The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap has sold units of its first device for $550. Magic Leap has decided to put on sale its remaining units of the Magic Leap 1, its previous device, for just $550 , which is something like a -75% discount on its standard retail price. News worth a mention.

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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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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

So, I opened a chain of retail computer stores in the 90s, I ran a fairly large chain in Oregon with five computer stores and then in 2000 I started working in Silicon Valley doing electronics and engineering… and eventually, I got into doing consumer products. after that, I’ve always been a bit of an entrepreneur also. The Vive Wands.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

But soon, Arash Keshmirian saw the writing on the wall that XR’s current usefulness was better-suited to the worlds of industry, retail, and journalism. We're going to dig into using Magic Leap and Hololens and mixed reality headsets as a tool for business. Arash and Alan discuss how he made that transition. Well, there we go.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

But soon, Arash Keshmirian saw the writing on the wall that XR’s current usefulness was better-suited to the worlds of industry, retail, and journalism. We're going to dig into using Magic Leap and Hololens and mixed reality headsets as a tool for business. Arash and Alan discuss how he made that transition. Well, there we go.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

The third major change came from Unity which recently announced that it will now be serving AR ads on mobile. Unity has one of the world’s largest mobile ad serving businesses and at the end of last year they partnered with Fossil to pilot this new ad format in mobile games. The Evolution of Brand Activations.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

But soon, Arash Keshmirian saw the writing on the wall that XR’s current usefulness was better-suited to the worlds of industry, retail, and journalism. We're going to dig into using Magic Leap and Hololens and mixed reality headsets as a tool for business. Arash and Alan discuss how he made that transition. Well, there we go.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

They were spread between the training, the retail layout team, and the network team. So we just-- through a process called photogrammetry, we quickly were able to recreate the digital twin of that retail store, and bring it and show the team. At Oculus, they said 10 years. You've seen Magic Leap pivot to enterprises.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

They were spread between the training, the retail layout team, and the network team. So we just-- through a process called photogrammetry, we quickly were able to recreate the digital twin of that retail store, and bring it and show the team. At Oculus, they said 10 years. You've seen Magic Leap pivot to enterprises.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

They were spread between the training, the retail layout team, and the network team. So we just-- through a process called photogrammetry, we quickly were able to recreate the digital twin of that retail store, and bring it and show the team. At Oculus, they said 10 years. You've seen Magic Leap pivot to enterprises.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 21, 2019

For example, I saw one where Coke did a visualizer to show retailers what the new Coke machine would look like in their stores. So, when I say “fashion,” that could be anything; from a retail experience when you’re in a store, or it could be a brand experience that you don’t need to be in a store to have. Austin: Exactly.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 21, 2019

For example, I saw one where Coke did a visualizer to show retailers what the new Coke machine would look like in their stores. So, when I say “fashion,” that could be anything; from a retail experience when you’re in a store, or it could be a brand experience that you don’t need to be in a store to have. Austin: Exactly.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 21, 2019

For example, I saw one where Coke did a visualizer to show retailers what the new Coke machine would look like in their stores. So, when I say “fashion,” that could be anything; from a retail experience when you're in a store, or it could be a brand experience that you don't need to be in a store to have. That's like next-level retail.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. Alan: I think the zSpace thing could be used for retail on location.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. Alan: I think the zSpace thing could be used for retail on location.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. Alan: I think the zSpace thing could be used for retail on location.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. Alan: I think the zSpace thing could be used for retail on location.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

One example is retail employees. Michael: And this is why I’ve been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building — there’s VRTK for Unity… there’s just all these tools. You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

One example is retail employees. Michael: And this is why I’ve been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building — there’s VRTK for Unity… there’s just all these tools. You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

One example is retail employees. just in this very short, six-minute conversation that we've been in here, you've talked about VR being used for design, and for previsualization, and for training in retail. You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go. Unity is always my top one.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

So I think there’s gonna be a huge push towards kind of three dimensional retail and e-commerce with these mobile devices, and that you don’t even need a headset for that. I mean, I will say that with Oculus Quest that’s changing for me. Both the Hololens 2 and the Magic Leap are shipping with eye tracking.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

So I think there's gonna be a huge push towards kind of three dimensional retail and e-commerce with these mobile devices, and that you don't even need a headset for that. I mean, I will say that with Oculus Quest that's changing for me. Both the Hololens 2 and the Magic Leap are shipping with eye tracking. It's amazing.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

So I think there’s gonna be a huge push towards kind of three dimensional retail and e-commerce with these mobile devices, and that you don’t even need a headset for that. I mean, I will say that with Oculus Quest that’s changing for me. Both the Hololens 2 and the Magic Leap are shipping with eye tracking.

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VRScout

JULY 17, 2016

MAGIC LEAP, THE NOTORIOUSLY SECRETIVE STARTUP, STEPS INTO SPOTLIGHT. Magic Leap has raised $1.5B Boldly equating Magic Leap to a “baby Apple” (a reference to their end-to-end approach making not only the hardware but also software, chips, sensors, UI, electronics, etc.) MONEY MOVES & FUNDING.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

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