ARPost

JUNE 3, 2022

AWE day two started off with back-to-back keynotes from mixed reality display maker Magic Leap and AR commerce solution Avataar. A Look at the Magic Leap 2. Magic Leap’s Head of Product Management, Jade Meskill, presented “Magic Leap 2 and the Augmented Enterprise.”

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Road to VR

JULY 12, 2019

Apple continuously advertises a number of job positions dealing with AR software and hardware. And as a consumer-oriented company, Apple doesn’t typically launch expensive developer hardware like how Microsoft and Magic Leap have done with their respective headsets, the HoloLens 1 & 2 and Magic Leap One.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

It’s nice to see how Facebook is updating the Quest software constantly. And I’m not only talking about the hardware, but also the software. Watching it, I had serious AR-Cloud vibes (most probably powered also by the technology of 6d.ai More info (Korean research on VR optics) More info (All videos of IEEE VR).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

Basically, they are: Hyper-optimization : since this is a standalone headset, Oculus has been able to optimize the hardware and software for VR usage. This is Oculus’s answer to Steam Hardware & Software Survey. Magic Leap releases its SDK. Magic Leap releases its SDK.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

For those who aren’t familiar with HaptX, we build technology that simulates touch sensation with unprecedented realism. Our flagship product is HaptX Gloves, but we’re also developing technology to bring a realistic touch sensation to the rest of the body. The technology that delivers this feedback is our patented microfluidic skin.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

So at least the collaboration with Valve is true, but notice that it has not been on the headset, so they got no reference design from Valve, it has just been on the software integration. While HTC is struggling on the hardware side, I think that it is moving very well to create a good software ecosystem, at least in China. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

The software inside is also very simple: basically, all you can do is look at something and apply it to your vision filters taken from Snapchat. It feels like magic. I find Starlight an AMAZING project on the research side , and I think that all these technologies Google has developed for it may be re-used in other XR projects.

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