Road to VR

MARCH 18, 2019

The standard has been in development since April 2017 and is presently supported by virtually every major hardware, platform, and engine company in the VR industry, including key AR players like Magic Leap. Oculus says they plan to provide runtime support for apps built for OpenXR on Rift and Quest later this year.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

This week we had no big news from Facebook, but in the communities, the theme of the Facebook login for the Oculus Quest 2 remains pretty hot. Some people have already abandoned the Oculus ship, but many have still bought the Quest 2, that in fact is already backordered by several weeks in some countries (e.g. Other relevant news.

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Road to VR

JULY 29, 2019

The standard has been in development since April 2017 and is presently supported by virtually every major hardware, platform, and engine company in the VR industry, including key AR players like Magic Leap. Oculus has committed to bringing OpenXR runtime support to both Rift and Quest later this year. The post OpenXR 1.0

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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. On the contrary, Microsoft has worked a lot on the platform, to make it more appealing to enterprise customers. Magic Leap.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

He has a very interesting working story, having worked for great companies like Microsoft and Fast Company. 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! PRNewsfoto/BadVR).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Yesterday I was reading the comments on Reddit regarding my post with the predictions for Oculus Connect 5 and the kind redditor /u/SilverWhite2 provided me the link to the latest available patent with the design of Santa Cruz. Front view (Image by Oculus). Rear view (Image by Oculus). Top view (Image by Oculus).

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 29, 2023

This offering could be the key to helping the tech giant preserve its market share, as innovators like Apple , Microsoft, and Magic Leap all increase their focus in the business world. The primary focus of the solution is to give businesses comprehensive user, device, and custom app management controls.

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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

Magic Leap 2 bridges AR and VR. The interest in Magic Leap 2 is growing. This week we had a full reveal of the headset, the controller, and the computational unit in a video that reveals all their external details. HTC adds more parental control tools to its headsets. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

Image by Oculus). Oculus Quest becomes 1 year old, and Facebook makes many announcements. The Oculus Quest is now one year old. But the greatest feature is that finally Oculus is accepting hands-tracked applications in the Oculus Store from the 28th of this month! Happy birthday, Oculus Quest!

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

The Cosmos faceplate features a new pattern… and apart from the aesthetics, the crux is that it is now possible to see that the headset now features even 6 tracking cameras for positional and controllers’ tracking: two on the front, two on the sides, one on the top of the Faceplate, one on the bottom of the faceplate. Other relevant news.

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ARPost

JUNE 28, 2021

The company’s own co-founders, Anand Agarawala and Jinha Lee, have their own impressive pasts including working at Google, MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung. The platform works on just about any device, from HoloLens and Magic Leap to desktop and mobile, and even an Nreal beta. Get In and Look Around.

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VRWorld

APRIL 28, 2017

Since Magic Leap’s inception in 2011, there has been great innovation in the technology sector focused in the virtual reality (VR)/augmented reality (AR)/mixed reality (MR) space with Magic Leap trying to create a new hardware interface designs. Kinect version 2.0 Google discontinued the interface in January 2015.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2020

Reading the description, it is possible to see that the VR integration is a bit weird : there’s probably no integration for VR controllers (really??) Ready At Dawn was already collaborating with Oculus since various years, so this is not surprising. Nreal wins first round against Magic Leap in the IP theft trial.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap pivots to enterprise, lays off 1,000 employes. With a long post on Magic Leap’s blog, in the end Rony Abovitz has admitted that the company is not going that well, and has announced a new course, that should eventually lead to Magic Leap 2. Top news of the week.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The interactive fabrication system combines AR CAD editing with precise robotic control. In the video provided, Huaishu wears an Oculus Rift headset outfitted with an Ovrvision stereo camera as he designs a 3D model of a teapot in a 3D space using a pair of slightly-altered Oculus Touch controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 8, 2019

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. No one from Magic Leap or nReal is authorized to talk about this topic, so I won’t address it here.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

And all of this comes in a period when other partnerships between tech giants are happening: remember that some weeks ago, Microsoft closed its streaming service Mixer and allied with Facebook Gaming to fight the quasi-monopoly of (Amazon-owned) Twitch. Peggy Johnson is the new CEO of Magic Leap. News worth a mention.

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TechCrunch VR

MARCH 13, 2022

Remember Magic Leap? This week, I spent an hour or so playing around with the unreleased next-generation Magic Leap headset, all while discussing the augmented reality company’s wild ride with Magic Leap CEO Peggy Johnson and other members of their executive team. So, let’s talk about it.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Oculus Quest 2 keeps showing impressive sales stats. Last week we talked about how the Quest 2 sold particularly well, and this week, well… we talk about the same topic because Facebook has shared new info about it. Thanks to this, Facebook now controls more than 56% of the SteamVR market. Top news of the week. Image by Superdata).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 30, 2019

Actually, there is no much more to say apart from what we already knew about the Index : the visuals are astonishing, especially because of the 120 Hz refresh rate; the audio is a next-gen one; the controllers allow for a new kind of interactions; the headset is very comfortable; there is a very handful guide on how to setup it on Steam website.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

The Sonic seems a good device: 4K resolution, 101° FOV, 72Hz refresh rate, 256GB, and 6DOF controllers. It is a bit disappointing that it just has 2 tracking cameras, but the controllers are tracked with ultrasound beacons, so the tracking FOV should be good. Magic Leap partners with AMD for its next-generation device.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap has sold units of its first device for $550. Magic Leap has decided to put on sale its remaining units of the Magic Leap 1, its previous device, for just $550 , which is something like a -75% discount on its standard retail price. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 23, 2019

But it is very interesting , because it will touch a lot of hot topics, like: Data visualization in XR; Magic Leap; Being a woman working in XR; How is XR in Asia. Today the interview will cover the first two topics: dataviz in VR thanks to BadVR solution and Magic Leap. and many other interesting stuff!

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 1, 2018

Since the first time we have seen the Oculus Santa Cruz prototype during Oculus Connect 3 , we want to put our hands on it. The Oculus Connect 4 made us eager to have it and finally this year we will be able to buy it. What if your Rift could become your Santa Cruz? Ready to discover how? Then go on!

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Oculus devices will require a Facebook login. The enormous piece of news of the week is tha t Facebook has communicated that from October, 20th, all people that want to use an Oculus device for personal use will have to use their personal Facebook account to log in. Top news of the week. Image by Tweakanalogy). The same on Twitter.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 11, 2022

For years, the company has been delivering some of the most powerful and accessible XR experiences around, with tools like the Oculus Quest. Tools like the Oculus already come with hand tracking functionality, to help users interact with some software on a hands-free basis. Unity and Magic Leap.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Image by Oculus). Oculus Quest may have sold only 400,000 units. It seems that according to it, Oculus Quest , considered by many the first VR headset that can become mainstream, has sold only 180,000 units in Q3 of this year, for a total number of 400,000 units sold since launch. Image by Microsoft). Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft). I expect the smartglasses from Facebook, first of all, to be Facebook-branded (so, goodbye Oculus), to be very stylish (remember that Luxottica is the leading company for glasses and sunglasses), and to be able to connect to the smartphone without a tether. Sounded good. Nu Eyes AR glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 12, 2021

For instance, in the box I’ve found a cleaning cloth for an Oculus device… and I don’t think it actually comes with a Microsoft HoloLens! But as soon as you get close to them, the magic breaks , because you can clearly see the limit of your viewing windows. Woman wearing a HoloLens2.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 13, 2016

When the first consumer version of the Oculus Rift was launched in the spring, it was disappointingly bundled with a Microsoft Xbox controller – and we’ve eagerly been awaiting the native Touch Controllers. The Touch controllers feel like little magical half-doughnuts and are smooth and intuitive.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

It’s been called the AR Cloud by many, the Magicverse by Magic Leap, the Mirrorworld by Wired, the Cyberverse by Huawei, Planet-scale AR by Niantic and Spatial Computing by academics. An Apple AR headset has been a mainstay of the rumor mills for several years, and we expect Facebook to be creating an AR Oculus device.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

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. The first one is that the Quest 2 has now sold in some months more than all the other Oculus headsets (with the exclusion of Gear VR) combined in all these years.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

HTC has finally revealed the price of the Vive Pro : it will cost $799 just to have the headset (no controller and no base stations, so you must already have a Vive 1 kit) and will be available for pre-orders since April, 5th. Oculus Go showcased. The Oculus Go (Image by Oculus). So, are you ready? Let’s start!

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

After Oculus, that has expressed concerns on the manufacture of the Quest, this week Tilt Five has stated that it will have difficulties in shipping devices to the first backers, while nReal , that is based in Beijing, has completely stopped its production. More info (Use Google Translate). Magic Leap plans dev days and dev programs.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

The Reverb was already a very good headset (as you can read in my hands-on impressions ) with good comfort and an astonishing resolution, but it had some problems with the display (mura, red smearing) and with the controllers (classical mediocre WMR tracking). Oculus Link 2 could be tetherless. pounds (0.55kg) Cable Length: 19.5

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

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. Other relevant news.

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