The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

As with every big event, I’m writing a post to try to summarize the most important news that have come out from the GDC 2018 … so that if you have lost something, you just need to read this post to get in par with the rest of the world. — Benjamin Lang (@benz145) March 23, 2018. So, are you ready? Let’s start!

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2018

One of the best moments ever at View Conference 2018 , has been when I was able to interview John Gaeta. 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. Magic Leap glasses.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Magic Leap’s first developer conference, L.E.A.P. The company is livestreaming its keynote today, which will feature a number Magic Leap partners including speakers from Weta Workshop, AT&T, Unity, Epic Games, and ILMxLAB. Timoni West – Director, XR Research, Unity Technologies.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

This week, Microsoft announced that MRTK will migrate to an independent GitHub account and that the project will be supported by a consortium including Microsoft, Magic Leap, and Qualcomm. That’s fantastic news for all Unity XR developers! 2018 is 5 years ago, which is coherent with the 7-years timespan rumored for this device.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Software-wise, we use Unity, Vuforia, and OpenCV. The red and blue “walls” on opposing sides of the playing field (the 2018 designs resemble street wall graffiti) are actually gigantic tuned AR positioning markers. As platforms for LBAR is conceptually better Hololens or Magic Leap? The other reason is technical.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

The glasses continuously remind you that they’re actually working as displays of an Android system : when you launch Unity applications, you see the visuals split in two for the duration of the splash screen; when you change the volume, you see the standard volume bar of Android moving (split in two, of course).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 17, 2023

Back in 2018, as part of the IBC Masterclass on VR technology, Rob Koenen shared his vision of the future of virtual reality. Unity Integrations allow users to connect Unity services to popular tools like Discord, Slack, and Jira. The solution also integrates with Unity, Unreal, and even the iOS environment in some cases.

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ARVR

JUNE 29, 2020

Build your first HoloLens 2 Application with Unity and MRTK 2.3.0 Source: [link] Compare Glass to the Magic Leap One, it is clear that Glass is meant to be worn continuously and in public while the Magic Leap One, admittedly with better visualization, is meant to be used in an indoor environment.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

The first change was with Snapchat itself with the introduction of AR programmatic advertising in 2018 which dramatically reduced the price of augmented reality advertising to the same price as regular Snap ads. The third major change came from Unity which recently announced that it will now be serving AR ads on mobile.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

From 2018, 2019 sales of VR headsets has jumped only by a 16% factor in the consumer market, but by a 69% on the enterprise market. Magic Leap, Niantic, etc…) and by two big countries (USA and China). Magic Leap releases new tools for developers. So, enterprise VR is maybe taking finally off.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 14, 2018

Unity-based SDK supporting Windows and Android. But for developers that have not the money to buy a HoloLens or a Magic Leap (when it will come out, maybe in 3018), Dreamglass can be an interesting opportunity. Its SDK is compatible with Unity, so us developers can use a game engine we already know well to create AR apps.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

The Metaverse Standards Forum has already gathered many important players of the XR sector like Unity, Unreal Engine, Meta, Microsoft, Lamina 1, NVIDIA, and even other relevant companies like IKEA and Adobe. Rony Abovitz talks about Magic Leap 2 and clarifies that it has been made by the team of ML1, which now is almost all gone.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The Great C is a great storytelling experience that you can find on SteamVR since October, 9th 2018. I strongly advise to give it a try: it is currently in a closed beta round … but if you go to Maquette website and give Microsoft your e-mail, it will give you automatically a key so that you can download it for free on Windows Store.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Game engines like the versatile Unity have long been the go-to for AR development, and for good reason. In 2013, after 10 years of creating video games, he joined Magic Leap where he was promoted to senior director, overseeing content and SDK teams. And it was for me as well; I’ve been a Unity user forever.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Game engines like the versatile Unity have long been the go-to for AR development, and for good reason. In 2013, after 10 years of creating video games, he joined Magic Leap where he was promoted to senior director, overseeing content and SDK teams. And it was for me as well; I’ve been a Unity user forever.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Magic Leap kicks off the month with the announcement of an enormous $794 million fundraising round, backed by Alibaba. A series of announcements from Amazon, Crytek, Epic Games and Unity Technologies showcase an evolution among their respective game engines into VR world creation toolsets. February 2016. September 2016.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Game engines like the versatile Unity have long been the go-to for AR development, and for good reason. In 2013, after 10 years of creating video games, he joined Magic Leap where he was promoted to senior director, overseeing content and SDK teams. You know what, go learn Unity and coding and figure out how to actually make it.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

Jokes apart, what has happened in AR in 2018… and what can you expect to happen in 2019? Augmented Reality in 2018. More or less AR in 2018 has gone as I predicted in 2017. Magic Leap. Me, wearing a Magic Leap One. The most important news has been for sure the launch of the Magic Leap One.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

Those support Bose AR as well, provided they were purchased after November of last year, 2018. And in that way, we have an SDK for Android, an SDK for iOS, and then also an SDK for Unity, which you can use to deploy cross-platform that will allow you to interpret and read data from the sensors to do things like recognize gestures.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

Those support Bose AR as well, provided they were purchased after November of last year, 2018. And in that way, we have an SDK for Android, an SDK for iOS, and then also an SDK for Unity, which you can use to deploy cross-platform that will allow you to interpret and read data from the sensors to do things like recognize gestures.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

Those support Bose AR as well, provided they were purchased after November of last year, 2018. And in that way, we have an SDK for Android, an SDK for iOS, and then also an SDK for Unity, which you can use to deploy cross-platform that will allow you to interpret and read data from the sensors to do things like recognize gestures.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Each female founder has been paired with complementary women leaders from companies such as Google, Magic Leap, Norwest Venture Partners, and Warner Bros., — Sarah Hill (@SarahMidMO) January 6, 2018. This program provides strategic alliances and entrepreneurial guidance over 10 weeks.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Magic Leap plans dev days and dev programs. We all know that Magic Leap is in big trouble, and it seems that one of the paths it is trying to follow to exit the quicksands is trying to get more developers onboard. More info (Use Google Translate). Are we at an inflection point for VR?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

As it is tradition of this little blog, I will write a full round-up of the Oculus Connect 5 , the very important Oculus event that has been held in San Jose on 26th and 27th of September (2018). ID_AA_Carmack if you want to send me one… — M Chen (@machenmusik) September 28, 2018.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

billion before it fell into administration in 2018 after an investor dispute prevented it from raising emergency funding. 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.

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