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RealMax Qian review: wide FOV AR is amazing!

The Ghost Howls

While many other AR glasses (like Nreal Light or HoloLens 2 ) have a Field Of View in the 50° ballpark, RealMax glasses have always had ones above 100° , for a more immersive augmented experience. And after you try it, you can’t go back, because it is SO MUCH immersive, augmented reality really becomes your reality.

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My predictions for augmented reality in 2019

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On the contrary, Microsoft has worked a lot on the platform, to make it more appealing to enterprise customers. It has released experiences like Microsoft Remote Assist, that let different teams in a company work together to solve maintenance problems. Leap Motion. You may ask why I’m adding Leap Motion here.

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WCVRI: Hands-on with new North Star headset, Virtualizer 2, Pareal VR and more!

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Project North Star is an opensource reference design for a wide-FOV augmented reality headset that Leap Motion (now Ultraleap ) has given to the community. The hand tracking was fabulous as always thanks to Leap Motion and its Orion tracking. What was inferior to Microsoft’s headset was, of course, the tracking.

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What is MRTK-Unity? – Mixed Reality ToolKit

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The Mixed Reality Toolkit (MRTK) by Microsoft is an open-source toolkit that has been around since the HoloLens was first released in 2016. Microsoft-driven MRTK-Unity is a suite of components and capabilities used to speed the creation of cross-platform MR applications in Unity. Understanding the MRTK-Unity Toolkit for MR Developers.

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Varjo XR-4 hands-on preview: high resolution and raytracing are an explosive mix in VR

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larger than Quest) and this is good for enhancing immersion. Unrelated to my demos with the XR-4, I have also tried a demo with a previous Varjo headset and a plane simulation machine together with Microsoft Flight Simulator. This is of course not required for the Secure edition It is possible to add Ultraleap hand tracking for +499€.

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Varjo XR-4 Series Review: Next-Level Mixed Reality Headsets

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The Models Varjo says while rival headsets are catering to “2D productivity use cases”, its 4 th generation series will create deeply immersive experiences for industrial customers in search of exceptional visual fidelity and performance. The XR-4 series also supports UltraLeap’s Leap Motion 2 hand-tracking module for custom requirements.

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Augmented reality is reaching a mature state according to Gartner

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The fact that all immersive technologies have been flagged as mature by it means that many more companies will believe in their potential and will want to implement them. The road in front of AR and VR is still very long and many years are needed to make immersive realities mainstream like cell phones. Header image by Leap Motion).