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My predictions for augmented reality in 2019

The Ghost Howls

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 XR Week Peek (2023.05.23): Leaks and rumors about Apple headset intensify, VRChat to launch Creator Economy, and more!

The Ghost Howls

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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The point that Zuck is missing when he says that Quest 3 is better than the Vision Pro

The Ghost Howls

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 XR Week Peek (2023.02.08): Samsung is back to XR, Echo VR gets shut down, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Today is my last day in China. I’m sorry about that, but it’s still a miracle I’ve managed to write it… Top news of the week (Leaked image from Samsung video) Samsung is back to XR with Google and Qualcomm The big news of the week is that Samsung is back to XR. Qualcomm seems a very predictable choice, but Google is less.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.10.26): DecaGear is an intriguing VR headset, HTC is working on a new device, and more!

The Ghost Howls

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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All the most important AR and VR news from the GDC 2018

The Ghost Howls

In my opinion , the true error is with the Vive 1 , that will get a price that is higher than the one of all the competitors… and that will cost as much as a Samsung Odyssey, notwithstanding its far lower features. Oculus announces Hardware Reports. This is Oculus’s answer to Steam Hardware & Software Survey.

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Unity CEO: VR Will Get Huge, But Devs Need to Survive and Avoid Hype Until it Does

Road to VR

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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