XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 15, 2023

The online platform promotes interactive social and immersive gaming worlds with rich branding and content creation opportunities. The platform promotes immersive user-generated content, enabling an ecosystem of platform creators using Spatial to build and share online experiences and worlds. Spatial also assists in the We3 revolution.

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VRScout

JULY 2, 2019

Magic Leap, Disney, and Epic Games are bringing their A-game to the annual tech conference. Kicking-off July 28th at the Los Angeles Convention Center, SIGGRAPH 2019 will feature the largest offering of immersive programming since the conference’s creation back in 1973. The darkness awoke the dead from their graves.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

The free to attend showcase features women-led businesses in immersive technology (XR) and is hosted by the WXR Fund, a venture fund dedicated to amplifying female founders and XR startups committed to gender equality. Here are the eight female Founders of the 1st WXR Cohort: Vivian Tan // Beast, Inc.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

You know well that I’ve been at SXSW , but, shame on me, I haven’t stayed a few days more to attend the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Magic Leap 2 bridges AR and VR. The interest in Magic Leap 2 is growing. GDC 2022 featured many VR companies, but few announcements. News worth a mention.

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VRScout

AUGUST 1, 2019

Pop music sensation Lil Miquela on Instagram, Mica from Magic Leap, and even Fable’s own Lucy are all great examples of an ever-growing industry of digital humanoid entities. Those selected will receive $1K – $25K in support of their Virtual Beings concept. Edward Saatchi of Fable Studio says virtual beings are already here.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 23, 2024

VR|MR 2024 – a conference taking place in San Francisco, California, between 29 and 31 January 2024. Many XR industry giants, such as Google, Magic Leap, and Meta Reality Labs, are poised to appear at the event. To close off what is already a bumper month for XR is SPIE.AR|VR|MR

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Business leaders gathered at this year’s Seattle based IMMERSE Summit ( previously Sea VR ) to explore how VR/ AR and Mixed Reality is transforming manufacturing, design, education, health and medicine and much more. With HoloLens and Magic Leap we’ve seen a broadening of the conference to include augmented reality as well.

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VRScout

JANUARY 23, 2019

Lyft drivers would access this information through an AR headset, such as a Microsoft HoloLens, Google Glass, or Magic Leap, which would place the digital content directly in the view of the Lyft driver, or through an AR enabled smartphone. Image Credit: The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 24, 2019

Fable, founded by former Oculus Story Studio alumni, today announced a distinct pivot in their focus, moving from an immersive storytelling studio to a “virtual beings” company which plans to build persistent, AI-powered, characters which can interact naturally with viewers. “Lucy is always Lucy if she’s in AR or VR.

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Tech Trends VR

MARCH 27, 2020

Immersive experiences like those afforded by the HoloLens offer a tantalizing glimpse of where this is all headed: a screenless world where our natural human interactions plug into the digital realm, creating an entirely new form of hybrid reality. Let’s take a look at three ways in which voice technologies are already enabling this.

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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. He said what we already know: Microsoft is interested in the “enterprise metaverse” and soon we will see more immersive versions of Microsoft Teams.

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Peter Graham

AUGUST 30, 2019

Immersive technology can be a powerful medium when used correctly to draw attention to particular issues, such as when the United Nations (UN) and Here Be Dragons created Ground Beneath Her. At the installations, guests will be able to wear Magic Leap headsets to view imagery on the cube as they walk around it.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 1, 2016

San Francisco based Osterhout Design Group (aka ODG) announced today that they’ve raised a significant $58 million Series A investment to accelerate production and R&D of its smart glasses products. It may not be immersive yet, but ODG aspires to make their smart glasses product line into a major augmented reality platform.

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VRScout

JUNE 19, 2017

Last Monday, I walked three blocks uphill on Mason St in San Francisco to the Fairmont Hotel to demo a stealth product that had been touted to me as one of the biggest advancements in XR tech this side of Magic Leap. So what is Varjo?

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

VR is being used to correct conditions like amblyopia (sometimes called “lazy eye”) by San Francisco-based company Vivid Vision; instead of a childhood-scarring eyepatch or invasive surgery, virtual reality is the prescribed treatment. The covert product still has not been publicly shown, and the well-funded Magic Leap ($1.3B

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VRWorld

JULY 5, 2017

While I am an enthusiast for VR and all associated technologies, one major issue that’s really breaking my immersion into different VR environments is – resolution. Over the past two years, we tested dozens of VR headsets and two offered the best immersion experience; Acer/IMAX/Starbreeze StarVR and PIMAX 4K and 8K VR headsets.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

I was flying from Toronto to San Francisco, and I just happened to sit beside a guy who we started talking about AR and I pulled out the North Glasses. The latest thing is obviously immersive technologies, but I found that they valued my time and it didn’t feel like work. Thanks for having me. I’m super excited.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

I was flying from Toronto to San Francisco, and I just happened to sit beside a guy who we started talking about AR and I pulled out the North Glasses. The latest thing is obviously immersive technologies, but I found that they valued my time and it didn’t feel like work. Thanks for having me. I’m super excited.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

In April, we opened the doors to the first Upload Collective in San Francisco, a hub for VR and AR startups, development, co-working, education, meetups and even live broadcasting. With over 40 member companies in San Francisco, The Upload Collective has quickly grown both in size and in scope. February 2016.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

I was flying from Toronto to San Francisco, and I just happened to sit beside a guy who we started talking about AR and I pulled out the North Glasses. The latest thing is obviously immersive technologies, but I found that they valued my time and it didn't feel like work. Alan: I don't know if you've tried to Magic Leap.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

Terry Schussler is the director of Immersive Technology at Deutche Telekom, and he’s working to bring 5G into the XR domain, and expand the capabilities of mixed reality technologies. Alan: I wonder if you could do a combination of putting ARCore and ARKit capabilities, mixed with GPS, mixed with the Magic Leap, to give it all in one.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

Terry Schussler is the director of Immersive Technology at Deutche Telekom, and he’s working to bring 5G into the XR domain, and expand the capabilities of mixed reality technologies. It is with great honor that I welcome Director of Immersive Technology at Deutsche Telekom, and founding member of the Open AR Cloud, Mr. Terry Schuster.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

We’ve got beautiful immersive artists and people working in immersive storytelling that are coming. So it’s really– so there’s one stage that’s enterprise, and one stage that’s immersive. Anne-Marie: Magic Leap’s doing a workshop. It’s great. That’s important.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

We’ve got beautiful immersive artists and people working in immersive storytelling that are coming. So it’s really– so there’s one stage that’s enterprise, and one stage that’s immersive. Anne-Marie: Magic Leap’s doing a workshop. It’s great. That’s important.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

We’ve got beautiful immersive artists and people working in immersive storytelling that are coming. So it’s really– so there’s one stage that’s enterprise, and one stage that’s immersive. Anne-Marie: Magic Leap’s doing a workshop. It’s great. That’s important.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

They are a passionate team of 3D designers, VR and AR experts based in New York and San Francisco. Or, is this maybe something that can be bridged across both, when you need a fully-immersive space versus that? And so we have our Magic Leap build coming out very soon. Why would I want that?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

They are a passionate team of 3D designers, VR and AR experts based in New York and San Francisco. Or, is this maybe something that can be bridged across both, when you need a fully-immersive space versus that? And so we have our Magic Leap build coming out very soon. Why would I want that?

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Alice is a technology writer/producer/consultant with a particular interest in the immersive space. But for a while that really looked like they and Magic Leap — and we weren’t really sure what Magic Leap looked like until very recently — were the only players in that market.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Alice is a technology writer/producer/consultant with a particular interest in the immersive space. But for a while that really looked like they and Magic Leap — and we weren’t really sure what Magic Leap looked like until very recently — were the only players in that market.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

They are a passionate team of 3D designers, VR and AR experts based in New York and San Francisco. Or, is this maybe something that can be bridged across both, when you need a fully-immersive space versus that? And so we have our Magic Leap build coming out very soon. Why would I want that? That's really exciting.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

To get some insight into those numbers, I moderated a panel on investing in virtual reality and augmented reality at Greenlight Insights’ recent Virtual Reality Strategy conference in San Francisco. Toby Zhang: I’m a partner with Youku Global Media Fund and CRCM in San Francisco. It focuses on media, AR/VR, and A.I.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Alice is a technology writer/producer/consultant with a particular interest in the immersive space. But for a while that really looked like they and Magic Leap -- and we weren't really sure what Magic Leap looked like until very recently -- were the only players in that market. That's so powerful.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Alice is a technology writer/producer/consultant with a particular interest in the immersive space. But for a while that really looked like they and Magic Leap — and we weren’t really sure what Magic Leap looked like until very recently — were the only players in that market.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 25, 2019

And if it doesn’t, it feels weird then just breaks the immersion. And immersion is your Holy Grail. And we’ve seen several cases already just in a small, very small pilot that we’ve done in a few locations in Toronto, in Stanford, in San Francisco and soon in Israel. And it’s no longer simple.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 25, 2019

And if it doesn’t, it feels weird then just breaks the immersion. And immersion is your Holy Grail. And we’ve seen several cases already just in a small, very small pilot that we’ve done in a few locations in Toronto, in Stanford, in San Francisco and soon in Israel. And it’s no longer simple.

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Robert Scoble

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Irena Cronin and I are seeing huge shifts coming as autonomous vehicles get to the point where they are driving around San Francisco without humans. Adrian Kaehler, a computer vision pioneer who built for the first autonomous vehicle at Stanford and was an early key exec at Magic Leap, started a humanoid robotics company, Giant AI.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 25, 2019

And if it doesn't, it feels weird then just breaks the immersion. And immersion is your Holy Grail. And we've seen several cases already just in a small, very small pilot that we've done in a few locations in Toronto, in Stanford, in San Francisco and soon in Israel. And it's no longer simple. It's the same goal.

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