VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Magic Leap Inc. , As stated, they are thinking of taking part in a new financing round of more than $500 million, bringing Magic Leap valuation close to $6 billion. Magic Leap’s last financing round, led by Alibaba , valued the company at $4.5 s Oculus Rift.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap pivots to enterprise, lays off 1,000 employes. With a long post on Magic Leap’s blog, in the end Rony Abovitz has admitted that the company is not going that well, and has announced a new course, that should eventually lead to Magic Leap 2. Top news of the week.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

.” They partnered with Visyon , a Barcelona-based practical immersive technology company, to provide a widespread selection of technical experiences in VR from Oculus and Vive, and AR through Magic Leap, HoloLens, and Moverio glasses. Image Credit: Educación Superior Ecuador.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

This week has mostly been in the sign of Oculus, with many news and updates from the brand controlled by Facebook. Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap 2 is coming in Q1 2022. Even if most of this roundup will be about Oculus, I have decided to put another brand on top of it and it is Magic Leap.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2018

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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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2022

There I have tried some interesting devices like Weart haptic gloves, OWO haptic suit, but especially the Magic Leap 2, which I found to be a very well-made piece of hardware! In the latest Oculus SDK, Meta has included Room Setup functionalities. News worth a mention. Image from OpenBCI). OpenBCI and Varjo announce Galea.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 31, 2022

Privacy-wise… well… These big investments by Meta show how the company is committed to building our future technological platform, and how much money it is investing into it. Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap 2 to feature dynamic dimming. To be exact, the eye box is twice as large as the one in Magic Leap One.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 1, 2018

Since the first time we have seen the Oculus Santa Cruz prototype during Oculus Connect 3 , we want to put our hands on it. The Oculus Connect 4 made us eager to have it and finally this year we will be able to buy it. What if your Rift could become your Santa Cruz? Ready to discover how? Then go on!

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

Image by Oculus). The other bombshell news is that Resident Evil 4 is coming to the Oculus Quest 2. On April, 21st, Oculus will host its first Gaming Showcase , with news on ‘Lone Echo II’, ‘Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge’, and many other titles. Top news of the week. Facebook announces Wi-Fi streaming and Resident Evil 4 for Quest.

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VRScout

JUNE 19, 2017

Last Monday, I walked three blocks uphill on Mason St in San Francisco to the Fairmont Hotel to demo a stealth product that had been touted to me as one of the biggest advancements in XR tech this side of Magic Leap. Comparison shot of Varjo Bionic display and Oculus Rift display. You can read writing from across the room.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

Oculus Go showcased. The Oculus Go (Image by Oculus). At GDC, the Oculus Go has been one of the main characters. First of all, Oculus has showcased all its main technical characteristics : I advise you to read the post dedicated to that on Oculus blogs , where Chris Pruett introduces you to them.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Around the world, countless companies and groups are already reaping the benefits of extended reality technology. Here, universities, schools, and training companies are embracing the experiential benefits of immersive XR technology to deliver lessons like never before. Meta Oculus and Aptiv.

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TechCrunch VR

APRIL 3, 2023

The fictional depiction of virtual reality and adjacent technologies are intentionally forward-looking. It instead relies on a concave design and slip-on shoe covers, using the effect of foot slipping to simulate movement in VR. million pledged, catapulting it into the crowdfunding service’s all-time Top 10 technology campaigns.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Facebook said that this growth has been mostly due to the sales of Oculus Quest. Admitting that Oculus Quest is the only responsible for this big growth from last year (just an assumption, I want to be clear), we obtain that the sales of Quest for Q3 account for $81M. Oculus Quest may have an assistant soon.

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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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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Researchers at the National University of Singapore first showed us how face electrodes can simulate food in virtual reality– and now they are bringing wind and heat to your virtual world. The notoriously secretive mixed reality company Magic Leap has acquired parts of Dacuda , a B2B computer vision software company.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Image by MegaDodo Simulation Games). While Oculus is getting all the glory for the Quest, its competitors are not sleeping. This year, I’m just watching the conference from home The conference has been interesting, and it has been the usual mix of technology and politics. Top news of the week. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

They should guarantee better tracking both for the headset and the controllers; The controllers are smaller and seem a mix between the Oculus Touch and the WMR 1 controllers. I don’t see this device stealing the scene from Oculus, since Oculus is cheaper, but I’m quite sure this new headset will be able to grab a good market share.

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Tech Trends VR

JANUARY 1, 2019

The late screenwriting legend William Goldman famously said; “nobody knows anything” so predictions – specially about technology – always run the risk of making people look silly in the not-so-distant-future. 2018 has been a remarkable year for immersive technologies (which include the whole spectrum of Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 8, 2023

T he event will be presented by Oculus Studios Executive Producer Ruth Bram like last year, but introduce new pre-event and post-event sessions. On June, 1st, at 10 am PT, Meta is going to stream a presentation with a lot of news about upcoming titles or upgrades of existing titles for the Meta Quest.

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EON Reality

JUNE 10, 2020

Yet, whilst technology has productive and useful applications; it should not be ignored that home entertainment is still an area in which AR and VR can have a huge impact. alone was worth $25bn in 2019, making it an obvious target for further technological enhancements. The home entertainment market in the U.S

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Focused, acute pulses simulate sharp points; broader, more distributed ones can simulate sensations like dipping into water. The suit’s gloves will simulate gripping objects by restricting finger movement: wrap your hands around a hard plastic cup in VR, and your gloves will freeze at the point where you can’t squeeze any further.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 30, 2023

Now, with the high potential of an Apple XR device, a new paradigm shift within the immersive technology market may be around the corner. This month, Oculus – the original development firm behind the Quest portfolio – Founder Palmer Lucky confirmed the development of the Meta Quest 3 and Apple’s upcoming device.

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InstaVR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

VR, AR, MR, XR — those are just a few of the acronyms used to talk about exciting new immersive technologies. This is a question we often get from companies new to emerging technology. They’ve read up on the technologies, but aren’t sure where to start. VR is basically totally immersive, if done properly.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2019

Also, within a game engine, you can simulate room reflections and occlusion more accurately for VR, because the objects are all virtual. Helena playing around with Magic Leap One. What in your opinion still lacks from current AR/VR technology to make the audio fully realistic? How do you perform your work?

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

VPS is a technology that implements the AR Cloud and creates a bridge between the real and the virtual world. What is impressive is that using the technology acquired with another startup, which is The 8th Wall, Niantic has also teased that VPS will be available also for WebAR experiences. Image by Magic Leap).

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

It’s been said on this show before; XR doesn’t have a technology problem, it has an adoption problem. Dan: In my past, I used to work with simulators — big aircraft simulators, etc. But obviously these people couldn’t afford a $50-million simulator. So this was before Oculus.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

It’s been said on this show before; XR doesn’t have a technology problem, it has an adoption problem. Dan: In my past, I used to work with simulators — big aircraft simulators, etc. But obviously these people couldn’t afford a $50-million simulator. So this was before Oculus.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

It's been said on this show before; XR doesn't have a technology problem, it has an adoption problem. But obviously these people couldn't afford a $50-million simulator. So this was before Oculus. And we started thinking how can this technology be used to solve big problems? Alan: Hi, it's Alan Smithson here.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

” The technology served as a visually rich shorthand for dystopian cyberpunk fears in an age of rapidly accelerating technology. For decades, the technology has felt ahead of its time, beginning with Sensorama in 1962. Sutherland, who is still around today at 85, contributed important technological innovations for decades.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

When you’ve been a journalist on the XR technology beat for 20 years, like VentureBeat’s lead writer Dean Takahashi has, you develop a hunch or two about the direction the industry might go. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go. Instead, you can do so much of it in VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

When you’ve been a journalist on the XR technology beat for 20 years, like VentureBeat’s lead writer Dean Takahashi has, you develop a hunch or two about the direction the industry might go. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go. Instead, you can do so much of it in VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

When you've been a journalist on the XR technology beat for 20 years, like VentureBeat's lead writer Dean Takahashi has, you develop a hunch or two about the direction the industry might go. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go. Alan picks Dean's brain for a few such scoops. well, failing.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

When you’ve been a journalist on the XR technology beat for 20 years, like VentureBeat’s lead writer Dean Takahashi has, you develop a hunch or two about the direction the industry might go. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go. Instead, you can do so much of it in VR.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Image by Megadodo Simulation Games). Thanks to Sebastian Ang of MRTV (one of my favorite VR YouTubers), everyone can now watch the CEO and CTO of MegaDodo Simulation Games (the company behind the project) talk about this new device, their company, and even showing a prototype. Other relevant news. This is how a solid company behaves.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

Alan: So, because this is a podcast focused on the business applications and enterprise applications of this technology, what did you see at Laval that stood out as a must-have for businesses? Which is pretty amazing, because who knows how these technologies are going to be used? It’s about three and half hours west of Paris.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

Alan: So, because this is a podcast focused on the business applications and enterprise applications of this technology, what did you see at Laval that stood out as a must-have for businesses? Which is pretty amazing, because who knows how these technologies are going to be used? It’s about three and half hours west of Paris.

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