VRScout

MAY 30, 2017

Flight attendants can wear the AR device and, through facial recognition technology, can access flight user data like destination, loyalty status, allergies, when they received their last in-flight snack or beverage… and even assess your mood. RIDE A VIRTUAL WATERSLIDE WITHOUT GETTING WET AT TOPSHOP. Apparently the $1.4B

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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. More info (HCI of the future) More info (AI for videos).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Magic Leap plans dev days and dev programs. We all know that Magic Leap is in big trouble, and it seems that one of the paths it is trying to follow to exit the quicksands is trying to get more developers onboard. More info (Use Google Translate). Are we at an inflection point for VR? props for arcades).

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

As pointed out in one of the Unity Developers’ blog posts , aside from the exponential rise of development businesses, we’re also seeing more developer tools, such as the Unity and Unreal engines, becoming more accessible. Moreover, they can leverage AI to come up with more accurate results.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

And I’m also worried about using a Facebook account for everything XR related, because Facebook has a long history of obscure practices with the data of its users , apart from the standard “personalized ads” business. Facebook already had full control of my Oculus and Facebook accounts, so it had already my XR data.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

But this is no animated video and I’m not watching this on a screen. Julia Winter // Alchemie (Troy, MI) – immersive chemistry curriculum learning tools for higher education, providing real-time assessment via machine learning and data analytics to bridge the knowledge and communications gap between students and professors.

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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. At WCVRI, China shows its strategic interest for VR. Upload VR) More info (Microsoft’s haptic research).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

For sure you all know HADO: even if you don’t remember the name, you have for sure seen one of those viral video where people with an AR headset on the head throw fireballs each other. Software-wise, we use Unity, Vuforia, and OpenCV. This is the video I’m talking about. With “technosports”, you will sweat.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

Someone has already received it and has already shared on the social media videos of the Air Link in action. On the client side, the system will become compatible with iOS devices, and a Magic Leap client has also been developed. NVIDIA DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) will be natively supported for HDRP in Unity 2021.2.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

It states, among other things, that “The company used its data advantage to create superior market intelligence to identify nascent competitive threats and then acquire, copy, or kill these firms”. One of these data is very interesting: 15% of the game players have played it in VR. Someone has made a WebAR exporter for Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

New statistics data on VR from Steam, SuperData, and DigiCapital. This week, we had a bunch of new analytics data on the VR market. Magic Leap, Niantic, etc…) and by two big countries (USA and China). Magic Leap releases new tools for developers. I want to highlight 3 reports: Steam Hardware survey.

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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). More info (Korean research on VR optics) More info (All videos of IEEE VR).

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It's notable that this vision of augmented reality layers is also very similar to one shared by the earlier days of Magic Leap, before the company laid off many of its workers. For certain implementations, Psychic is using geographic data provided by the Japanese government for development uses cases like this.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

If we talk about compatible devices, we all have a smartphone that can do AR, we all have watched on some social media short video selfies with some AR effects on. This commercial video about Google Glasses led me to immersive realities. Magic Leap will meet its fate. Duck Face, Magic Leap One, and me.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

It’s been 2 hours full of cool insights and you can watch all of them in the video here below: if you have the time, I assure you you won’t regret watching it! If you don’t have 2 hours, don’t worry, here below I have extracted the most interesting tidbits of the videos for you to enjoy!

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

So instead of playing a video game and shooting everybody, you're enjoying a concert by Trevor Scott or whoever. Unity Technologies just went public. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. And Unity's, I think started. Are they not?

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

So instead of playing a video game and shooting everybody, you're enjoying a concert by Trevor Scott or whoever. Unity Technologies just went public. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. And Unity's, I think started. Are they not?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Moreover, Apple is also pushing its Vision Pro SDK to support its first-party and Unity-supported third-party immersive applications, again in a bid to create a sophisticated piece of hardware with a system-selling lineup of integrated applications and hardware.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

So you don’t know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. Alan: So how do you then get people to learn how to do Unreal and Unity without teaching them? There’s one, you need to get data in somehow, right? So the traditional way to do it is to use Unreal or Unity. First of all, we’re getting data in.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

So you don’t know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. Alan: So how do you then get people to learn how to do Unreal and Unity without teaching them? There’s one, you need to get data in somehow, right? So the traditional way to do it is to use Unreal or Unity. First of all, we’re getting data in.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

The third major change came from Unity which recently announced that it will now be serving AR ads on mobile. Unity has one of the world’s largest mobile ad serving businesses and at the end of last year they partnered with Fossil to pilot this new ad format in mobile games. The Evolution of Brand Ambassadors.

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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. Accompanying this will be persistent, stateful geographic Assets and Data, some static, others interactive with behaviors of their own.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

So instead of playing a video game and shooting everybody, you're enjoying a concert by Trevor Scott or whoever. Unity Technologies just went public. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. And Unity's, I think started. Are they not?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

So you don't know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. Alan: So how do you then get people to learn how to do Unreal and Unity without teaching them? There's one, you need to get data in somehow, right? So the traditional way to do it is to use Unreal or Unity. First of all, we're getting data in. Affordable.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 5, 2021

The most interesting insight of the week comes from analyst Mark Mahaney, that, among other things has analyzed Facebook’s Virtual Reality business, and has reported very interesting data. and also why the $2+B investment in Magic Leap was not enough to bring it to success. Brickit is the dream app for all LEGO fans.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Here you are the full video of the interview. Some of my toy projects… I did a ton of these toys joysticks that you plug into a television and have a bunch of video games built in. Yeah, I don’t know if you’ve seen any of the videos …yeah a lot of these features are already prototyped and we’re demonstrating them all.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 29, 2020

With rumors of upcoming Apple glasses surging, and the investment made in Magic Leap that until now has been unfruitful, for sure Google is looking for an alternative to build its AR strategy. Unity Learn Premium is permanently free. Do you want to learn Unity for your next big AR/VR app? Take your course on Unity now!

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

This hands-free video communication system allows technicians to connect remotely with experts operating on PCs or mobile devices in real-time for on-the-spot support. The HoloLens 2 takes a magical leap in the right direction for Microsoft, as well as MR, AR, and VR technology in general. Image Credit: Microsoft.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

Also because you have to consider that with 170M users using this camera-based app, it won’t be that difficult for Snap to gather data to build the AR Cloud. The most probable explanation is that they don’t even know what it is about: VR must be tried to be understood, and watching Youtube videos isn’t enough. Keep an eye on Snap.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

So after the video, many people said that they understood it is not a scam and proceeded to pay the $10 to reserve the headset. Personally, I have to say that I’m not convinced at all even after the video. Then why Magic Leap hasn’t delivered a solid product with 2B?)

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

We're going to dig into using Magic Leap and Hololens and mixed reality headsets as a tool for business. We have all these videos during our user tests of people crawling on the ground, shooting zombies and jumping up and down. And Magic Leap, of course, did an amazing job of evangelizing mixed reality across the world.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

We're going to dig into using Magic Leap and Hololens and mixed reality headsets as a tool for business. We have all these videos during our user tests of people crawling on the ground, shooting zombies and jumping up and down. And Magic Leap, of course, did an amazing job of evangelizing mixed reality across the world.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2019

You can import 3D models, images, videos, music into the worlds. It’s like being inside of Unity engine with your friends. What surprised me the most of Neos is that everything is completely scriptable, as if it was Unity. As you can see, it resembles a bit the one of Unity (Image by Frooxius).

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

And certainly, if everybody’s trying to uplink a live video stream of something that’s going on, then it becomes even more overwhelming. Why would a company need some sort of augmented reality, where it’s capturing the world’s data? Terry: Yeah, exactly. Then connectivity becomes even more problematic.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

And certainly, if everybody’s trying to uplink a live video stream of something that’s going on, then it becomes even more overwhelming. Why would a company need some sort of augmented reality, where it’s capturing the world’s data? Terry: Yeah, exactly. Then connectivity becomes even more problematic.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

We're going to dig into using Magic Leap and Hololens and mixed reality headsets as a tool for business. We have all these videos during our user tests of people crawling on the ground, shooting zombies and jumping up and down. And Magic Leap, of course, did an amazing job of evangelizing mixed reality across the world.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Spend one minute and watch the two videos below , where I play as a magician and show you the results of my crazy experiments. changing in the illumination of the room); Have some other complementary data. If you have other cameras and sensors installed in the room, you can use their data to fill the holes.

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