XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 15, 2023

Spatial Hits Big at GDC 2023 In March, at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2023 in San Francisco, Spatial announced the platform’s new Unity Creator Toolkit is entering its beta stages. Steinerman noted that Spaital started as a platform solely available on XR headsets such as Microsoft’s HoloLens and the Magic Leap.

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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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AllThingsVR

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Stephenson’s forward thinking has recently landed him a job as a futurist at enigmatic AR company, Magic Leap. He was also on hand at this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco to answer questions about his new book, Sevneves, and a reality that is inching ever more closely to the fantasy he crafted in 1992.

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TechCrunch VR

OCTOBER 14, 2021

I had the chance to demo the headset in-person in San Francisco and my first impression of the device was around just how compact and well-designed the hardware appeared. The headset overall hosts a lightweight design more akin to the Magic Leap One than existing standalone headsets.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 11, 2016

That year saw San Francisco hosting not just the hippies and free love, but a very significant presentation was held. Certainly Magic Leap won big by attracting Google, Qualcomm, Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins, among other investors. 1968 was a year widely known for hippie culture, green smoke, free love etc.

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VRWorld

JULY 5, 2017

Now, there’s a Finnish startup emerging from stealth mode offering 70 times higher resolution than offered (or promised) by HTC, Oculus or even Magic Leap, with its 1-2K floating display. You can see the comparison images below: Varjo 20|20 technology (above) vs. Oculus Rift (below) on San Francisco demo image.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2016

John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity Technologies, predicted that tech journalists would start gleefully writing that the virtual reality revolution is over because sales of VR headsets fell short of expectations, and analysts are in the midst of shaving back their predictions. I’m not one of those journalists.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

Using the algorithms acquired with 6D.ai, Niantic can so finally let developers offer augmented reality experiences that are shared and persistent in a location, that is exactly what we need for our mixed reality future. San Francisco, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York City, and Seattle?—?for Image by Magic Leap).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 4, 2017

Magic Leap. For a secretive company, we can learn a lot about Magic Leap from their patent filings and acquisitions, namely that they launched without a clear path to executing their vision. In April of last year Abovitz landed himself on the cover of Wired magazine with what was dubbed the Magic Leap “photonic chip.”

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 31, 2016

At this year’s IMMERSE Summit , Road to VR sat down with Matt McIlwain , managing director at Madrona Venture Group (investor in Envelop VR and Pixvana ), and Patrick Eggen , managing director at Qualcomm Ventures (investor in Owlchemy Labs and Magic Leap ), to discuss their investing strategies when it comes to virtual and augmented reality.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

But then there’s the Virtual Reality, Toronto; VRTO: That one is a small but very powerful group. Anne-Marie: Magic Leap’s doing a workshop. But then there’s the Virtual Reality, Toronto; VRTO: That one is a small but very powerful group. And then we’ve got workshops too.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

But then there’s the Virtual Reality, Toronto; VRTO: That one is a small but very powerful group. Anne-Marie: Magic Leap’s doing a workshop. But then there’s the Virtual Reality, Toronto; VRTO: That one is a small but very powerful group. And then we’ve got workshops too.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

But then there’s the Virtual Reality, Toronto; VRTO: That one is a small but very powerful group. Anne-Marie: Magic Leap’s doing a workshop. But then there’s the Virtual Reality, Toronto; VRTO: That one is a small but very powerful group. And then we’ve got workshops too.

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VRScout

MARCH 30, 2017

The German auto manufacturer evaluates design features in virtual reality before building prototypes in actual reality, using the famous high-quality physics-based rendering power of Unreal for the game engine and using the HTC Vive for the VR hardware. VR WILL LET YOU GET INSIDE READY PLAYER ONE.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

In April, we opened the doors to the first Upload Collective in San Francisco, a hub for VR and AR startups, development, co-working, education, meetups and even live broadcasting. With over 40 member companies in San Francisco, The Upload Collective has quickly grown both in size and in scope. February 2016. March 2016.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Alan: Today's guest is Cameron Ayres, the director of innovation at Sector 5 Digital, a digital agency specializing in augmented reality and virtual reality applications for the enterprise. That's where virtual reality, and augmented reality, and a lot of other different media come into play.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Alan: Today's guest is Cameron Ayres, the director of innovation at Sector 5 Digital, a digital agency specializing in augmented reality and virtual reality applications for the enterprise. That's where virtual reality, and augmented reality, and a lot of other different media come into play.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Alan: Today's guest is Cameron Ayres, the director of innovation at Sector 5 Digital, a digital agency specializing in augmented reality and virtual reality applications for the enterprise. That's where virtual reality, and augmented reality, and a lot of other different media come into play.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Alan: Today's guest is Cameron Ayres, the director of innovation at Sector 5 Digital, a digital agency specializing in augmented reality and virtual reality applications for the enterprise. That's where virtual reality, and augmented reality, and a lot of other different media come into play.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

Is virtual reality a bubble? Digi-Capital reported that venture capitalists invested $500 million in augmented reality and VR during the third quarter, with 65 percent of that money coming from mainstream traditional VCs. Toby Zhang: I’m a partner with Youku Global Media Fund and CRCM in San Francisco.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

They are a passionate team of 3D designers, VR and AR experts based in New York and San Francisco. Alan: Give us an example of this Spatial augmented reality, and why does it better in augmented reality versus virtual reality? And so we have our Magic Leap build coming out very soon.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

They are a passionate team of 3D designers, VR and AR experts based in New York and San Francisco. Alan: Give us an example of this Spatial augmented reality, and why does it better in augmented reality versus virtual reality? And so we have our Magic Leap build coming out very soon.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

They are a passionate team of 3D designers, VR and AR experts based in New York and San Francisco. Alan: Give us an example of this Spatial augmented reality, and why does it better in augmented reality versus virtual reality? And so we have our Magic Leap build coming out very soon.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 7, 2019

But for a while that really looked like they and Magic Leap — and we weren’t really sure what Magic Leap looked like until very recently — were the only players in that market. They had a beautiful central hub in San Francisco and LA and they were the hub of virtual reality.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 7, 2019

But for a while that really looked like they and Magic Leap — and we weren’t really sure what Magic Leap looked like until very recently — were the only players in that market. They had a beautiful central hub in San Francisco and LA and they were the hub of virtual reality.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 7, 2019

But for a while that really looked like they and Magic Leap -- and we weren't really sure what Magic Leap looked like until very recently -- were the only players in that market. They had a beautiful central hub in San Francisco and LA and they were the hub of virtual reality.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 7, 2019

But for a while that really looked like they and Magic Leap — and we weren’t really sure what Magic Leap looked like until very recently — were the only players in that market. They had a beautiful central hub in San Francisco and LA and they were the hub of virtual reality.

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Robert Scoble

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Irena Cronin and I are seeing huge shifts coming as autonomous vehicles get to the point where they are driving around San Francisco without humans. We are bringing new understanding to entrepreneurs and product strategists on Augmented Reality and everything related to it, including AI and Computer Vision.

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VRScout

JULY 17, 2016

MAGIC LEAP, THE NOTORIOUSLY SECRETIVE STARTUP, STEPS INTO SPOTLIGHT. Magic Leap has raised $1.5B for mixed reality lightfield technology that no one has actually seen (outside of a small number of people with ironclad NDAs), and is funded by giants like Google and Alibaba.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Vice’s worked in many areas, including datamining, web development, virtual reality, 2D and 3D graphics, image and video processing. Your presentation is at Virtual Reality Toronto meet-up was mind-blowing. And we built a virtual reality MRI simulator for kids. Alan: It’s my pleasure.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Vice’s worked in many areas, including datamining, web development, virtual reality, 2D and 3D graphics, image and video processing. Your presentation is at Virtual Reality Toronto meet-up was mind-blowing. And we built a virtual reality MRI simulator for kids. Alan: It’s my pleasure.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Upload VR has been able to visit Kura offices in San Francisco and try the technology behind the Kura Gallium glasses, the AR devices that promise a 150° FOV, a resolution that goes up to 8K, variable focus, and brightness that allows for outdoor usage. Yes, you got it: virtual reality.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Vice's worked in many areas, including datamining, web development, virtual reality, 2D and 3D graphics, image and video processing. Your presentation is at Virtual Reality Toronto meet-up was mind-blowing. And we built a virtual reality MRI simulator for kids. Thanks for having me. Alan: It's my pleasure.

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