Hardware Reports.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

These new pieces of hardware are based on the new Ampere architecture , which offers a big boost in performance compared with the previous Turing one. Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap now is worth a bit more than $450M. Magic Leap and its magic drop. News worth a mention. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Well, now he has amazing hardware, a very good operating system, a profitable store, some of the best XR games, full control of the user accounts. Considering that game engines know about hardware products far before their official release, I found reliable that Apple was talking with them about future features.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 7, 2019

You know that I’m very interested in the Chinese market… and in China, with WeChat you can do almost everything. Well, if you are in a company that wants to make marketing in China, WeChat is maybe the most important marketing channel that you can exploit. More info (Vive Cosmos wireless adapter) More info (Vive Enterprise Solutions).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

And the price of the wireless add-on is even more suspicious: speaking with a hardware manufacturer, they told me that ONLY THE ANTENNAS of a Wi-Gig connection for VR streaming (like the one of the Vive Pro) costs around $100… so how can the whole wireless streaming device cost just $50?? At WCVRI, China shows its strategic interest for VR.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2019

In this series of articles, I want to talk about my experience there , giving you some highlights about the hardware I tried, the companies I met, etc… I want to let you feel as if you did this VR travel with me. and “What are the differences with the Mainland China”. What are the differences with Mainland China?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2022

It also shows that at the moment the idea of subsidizing the cost of the hardware with the software sold in the store is not working, so probably the Quest ecosystem is less healthy than we initially thought. Pancake 1C: 1600×1600 resolution, 2,999 yuan ($444), preorder August 26, shipping September (China).

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2017

But, the industry is still in its infancy and still seeking a firm footing that will truly form an ecosystem: a self-sustaining web of hardware builders, software developers, and consumer demand. There’s early hardware out now which has allowed what Riccitiello calls a “developer focused industry” to begin slowly growing.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

In the interview with me, he talked about many topics, like the rumors he heard on Apple Glasses, on the Oculus Quest 2 , the America vs China war, XR entrepreneurship, Tesla, and more! Why can’t it be Facebook, or Magic Leap ? They control all their ecosystem : software, hardware, chips. PRNewsfoto/BadVR).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 29, 2019

At WCVRI , I have tried some cool AR/VR hardware. Project North Star is an opensource reference design for a wide-FOV augmented reality headset that Leap Motion (now Ultraleap ) has given to the community. Keep in mind that Magic Leap One has a diagonal FOV of 50° and you realize why the word “only” is between quotes.

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Robert Scoble

JUNE 28, 2022

He played a key role in the early development of Magic Leap, an augmented reality company that just won best of show at the industry’s biggest gathering, AWE (for Augmented World Expo). I remember talking to the manager of the Seagate Hard Drive factory in Wuxi, China, about why he hired so many women. China” Liam Casey.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Even if they are not general-purpose glasses like Hololens or Magic Leap, these glasses feature inside so many technological innovations that made all we of the tech communities fall in love with them, and with their creator Jeri Ellsworth. Huawei launches its VR glasses. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Here you are the integral interview that I had with Kelly Peng, asking her everything from Kura to the differences between the US and China (Kelly comes from Xi’an), not to mention her life as a startupper. People at Kura love to experiment with hardware going very hands-on the technology (Image by Kura Technologies).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2023

But still, this is a pretty unique piece of hardware. I think this news is very interesting because we finally see an entrant in the XR space also from India , after so many headsets manufactured in the US, Europe, and China. SHARP is looking for tier-1 hardware manufacturers to sell them the components with which to build the devices.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

This time we don’t have more info about the hardware, but about the software. Somnium is already an investor in XTAL, and it is so strengthening its position as a leader both in the software and the hardware necessary to access virtual worlds. Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap has sold units of its first device for $550.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

We have no clue of when it will be released, but if you remember, last week Youtuber Eric For President revealed that some sources of his talk about a September reveal for the “VR hardware we want” from Facebook. NOLO and Arpara brings new headsets from China. Some reviews of VR hardware. Other relevant news. Image from NOLO).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Google can count on the acquisition of North, the experience he has matured by producing Google Glass and investing in Magic Leap, and the fact that it owns the most-used mobile operating system. Magic Leap will meet its fate. Duck Face, Magic Leap One, and me. What about Magic Leap ?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

As I’m thinking back to it now, this was actually on HTC VIVE — first gen, which was only maybe 3, 4 years ago now — and I was so impressed with the first generation of hardware that I was like, “well, this is ready for prime time.” So, even reaching over your hands, stuff like that, it has to be realistic.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

As I’m thinking back to it now, this was actually on HTC VIVE — first gen, which was only maybe 3, 4 years ago now — and I was so impressed with the first generation of hardware that I was like, “well, this is ready for prime time.” So, even reaching over your hands, stuff like that, it has to be realistic.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Today is my last day in China. This is huge because we know that Samsung is able to always deliver good hardware. So basically Samsung is bringing to XR what already happens on phones: Samsung makes the hardware, Qualcomm the chipset, and Google the operating system. Qualcomm seems a very predictable choice, but Google is less.

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