Next Reality AR

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The book is almost closed on 2019, but Magic Leap has one more gift to offer its users before the new decade arrives. Now appearing in the Magic Leap "Concepts" section of the app store is an experience called Music Box that brings an immersive caroler to anyone using the augmented reality headset.

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VRScout

AUGUST 4, 2019

The Magic Leap One AR headset enters the US Military training program. A new AR training tool developed by Magic Leap Horizons will use Magic Leap One AR headset to deliver various AR military training scenarios to the US Navy. Featured Image Credit: US Navy Research.

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Next Reality AR

MARCH 29, 2019

After showing off a prototype of the Grordbattle multiplayer first-person shooter at the Game Developer Conference, Magic Leap has added a new Shared World feature in version 0.95.0 of the Lumin OS update released this week.

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Road to VR

MARCH 22, 2018

At a sponsored GDC 2018 session, the still mysterious augmented reality company Magic Leap has revealed how their prototype hardware has evolved from 2014 to present day. SEE ALSO Magic Leap Launches Developer SDK, Confirms Eye-tracking, Room-scanning, and More. Eye tracking. Gesture and hand tracking.

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Next Reality AR

JANUARY 31, 2019

With Magic Leap One approaching six months since launch, Magic Leap is fully focused on building a content ecosystem and developer community. Now, Magic Leap has released a highlight reel that gives the public a peek at the fruits of their endeavor. 17 to 21 at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Road to VR

JULY 11, 2018

Today during Magic Leap’s developer livestream the company offered the first details on the compute hardware that’s built into the device, confirming that an NVIDIA CPU/GPU module, and also showed a brief developer sample demonstrating world meshing and gesture input.

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2018

Today Magic Leap has launched the Lumin SDK, the toolkit which allows developers to build AR experiences for Lumin OS, the operating system that powers the Magic Leap One headset. Eye tracking. Gesture and hand tracking. 6DOF hand controller (Totem) tracking. Room scanning and meshing.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

I thought it would have taken me a lot before I would be able to try the Magic Leap One , but luckily this has not been the case. At a certain point, I asked him: “oh, you said me that you have tried Magic Leap… how is it?” The three component of the Magic Leap One. I was amazed.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap is on sale. A report on Bloomberg informed us all that Magic Leap is exploring a sale of the company. The sales never skyrocketed and now Magic Leap is in desperate need of cash , after many layoffs, disappointing sales, and having put its IP as collaterals to a bank.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Magic Leap today revealed a collaborative AR project with Icelandic band Sigur Rós, a musical experience which fills the player’s surroundings with ethereal visuals and an interactive soundscape. Image courtesy Pitchfork, Magic Leap. When it’s over, I ask if I can go again.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 17, 2018

There’s a lot that can be said about the Magic Leap One. It’s trying to do a ton—eye-tracking, hand-tracking, 6DoF controllers, real-time meshing and a number of other features that haven’t been seen in a mobile MR device before. Meet the trio | Image courtesy Magic Leap. Image courtesy Magic Leap.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap looks for a $100-million deal to save itself. Some reports by Business Insider and The Information talk about the current situation of Magic Leap, that seems always more complicated. More info (Magic Leap trying to raise $100M) More info (Magic Leap timing for the future).

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VRScout

APRIL 20, 2023

Credit: Magic Leap The Audi activesphere does away with conventional button and touchscreen controls in favor of a virtual interface accessible using AR glasses. Looking at the AC fans, for example, reveals several temperature controls accessible via hand-tracking technology.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2018

Vive Pro date and price, Magic Leap announcements, Nvidia’s real-time ray-tracing, and Budget Cuts resurfaces. Magic Leap announcements. image courtesy Magic Leap. Magic Leap has launched the SDK for the device’s Lumin OS , with support for Unity and Unreal engines. Image courtesy HTC.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 1, 2022

AR tech firm Magic Leap is set to launch in 19 countries across the world, Lisa Watts, Vice President of Product Marketing and Developer Programs for Magic Leap announced at the Immerse Global Summit (IGS) 2022 Europe on Madeira Island, Portugal. Magic Leap 2 stands on the shoulders of giants and the force.

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ARPost

JULY 21, 2023

The real pioneers of this are definitely Magic Leap and their waveguide lens is the future that I was expecting Apple to actually achieve some kind of breakthrough on,” said Almeida. In fact, Apple is adamant about the Pro not having or needing controllers but getting along with eye and hand tracking as its only inputs.

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ARPost

JUNE 3, 2022

AWE day two started off with back-to-back keynotes from mixed reality display maker Magic Leap and AR commerce solution Avataar. A Look at the Magic Leap 2. Magic Leap’s Head of Product Management, Jade Meskill, presented “Magic Leap 2 and the Augmented Enterprise.”

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

A major update to Magic Leap 2 claims to improve many of the device’s core capabilities. With all that’s happened in the XR space recently, it’s hard to believe that Magic Leap 2 has hardly been out for more than a year. Biometric Unlocking and Authentication The Magic Leap 2 v1.4.0

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

There have been three approaches shipped in VR controllers to get rid of the tracking ring - but I suspect there's only one Pico 5 could realistically use. (1) 1) Electromagnetic Tracking: Pico Neo 2 and Magic Leap 1 tracked their controllers without cameras at all.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 12, 2020

SEE ALSO Apple is Snapping up Many of Magic Leap's Former Employees. Like other AR headsets, such as HoloLens or Magic Leap One, Nreal Light AR includes 6DOF inside-out tracking, letting users walk around the room and interact with 3D content naturally.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Magic Leap Developer Suite. Another excellent solution for developers making their way into the spatial audio landscape comes from the innovators at Magic Leap. With the Magic Leap developer suite, innovators can leverage the existing functionality of Magic Leap solutions to build their own experiences.

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Road to VR

JUNE 20, 2023

For the time being, WebXR capabilities on Safari for visionOS are still hidden through a developer toggle, but once enabled it will support the ‘immersive-vr’ session type, and the ‘hand-tracking’ feature for user input.

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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. Magic Leap. Magic Leap will work a lot in trying to have new compelling experiences on its marketplace.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Vive Flow is a 6DOF headset that works with your Android phone as a 3DOF controller (hands tracking is coming in the future). Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap 2 has been teased. The headset looks like an improved Magic Leap 1, lighted, slimmer and more elegant, and with a single cable on the back.

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VRScout

MARCH 25, 2022

Unlike existing AR headsets such as the Magic Leap 2 or Microsoft HoloLens, the Spectacles feature a discrete, light-weight design more akin to glasses than a headset. Another Lens had me interacting with an AR art project using the device’s built-in hand-tracking capabilities.

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Upload VR

APRIL 15, 2024

In 2020 Mozilla laid off 250 employees including staff working on Firefox Reality, and in 2022 handed over the project to "open source software consultancy" Igalia, which relaunched it as Wolvic. Today Wolvic is available on Meta Quest, Pico, Magic Leap 2, and Huawei VR Glasses.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Hand Tracking. The big news is, the Quest is getting full hand tracking support. There will always be a place for hand-controllers, especially in games,” he says. Optimistically, he says, “hand-tracking will allow for much more accessible and intuitive experiences, which can help broaden the reach of VR.”.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Shrinking the HoloLens 2 into something more akin to glasses than a headset would put it in line with various other sleek AR devices, such as the Magic Leap One Creator Edition , along with newly revealed headsets like the Vuzix Blade AR glasses and NReal AR glasses. One of the biggest issues users had was with the devices size.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Resolution : 2560×1440 Refresh rate : 75Hz FOV : 90° Sensors : SLAM + hands tracking Cameras : 720p front-facing RGB camera for mixed reality recordings Audio : 4 built-in surround sound speakers + 3 integrated Microphones. Meta 2 hands-on. of Magic Leap). The original Meta 1. Meta 2 specs. North Star.

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Charlie Fink

DECEMBER 14, 2019

Enterprise XR continues to dominate the conversation as the Oculus Quest stand alone VR headset adds hand tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

Road To VR reported about Manus VR’s new Quantum Metagloves with very precise hand tracking for enterprise use (cost: $9000). Magic Leap 2 bridges AR and VR. The interest in Magic Leap 2 is growing. But they are just tidbits of information, and nothing more. News worth a mention.

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2022

The best AR headsets available today—the likes of HoloLens 2 and Magic Leap 2—are still closer to goggles than glasses and are too heavy to be worn all day (not to mention the looks you’d get from the crowd).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

It has hand tracking, and the Pro model also has eye tracking, like Apple’s device. Maybe Magic Leap, before people got to know that the device was sort of a HoloLens 1+, had such attention to it. Quest 3 is better for gaming and has precision controllers.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 14, 2019

According to the demo video (linked below), the unnamed “R&D prototype” looks to include both 6DOF head-tracking as well as hand-tracking, and appear to be a standalone unit similar to Microsoft HoloLens.

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ARPost

JUNE 8, 2022

Zappar was also nominated in the Best Developer Tool category for the ZapWorks SDK , and in the Best Head-Worn Device category for the new-and-improved ZapBox – a mobile phone adapter that includes targets and two hand-tracking controller wands. Gauld returned to the stage with the Best Creator Tool trophy still in hand.

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Road to VR

MAY 20, 2021

Unlike Microsoft or Magic Leap’s approach—which have traded some bulkiness for greater capabilities—Snap is taking a form-over-function approach by starting with a form-factor that consumers would find reasonable, even if that means paring down some of its capabilities. Touchpad, voice, hand-tracking. Connectors.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

Peggy Johnson is the new CEO of Magic Leap. Magic Leap has finally a new CEO: Peggy Johnson. Johnson will have the not easy task of deciding a clear route for Magic Leap, making the company become profitable in the enterprise market after so many failures in the consumer one. News worth a mention.

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