Road to VR
MARCH 16, 2023
Launched in 2017, Google Glass for enterprise was a revival of sorts, as the company had ceased production of the storied device in 2015. You can learn more about the differences between AR headsets and smartglasses here.
Road to VR
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
million on Kickstarter back in 2012. Compared to headsets targeting similar use-cases, like HoloLens and Magic Leap, at 90 degrees, the R-1 would have a significantly larger field of view for its AR content than those headsets, though it would restrict the user’s natural field of view by comparison.
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AR Insider
JANUARY 11, 2021
A year later Magic Leap ran out of cash and laid off half the company. And Sony’s investment in Epic Games values the maker of Fortnite at $17 B (China’s Tencent invested in 2012 and owns 50% of the company). Charismatic founder and CEO Rony Abovitz raised $3.4 Unity’s IPO. Now valued at $40 B.
Road to VR
MAY 19, 2017
” For me it was a sad confirmation that there’s almost certainly no secret Glass revival in the works; no new device to wow us with a forward thinking approach like the 2012 introduction of the headset ; no effort to bring the “One Day…” concept vision of Glass to life.
HoloLens
APRIL 3, 2018
All those early prototype images Magic Leap is so fond of showing off are great, but they rank a far second when compared to a new set of images just revealed by Microsoft in relation to the HoloLens. 2012, about two years before the company would unveil the device to the public in Jan.
ARVR
JUNE 29, 2020
So much so that it even got co-opted into the 2012 New York Fashion Week ; worn by Diane von Furstenberg and her models on the runway. Source: [link] The titanium band creates futuristic look on the device. The small crystal resting on one side blends seamlessly into the touchpad on one side and extends all the way to the end of the band.
Upload VR
JUNE 9, 2023
Analog Concerns Oculus Rift prototype demo with Xbox controller, 2012. I'll go so far as to wager it's probably game over for Magic Leap and HoloLens and some other optically transparent approaches. The first was in Irvine, California in 2012 trying a prototype of the Oculus Rift. This is happening.
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