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Magic Leap Taps Andy Serkis For ‘Orc-Like’ Motion Capture Character

VRScout

The Oscar nominated actors performance-capture studio partners with Magic Leap to bring fresh content to their MR platform. With credits including legendary franchises like The Lord of the Rings, Planet of the Apes, and Star Wars , Andy Serkis has proven himself a legend within the world of motion capture technology.

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Magic Leap Teams with Andy Serkis Effects Studio Imaginarium for New AR Experience

Next Reality AR

The critics of Magic Leap have been circling for a couple of weeks now, but that isn't stopping the company from pushing forward with major new partnerships. The latest Magic Leap tie-up is with none other than motion capture actor Andy Serkis and his UK-based The Imaginarium Studios. "In

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Magic Leap CEO: ‘We have made something that is small, mobile, powerful, and we think pretty cool’

Road to VR

Magic Leap is a mystery. Parsing through their pre-factual, post-cool ad campaign leaves you with the impression that the brains at the company have created the next be-all and end-all of augmented reality devices thanks to an ingenious fight field display technology; and as a curious onlooker, getting a peek of the $4.5

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AWE 2022 Day Two: The Floor Opens. Talks on Interoperability, Hardware, and Software

ARPost

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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Magic Leap’s John Gaeta talks about the future of cinema, storytelling and mixed reality

The Ghost Howls

He has joined Rony Abovitz at Magic Leap and now he’s there, trying to build the MagicVerse as the SVP of Creative Strategy of the Florida company. Douglas went away from Hollywood to create this super-studio with all the cutting-edge technology (like robotic camera systems, computers, etc…).

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Apple’s Tim Cook Sees Opportunity In AR, But It ‘Will Take Some Time To Get Right’

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And so you want the technology to encourage that.”. VR has some interesting applications, but I don’t think it’s a broad-based technology like AR,” Cook explained. Most recently, Apple hired Zeyu Li of Magic Leap — perhaps the most well known AR company in existence — as well as Yury Petrov from Facebook’s Oculus.

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All the most important AR and VR news from the GDC 2018

The Ghost Howls

So, exploiting this statistic and knowing that due to the various distortions, usually, the peripheral regions of the rendered images are the one made employing more pixels, Oculus has decided to apply a Fixed Foveating technology. Magic Leap releases its SDK. It is so possible to start creating your Magic Leap application.

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