XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Nreal, Meta, Magic Leap, and RealWear produce AR devices that suit consumer, enterprise, or industrial environments. Although the benefit for businesses could be significant, smart glasses enable workers to access mission-critical documents hands-free with increasingly sophisticated eye tracking and voice-assisted navigation options.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Feature-wise, it is more or less as we expected it to be, with four cameras for inside-out tracking, haptic feedback, IPD adjustment , eye-tracking, HDR display. I speculate on this for the following reasons: Valve has not announced a standalone headset yet while customizing the Qualcomm reference designs would be “easy” for it.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 8, 2024

Goertek XReal Lenovo Iristick Vuzix Magic Leap XYZReality Longan Vision Rokid ThirdEye Google Toshiba Epson RealWear Microsoft Lumus TCL RayNeo Goertek Offering a variety of extended reality products for virtual and augmented experiences, Goertek has a range of smart glasses included in its portfolio.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 4, 2023

Read up on the latest news here. Latest Vuzix News Magic Leap Magic Leap specializes in the creation of AR and MR solutions, for enterprise users. The Magic Leap 2 headset is the most recent solution provided by the company for the AR smart glasses landscape. Check up on the latest news here.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Apple refers to its AR/VR/MR solutions brand as spatial computing, which differentiates itself from the market. The event featured leading XR firms, such as Google, Meta, and Magic Leap, with representatives from Google and Mojo Vision who introduced the event in an opening keynote.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 4, 2023

Goertek NReal Lenovo Iristick Vuzix Magic Leap XYZReality Longan Vision Rokid ThirdEye Google Toshiba Epson RealWear Microsoft Lumus TCL RayNeo Goertek Offering a variety of extended reality products for virtual and augmented experiences, Goertek has a range of smart glasses included in its portfolio.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

If you make a custom device for VR only, you can design it from day zero to be optimal to do only VR : this means that even if the Go is based an old VR 821 reference design, it has more power than a Gear VR mounting an S7 phone (and dissipates better the heat); The Oculus Go headset and controller (Image by Road To VR).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2023

Last but not least is the NXTWear V, currently just a bit more than a concept, which is a VR headset with AR passthrough, also featuring a Snapdragon XR2 chipset, a 108-degree field of view as well as a “super-sharp” pixel density of 1512 pixels per inch (thanks to a 2280 by 2280 pixels per eye resolution).

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Magic Leap Magic Leap specializes in the creation of AR and MR solutions for enterprise users. The Magic Leap 2 headset is the most recent solution provided by the company for the AR smart glasses landscape. Magic Leap also recently achieved an IEC 60601 certification for its headset.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

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. Pico Neo 2 and Neo Eye 2 are now on the market. Road To VR) More info (Qualcomm’s Wi-fi 6 chips?—?Upload

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 5, 2020

and look like standard sunglasses; NReal has partnered with 7Invensun and is going to add eye tracking to its cheap AR glasses ; Pimax is going to unveil the price of the Artisan, its new low-price headset with amazing FOV and resolution. The eye-tracked model costs only $900. They are incredibly light (10 grams!)

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Future solutions will get rid of clunky wired headsets and move onto glasses that can project a high-definition image onto the eye, a la Magic Leap, and eventually contact lenses that contain tiny screens. 3D tracking, capture, and/or rendering: Paracosm: 8i: PrioVR: Uncorporeal: Otoy: Matterport: Snapchat: www.snapchat.com.

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VRWorld

JULY 5, 2017

Now, there’s a Finnish startup emerging from stealth mode offering 70 times higher resolution than offered (or promised) by HTC, Oculus or even Magic Leap, with its 1-2K floating display. All these headsets have multiple times higher resolution than GearVR/Rift/Vive.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2019

You may wonder about the Vive Cosmos … well, I’ve tried asking Qualcomm, but a representative of its has answered that we have to wait for an announcement by the Taiwanese company; Qualcomm reference design headset plugged into a Snapdragon 855 phone (Image by Road To VR). The look it provides is also cool.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

The addition of eye-tracking injects a new layer of interactivity to the user experience. EYE-TRACKING AND VOICE COMMAND. Eye-tracking technology was an important feature for Microsoft as they wanted to ensure the headset offered users a fluid hands-free experience. Image Credit: Microsoft.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 4, 2017

These micro-ridges are referred to as a “surface relief” waveguide. The image is essentially sliced into a series of vertical stripes and reassembled by a corresponding set of micro-ridges on the other end of the lens, in front of the eye. Magic Leap. At this point, it appears Magic Leap returned to the drawing board.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

“Apple has invented the glasses of the future” is probably what journals and magazines will say the day of launch, and all the various HoloLens , Magic Leap , etc… will be forgotten by mainstream media. So, this may be what Oculus will make people try: Rift 2 : eye tracking , varifocal display, 140° FOV.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Kopin is one, but they made a reference design that they’re hoping other companies like RealWear will adapt and manufacture and market. Charlie: RealWear is a company that is associated with Kopin, and uses their reference design to create a monocular micro-display. Those are the kinds of apps that Magic Leap wants to enable.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Kopin is one, but they made a reference design that they’re hoping other companies like RealWear will adapt and manufacture and market. Charlie: RealWear is a company that is associated with Kopin, and uses their reference design to create a monocular micro-display. Those are the kinds of apps that Magic Leap wants to enable.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Qualcomm supports partners with hardware and software reference designs which act as blueprints for companies like Lynx to quickly commercialize headsets. The Qualcomm XR SDK includes core functionality like inside-out head tracking and the ability to run applications on a headset without writing a new application framework from scratch.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

It’s an umbrella term referring to various technologies influencing how we interact with computer systems. The term refers to many different technologies and tools which work together to improve human/machine interaction. Some organizations focus heavily on hand tracking.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

This could actually be quite beneficial for Meta, Microsoft, and Magic Leap. AR can also assist in quality inspections by highlighting defects, providing real-time feedback, and comparing finished products to digital reference models. When you look at streaming channels, they compete against each other and make better content.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

AR processors will feature 4-nanometre architecture with a central processing unit (CPU), a Hexagon Tensor processor for hand and eye tracking and image processing, an engine for visual analytics, Adreno display, Spectra ISP, and other components. Amon Comments on Hand and Eye Tracking Tools. Gbps of peak speed.

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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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Road to VR

OCTOBER 31, 2016

At this year’s IMMERSE Summit , Road to VR sat down with Matt McIlwain , managing director at Madrona Venture Group (investor in Envelop VR and Pixvana ), and Patrick Eggen , managing director at Qualcomm Ventures (investor in Owlchemy Labs and Magic Leap ), to discuss their investing strategies when it comes to virtual and augmented reality.

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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. Internally the device is referred to as NGVR (Next-Gen VR), but honestly, I still believe it will be called PSVR 2.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

Fable Studios is building Lucy, an AI character that currently acts as a self aware drawn character in the “Wolves in the Walls” series but eventually will become her a personified OS much in the same way Mica from Magic Leap is aiming to be. The Evolution of Brand Activations.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

After having announced the impressive XR2 chipset in December, today Qualcomm has released the related XR2 reference-design, upon which will be based most of the upcoming standalone XR headsets. Qualcomm XR2 reference design. Chipsets and reference designs. Then the hard part is implementing the firmware and OS magic.

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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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Upload VR

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Eye tracking is off by default for privacy reasons, but if you enable it you can open a Fit Adjustment guide that measures your IPD and tells you to adjust the lenses to this value. I tried purposely setting my IPD wrong while eye tracking was activated and the guide often doesn’t appear.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

We looked at the market that time a couple of years ago to look at who is really central to defining the reference stack. What that means that from a software architecture standpoint and a hardware standpoint, we try to make our software as optimized as possible for their reference designs. What's going to most AR and VR devices?

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

We looked at the market that time a couple of years ago to look at who is really central to defining the reference stack. What that means that from a software architecture standpoint and a hardware standpoint, we try to make our software as optimized as possible for their reference designs. What's going to most AR and VR devices?

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

We looked at the market that time a couple of years ago to look at who is really central to defining the reference stack. What that means that from a software architecture standpoint and a hardware standpoint, we try to make our software as optimized as possible for their reference designs. What's going to most AR and VR devices?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2019

You may ask why we should care about this and the reason is that this headset has way too many similarities with the Vive Cosmos , so it is highly probable that the Cosmos is a product based on that reference design, exactly as the Vive Focus was based on Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 VR reference design. How are the visuals?

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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. Reference Design Issues.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

And I reference other technologies, because one really important thing was that AR not only has to do a good job at solving the problem, but has to do a better job than other technologies, or even just fundamentally human ways of solving it. And so we have our Magic Leap build coming out very soon. That’s really exciting.

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