AR Insider

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Up north in Seattle, Amazon announced Echo Frames, lightweight glasses with the Alexa voice assistant embedded in them. Microsoft won the PC era and now has a tablet business, while Apple and Google have the dominant mobile operating systems. Google (search). There's now an arms race to capture the next computing platform.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

San Francisco, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York City, and Seattle?—?for Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap has sold units of its first device for $550. The Public Test Channel of the Quest runtime contains a fix for the Oculus Link stuttering on Windows 11. News worth a mention. Other news. Learn more.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 31, 2019

Alan: So does it work with the Oculus Go? We actually have a pretty good relationship with the folks at Oculus. And to your point, by the way, what you mentioned — Google expeditions for the classroom — they started off by tackling that problem of bringing VR and synchronizing it across headsets. Alan: Got it.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 31, 2019

Alan: So does it work with the Oculus Go? We actually have a pretty good relationship with the folks at Oculus. And to your point, by the way, what you mentioned -- Google expeditions for the classroom -- they started off by tackling that problem of bringing VR and synchronizing it across headsets. Alan: Got it. Alex: It does.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 31, 2019

Alan: So does it work with the Oculus Go? We actually have a pretty good relationship with the folks at Oculus. And to your point, by the way, what you mentioned — Google expeditions for the classroom — they started off by tackling that problem of bringing VR and synchronizing it across headsets. Alan: Got it.

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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. The Touch controllers feel like little magical half-doughnuts and are smooth and intuitive. MAGIC LEAP’S CONTROVERSY.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

They were based out of Seattle. Are they building stuff for Magic Leap? When you look at Facebook or Oculus’s announcement of their varifocal lenses: basically, they’re creating lenses inside a headset that will allow you to focus on multiplane. They were based out of Seattle. How did this come about?

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