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Spatial Beats: Oculus, Snapchat and new XR Funding

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Immerse 3D is available for smartphones, HoloLens, and Magic Leap. It can be used with motion capture and animation techniques. The MetaHuman tool is powered by the Unreal Engine. Arvizio brings AR to Zoom meetings with Immerse 3D app. Jadu launched the Curse of Calypso. Zoom adds facial effects during meetings.

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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. And what you are doing at Magic Leap to create these experiences for people? ( Magic Leap glasses. What will we need to create such an infrastructure?

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

The Ghost Howls

Magic Leap releases its SDK. We still haven’t seen a Magic Leap device , but at least now we can see its SDK. The Florida company has released during the GDC the Lumin SDK, that is the development kit that has to be used to develop for LuminOS, the custom operating system of the Magic Leap device.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.10.26): DecaGear is an intriguing VR headset, HTC is working on a new device, and more!

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Some years ago, she performed in The Life, a Mixed Reality art piece inside the Magic Leap One. My friend Nicolas Esposito of Enter Reality has released Project Rigel, his solution to provide full-body tracking and motion capture for Unreal Engine. Learn more.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.09.28): The debate on Facebook continues, Microsoft acquires Zenimax, and more!

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The game is very different from its predecessor, and it is less a realistic combat simulator and more an adrenaline multiplayer game, like Unreal Tournament or Quake Arena. Magic Leap may partner with AWS. This partnership with AWS would be a great idea to favor the business use of Magic Leap 1.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.05.24): Snap releases new Spectacles AR glasses, Quest releases runtime v29, and more!

The Ghost Howls

A Japanese entity called “Akiya Research Institute” has shown on Twitter that it is developing a system to let you perform motion capture with just two webcams connected to your PC , and this could be used also as a very cheap way to have your full body in VR. Track your body in VR with just two webcams.

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Top 50 Asian Virtual Reality-Augmented Reality Leaders,Evangelists, Investors & Influencers

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Most people know Xu due to his dispute with American virtual reality company Magic Leap. In June 2019, Magic Leap accused Xu of stealing AR glasses technology when he was an engineer working at the firm. Before his entrepreneurial work, Mahajan was an engineer at Epic Games on the Unreal Engine and Gears of War.