AR Insider

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Seems like they’re zeroing in on Maps as the sweet spot for XR and tossing everything else, like their Daydream headset, their investment in Magic Leap, Poly, and finally Tilt Brush, overboard. The product is a 3D modeling software for PC VR and Oculus Quest headsets. What is up with Google and XR?

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Last week industry legend and current Oculus VR CTO John Carmack sat down with stand-up comedian and podcast icon Joe Rogan for Episode #1342 of the immensely popular Joe Rogan Experience podcast. 58:33 ] – Carmack compares similarities between Neurolink’s brain-interface RF technology and Oculus’ camera and display system. [

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 20, 2017

VR fans will be gearing up for the 2017 edition of the Game Developers Conference soon, as it gets underway in just over a month, but another big industry event is taking place just ahead of it. On the VR side, Jason Rubin, Head of Content at Facebook’s Oculus will be hosting a panel with Insomniac Games CEO and founder, Ted Price.

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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. Magic Leap. Magic Leap will work a lot in trying to have new compelling experiences on its marketplace.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Magic Leap has just organized its first developers’ event, dubbed “L.E.A.P.” It is the first event of this kind organized by Magic Leap: we can say that LEAP Con is like the Oculus Connect of Magic Leap and will probably become always more important, year after year, exactly as it has happened to Oculus.

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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. Magic Leap 2 bridges AR and VR. The interest in Magic Leap 2 is growing. GDC 2022 featured many VR companies, but few announcements. News worth a mention. More info.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Magic Leap, for instance, supports two focal lengths and jumps between them as needed. Oculus’ Half Dome prototype does the same, seems to support a larger number of focal lengths. We saw progress on that front early this year at CES 2020 , the last major conference before the pandemic cancelled the remainder for the year.

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Magic Leap finally dropped to mixed reviews and BrainXchange published its Definitive Guide to Adopting Wearables, AR and VR in Enterprise. Just three months ago, the company revealed it’s putting 17,000 Oculus Go headsets in Walmart stores for employee training. The company’s direction is unclear. Body-worn.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

Peggy Johnson is the new CEO of Magic Leap. Magic Leap has finally a new CEO: Peggy Johnson. Johnson will have the not easy task of deciding a clear route for Magic Leap, making the company become profitable in the enterprise market after so many failures in the consumer one. News worth a mention.

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ARPost

MARCH 17, 2020

As many VR gamers are aware, the Game Developers Conference was canceled this year due to coronavirus fears. Facebook, owners of VR tech giant Oculus, launched the Facebook Game Developers Showcase as their alternative offering. However, seeing that kind of a move from Oculus is exciting for VR gamers and developers alike.

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ARPost

JULY 16, 2019

Are you attending XRDC’s AR and VR conference in San Francisco on October 14-15? This year, new standalone headsets from Oculus and Vive debuted. XRDC is an AR and VR conference that will be held in San Francisco’s Fort Mason Festival Pavilion on October 14-15. Do you follow all the latest tech trends?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2018

One of the best moments ever at View Conference 2018 , has been when I was able to interview John Gaeta. 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. Magic Leap glasses.

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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. Some news on content.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

When you think of Oculus you typically think of one thing: virtual reality. Today, flush with Facebook’s seemingly endless resources, Oculus is at the forefront of the VR industry’s research and development. The Oculus product roadmap as shown at last year’s F8 conference.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

When you think of Oculus you typically think of one thing: virtual reality. Today, flush with Facebook’s seemingly endless resources, Oculus is at the forefront of the VR industry’s research and development. The Oculus product roadmap as shown at last year’s F8 conference.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

While Oculus is getting all the glory for the Quest, its competitors are not sleeping. With a lot of sadness, I’m here watching the photos and the videos of WCVRI , the big Chinese conference about VR that is held every year in Nanchang. Notwithstanding all this hate, the Oculus Quest 2 is selling very well.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Rumors hint to Oculus discontinuing the current Quest and selling the new one at $299 and $399. The Facebook Connect is close and we all expect that during that conference Oculus is finally going to announce the new Oculus Quest. Facebook is temporarily suspending the sale of Oculus Quest devices in Germany.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 24, 2019

Fable, founded by former Oculus Story Studio alumni, today announced a distinct pivot in their focus, moving from an immersive storytelling studio to a “virtual beings” company which plans to build persistent, AI-powered, characters which can interact naturally with viewers.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

Oculus Go showcased. The Oculus Go (Image by Oculus). At GDC, the Oculus Go has been one of the main characters. First of all, Oculus has showcased all its main technical characteristics : I advise you to read the post dedicated to that on Oculus blogs , where Chris Pruett introduces you to them.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 19, 2019

As with past reports, this survey is done as a primer for the upcoming XRDC Conference. Magic Leap isn’t far behind, growing from 7 percent of current projects to 12 percent of future interest. Oculus Quest is the biggest mover, not surprisingly , going from 12 to 24 to 28 in the past/present/future split.

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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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TechCrunch VR

DECEMBER 8, 2020

When Chi Xu left Magic Leap and returned to China, he had big ambitions. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips are used almost exclusively by serious players, from Facebook’s Oculus Quest in the U.S. Magic Leap sucked all the air out of the room. to Pico and Nreal in China. ”

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Just like Magic Leap has the Magicverse , this is essentially Facebook’s flavor of the AR Cloud. Abrash has said at past OC conferences that AR and VR share technological underpinnings. to Oculus headsets. The eventual vision is to have a sort of 3D rendering of the social graph. Integrated Systems.

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Road to VR

MARCH 18, 2018

Held annually in San Francisco, Game Developers Conference has undeniably been a focal point for VR the industry, and as augmented reality continues to heat up, we expect it to be increasingly important for AR as well. Image courtesy Oculus. Santa Cruz is Oculus’ high-end standalone VR headset. Image courtesy Oculus.

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VRScout

JUNE 19, 2016

Major gaming industry players brought the noise to this year’s E3 conference. Other huge gaming names like Capcom, Rocksteady Studios, Square Enix, and Bethesda are throwing big brands into virtual reality – Resident Evil, Batman Arkham, Final Fantasy, Fallout, and Doom all had moments of glory at the packed Los Angeles conference.

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Charlie Fink

JUNE 7, 2019

The conference and expo saw nearly 7,000 attendees, a 30% increase over 2018. RealMax's AR and VR device with hand tracking by Leap Motion and an epic 102-degree field of view, was used for a multiplayer AR game which involved grabbing fish and knocking over boxes.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Magic Leap 2 has inside-out tracked controllers. During a presentation, Magic Leap has unveiled some more features about its headset and controllers. More info (Magic Leap presentation) More info (Close up of the controllers). Oh look, we have again an Oculus account on Twitter! News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

In the latest invitation to WWDC 2021 , the yearly Apple developers’ conference, there is a picture of an animoji wearing glasses in front of a Mac. The Oculus Quest 2 continues its march towards mainstream adoption. It wouldn’t be a normal week without some news about Facebook and/or the Oculus Quest. Other relevant news.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Just this week, Magic Leap announced the company’s first sports partnership with the NBA and Turner, to bring in what they are calling, “the next generation of sports viewing and interactivity.”. The NBA on TNT VR app will also be a part of the playoff games, through the 2018 Western Conference Finals.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

The collaboration platform is device agnostic (so you could use a Microsoft Hololens while communicating with someone wearing an Oculus Rift), and the B2B company is focusing on the training and education space. The notoriously secretive mixed reality company Magic Leap has acquired parts of Dacuda , a B2B computer vision software company.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

According to Gajsek, “Anyone that decided to buy from the Oculus store or use Meta’s products essentially becomes a ’subscriber‘ in Meta’s user base. He goes on to share that the success of the Quest 2 will fuel interest in the new Quest 3, which should will be released in 2023.

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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! But of course, the technology is still not there: the Oculus Quest is still uncomfortable, we can’t read texts in it, and so on.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Microsoft debuts their latest mixed reality device at Mobile World Conference 2019. Like the first HoloLens the device also enables glasses wearers to simply slot the device in front of their spectacles (distinct advantage compared to Magic Leap).

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Robert Scoble

MAY 20, 2019

I dragged my camera down to meet her and her team in their offices in Marina Del Rey, near Los Angeles, to get a look at the business visualizations they are building for use in both Spatial Computing headsets, like Magic Leap, and VR, for HTC Vive, Oculus Quest or Rift, or others. “Enterprises are made of people.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 1, 2019

“I’ve been saying for a while that augmented and virtual reality is going to be the next major computing platform,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on stage at the Oculus Connect 6 conference. Meanwhile, heftier VR products from Facebook’s Oculus and Magic Leap have mostly been for gamers. Momentum is picking up.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 30, 2023

This month, Oculus – the original development firm behind the Quest portfolio – Founder Palmer Lucky confirmed the development of the Meta Quest 3 and Apple’s upcoming device. The Oculus Quest 3 is probably what they’re gonna call it, but it is a lot more compact. Is the Next Quest XR Headset Incoming?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2019

This signs seems to say: 2019 World Conference on NO VR INDUSTRY. But I think that the WCVRI needs to make various steps forward if it wants to propose itself as being one of the most important worldwide conferences on VR. So, if you need help, they will do the best to support you. So…ehm…is VR a fad?

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