Road to VR

AUGUST 17, 2018

There’s a lot that can be said about the Magic Leap One. And although its OS and apps don’t fully utilize the tech available to them, Magic Leap One is an ambitious, well-made, but imperfect MR devkit that doesn’t quite live up to the hype, but is still the most complete and affordable mixed-reality (MR) computer out there.

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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. Leap Motion. You may ask why I’m adding Leap Motion here.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The fact that all immersive technologies have been flagged as mature by it means that many more companies will believe in their potential and will want to implement them. The road in front of AR and VR is still very long and many years are needed to make immersive realities mainstream like cell phones. Header image by Leap Motion).

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Matsuda himself subsequently began working in AR following the film's release, leading design teams at both Leap Motion (now Ultraleap) and Microsoft. While an admirable concept for how sports might undergo immersive reinvention, the technology demonstrated during the final race was ultimately let down by a lack of occlusion.

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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. Magic Leap are the highest-profile, with both a device and a platform, and more recent entrants include Ubiquity6, AIReal and Placenote.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

After stepping down from the role of CEO of Magic Leap, Rony Abovitz has started a new venture called Sun And Thunder about digital beings. Intelligent Digital Humans are a new important trend of XR and Abovitz wants to enter there with the big expertise in art and technology that he has developed at Magic Leap.

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VRGuy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Acer, NVIDIA, Valve, Ubisoft, Leap Motion and many others joined the ecosystem. For example, head tracking can come from optical trackers or inertial ones. VR peripherals increase immersion and bring more senses into play. For example, DAQRI integrated a plugin that detects objects in a video stream.

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