Road to VR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Magic Leap, the storied unicorn developing enterprise AR headsets, announced at CES 2023 that its flagship device Magic Leap 2 earned a certification that clears it for use in the operating room. It has since released Magic Leap 2 , which is largely targeted at enterprise.

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DECEMBER 4, 2018

Magic Leap finally dropped to mixed reviews and BrainXchange published its Definitive Guide to Adopting Wearables, AR and VR in Enterprise. After years of secrecy and hype, Magic Leap finally released its first developer kit in August for $2,295. The company’s direction is unclear.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 8, 2024

Goertek XReal Lenovo Iristick Vuzix Magic Leap XYZReality Longan Vision Rokid ThirdEye Google Toshiba Epson RealWear Microsoft Lumus TCL RayNeo Goertek Offering a variety of extended reality products for virtual and augmented experiences, Goertek has a range of smart glasses included in its portfolio.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

Maybe they will work with a phone, exploiting the new Qualcomm reference designs. Magic Leap is suing nReal. Magic Leap has sued Chi Xu, the founder of nReal. According to Magic Leap, the company has been able to create these intriguing devices so fast only because Chi Xu was a former Magic Leap employee.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 4, 2023

Additionally, these tools come with stereo speakers and microphones for conveying audio data. Read up on the latest news here. Latest Vuzix News Magic Leap Magic Leap specializes in the creation of AR and MR solutions, for enterprise users. Vuzix won numerous awards at CES 2023 this year.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

An analysis of the job postings of Meta shows that the company is trying to add cellular data to its headsets. I speculate on this for the following reasons: Valve has not announced a standalone headset yet while customizing the Qualcomm reference designs would be “easy” for it. Magic Leap 2 has inside-out tracked controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

I think that Gartner was not referring to the consumer market, where VR is still unripe (even if devices like the Oculus Quest and the Vive Focus Plus are helping it in becoming more widespread), but at the B2B one, where VR is already helping companies to spare money (e.g. Security — establishing hierarchies for data capture and protection.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 4, 2023

Goertek NReal Lenovo Iristick Vuzix Magic Leap XYZReality Longan Vision Rokid ThirdEye Google Toshiba Epson RealWear Microsoft Lumus TCL RayNeo Goertek Offering a variety of extended reality products for virtual and augmented experiences, Goertek has a range of smart glasses included in its portfolio.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 3, 2019

At the very beginning of September, a leaked internal build of iOS 13 was found to contain a “readme” file referring to StarBoard, a system that allows developers to view stereo-enabled AR apps on an iPhone. Inside that set of tools lurked data files for what appeared to be two different headsets, codenamed Franc and Luck.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Additionally, these tools come with stereo speakers and microphones for conveying audio data. They also support collaboration and communication with information and data sharing. Magic Leap Magic Leap specializes in the creation of AR and MR solutions for enterprise users.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2023

Since this is a concept, we have no data about the price and expected release date. Further references TCL brings three XR devices to CES (The Verge) TCL brings three XR devices to CES (Mixed News) Somnium VR1 Somnium VR1 headset (Image by Somnium Space) Somnium Space was at CES to showcase its modular and open Somnium VR1 headset.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

These are all great news for the ecosystem, but someone in the communities pointed out that we should beware of companies claiming vague data about sales without absolute numbers (for instance, it may also be that previous headsets sold worse than we thought). Mathew Olson from The Information (subscribe to his awesome newsletter !)

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

HADO” is a name we use either standalone to refer to our flagship and most popular team sports game , but it also refers to a genre of games where an energy ball is released by the player through gestures. Thus Google controlled almost the entire stack that the client web software used — right down to the hardware in the data centers.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 19, 2020

The headset, dubbed “VR Classroom 2” should feature: Snapdragon 835 reference design 4K total resolution 75Hz framerate 64GB onboard storage + SD Card slot. Magic Leap and nReal are trying to find an agreement. From the specs, it seems a good VR viewer. News worth a mention. Image by nReal).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2024

There is so a chance that LG is actually working on the Quest Pro 2, but it may also be that the CEO was referring to another headset. I would be curious to hear the opinions of other creators, so if you have any data to share about your success on PSVR2 please reach out to me and let me know.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Similar to augmented reality, mixed reality experiences are available through a variety of tools, including headsets like the HoloLens, and HoloLens 2, or the Magic Leap headset. Often, these assets are referred to as “holograms”. 3D assets: Fully three-dimensional content, accessible in the real world.

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Immersive Authority

JUNE 30, 2016

Augmented Reality supplements your view of the physical world with additional information which may originate from online data streams, cameras or sensors. I’m currently developing a non-headset / non-screen based solution which I also refer to as a Mixed Reality solution. This is one of the cons of the solution.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2019

The Vive Focus Plus so worked only as a dull display showing the frames rendered by the PCs and sending back to them the data on the pose of the head and the hands of the user. This choice by Qualcomm means that in the future we will see always more AR and VR headsets that will be able to connect to mobile phones and stream data via 5G.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 24, 2020

In the interest of time and brevity, we’ll refer you to McDowall’s calculations which we separately examined recently. Then there’s Magic Leap. For deeper XR data and intelligence, join ARtillery PRO and subscribe to the free AR Insider Weekly newsletter. Lots of that is likely going to AR & VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 5, 2020

It is possible to read very interesting data on AR/VR from the latest SuperData report on Gaming. If it happens, it would also interesting to see what happens with the WMR reference design. So the companies should find a way so that the glasses understand the intentions of the user, maybe thanks to the use of a mixture of AI and BCI.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

All these data together make me a bit skeptical about the capabilities of this company: developing such kind of a high-quality headset requires a lot of expertise, while the company is very small and features no known expert in the field. Some years ago, she performed in The Life, a Mixed Reality art piece inside the Magic Leap One.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Charlie Fink is a Forbes columnist and an author of two AR-enabled books – Charlie Fink’s Metaverse: A Guide to VR and AR, and Convergence: How the World Will Be Painted with Data. Alan: So give us an example of why that would be important, where you need to be contextually aware and why you would need 3D data.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Charlie Fink is a Forbes columnist and an author of two AR-enabled books – Charlie Fink’s Metaverse: A Guide to VR and AR, and Convergence: How the World Will Be Painted with Data. Alan: So give us an example of why that would be important, where you need to be contextually aware and why you would need 3D data.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

Tablet mode may be a reference to how to launch 2D Android apps because a Facebook employee has inadvertently revealed that employees can already use some 2D apps like GDoc inside the Quest. Magic Leap partners with AMD for its next-generation device. Facebook executives talk about their vision for the future.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 4, 2017

These micro-ridges are referred to as a “surface relief” waveguide. Magic Leap. For a secretive company, we can learn a lot about Magic Leap from their patent filings and acquisitions, namely that they launched without a clear path to executing their vision. Now engrave a series of these into the surface of a lens.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2016

When I talk about the gap of disappointment, what I’ve referred to is — the bullish analyst forecast is like this. And the AR industry took a major blow when The Information published a well-reported but speculative story saying that Magic Leap’s technology is not likely to live up to its demos. VR and AR is all a hoax.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

It’s an umbrella term referring to various technologies influencing how we interact with computer systems. Data decoding: Spatial computing solutions need to understand our actions and decode the instructions we give through gestures, speech, and more. Spatial computing isn’t just another word for an XR headset or experience.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

This could actually be quite beneficial for Meta, Microsoft, and Magic Leap. AR can also assist in quality inspections by highlighting defects, providing real-time feedback, and comparing finished products to digital reference models. When you look at streaming channels, they compete against each other and make better content.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

Steve Mann is commonly referred to as the “father of wearable computing” for innovations like the EyeTap, which combined computer processing with graphical design and textual overlays. Magic Leap officially announced its One headset after years of speculation and rumors. The feedback we were getting from them was that.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 10, 2019

Northern Digital is a Waterloo, Canada-based manufacturer of 3D measurement devices, and while the company has mainly focused on creating for various industries such as medicine and aeronautics throughout their 35 years of existence, they’ve recently unveiled a reference design for a magnetic tracking system for VR headsets and controllers.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

Fable Studios is building Lucy, an AI character that currently acts as a self aware drawn character in the “Wolves in the Walls” series but eventually will become her a personified OS much in the same way Mica from Magic Leap is aiming to be. The Evolution of Consumer Data. The Evolution of Brand Activations.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

Alan: So how is 5G -- or just the ability to have this kind of massive data pipe -- affecting your ability to do virtual reality, or augmented reality, or mixed reality? Joonmo: Yeah, about one or two years ago we tried to use AR glasses, such as Magic Leap or Nreal. Alan: That's fantastic.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

Alan: So how is 5G -- or just the ability to have this kind of massive data pipe -- affecting your ability to do virtual reality, or augmented reality, or mixed reality? Joonmo: Yeah, about one or two years ago we tried to use AR glasses, such as Magic Leap or Nreal. Alan: That's fantastic.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

The moment I turned my hand over or closed my fist, the little blue bird would flutter away and move around the room; similar to the Undersea MR experience offered by the Magic Leap One Creator Edition, in which a 3D fish cuddles in the hand of the user. Image Credit: Microsoft. EYE-TRACKING AND VOICE COMMAND.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 31, 2016

At this year’s IMMERSE Summit , Road to VR sat down with Matt McIlwain , managing director at Madrona Venture Group (investor in Envelop VR and Pixvana ), and Patrick Eggen , managing director at Qualcomm Ventures (investor in Owlchemy Labs and Magic Leap ), to discuss their investing strategies when it comes to virtual and augmented reality.

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TechCrunch VR

APRIL 30, 2019

Soon everyone will be wearing 3D-capable cameras to support augmented reality (often referred to as mixed reality) applications. Tim Cook has warned the industry about “the data industrial complex” and advocated for privacy as a human right. Same for HoloLens, Magic Leap and all the startups in the space.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

Alan: So how is 5G -- or just the ability to have this kind of massive data pipe -- affecting your ability to do virtual reality, or augmented reality, or mixed reality? Joonmo: Yeah, about one or two years ago we tried to use AR glasses, such as Magic Leap or Nreal. Alan: That's fantastic.

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