The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

The employees of NextMind will keep working on BCIs, as part of the R&D of Snap, to evaluate the integration of NextMind technology inside future Snap products. Probably, NextMind had in its R&D more sophisticated technologies, and Snap is buying the company for them. Magic Leap 2 bridges AR and VR. Upload VR).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Microsoft and Zoom have also released their respective apps into the Vision Pro this week. Jay also explained that “Apple sets a benchmark,” noting how the world had general smartphones and PDAs before the iPhone; what Apple achieved was bringing this technology to the mass market.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 4, 2023

In this industry, developers are experimenting with ever-more intuitive screens, lenses, and accompanying XR technologies, to create solution for a range of industries. The smart glasses available from Goertek use the latest in lens development technologies and ergonomic designs for comfort.

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 4, 2018

While wearable technologies, including wearable XR, didn’t exactly “blow up” this year, the technology did further entrench itself in enterprise—the number of companies in the evaluation stage rose significantly, several large deployments made headlines, and solution providers continued to partner and expand their products to more platforms.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

In recent years, companies from virtually every industry have begun to discover just how beneficial immersive technology can be when it comes to improving collaboration and productivity. Demand for Extended Reality (XR) is growing at an astonishing rate. The company’s flagship mixed reality headset offering is the HoloLens series.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap pivots to enterprise, lays off 1,000 employes. With a long post on Magic Leap’s blog, in the end Rony Abovitz has admitted that the company is not going that well, and has announced a new course, that should eventually lead to Magic Leap 2. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap 2 is coming in Q1 2022. Even if most of this roundup will be about Oculus, I have decided to put another brand on top of it and it is Magic Leap. Johnson has worked at Microsoft and Qualcomm before, and she is a very respected executive. Top news of the week.

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AR Insider

JUNE 22, 2021

After years of excitement over the impending era of world-immersive AR, there’s growing consensus that the technology is still far from bringing that dream to a pair of glasses that most people will wear. This comes down to a classic design tradeoff, as noted above. Evidence in today’s market support this play.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 4, 2023

In this industry, developers are experimenting with ever-more intuitive screens, lenses, and accompanying XR technologies, to create solution for a range of industries. The smart glasses available from Goertek use the latest in lens development technologies and ergonomic designs for comfort.

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VRScout

JANUARY 23, 2019

Two patents in particular indicate Lyft’s exploration of AR and VR technology as part of their potential business model. Behind the scenes, however, there are six years of accumulated data-rich information that, from Lyft’s perspective, could used to transform the current rideshare experience. Image Credit: The U.S.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 23, 2023

In recent years, companies from virtually every industry have begun to discover just how beneficial immersive technology can be when it comes to improving collaboration and productivity. HP Building on a long history in the computing and technology landscape, HP has begun producing headsets for both VR and MR environments.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

In this industry, developers are experimenting with ever-more intuitive screens, lenses, and accompanying XR technologies to create solutions for a range of industries. The smart glasses available from Goertek use the latest in lens development technologies and ergonomic designs for comfort. billion by 2030.

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ARVR

JUNE 25, 2021

After years of excitement over the impending era of world-immersive AR, there’s growing consensus that the technology is still far from bringing that dream to a pair of glasses that most people will wear. This comes down to a classic design tradeoff, as noted above. Evidence in today’s market support this play.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Virtual and augmented reality technology is being used to help people who are blessed with perfect vision – and lots of interesting solutions are out there. The notoriously secretive mixed reality company Magic Leap has acquired parts of Dacuda , a B2B computer vision software company. LETS COUNT THE WAYS. …and more.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 5, 2020

This is the first roundup of news of this new year, and to signal a change with the past, I’ve changed the name from “VR Week Peek” to “XR Week Peek”, because, hey, I like talking about all immersive technologies and not only Virtual Reality. Microsoft SharePoint Spaces to launch in the first half of 2020.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

So, exploiting this statistic and knowing that due to the various distortions, usually, the peripheral regions of the rendered images are the one made employing more pixels, Oculus has decided to apply a Fixed Foveating technology. Magic Leap releases its SDK. It is so possible to start creating your Magic Leap application.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 15, 2016

To mimic the tactile feedback that you experience in real life, you’ll need sensors and haptics all over your body or at least in significant areas, like the face, hands, and feet. The first hardware generation attempting to solve the body feedback problem will likely use full bodysuits with haptic responses aligned to the VR experience.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

.” According to the posting, the selected applicant will be expected to “build, manage, lead and inspire a multi-disciplinary team of engineers, programmers, specialists, and designers who, working with world-class researchers, will build AR technology that opens the path to everyday use for a billion people.”

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

.” According to the posting, the selected applicant will be expected to “build, manage, lead and inspire a multi-disciplinary team of engineers, programmers, specialists, and designers who, working with world-class researchers, will build AR technology that opens the path to everyday use for a billion people.”

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

This year, I’m just watching the conference from home The conference has been interesting, and it has been the usual mix of technology and politics. Facebook and Microsoft publish two interesting research projects for VR. This week, Facebook and Microsoft have released two interesting works from their R&D department.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

For larger companies looking to connect their entire team with HoloLens 2 headsets, Microsoft is offering a package that includes Dynamic 365 Remote Assist on each MR headset at the cost of $125 per user – per month. If you’re a developer working on your own, Microsoft offers the HoloLens 2 Development Edition.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Although spatial technology has existed for some time, companies like Apple have spawned new interest. It’s an umbrella term referring to various technologies influencing how we interact with computer systems. This includes XR headsets, sensors, artificial intelligence software, and cloud technology.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 11, 2022

As the XR landscape continues to grow, accelerating towards an expected value of $300 billion by 2024, immersive technology is evolving at an amazing rate. Increasingly, vendors and innovators are searching for new and improved ways to immerse users in unique experiences, using powerful and disruptive technology.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

These are all very positive news for VR: the technology is slowly getting adoption and while not mainstream yet, I agree with Zuck that in 1–2 years we’ll start getting there. Our brain is very plastic and the BCI could trigger the right parts of the brain so that you feel haptic sensations on 6 fingers if your avatar has 6 fingers.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 24, 2023

Instead, he has concentrated his journalistic efforts on a stereotypical dystopia of avatars and social media white elephants from a caricatured Meta, Microsoft AltSpaceVR, and Decentraland. This is eluding a key issue with the Metaverse: it is a community contribution of technological solutions.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

When you’ve been a journalist on the XR technology beat for 20 years, like VentureBeat’s lead writer Dean Takahashi has, you develop a hunch or two about the direction the industry might go. Dean: I’ve tried some haptics gloves. There’s been a number of kind of false starts with this technology.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

When you’ve been a journalist on the XR technology beat for 20 years, like VentureBeat’s lead writer Dean Takahashi has, you develop a hunch or two about the direction the industry might go. Dean: I’ve tried some haptics gloves. There’s been a number of kind of false starts with this technology.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

Alan: Slicing fruit in VR is magical, and the fact that they have the haptic feedback to the controller is just… [implied Chef Kiss]. You’re right, it is a magical experience. One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2. These are massive savings.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

Alan: Slicing fruit in VR is magical, and the fact that they have the haptic feedback to the controller is just… [implied Chef Kiss]. You’re right, it is a magical experience. One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2. These are massive savings.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

When you've been a journalist on the XR technology beat for 20 years, like VentureBeat's lead writer Dean Takahashi has, you develop a hunch or two about the direction the industry might go. Dean: I've tried some haptics gloves. There's been a number of kind of false starts with this technology. It's an expensive technology.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Especially the DualSense is an amazing piece of tech, with very stable IMUs and haptic sensations that increase a lot the “immersion” in the games : they can provide you the sensation of resistance, of textures of materials, of movements. Then why Magic Leap hasn’t delivered a solid product with 2B?)

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

Alan: Slicing fruit in VR is magical, and the fact that they have the haptic feedback to the controller is just. You're right, it is a magical experience. One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2. implied Chef Kiss]. It was a great, great experience.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

When you’ve been a journalist on the XR technology beat for 20 years, like VentureBeat’s lead writer Dean Takahashi has, you develop a hunch or two about the direction the industry might go. Dean: I’ve tried some haptics gloves. There’s been a number of kind of false starts with this technology.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

The Metaverse Standards Forum has already gathered many important players of the XR sector like Unity, Unreal Engine, Meta, Microsoft, Lamina 1, NVIDIA, and even other relevant companies like IKEA and Adobe. For the first time I can see a real footage of the Teslasuit haptic gloves. Some others, like Niantic, will probably join soon.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Today’s guest is Alice Bonasio, the technology writer for Inside VR and AR. Alice is a technology writer/producer/consultant with a particular interest in the immersive space. The thing is, is that it’s everything that you have it as an out there conception of what the technology could be. ” Alice: She did.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Today’s guest is Alice Bonasio, the technology writer for Inside VR and AR. Alice is a technology writer/producer/consultant with a particular interest in the immersive space. The thing is, is that it’s everything that you have it as an out there conception of what the technology could be. ” Alice: She did.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

Controller : Weight : 23g Tracking : 3DoF Connection : Bluetooth Controls : Touchpad, Click, Haptic feedback. It’s a very simple system, with limited functionalities, but very effective to produce augmentations at this stage of the technology. Being the lens transparent, you can see through it both the real and virtual world.

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