VRScout

DECEMBER 13, 2016

When the first consumer version of the Oculus Rift was launched in the spring, it was disappointingly bundled with a Microsoft Xbox controller – and we’ve eagerly been awaiting the native Touch Controllers. GOOGLE DAYDREAM SCORES NETFLIX AND HBO APPS. MAGIC LEAP’S CONTROVERSY. in funding (with a $4.4B

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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. Moreover, last year, Nreal partnered with University researchers and Microsoft to leverage its smart glasses technology as a medical device. The device took a while to hit the market.

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ARPost

APRIL 29, 2021

AR remote collaboration with IoT devices as well as low-latency calling in less-than-ideal locations and conditions are only likely to improve as the company is one of the most active groups in exploring 5G. TechSee and Vuzix (and Microsoft). Incidentally, Vuzix also supports Teams, Microsoft’s remote conferencing platform.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 30, 2020

” He also pointed out the development over at Amazon, where last month the company announced AWS Wavelength for ultra-low latency 5G computing at the edge, something that will have a direct impact on using and building the next generation of AR and VR headgear. “The industry is firing up 5G and that will also be a big push.”

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

These have appeared across Google’s ARCore, Niantic’s Lightship AR developer kit (ARDK), Snap Lens, Meta’s Reality system, and Apple’s ARKit platforms, namely for smartphones. For example, Lenovo’s A3 and Magic Leap 2’s smart glasses are designed for prolonged use, low latency, and industrial environments.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Traditionally, leading tech vendors have invested in distributed network infrastructure, but many of them (such as Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft) are adapting to a new paradigm to support localized, persistent, collaborative, shared, multiuser interactions. The AR cloud is much more rich and complex than a simple database.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 6, 2023

With Qualcomm’s industry-leading Snapdragon Spaces platform , Xiaomi can also develop programmes on OpenXR and Microsoft’s MRTK toolkit. It also hosts a Snapdragon XR2 Gen 1 processor for offloading processing power, streamlining app functionality for low-latency connectivity between the two devices.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

On the client side, the system will become compatible with iOS devices, and a Magic Leap client has also been developed. On the server-side, it is being integrated with Microsoft Azure, and it is also coming in the future for Google Cloud and Tencent Cloud. Google is hiring waveguide developers for AR.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Viveport is improving a lot, and now HTC is also launching the Vive XR Suite , which will be distributed thanks to the support of a strong network of partners like HP, NVIDIA, Baidu (the Chinese Google), and Accenture. Facebook and Microsoft publish two interesting research projects for VR.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

This has 3 main components to it, dictated by hardware: Wait, how is this different from things like Microsoft’s Hololens? Devices such as the Magic Leap and the Hololens rely on Waveguide optics. The XR visual processing pipeline is both compute intensive and latency sensitive. We’re looking at you, Google Glass.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The New York Times distributes more than 1 million Google Cardboard phone VR viewers to subscribers with the launch of The Displaced , a 360-degree video project focusing on children driven from their homes by war. Eye-tracking startup Eyefluence, which raises $14 million this month, is acquired about a year later by Google.

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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. Those interactions can be mapped to brainwaves and translated into action with almost no latency.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2019

Layered structure of the MagicVerse, the metaverse envisioned by Magic Leap. Its structure reminds a lot what Kim is telling in this interview (Image by Magic Leap). Geolocation will definitely start playing a larger role since that will be the limiting factor for latency. Will it be in the cloud? As for the allow?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

I mean, we have access to the world’s information — I can Google pretty much any details — but it just gives me the information. I can ask Google questions now; Voice, Amazon, Alexa, and Google Voice. Now, I don’t even have to pull my phone out; I can just ask Google and every answer is there.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

I mean, we have access to the world’s information — I can Google pretty much any details — but it just gives me the information. I can ask Google questions now; Voice, Amazon, Alexa, and Google Voice. Now, I don’t even have to pull my phone out; I can just ask Google and every answer is there.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

And the importance of the general technical work I do in terms of creating low-latency experiences, and how they can be used to combine together to create better human safety conditions. Google, about a month ago, announced their AR navigation system. Terry: Sure. Alan: The 1000 Realities team is doing some amazing stuff.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

And the importance of the general technical work I do in terms of creating low-latency experiences, and how they can be used to combine together to create better human safety conditions. Google, about a month ago, announced their AR navigation system. Terry: Sure. Alan: The 1000 Realities team is doing some amazing stuff.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

There’s a whole range of services, and GPS is getting better now that it’s being married to computer vision, so you can get highly-localized Google directions – really accurate, down to a couple of feet. Is this a job for Google Glass? Charlie: Yeah it’s Google Glass. So convergence is beginning, right?

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

There’s a whole range of services, and GPS is getting better now that it’s being married to computer vision, so you can get highly-localized Google directions – really accurate, down to a couple of feet. Is this a job for Google Glass? Charlie: Yeah it’s Google Glass. So convergence is beginning, right?

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VRGuy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Reducing Latency is Becoming Complex Trends Presence in VR requires low latency, and reducing latency is not easy. Low latency is also not the result of one single technique. Predictive tracking lowers perceived latency by estimating future orientation. Google Glass has not been as successful as hoped.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

This could actually be quite beneficial for Meta, Microsoft, and Magic Leap. They continue to support and collaborate with outside companies, of course — you’ll probably be able to use Google Maps on the Vision Pro, for example — but I wouldn’t expect the competitive atmosphere to change much.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

GB: Magic Leap is a big presence in the AR discussion. Outside of the sort of people in this room and in the games press, I don’t think most people know what Magic Leap is. When you talk about investment, certainly Magic Leap has garnered the most, but ODG just closed a big round. GB: Google Glass.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

When you walk into a Best Buy’s or you walk into any retailer, they’re selling you the Amazon Echo and they’re selling you the Google Home, where you ask a question, it plays a video. These are like the Microsoft Hololens, Magic Leaps. Now you see peaks of it right now, early variations of it.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

When you walk into a Best Buy's or you walk into any retailer, they're selling you the Amazon Echo and they're selling you the Google Home, where you ask a question, it plays a video. These are like the Microsoft Hololens, Magic Leaps. So Metastage uses Microsoft's volumetric Hcap, holographic capture.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

When you walk into a Best Buy’s or you walk into any retailer, they’re selling you the Amazon Echo and they’re selling you the Google Home, where you ask a question, it plays a video. These are like the Microsoft Hololens, Magic Leaps. Now you see peaks of it right now, early variations of it.

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