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Time for Enterprise to Enter the Magicverse, with Magic Leap's Brian Kane

XR for Business Podcast

Until recently, Brian Kane has been highlighting more experiential demos - like one that puts a porthole to the ocean in your living room - to highlight the power of the Magic Leap, and of spatial computing in general. Magic Leap is one of these Magic Leap devices, you put it on, and your whole world is spatial computing.

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Spatial Beats: Oculus, Google & Snap

AR Insider

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. You can join virtual environments for festival mingling or join Q&As and drop into post-premiere parties.

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Researchers Electrically Stimulate Muscles in Haptic Designed for Hands-free AR Input

Road to VR

Both HoloLens and the upcoming Magic Leap One include a physical controller; HoloLens has a simple ‘clicker’ and ML One has a 6DoF controller. The paper discusses using EMS sparingly, playing on the user’s keen sense for plausibility while in a physical (and not virtual) environment.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.02.28): PSVR 2 revealed, Meta working on AI and 5G, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Zuck and another Meta employee entered an empty virtual world, and Zuck started saying what he wanted to see in it and the AI answered by crafting exactly what he wanted. “I Magic Leap 2 has inside-out tracked controllers. During a presentation, Magic Leap has unveiled some more features about its headset and controllers.

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The Future Is Now: 2023 Metaverse and XR Predictions Worth Looking Into

ARPost

AR Apps to Increasingly Leverage AI Tech To create more immersive virtual environments, AR applications must be able to collect a wealth of information about the user’s surroundings. The Park Playground’s Vindevogel adds that virtual reality will increasingly grow to become a part of our daily lives. “

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When to Use Virtual Reality (VR) Instead of Augmented Reality (AR)?

InstaVR

The Oculus Go and Oculus Quest and Varjo and Vive all make you feel like you’re immersed in an environment. With the Quest, for instance, you can move around in 6 Degrees of Freedom, entering a virtual environment and moving around in it. AR, on the other hand, is more of an overlay on the existing world in front of you.

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A brief history of VR and AR

TechCrunch VR

At the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, David Em made strides in the creation of explorable virtual landscapes, while the Ames Research Center iterated on VIEW (Virtual Interactive Environment Workstation). Magic Leap officially announced its One headset after years of speculation and rumors.

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