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My predictions for augmented reality in 2019

The Ghost Howls

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. Leap Motion. You may ask why I’m adding Leap Motion here. ODG is launching a patent sale now in January.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.12.09): Qualcomm XR2 defines the future of XR, Magic Leap having tragic sales, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Qualcomm is the company making almost all the chipsets and the reference designs upon which almost all XR headsets of nowadays are based upon. At the beginning of 2020, the American company will finalize its reference design based on this chipset, and in the second half of the year we will see the first headsets implementing this technology.

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Leap Motion’s North Star is the DK1 of AR: hands-on preview and how to buy it!

The Ghost Howls

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.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.03.23): Half-Life: Alyx launches, Oculus Del Mar leaked, PS5 revealed and more!

The Ghost Howls

The documentation was the same as before, if not for the fact that in the page about headset Input page, there was also a reference to “Oculus Jedi” controllers. I’ve used Google search to find all the pages with references to Del Mar in the Oculus website, and all the docs are identical to the previous versions.

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Project North Star is Now Open Source

Leapmotion

At Leap Motion, we envision a future where the physical and virtual worlds blend together into a single magical experience. Our goal is for the reference design to be accessible and inexpensive to build, using off-the-shelf components and 3D-printed parts. Let’s build it together.

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All the best AR and VR news from CES 2019

The Ghost Howls

New Qualcomm reference design. Qualcomm reference design headset plugged into a Snapdragon 855 phone (Image by Road To VR). At CES, Qualcomm has showcased a new reference design for VR headsets that is very close in design to a Windows Mixed Reality headset. The launch price is $250. More on this news on Road To VR ).

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

The Ghost Howls

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. North Star AR headset.