Road to VR
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Madefire, the minds behind the Motion Books 3D comic format and publishing platform, today released a new app for Magic Leap One that will let users not only publish their own 3D ‘motion comic’ creations directly to the AR headset, but also experience a number of comics in the Madefire catalog. Magic Leap says there is “50+ world-class series” reimagined for the company’s developer-focused AR headset.
Road to VR
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
Andy Serkis, the actor-director you may recognize for his award-winning performances as Gollum in the Lord of The Rings film franchise, is lending his likeness to a new AR creation for Magic Leap One headset in what The Hollywood Reporter describes as an “orc-like creature.” According to the report, The Imaginarium has worked with Magic Leap for at least five years, marked by the moment when Serkis first visited their offices. Image courtesy Magic Leap.
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The Ghost Howls
JULY 29, 2019
You probably have heard about Leap Motion’s Project North Star , that should be able to offer people affordable augmented reality. Notice a Leap Motion sensor installed on top of it. Project North Star is an opensource augmented reality headset that Leap Motion has designed and gifted to the community. HoloLens or Magic Leap One ), but to create a headset that is: Affordable; Completely open, both from a software and hardware standpoint.
Road to VR
AUGUST 17, 2018
There’s a lot that can be said about the Magic Leap One. And although its OS and apps don’t fully utilize the tech available to them, Magic Leap One is an ambitious, well-made, but imperfect MR devkit that doesn’t quite live up to the hype, but is still the most complete and affordable mixed-reality (MR) computer out there. The Magic Leap One consists of three elements: a light-pack, a headset and a controller?—?all Image courtesy Magic Leap.
Road to VR
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
Formerly known as Ultrahaptics, Ultraleap was formed after the UK-based haptics company acquired leading hand-tracking company Leap Motion back in 2019. AR Investment Investment News VR Investment hand-tracking leap motion ultrahaptics ultraleap
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. You may hate or love Magic Leap, but the fact that it has released a product is for sure a great news for all the ecosystem : if after all those investments, that startup failed, it would have had a ripple effect on all the ecosystem, making investors lose trust in augmented reality. Rear view of the Magic Leap One.
Leapmotion
JUNE 6, 2018
At Leap Motion, we envision a future where the physical and virtual worlds blend together into a single magical experience. Project North Star points a future where the physical and virtual worlds blend together into a single magical experience. While the classic Leap Motion Controller’s FOV is significantly beyond existing AR headsets such as Microsoft Hololens and Magic Leap One, it felt limiting on the North Star headset.
The Ghost Howls
MAY 25, 2022
Ultraleap Stratos Explore is the product for which Ultrahaptics (which later became Ultraleap after the fusion with Leap Motion) was famous. Ultraleap Stratos presents itself as a square box with a lot of tiny cylinders on it and a Leap Motion controller to track the hands.
The Ghost Howls
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
In my unboxing video, you may see that I’ve found an additional Leap Motion v1 controller + Leap Motion mount for RealMax + USB-C cable for Leap Motion. It is some kind of magic.
AR Insider
DECEMBER 9, 2019
— Magic Leap, the top-funded company, raised $280 million compared to $1.25 — There were some high-profile flameouts in 2019, including Meta, ODG and Daqri, while others exited below previous funding totals (a veritable down-round), including Leap Motion.
The Ghost Howls
JANUARY 9, 2021
Triton works with Leap Motion (now Ultra Leap) hands tracking. Originally I was going to make a standalone device which hooked everything up to a Nvidia Jetson Nano that could be worn on your belt (think Magic Leap One).
Road to VR
FEBRUARY 27, 2019
In contrast to HoloLens 2 or Magic Leap One, PinMR doesn’t use waveguides, which the company says cuts down manufacturing complexity and cost. With an embedded Leap Motion hand tracker on the opposite side of the fixed frame, I was able to reach out to the 3D objects and bring them right up to the point where the vergence-accommodation conflict took over and I went a bit cross-eyed trying to resolve the image.
The Ghost Howls
FEBRUARY 24, 2019
This new HoloLens has for sure made a huge leap forward for what concerns comfort. The new HoloLens features: Eye tracking Full hands tracking (a la Leap Motion) Voice commands understanding. All this study of the UX using the hands reminded me a lot of Leap Motion’s work, exactly as the fact that Microsoft plans to create a sense of phantom touch of the hands by the use of visual cues and sound cues that pop when you touch virtual objects with your hands.
The Ghost Howls
FEBRUARY 1, 2021
The 10M mark is a magic number to have a market big enough for AAA studios to enter and create amazing VR content, that in turn will attract more people to VR. UltraLeap (formerly known as Leap Motion) has just launched the 5th iteration of its hands-tracking runtime, called Gemini.
The Ghost Howls
SEPTEMBER 4, 2019
Last year I interviewed John Gaeta , that is building the Magicverse at Magic Leap and I asked him how much time we’ll need to get there, to have a fully persistent and shared mixed reality that is completely blended with the real world. Header image by Leap Motion). According to the very famous market analysis company Gartner, Augmented Reality is no more an “emerging” technology, but it has graduated as a mature one.
The Ghost Howls
JUNE 1, 2020
Rony Abovitz steps down from Magic Leap CEO. It is the end of an era: Abovitz has been the mastermind behind Magic Leap’s communication and vision. This was a very good thing and attracted many people to Magic Leap.
AR Insider
OCTOBER 31, 2019
It’s been called the AR Cloud by many, the Magicverse by Magic Leap, the Mirrorworld by Wired, the Cyberverse by Huawei, Planet-scale AR by Niantic and Spatial Computing by academics. Magic Leap are the highest-profile, with both a device and a platform, and more recent entrants include Ubiquity6, AIReal and Placenote. We can visualize how Snap, Niantic and Magic Leap provide many of the AR Cloud ingredients across this landscape.
The Ghost Howls
OCTOBER 29, 2019
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. Keep in mind that Magic Leap One has a diagonal FOV of 50° and you realize why the word “only” is between quotes. The hand tracking was fabulous as always thanks to Leap Motion and its Orion tracking. At WCVRI , I have tried some cool AR/VR hardware.
VRScout
JULY 17, 2018
Spacee will be the first to tell you that what they are offering is not the same as something like Microsoft HoloLens, Leap Motion, or Magic Leap technology. Walmart, Coca Cola and Mercedes Benz are using Post Mobile AR to give customers a more interactive in-store experience.
The Ghost Howls
OCTOBER 17, 2019
The virtual elements spanned all my FOV until the frame of the glasses , and this was another smart thing, because my brain was ok to see that there were holograms only inside the frame of the glass, and then after the frame there was nothing anymore (it is the same trick of Magic Leap ). Markers can be used to define where to show virtual elements, and in the demo that I tried were used to show virtual Chinese artworks in a room; Leap Motion device on Realmax glasses.
The Ghost Howls
SEPTEMBER 24, 2018
The only headset that has such kind of strange thing on one side is the Magic Leap One , that uses it to track the controllers with magnetical fields… but we all know that Oculus actually uses optical tracking to track the controllers. attaching Leap Motion through an adapter).
Charlie Fink
JUNE 7, 2019
RealMax's AR and VR device with hand tracking by Leap Motion and an epic 102-degree field of view, was used for a multiplayer AR game which involved grabbing fish and knocking over boxes. Apple begins its World Wide Developer Conference on Monday, June 3rd; Microsoft, Facebook (Oculus), Google, Amazon, Snap, and Magic Leap, had theirs earlier in the year. The 10th annual Augmented World Expo ( AWE ) wrapped on Friday, May 31st.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
OCTOBER 15, 2016
Imagine the same touch and motion-based actions we’re used to on mobile phones, only happening in the air with our hands while we’re in VR. Future solutions will get rid of clunky wired headsets and move onto glasses that can project a high-definition image onto the eye, a la Magic Leap, and eventually contact lenses that contain tiny screens. Today’s VR systems are both fantastic and restrictive: they blow you away, but it’s clear how far they have to go.
The Ghost Howls
MAY 31, 2019
3D objects had washed out colors , a bit like when you see AR objects through HoloLens 1 and Magic Leap One … they appeared a bit semi-transparent. Even worse, it wasn’t able to track my finger movements well (it was worse than Leap Motion … and Leap Motion doesn’t have worn sensors!). It felt like magic. The first one is the Hexaride , that is like a big triangle-shaped column wi th some motion chairs on each side.
Peter Graham
SEPTEMBER 16, 2019
In its current line-up the company has four products for various use cases, starting with the entry-level Manus Prime One for basic finger tracking, the Manus Prime Xsens; designed for integration into an Xsens motion capture suit, the OptiTrack Hybrid Gloves for use with Optitrack systems and finally the Manus Prime Haptic. Hand tracking is one of those technologies that will become more ubiquitous whether it’s via gloves or systems like Leap Motion.
XR for Business Podcast
APRIL 28, 2020
Alan: With Facebook now working on AR, and you've got Magic Leap, and Microsoft's Hololens. And, you know, Magic Leap-- people are going to expect when they walk around holograms, they stay put. But things like midair haptics, with the Ultra Haptics or the Ultra Leap now.
XR for Business Podcast
APRIL 28, 2020
Alan: With Facebook now working on AR, and you've got Magic Leap, and Microsoft's Hololens. And, you know, Magic Leap-- people are going to expect when they walk around holograms, they stay put. But things like midair haptics, with the Ultra Haptics or the Ultra Leap now.
XR for Business Podcast
DECEMBER 18, 2019
And then even Magic Leap, I’ve heard rumors that they’re going to be introducing an enterprise division, or an enterprise something. I don’t know about Magic Leap yet.
XR for Business Podcast
DECEMBER 18, 2019
And then even Magic Leap, I’ve heard rumors that they’re going to be introducing an enterprise division, or an enterprise something. I don’t know about Magic Leap yet.
XR for Business Podcast
APRIL 28, 2020
Alan: With Facebook now working on AR, and you've got Magic Leap, and Microsoft's Hololens. And, you know, Magic Leap-- people are going to expect when they walk around holograms, they stay put. Are things like midair haptics-- I know-- I guess Leap Motion would be a competitor to you guys, even though they're using a hardware solution to do that. But things like midair haptics, with the Ultra Haptics or the Ultra Leap now.
XR for Business Podcast
DECEMBER 18, 2019
And then even Magic Leap, I’ve heard rumors that they’re going to be introducing an enterprise division, or an enterprise something. I don’t know about Magic Leap yet. And then Ultrahaptics and Leap Motion coming together, creating that virtual hand tracking meets virtual manipulation of the air: ultrasonics.
XR for Business Podcast
DECEMBER 18, 2019
And then even Magic Leap, I've heard rumors that they're going to be introducing an enterprise division, or an enterprise something. I don't know about Magic Leap yet. And then Ultrahaptics and Leap Motion coming together, creating that virtual hand tracking meets virtual manipulation of the air: ultrasonics.
VRGuy
AUGUST 1, 2016
Acer, NVIDIA, Valve, Ubisoft, Leap Motion and many others joined the ecosystem. We see goggles, motion trackers, haptics, eye trackers, motion chairs and body suits. Magic Leap is not commercial yet. Introduction OSVR is an open source software platform and VR goggle. Sensics and Razer launched OSVR 18 months ago with the intent of democratizing VR. We wanted to provide an open alternative to walled-garden, single-device approaches.
The Ghost Howls
JANUARY 14, 2019
It is an augmented reality glass that is being developed in China by a former Magic Leap engineer. Graphically appealing : the FOV is 52 degrees and the quality of images is better than the one of Magic Leap (there is a 1080p display for each eye); Complete : it has integrated audio; Quite powerful , featuring the Snapdragon 845 processor; Ambitious , since it works to offer 6 DOF tracking and also object recognition.
The Ghost Howls
MARCH 23, 2020
The name made many people recall the CTRL+Labs startup acquired by Facebook, which makes people use their hands as if they were magical Jedis. Magic Leap reveals updates and new enterprise solutions. Another great UX post by Leap Motion. Today is the day!
The Ghost Howls
MAY 24, 2021
It feels like magic. But this is not coming anytime soon , exactly like the HoloLens 3, which will only come when there is a technological leap big enough to justify the build of a new version. Welcome to my weekly appointment with the best AR VR news!
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