XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 7, 2022

One of the major market leaders in the XR accessories environment, Rebuff Reality focuses on developing enhanced solutions for existing VR hardware and tools. The company produces a range of power systems, tracking modules, and cross-platform compatible audio solutions. Magic Leap. Rebuff Reality.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 15, 2024

The OpenXR API is a core piece behind many XR headsets from vendors such as Acer, ByteDance, Canon, HTC, Magic Leap, Meta, Microsoft, Sony, XREAL, Qualcomm, Valve, and Varjo. Moreover, RT3D development services like Autodesk VRED, Blender, Godot, NVIDIA’s Omniverse, StereoKit, Unreal Engine, and Unity support OpenXR integration.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

This is because the sales have not been enormous, and the content for it is not exploiting completely its new features (there are some cool uses of eye tracking, but that’s it). The Unity Beta to develop for the Vision Pro is still not available, so many devs like me can’t even play with the emulator.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

Before leaving you to the best news of the week, I would like to highlight two notable things about my work: My crazy trolling game “The Unity Cube” has been featured in a video by Upload VR! Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap 2 is coming in Q1 2022. You don’t even know how this made me happy! Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 31, 2022

But Meta is not limiting itself to improving its hardware: always this week it has announced that it has invented a new self-supervised algorithm for machine learning training that can learn in the same way for speech, vision, and text. Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap 2 to feature dynamic dimming. Image by Unity).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

Today, we’re looking at some of the top MR headset manufacturers in the industry, to help business leaders track down the right endpoints for their technology stack. The solution turns tracking inside out to reduce setup time, and loosens the hardware restrictions of other devices.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

HP and Microsoft have a long track in offering enterprise hardware, so this headset may battle HTC on his own land (B2B). Rony Abovitz steps down from Magic Leap CEO. This was a very good thing and attracted many people to Magic Leap. I hope that Magic Leap will benefit from it and will recover pretty soon.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

JULY 26, 2023

Doing so will also provide greater interoperability with additional platforms such as Unity and Xcode, among others. This ranged from user interfaces (UIs), filming, controls, and hardware optimisation. In a recent Big News episode, five professionals from the XR industry shared their insights on the implications of such content.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 23, 2023

Magic Leap Currently focusing its attention on the enterprise landscape, Magic Leap produces AR and MR headsets designed to address the needs of various industries. The solution turns tracking inside out to reduce setup time and loosens the hardware restrictions of other devices.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

Basically, they are: Hyper-optimization : since this is a standalone headset, Oculus has been able to optimize the hardware and software for VR usage. But we also know that when in VR, most people just look forward with their eyes. Oculus announces Hardware Reports. Magic Leap releases its SDK.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Well, now he has amazing hardware, a very good operating system, a profitable store, some of the best XR games, full control of the user accounts. Considering that game engines know about hardware products far before their official release, I found reliable that Apple was talking with them about future features.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

Apple’s take on immersive technologies will also test the future of XR hardware solutions and their roles in the broader XR community through rigorous use cases. This could actually be quite beneficial for Meta, Microsoft, and Magic Leap. Apple is behind the ball here, with the advancements in spatial and mixed reality AI.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

The addition of eye-tracking injects a new layer of interactivity to the user experience. This option gives you a headset plus $500 credit for Microsoft Azure , a three-month free trial of Unity Pro , and the PiXYZ plugin — giving you all the necessary tools to test, create, and launch enterprise apps for the HoloLens 2.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Furthermore, $2 million goes further today toward a creating an XR headset than it did years ago thanks to more readily available and mature hardware, supply chains, and software. One of those shortcuts to market comes through Qualcomm’s hardware accelerator program and its XR SDK. million on Kickstarter back in 2012.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

High-precision 6DOF tracking, eye tracking, gesture inputs, with dedicated input controllers The SDK will support Unity , with Unreal coming Soon. People at Kura love to experiment with hardware going very hands-on the technology (Image by Kura Technologies). The official computational unit runs Android.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Step 3: Know your Hardware and Software Needs As mentioned, spatial computing solutions aren’t just a single app or device. Some organizations focus heavily on hand tracking. For instance, Ultraleap offers state-of-the-art hand-tracking tools to monitor even minute movements at your fingertips.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

Glasses : Weight : 88g Connectivity : USB-C compatible Optics : Combined Lightguide FOV : 52° Maximum resolution: 1080p Environmental Understanding : SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping), 6DoF tracking, Plane detection, Image tracking Cameras : two tracking cameras + one RGB. All bugs that were taunting me vanished away.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 9, 2021

Talking about the hardware, we have confirmation about the 2K x 2K per eye resolution and the eye-tracking used for foveated rendering. Of course, some of these developers have leaked info to the press, and so now we have some more info about the VR headset and its related content.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

As for the partnerships, the most intriguing one is the one with my friends at 7Invensun , one of the worldwide leading companies in eye-tracking technologies. I guess nReal will experiment with eye-tracking for a new version of the headset, maybe targeted at the enterprise market.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

Mirror Lake includes holographic lenses, reverse passthrough (people can see your eyes when you wear it), varifocal, and eye-tracking in a single very lightweight device. Rony Abovitz talks about Magic Leap 2 and clarifies that it has been made by the team of ML1, which now is almost all gone. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

There is no point if you have face tracking and it doesn’t work well… and the positional tracking alone is very difficult to provide well even for established companies (only Oculus’s one is very fluid) In the video they say confusing things like “R&D is cheap now” (really? All of this for $450 and free shipping. w/ DSC*, HDMI 2.2

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

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. We’ve got the Hololens silo, we’ve got the Magic Leap silo.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

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. We’ve got the Hololens silo, we’ve got the Magic Leap silo.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Eye-tracking startup Eyefluence, which raises $14 million this month, is acquired about a year later by Google. Magic Leap kicks off the month with the announcement of an enormous $794 million fundraising round, backed by Alibaba. Unity raises a massive $181 million round to grow its ambitions. December 2015.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

It avoided adding an external box that the user has to wear on this pants , but included all the required hardware into the HoloLens headset. I think that in industrial environments, where the HoloLens is having great success, the less the cables and the worn hardware, the better for the workers. Design and comfort. Image by Reddit).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Many products showcased at the conference included flagship releases of VR headsets and solutions such as the Meta Quest Pro, Magic Leap 2, Lenovo ThinkReality A3, and AT&T’s Volumetric Video Photo Booth, among many others. Didimo’s technologies eliminated this by producing avatars “at scale.”

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Cameron: I've noticed that -- and this is a bit of a sideways way to look at it -- I've noticed that, with companies that come in and they're looking to dip their toe into virtual reality or augmented reality, that sometimes they fall into the trap of investing so much into the hardware. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Cameron: I've noticed that -- and this is a bit of a sideways way to look at it -- I've noticed that, with companies that come in and they're looking to dip their toe into virtual reality or augmented reality, that sometimes they fall into the trap of investing so much into the hardware. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 12, 2021

Magic Leap One ), your brain kind of accept that you see augmentations only through the lens of the glasses and not in the peripheral vision, and so the limited FOV becomes more acceptable. The Achille’s heel of positional tracking is the light: if the room is completely dark, it doesn’t work anymore. Hands Tracking.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Cameron: I've noticed that -- and this is a bit of a sideways way to look at it -- I've noticed that, with companies that come in and they're looking to dip their toe into virtual reality or augmented reality, that sometimes they fall into the trap of investing so much into the hardware. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Cameron: I've noticed that -- and this is a bit of a sideways way to look at it -- I've noticed that, with companies that come in and they're looking to dip their toe into virtual reality or augmented reality, that sometimes they fall into the trap of investing so much into the hardware. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

The idea of Leap Motion is going against the current trend of augmented reality glasses, that is mostly based on expensive devices that have closed ecosystems (e.g. HoloLens or Magic Leap One ), but to create a headset that is: Affordable; Completely open, both from a software and hardware standpoint.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

It’s– I think another thing that will make a big difference and it doesn’t seem like a big thing, but eye tracking. Being able to actually look somebody in the eyes in VR. I’ve had the opportunity of playing with the Tobii tracking system with HTC Vive. Alan: Yeah. It really– it feels right.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

It's-- I think another thing that will make a big difference and it doesn't seem like a big thing, but eye tracking. Being able to actually look somebody in the eyes in VR. I've had the opportunity of playing with the Tobii tracking system with HTC Vive. Alan: Yeah. It really-- it feels right. It's amazing. Kent: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

It’s– I think another thing that will make a big difference and it doesn’t seem like a big thing, but eye tracking. Being able to actually look somebody in the eyes in VR. I’ve had the opportunity of playing with the Tobii tracking system with HTC Vive. Alan: Yeah. It really– it feels right.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

The tracking system of Oculus Quest is called Insights and it is an inside-out tracking technology , that is it doesn’t need any kind of external hardware or setup to work. It is standalone (as HoloLens and Magic Leap ) and has cameras through which it sees the environment.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

They’re a Unity authorized training partner and their team of 20 people is giving professionals the skills they need to build value-driven XR experiences. Like, “Unity 101: here’s how to make a model.” From this journey, Circuit Stream’s 10-week online course emerged. Alan: So how did you begin?

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