XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Nreal, Meta, Magic Leap, and RealWear produce AR devices that suit consumer, enterprise, or industrial environments. Moreover, last year, Nreal partnered with University researchers and Microsoft to leverage its smart glasses technology as a medical device. The device took a while to hit the market.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

The Oculus Quest 2 continues its march towards mainstream adoption. It wouldn’t be a normal week without some news about Facebook and/or the Oculus Quest. The first one is that the Quest 2 has now sold in some months more than all the other Oculus headsets (with the exclusion of Gear VR) combined in all these years.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Meta Oculus and Aptiv. Turning to the Leadership Network, and leveraging the power of Oculus for Business, Aptiv achieved phenomenal results. With the Oculus Quest headset, Aptiv has been able to reduce in-person training times significantly, with most courses now only taking between 4 hours and 2 days.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

Meta has not officially answered this report, but Andrew Bosworth, the CTO of the company, has indirectly commented on it: “ We’re going to ship wrist wearables and AR glasses that bring completely new tech?—?like Microsoft will for sure keep pushing for immersive realities and “the metaverse”, but in a completely different way.

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Upload VR

JUNE 9, 2023

Google chickened out , Microsoft got distracted , and it's totally understandable if you lost interest in VR when they did. Analog Concerns Oculus Rift prototype demo with Xbox controller, 2012. We already have wearable personal computers and they're increasingly with us most of the day both inside and outside the home.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 24, 2020

Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Snap and Qualcomm are all making significant investments.” ” As just one example, Facebook has increased its annual R&D spend by $10 billion between 2014, when it bought Oculus, to the present. Then there’s Magic Leap. Lots of that is likely going to AR & VR.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

He has a very interesting working story, having worked for great companies like Microsoft and Fast Company. In the interview with me, he talked about many topics, like the rumors he heard on Apple Glasses, on the Oculus Quest 2 , the America vs China war, XR entrepreneurship, Tesla, and more! PRNewsfoto/BadVR).

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 30, 2020

Other investors include Expa, Lerer Hippeau, Leaders Fund, Samsung NEXT and Andy Hertzfeld (of Macintosh fame).

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TechCrunch VR

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Some of the large valuations are for Magic Leap ( well over $6 billion ), Niantic ( nearly $4 billion ), Oculus ( $3 billion from exit to Facebook ), Beijing Moviebook Technology ($1 billion+) and Lightricks ($1 billion). While there are unicorns, the market hasn’t seen an AR/VR decacorn yet.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 3, 2019

With all the phone and watch and TV and game and chip and other chip news coming out of Apple’s big event, it was easy to forget the company’s longest-running background process: an augmented-reality wearable. “It’s more than Microsoft can be said to be doing.” That’s by design.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

From Rift to Apple Watch to Snap Spectacles, the trend is toward wearable computing. Meta is working on an AR headset, which puts them in the same league as Microsoft and Magic Leap. We all want to live our Jedi dreams, but the Oculus Touch controllers are not quite “the Force.” Current Limits.

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Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Mark Zuckerberg talks about the future of VR and AR at Facebook’s recent Oculus Connect conference. It isn’t alone, we know of many companies that are spending billions on same, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sony, Magic Leap, Huawei, and others. The tech industry is gearing up for a new paradigm shift.

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VRWorld

JULY 5, 2017

More sharp eyed readers of this post can see the pixel grid on both HTC Vive and Oculus Rift headsets, and this is where Varjo hopes to make the difference. Still, using an Oculus Rift for a demo instead of an actual prototype is somewhat underwhelming, which was noted by several major media outlets.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

This won’t be the year of AR : exactly as I said for virtual reality, let’s not hype the technology and think that this is the year when mainstream adoption of wearable AR glasses is going to happen. Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft). while we have seen the complicated life of Oculus hands-on booths at Best Buy.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 29, 2023

This offering could be the key to helping the tech giant preserve its market share, as innovators like Apple , Microsoft, and Magic Leap all increase their focus in the business world. Is Meta Quest for Business the Same as Oculus for Business? Back in 2017, Meta introduced “ Oculus for Business ”.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

A new OS for wearable, on face, computers. When I worked at Microsoft I got in trouble with the lawyers over patents so they made me sleep with a lawyer (true story, that was my punishment). I also am invested in Apple competitors, Qualcomm, Snap, Microsoft, Amazon, and about 50 other companies in a diverse portfolio.

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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. An Apple AR headset has been a mainstay of the rumor mills for several years, and we expect Facebook to be creating an AR Oculus device.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

Steve Mann is commonly referred to as the “father of wearable computing” for innovations like the EyeTap, which combined computer processing with graphical design and textual overlays. But building a wearable general-purpose computer with wireless digital-communications capabilities was itself a feat.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 11, 2022

For years, the company has been delivering some of the most powerful and accessible XR experiences around, with tools like the Oculus Quest. Tools like the Oculus already come with hand tracking functionality, to help users interact with some software on a hands-free basis. Unity and Magic Leap.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Even if you put aside its decidedly bug-eyed appearance, the leaked HTC Vive Flow is a baffling headset. By all accounts, it’s supposed to be a standalone consumer VR device that’s made for activities like meditating and streaming media. It also will allegedly come with its own take on the metaverse. In a somewhat… Read more.

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TechCrunch VR

MARCH 13, 2022

Remember Magic Leap? This week, I spent an hour or so playing around with the unreleased next-generation Magic Leap headset, all while discussing the augmented reality company’s wild ride with Magic Leap CEO Peggy Johnson and other members of their executive team. So, let’s talk about it.

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VRGames

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Two technologies that are confusingly related, but totally various. Augmented actuality playlist … Source.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

GB: Magic Leap is a big presence in the AR discussion. Outside of the sort of people in this room and in the games press, I don’t think most people know what Magic Leap is. When you talk about investment, certainly Magic Leap has garnered the most, but ODG just closed a big round. Image Credit: Microsoft.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

Microsoft Capture Studio is offering such services scanning celebrities and performers for entertainment and education purposes. Check out the example below of Mica , Magic Leap’s intelligent agent. Volumetric capture can also create volumetric video that can be used in VR and AR experiences. The Evolution of Brand Activations.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

2010, we had wearable technologies like the Fitbits, the Apple Watch, so forth and so on. These are like the Microsoft Hololens, Magic Leaps. So something like an Oculus Go, for example, allows you to look around and be inside of a video. So Metastage uses Microsoft’s volumetric Hcap, holographic capture.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

2010, we had wearable technologies like the Fitbits, the Apple Watch, so forth and so on. These are like the Microsoft Hololens, Magic Leaps. So something like an Oculus Go, for example, allows you to look around and be inside of a video. So Metastage uses Microsoft's volumetric Hcap, holographic capture.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

2010, we had wearable technologies like the Fitbits, the Apple Watch, so forth and so on. These are like the Microsoft Hololens, Magic Leaps. So something like an Oculus Go, for example, allows you to look around and be inside of a video. So Metastage uses Microsoft’s volumetric Hcap, holographic capture.

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