Road to VR

DECEMBER 20, 2018

While we don’t know much about gameplay mechanics yet, it’s possible the Magic Leap One release of Angry Birds: FPS – First Person Slingshot may hold some answers. Surprisingly enough, this isn’t the first time Rovio has jumped into virtual reality with some flavor of Angry Birds for VR.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2023

More info Meta may partner soon with Magic Leap The Financial Times this week reported a very unexpected piece of news: Meta may be working on a partnership with Magic Leap for the production of AR glasses. Magic Leap has factories in the US and Mexico able to produce AR glasses.

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ARPost

MAY 12, 2022

Magic Leap. Also, Athena Demos of Big Rock Creative (the group that brings Burning Man to AltspaceVR ) presents “Principles in the Metaverse (Multiverse).”. Of course, companies don’t need to have a keynote to say something interesting. Major XR companies with talks scheduled include: Lenovo (read: ThinkReality ). Autodesk Inc.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

The news is overly important because Alyx is already changing the virtual reality landscape for these reasons: It is increasing awareness towards VR a lot (all mainstream gaming media are talking about it); It is increasing sales of VR headsets a lot; It will probably show us new interactions in XR that will affect the UX of many games after it.

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Tech Trends VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

This is what video game giant Wargaming are hoping to prove when they start demoing their latest offering at Gamescom in Germany this week. WoT AR Spectate is a Mixed Reality take on their popular title “World of Tanks” (WoT) which boasts over 140 million players worldwide. billion by 2022. Click To Tweet. billion by 2022.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

On the client side, the system will become compatible with iOS devices, and a Magic Leap client has also been developed. On the server-side, it is being integrated with Microsoft Azure, and it is also coming in the future for Google Cloud and Tencent Cloud. Google is hiring waveguide developers for AR.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

At GDC 2017 LG showcased a virtual reality headset that was SteamVR compatible: it was a game-changing moment since for the first time a new non-Vive headset would have been compatible with SteamVR tracking and ecosystem. I had a chance to demo the Oculus Santa Cruz today at #gdc18 ! Magic Leap releases its SDK.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 10, 2023

It’s been another interesting week in immersive realities, so let’s see what happened in our field in the past few days! Top news of the week (Image by Google) Samsung XR headset may have been delayed The new rumor in town is that Samsung has delayed its upcoming headset that it is building in partnership with Google and Qualcomm.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

At the same time, Facebook could have an approach similar to the one that Google has with Android: theoretically you can use an Android phone without a Google account, but good luck in doing it : since my phone is Chinese, I don’t have Google services and I can assure you that it is a true pain in the a**. Image by Google).

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VRScout

JUNE 19, 2016

Want to do a demo? Starting on June 24th, PlayStation will offer PSVR demos at about 300 Best Buy and GameStop locations across the US and Canada. CEO Chris Milk explains that they want to avoid buzz words: “Tying our brand to [the words] virtual reality, a phrase we may not even use in ten years, seems inadvisable.”

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Upload VR

JUNE 6, 2023

Augmented Reality. In 2014, Facebook acquired Oculus and planted a flag in virtual reality. What does it mean, then, that Apple planted its flag in augmented reality? Apple's announcement today is a very good validation of the overall XR/spatial computing sector," Magic Leap founder Rony Abovitz wrote to me.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

I think this new pricing strategy is very important: $299 has historically been considered as the golden price to start getting mainstream adoption , and Facebook proposing this in the months that lead to the Christmas Holidays may cause a big spike in sales of virtual reality headsets. Image by Magic Leap).

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Road to VR

JUNE 15, 2016

The money comes from investors Horizons Ventures Limited, Banyan Capital, Comcast Ventures, GQY and Tencent and represents a significant show of faith in the company and its products: it’s competitors, namely Microsoft’s Hololens and Google-backed Magic Leap , are already well-funded, to say the least.

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AllThingsVR

MAY 12, 2016

After exploring virtual reality gaming in Ready Player One, Cline adds long-range drone combat using a virtual reality game to the mix in his second page-turning bestseller. Here, Cline explains to [a]listdaily why he’s all-in for virtual reality in this exclusive interview. It’s amazing.

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Tech Trends VR

MARCH 7, 2018

One of the Pearson applications I demoed showed was called Holopatient. It’s courseware that you can interact with either on a PC, or stick it on a Google cardboard and in there you’d have hotspots where you can find out more about certain elements, or control where you go within the experience. link] pic.twitter.com/U6vdVEZ840.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Upload’s senior editor Ian Hamilton even claimed that Pistol Whip will be his to-go experience for all the times he will have to demo VR to people. Magic Leap, Niantic, etc…) and by two big countries (USA and China). Facebook Reality Labs continues working on cool stuff related to AR and VR. More info.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

OMG, it’s almost 3 years that I write these roundups… the first week peek was exclusive for my blog subscribers and it featured as best news the release of Google Blocks and in the other news something about Samsung Gear VR… how much time has passed since then! More info (HoloLens 2 news) More info (Firefox Reality releases on HoloLens).

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ARVR

JANUARY 22, 2021

But they got acquired by Google, so they´re gone for now. And Magic Leap , the company we all put our AR faith in, has refocused their strategy away from consumers and towards healthcare, defense and telecommunications. Focals, by North? —?a Last year the company, valued at $6.4 Don’t forget to give us your ?? ! link] 2021?—?the

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 25, 2023

Augmented reality (AR) is an immersive technology that unlocks a variety of benefits for the retail sector. It is much easier to implement for shops, conferences, and expos than virtual reality (VR). Meta’s Spark, Google’s ARCore, and Apple’s ARKit platforms are some of the best platforms for this.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2019

I’m here to attend the WCVRI , a very big event about Virtual Reality in China, where I am exhibiting HitMotion: Reloaded , the mixed reality fitness game of my agency New Technology Walkers ( contact us if you need some VR development!). I’ve just had my first day in Nanchang, China. No one speaks well in English, seriously.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 1, 2023

We Repeat: The Metaverse Is Not Dead Inbar’s avatar told audiences that augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) technologies were “no longer buzzwords,” but had become “an integral part of our daily lives.” Many have hosted panel discussions, demos, and presentations for the three-day event.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 28, 2019

Chinese AR and smartglasses manufacturer Seengene (that has a website much inspired by Magic Leap) had a booth showcasing its smartglasses for enterprise usage. Regarding the look and feel, they are more or less close to other devices like Vuzix and Google Glasses. I have tried the Seengene smart glasses for some instants.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 11, 2016

The author was Doug Engelbart and his presentation became known as “The Mother of All Demos” Instead of standing at a podium, Mr. Engelbart sat in a custom designed console, where he drove his presentation through the NLS computer residing 30 miles away in his research lab at the Stanford Research Institute.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2019

In Taiwan, all western websites work and so you don’t need to set up a VPN just to use Google. 3D objects had washed out colors , a bit like when you see AR objects through HoloLens 1 and Magic Leap One … they appeared a bit semi-transparent. I also tried a demo that employed Taiwanese gloves and scent emission hardware.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Two days ago, I’ve given you my predictions for virtual reality in 2021 (read it, in case you missed it). Now it’s time to make some forecasts about its companion technology, that is augmented reality! This commercial video about Google Glasses led me to immersive realities.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 29, 2020

Google is going to buy North. A report says tha t Alphabet, the company behind Google, is in the last stages of the acquisition of North, the Canadian startup that makes the Focals smartglasses. Google adds depth APIs to ARCore. Well, it seems that there is an online demo of this algorithm and you can try it yourself!

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Viveport is improving a lot, and now HTC is also launching the Vive XR Suite , which will be distributed thanks to the support of a strong network of partners like HP, NVIDIA, Baidu (the Chinese Google), and Accenture. Well, that demo has turned into a paid application called Clipdrop. And it has now a free demo, so you can try it now!

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

By the time Howard Rheingold’s “Virtual Reality” was published in 1991, the Sensorama was already a “slowly deteriorating” relic stashed away in a cabana next the pool at its inventor’s West Los Angeles home. The demo described in the book finds the user riding a motorcycle down a Brooklyn street.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2016

John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity Technologies, predicted that tech journalists would start gleefully writing that the virtual reality revolution is over because sales of VR headsets fell short of expectations, and analysts are in the midst of shaving back their predictions. I’m not one of those journalists.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I’m sorry about that, but it’s still a miracle I’ve managed to write it… Top news of the week (Leaked image from Samsung video) Samsung is back to XR with Google and Qualcomm The big news of the week is that Samsung is back to XR. What is even more interesting is that this device will be built in partnership with Google and Qualcomm.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

That is the basis for the new Apple and is important for a range of new products, from robots that will do things around your house, to cars that will drive you around, to augmented and virtual reality products that will bring new kinds of games and experiences to all of us. Disclaimer. Apple isn’t alone in building such, either.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 4, 2017

Google and Sony both have intellectual property around waveguide designs similar in nature. 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. Near-eye Optics Basics.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

He’s going to kill Apple and Google Maps in 2 years , at least in places where he has a lot of cars” All these cars have 8 camera, Lidar, AI chips, and they are connected to the cloud. Why can’t it be Facebook, or Magic Leap ? VR technology is still not ready today to fulfill this need. PRNewsfoto/BadVR).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 7, 2023

Ah S**t Here We Go Again GIF from Ah S**t GIFs The Autumn of VR We are in an “Autumn” of Virtual Reality. People have started wondering if Virtual Reality will ever become mainstream, and the metaverse has become kind of a joke, about which even Meta took some steps back. We need something more.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Anne-Marie: Well, the VR/AR Global Summit is going into its second year, and it is two days that are jam packed full of amazing industry speakers, workshops, speed dating, great events, amazing exhibits and demos. But then there’s the Virtual Reality, Toronto; VRTO: That one is a small but very powerful group.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Anne-Marie: Well, the VR/AR Global Summit is going into its second year, and it is two days that are jam packed full of amazing industry speakers, workshops, speed dating, great events, amazing exhibits and demos. But then there’s the Virtual Reality, Toronto; VRTO: That one is a small but very powerful group.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

In January 2014, he launched his second print titled The Startup Monthly in May 2016, he launched — what I love — VRVoice.co, a content vertical on all things virtual reality. You have your own podcast and news outlet, talking about all things virtual reality, VRVoice. That was wonderful. Alan: Yeah.

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