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. Leap Motion’s North Star headset (Image by Leap Motion).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2023

Notwithstanding the small size, the glasses are meant for SteamVR gaming, and in particular for people that spend so much time in SteamVR that need a comfortable and lightweight headset. If you remember well, these are very lightweight glasses with a pretty unique steampunk design that are hyping the community since a few years ago.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Auki Labs started in 2019 when Pihl and a team of engineers began working on an AR measurement tool for the popular tabletop game Warhammer 40K. Positioning of the AR content wasn’t very precise, and launching the experience required pre-scanning, which wasn’t conducive to quickly jumping into a game or experience.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Tilt Five is a startup working on eponymous AR glasses that are focused on board games. The idea behind Tilt Five is creating a pair of glasses that are not general-purpose ones, like HoloLens or Magic Leap : Jeri knows the technology is not ready yet. The board and the controller necessary to play Tilt Five games.

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Upload VR

APRIL 25, 2023

Recent Laser Dance and Spatial Ops demos show that developers are figuring out how to make compelling games meshed with your physical environment. Then the game draws a room full of lasers to move through. Resolution Games showed a singe-player wave-based version of its Spatial Ops mixed reality game at GDC too.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2018

He has joined Rony Abovitz at Magic Leap and now he’s there, trying to build the MagicVerse as the SVP of Creative Strategy of the Florida company. One of the colleagues of mine of that time was Kim Libreri, that is now the CTO of Epic Games and he created the optical flow for the paint effect for What Dreams May Come.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2020

volumetric streaming of people), but due to its low diffusion, it won’t be a game-changer yet. Regarding big brands, I expect Apple and Facebook still to wait a bit before releasing something, while Magic Leap will have to make its move to come out from the quicksands. My duck-face while wearing Magic Leap One glasses.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 22, 2024

VR sales are also being pushed up by its use cases expanding from gaming into design, training, and more. Take the HUSH team, for example, which recently used Magic Leap Workshop to view installation plans for a building development in 3D that gave them, for the first time, a true sense of scale.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

It was a fairly engaging conversation, during which Rogan remained uncharacteristically quiet as Carmack dove into each new topic with considerable detail; not a huge surprise considering Rogan’s well-known love of Quake and DOOM , two video games in which Carmack served as lead programmer. . Image Credit: Joe Rogan Experience. [

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Road to VR

JANUARY 10, 2019

Northern Digital is a Waterloo, Canada-based manufacturer of 3D measurement devices, and while the company has mainly focused on creating for various industries such as medicine and aeronautics throughout their 35 years of existence, they’ve recently unveiled a reference design for a magnetic tracking system for VR headsets and controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 8, 2019

In current devkits, this computational unit is a mini-PC called the Oreo, while in the production phase, thanks to Qualcomm Snapdragon reference design, it will just be your phone. No one from Magic Leap or nReal is authorized to talk about this topic, so I won’t address it here. Me trying the nReal glasses for the review.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

The event kicks off at 10 am PDT and you can watch it here: [link] Besides Apple, very soon you will also discover new info about our game Hitmotion: Reloaded … this is more interesting than Apple glasses that may revolutionize all the XR sector of course… so stay tuned! This can be another cool feature for productivity on the Quest.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Nreal, Meta, Magic Leap, and RealWear produce AR devices that suit consumer, enterprise, or industrial environments. Kalinowski refers to the six new technologies in Meta’s AR device as new technology introductions (NTIs), and the company wants to get them right before release. The device took a while to hit the market.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

Maybe they will work with a phone, exploiting the new Qualcomm reference designs. This could also be a nice testbed for the new Libra cryptocurrency created by Facebook; New info on the AAA VR game that Respawn Entertainment is making for Oculus and that has been teased months ago (this is actually the only confirmed news).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

And don’t forget that it will surely be launched together with amazing VR games from Sony and its partners’ IPs, so I’m quite sure this headset will have its success. And is also clear that he’s hinting at the fact that they are going in that direction, in building a battery-powered device to play VR games. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

The circle will close with the release of XR glasses, and we know that Niantic is also working on a reference system for them. This week we had anyway the confirmation that Fast Travel Games is working on two titles for this headset. According to the leaker, the game was playable, but the overall quality was not that good.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

We are all ready to play it, and if you are not, you are still in time to pre-download the game , so that at the X time, you can immediately hit the “Play” button. The one that I link to you here is from a general gaming magazine and it awards HL-A a 9/10 mark. I’ll keep you posted!

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 4, 2017

These micro-ridges are referred to as a “surface relief” waveguide. 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. Now engrave a series of these into the surface of a lens.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Prominent sectors include industrial AR , social , gaming , and shopping. Always see chart date for context, and refer to newer data if applicable. Always see chart date for context, and refer to newer projections if applicable. Numbers Game. Always see chart date for context, and refer to newer data if applicable.

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VRScout

JULY 17, 2016

MAGIC LEAP, THE NOTORIOUSLY SECRETIVE STARTUP, STEPS INTO SPOTLIGHT. Magic Leap has raised $1.5B Boldly equating Magic Leap to a “baby Apple” (a reference to their end-to-end approach making not only the hardware but also software, chips, sensors, UI, electronics, etc.) MONEY MOVES & FUNDING.

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Road to VR

JULY 29, 2019

OpenXR is a royalty-free standard that aims to unify the underlying connections between VR and AR hardware, game engines, and content, making for a more interoperable ecosystem. A reference guide published by Khronos Group gives a high-level technical overview of the API’s structure. OpenXR 1.0 is now available on GitHub.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2019

The connection to the PC should happen with a VirtualLink connector: according to Ars Technica , “HTC has since confirmed that the Cosmos headset will require a USB Type-C connection to its source system “ To work, it needs a gaming PC, but in the future, it may also work with less powerful PCs , thanks to some black magic by HTC.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 7, 2020

Intel was actually quite ahead of its time when it showed off one of the first standalone VR headset reference designs, codenamed Alloy, back in mid-2016. In early 2018, Oculus reported that a staggering 92% of its Rift users were using Nvidia GPUs, an even greater dominance over AMD than in the general PC gaming space.

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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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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. Oculus is going to found big games. Robo Recall is still the best game for VR currently released (Image by Oculus).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2019

HTC has also revealed Viveport Infinity, that will be like the Netflix of VR : paying just a monthly fee, the user will be able to play all the games that he/she wants on the Viveport catalog. New Qualcomm reference design. Qualcomm reference design headset plugged into a Snapdragon 855 phone (Image by Road To VR).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

It’s a good read , full of interesting anecdotes, like when it is written that Beat Saber became the testbench for the tracking of the Quest controllers , or that Asgard’s Wrath, in the beginning, was a tower defense game. Niantic has just teased the game Urban Legends, another geolocalized game, but this time with more emphasis on AR and 5G.

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TechCrunch VR

APRIL 3, 2023

It’s probably a bit hyperbolic to call the experience “fully immersive,” but man, it’s easy to get lost in the game — so long as you can forget that there are other people watching. That does not, however, apply to Meta’s Quest headset, owing to what the executive refers to as its “closed system.”

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2024

There will be a lot about Apple in this newsletter, but don’t miss also the other important news, and the giveaway of keys for the amazing game Retropolis 2! We already knew about some of them, like the game Super Fruit Ninja, but we started to get information about the others, too. There is even Microsoft Word!

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Even during the gaming segment of the earnings call, the most traditional use case for XR, Microsoft did not mention XR. Instead, they understandably referred to the power of AI in this space. Microsoft appears to be entirely focused on AI, which has proven successful, thanks in part to their partnership with leading genAI firm OpenAI.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 5, 2019

While XR1 was made for low-end devices, XR2 5G targets high-end standalone headsets, making it a candidate for Oculus Quest 2, Magic Leap 2, and similar next-gen devices. SEE ALSO Eye-tracking is a Game Changer for VR That Goes Far Beyond Foveated Rendering.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Even during the gaming segment of the earnings call, the most traditional use case for XR, Microsoft did not mention XR. Instead, they understandably referred to the power of AI in this space. Microsoft appears to be entirely focused on AI, which has proven successful, thanks in part to their partnership with leading genAI firm OpenAI.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

Four years later, Nintendo followed up the wild and enduring success of the Game Boy with Virtual Boy, a headset/console built around (very red) stereoscopic vision. In the 90s, virtual reality was the future of entertainment, gaming, socialization and work. Image Credits: Apple Magic Leap is far from alone in those struggles.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The same holds for mobile AR apps and glasses: interactions aside, a game like Pokemon Go could be a blast on AR glasses, when they will be launched. AR games and experiences. Hybrid AR/VR working mode for our fitness game. And in fact, Niantic already showed a prototype of this kind. Sounded good.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

When I interviewed Kevin Williams , an expert in the LBVR market, he said that there are also some experiments with location-based augmented reality and he mentioned a Japanese arcade AR game called HADO. In my spare time, I enjoy training and running full marathons around the world and playing games on my PSVR. Goku (Image by Sh?eisha).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

It’s a new month, we’ve reached level 6 of this Jumanji game that is 2020. Keep in mind that this device has a pixel density far superior even to the one of the Valve Index, so it is perfect not only for gaming but also for prototyping, design and architecture. Rony Abovitz steps down from Magic Leap CEO. Image by HP).

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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. Image courtesy Lnyx. One of those shortcuts to market comes through Qualcomm’s hardware accelerator program and its XR SDK.

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