The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

Magic Leap releases its SDK. We still haven’t seen a Magic Leap device , but at least now we can see its SDK. The Florida company has released during the GDC the Lumin SDK, that is the development kit that has to be used to develop for LuminOS, the custom operating system of the Magic Leap device.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

This will make the experience even better for the users since they will be able to enjoy shared persistent AR with no friction and no need to download anything. Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap has sold units of its first device for $550. The “metaverse” was not a key topic inside “Microsoft Build”.

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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. In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal. Find out more details, dynamics and submission guidelines here. .

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 5, 2021

I am super happy about it, it’s like a dream coming true… On Wednesday 7th at 11:15–11:30 am CEST I will (remotely) speak together with Massimiliano Ariani at the famous Laval Virtual event , in the fitness track, where we will speak about HitMotion: Reloaded (btw download our game now !) Image by Microsoft). News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

After a long update download, I was ready to go and the device started working much better. The NRSDK is Nreal’s SDK that lets you develop applications using the popular Unity game engine. It also gives you all the tools to let you s tart developing Unity applications for the Nreal glasses even if you don’t have the device.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Game engines like the versatile Unity have long been the go-to for AR development, and for good reason. In 2013, after 10 years of creating video games, he joined Magic Leap where he was promoted to senior director, overseeing content and SDK teams. And it was for me as well; I’ve been a Unity user forever.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Game engines like the versatile Unity have long been the go-to for AR development, and for good reason. In 2013, after 10 years of creating video games, he joined Magic Leap where he was promoted to senior director, overseeing content and SDK teams. And it was for me as well; I’ve been a Unity user forever.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Game engines like the versatile Unity have long been the go-to for AR development, and for good reason. In 2013, after 10 years of creating video games, he joined Magic Leap where he was promoted to senior director, overseeing content and SDK teams. You know what, go learn Unity and coding and figure out how to actually make it.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

It comes in two flavors: one that works with physical disks and the other one with an internal hard drive to download games from the store. Late to the party after Oculus and Microsoft already released prototypical implementations, but finally Valve has implemented OpenXR into its runtime SteamVR. Unity details its MARS solution.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And then even Magic Leap, I’ve heard rumors that they’re going to be introducing an enterprise division, or an enterprise something. And we have something like Beat Saber, which had more than a million downloads. And now, to this day, I think it remains Microsoft’s best pivot ever.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And then even Magic Leap, I’ve heard rumors that they’re going to be introducing an enterprise division, or an enterprise something. And we have something like Beat Saber, which had more than a million downloads. And now, to this day, I think it remains Microsoft’s best pivot ever.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

John Riccitiello -- the CEO of Unity -- was one of the first to point out that there was going to be this great sort of gold rush of people who were going to overhype VR and its potential, and then we're going to see this gap of a disappointment where the early reality didn't match up with the hype and a lot of people were going to bail on it.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And then even Magic Leap, I’ve heard rumors that they’re going to be introducing an enterprise division, or an enterprise something. And we have something like Beat Saber, which had more than a million downloads. And now, to this day, I think it remains Microsoft’s best pivot ever.

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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. Virtual humans are getting more and more real.

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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. And so that was kind of the impetus for us to say, "Well, we've got a lot of downloads on this, but it doesn't perform in the way games were supposed to perform." Today we have Arash Keshmirian, co-founder of Extality.

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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. And so that was kind of the impetus for us to say, "Well, we've got a lot of downloads on this, but it doesn't perform in the way games were supposed to perform." Today we have Arash Keshmirian, co-founder of Extality.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

After many years of waiting, and even a second iteration of the device scrapped away, Microsoft is finally going to announce the next generation of HoloLens. On stage, there will be Satya Nadella (CEO of Microsoft), Alex Kipman (the inventor of Kinect and HoloLens) and Julia White (Corporate Vice President). The time has come.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

It’s really about bandwidth; the speed at which things could be downloaded. That allows devices which don’t have the compute capabilities today — lightweight AR headset devices — to have the kind of capability that a higher-end device like a Hololens 2 or Magic Leap might have, or even better in some cases.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

It’s really about bandwidth; the speed at which things could be downloaded. That allows devices which don’t have the compute capabilities today — lightweight AR headset devices — to have the kind of capability that a higher-end device like a Hololens 2 or Magic Leap might have, or even better in some cases.

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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. And so that was kind of the impetus for us to say, "Well, we've got a lot of downloads on this, but it doesn't perform in the way games were supposed to perform." Today we have Arash Keshmirian, co-founder of Extality.

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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. The headset is very light and balanced (Image by Microsoft).

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

We do a lot of work with Microsoft in helping serve their customers across a variety of use cases. You've seen Magic Leap pivot to enterprises. So to be clear, we went after the most optimized format for Unity, which are Unity AssetBundles. Bharat: No, we are using Unity AssetBundles, so that's the format.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

We do a lot of work with Microsoft in helping serve their customers across a variety of use cases. You've seen Magic Leap pivot to enterprises. So to be clear, we went after the most optimized format for Unity, which are Unity AssetBundles. Bharat: No, we are using Unity AssetBundles, so that's the format.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

We do a lot of work with Microsoft in helping serve their customers across a variety of use cases. You've seen Magic Leap pivot to enterprises. So to be clear, we went after the most optimized format for Unity, which are Unity AssetBundles. Bharat: No, we are using Unity AssetBundles, so that's the format.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

Matt: The other one — this sort of thing is the stuff that isn’t obvious to people — but the other big one that I think is a big deal is the Microsoft Dynamics 365 apps. The tools are pretty [new], and Unity and things, you need to invest a fair bit of time and effort to build something. Matt: Thanks.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

Matt: The other one — this sort of thing is the stuff that isn’t obvious to people — but the other big one that I think is a big deal is the Microsoft Dynamics 365 apps. The tools are pretty [new], and Unity and things, you need to invest a fair bit of time and effort to build something. Matt: Thanks.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 21, 2019

So, we have an app that people might care to download. Unity is a tool that we use a ton, and it’s cross-platform. This could be for something like a Magic Leap or an Oculus or something like that. What I think about is, “we’ve already gotten them into this app; now what are they going to do?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 21, 2019

So, we have an app that people might care to download. Unity is a tool that we use a ton, and it’s cross-platform. This could be for something like a Magic Leap or an Oculus or something like that. What I think about is, “we’ve already gotten them into this app; now what are they going to do?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 21, 2019

So, we have an app that people might care to download. Unity is a tool that we use a ton, and it's cross-platform. If you can find an interested game developer -- or a few of them -- they can probably get AR or VR stuff started very, very quickly, because it's just downloading one of these frameworks like ARCore or ARKit.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

Matt: The other one — this sort of thing is the stuff that isn’t obvious to people — but the other big one that I think is a big deal is the Microsoft Dynamics 365 apps. The tools are pretty [new], and Unity and things, you need to invest a fair bit of time and effort to build something. Matt: Thanks.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. But at the same time, for those companies that do have that and really want to bring things in-house, what are some of the tools that you're seeing -- besides ARKit, ARCore, and Unity -- that are standing out to you? It's not something that every company will do. Cameron: Absolutely.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. But at the same time, for those companies that do have that and really want to bring things in-house, what are some of the tools that you're seeing -- besides ARKit, ARCore, and Unity -- that are standing out to you? It's not something that every company will do. Cameron: Absolutely.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. But at the same time, for those companies that do have that and really want to bring things in-house, what are some of the tools that you're seeing -- besides ARKit, ARCore, and Unity -- that are standing out to you? It's not something that every company will do. Cameron: Absolutely.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. But at the same time, for those companies that do have that and really want to bring things in-house, what are some of the tools that you're seeing -- besides ARKit, ARCore, and Unity -- that are standing out to you? It's not something that every company will do. Cameron: Absolutely.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 13, 2020

Can people download it now still? HP and Microsoft, they’re running huge departments in this, just because they were early and learned how to do it. No offence to Microsoft, but we’re not living in Windows anymore. We do projects on the Magic Leap. You need somebody who understands Unreal or Unity.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 13, 2020

Can people download it now still? HP and Microsoft, they’re running huge departments in this, just because they were early and learned how to do it. No offence to Microsoft, but we’re not living in Windows anymore. We do projects on the Magic Leap. You need somebody who understands Unreal or Unity.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 13, 2020

Can people download it now still? HP and Microsoft, they're running huge departments in this, just because they were early and learned how to do it. No offence to Microsoft, but we're not living in Windows anymore. We do projects on the Magic Leap. You need somebody who understands Unreal or Unity.

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