The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap looks for a $100-million deal to save itself. Some reports by Business Insider and The Information talk about the current situation of Magic Leap, that seems always more complicated. More info (Magic Leap trying to raise $100M) More info (Magic Leap timing for the future).

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 9, 2019

How did funding in the AR sector fare in 2019? billion for the top 10 AR funding rounds of 2019*. billion aggregate for 2019’s top 10 is down from $2.26 — Magic Leap, the top-funded company, raised $280 million compared to $1.25 1 — Magic Leap ($280 Million & counting). in 2018 and $1.82

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Magic Leap pivots towards enterprise. At the same time, Magic Leap has also shipped a new runtime for its hardware , with the addition of new nice features like vocal commands. At the same time, Magic Leap has also shipped a new runtime for its hardware , with the addition of new nice features like vocal commands.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2, the company’s most recent smartglasses (or rather smart glass ), was only available to partner companies when it launched in May 2019. Now Google is allowing its third-party hardware vendors to sell the headset direct to developers. Image courtesy Google.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap may be in trouble, but its CEO remains confident. Some weeks ago, I’ve reported of rumors about Magic Leap being in big trouble and having assigned all its patents as collateral to bank JP Morgan, probably because it is looking for a loan or to raise a round E.

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Peter Graham

AUGUST 1, 2019

In 2018 BBC Studios and videogame developer PRELOADED teamed up with Google for a virtual reality (VR) experience called BBC Earth: Life in VR for Google Daydream. For 2019, the pair have now collaborated with Magic Leap on a mixed reality (MR) project called BBC Earth – Micro Kingdoms: Senses.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 20, 2018

While we don’t know much about gameplay mechanics yet, it’s possible the Magic Leap One release of Angry Birds: FPS – First Person Slingshot may hold some answers. Angry Birds VR is slated to arrive in early 2019 on “all major VR platforms.”

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

In spite of the fact we’re joking around and playing Angry Birds on Magic Leap, the whole thing feels very grown up, in the sense that these guys are in this for the long haul, and so, they reckon, is the business of making Mixed Reality. Alice Bonasio (@alicebonasio) February 2, 2019. pic.twitter.com/UMhQbxgH1g.

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Road to VR

JUNE 28, 2023

Google has reportedly shelved a multi-year project that sought to commercialize an AR headset, known as Project Iris. Provided the report is true, it appears Google will now need to rely on Samsung to compete with Meta and Apple in XR. And Google’s ambitions were, let’s say, very big.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Nreal, the Chinese startup behind the Nreal Light AR glasses which made a splash back at CES 2019, has now expanded to the United States, making the smartphone-tethered device available through select Verizon stores starting today. Image courtesy Nreal. Rollout in that country comes first to select brick-and-mortar Verizon stores.

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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. ’s Google, which invested directly in the firm and put Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai on the board. Google was one of the first to invest.

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Robert Scoble

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

I blame this all on Magic Leap’s founder, Rony Abovitz. They, Magic Leap, even further defined the term. Yes, Magic Leap is the most advanced at the moment. Magic Leap is building a pair of glasses that put computing on not only every surface around you, but in the air, too.

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

Magic Leap makes you look like a Minion, and even though I personally think the HoloLens looks much cooler (hey, what can I say, I’m a geek) I will also admit that it feels on the heavy side after prolonged use. It offers content such as AR enhanced golf training by Oncore Golf, Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Magic Leap has just organized its first developers’ event, dubbed “L.E.A.P.” It is the first event of this kind organized by Magic Leap: we can say that LEAP Con is like the Oculus Connect of Magic Leap and will probably become always more important, year after year, exactly as it has happened to Oculus.

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VRScout

JANUARY 24, 2019

Magic Leap makes you look like a Minion, and even though I personally think the HoloLens looks much cooler (hey, what can I say, I’m a geek), I will admit that you begin to feel the considerable weight of the device after prolonged use. The consumer version Vuzix Blade Smart Glasses are expected to start shipping in February 2019.

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Upload VR

APRIL 15, 2024

Today Wolvic is available on Meta Quest, Pico, Magic Leap 2, and Huawei VR Glasses. In 2019 it launched UploadVR David Heaney The stable version of Wolvic on app stores currently uses Gecko, the browser engine developed by Mozilla that's used in Firefox. It first launched on Oculus Go’s store in 2018.

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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 9, 2019

There’s just over a week to go until the European leg of the Augmented World Expo (AWE) 2019, offering a chance for virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) professionals from around the world to get together, share ideas, and test the latest immersive technologies. Image credit: AWE USA 2019. Image credit: AWE USA 2019.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Making an AR headset accessible enough for consumers is a vastly different challenge to producing higher cost enterprise headsets— just ask Magic Leap. The team has demonstrably thinned out over the last few months, with HoloLens veterans such as principal optical architect Bernard Kress leaving the company recently for Google Labs.

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ARVR

JUNE 29, 2020

Source: [link] When it debuted in 2013 the Google Glass was the first of its kind. Compare that number with another survey conducted in February 2019, the percentage of adults who own a smartphone jumped to 81%. Another survey conducted mid-June 2019, 4 years since the debut of the Apple Watch, showed that roughly 1-in-5 U.S.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

As a long-time AR enthusiast, and one of the first to have tried Google Glass in Italy, I have to admit that I will consider AR mainstream only when it will be on glasses that we will wear all day , when we’ll live in a completely shared mixed reality world (the AR Cloud). Magic Leap will meet its fate.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

As I said a few months ago , we are in the middle of a paradigm change: the cycle that started with the Quest is arriving at an end, and a new cycle driven by new technologies (mixed reality headsets) and new players (Apple, Google) is starting. Google and Samsung Prototype of the Samsung XR headset.

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Charlie Fink

JUNE 7, 2019

Apple begins its World Wide Developer Conference on Monday, June 3rd; Microsoft, Facebook (Oculus), Google, Amazon, Snap, and Magic Leap, had theirs earlier in the year. AWE is a snapshot of a developing industry, though it does not have participation from major players with developer conferences of their own.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Before 2019, headsets were largely tethered to PCs, and Qualcomm helped to ‘cut the cord’ and enable the next evolution of standalone devices. With it, experts can see what you see to guide professionals with step-by-step work instructions via a micro display similar to Google Glass or Vuzix.

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VRScout

JANUARY 23, 2019

Lyft drivers would access this information through an AR headset, such as a Microsoft HoloLens, Google Glass, or Magic Leap, which would place the digital content directly in the view of the Lyft driver, or through an AR enabled smartphone. Image Credit: The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

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ARPost

JULY 16, 2019

As a result, companies like Apple, Google, Magic Leap, Microsoft, Oculus, and others will be in attendance with experiences. The report is full of experiences that those in the medical fields and spatial industries will relate to. Likewise, you may see these interviewees at XRDC and can swap and share experiences.

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Upload VR

JULY 19, 2023

Apple reportedly postponed its full AR glasses “indefinitely” earlier this year, and Google reportedly killed its internal glasses project this year in favor of making the software for third parties instead. LCoS microdisplays were used in HoloLens 1 and are used today in Magic Leap 2.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Slim and light XR glasses capable of fluidly serving up novel and meaningful interactions are basically the holy grail in tech right now, with Apple, Meta, Google, Qualcomm, and many more laying down the groundwork to one day make them a reality. Some ideas are inevitable. When that will happen, no one can say.

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Upload VR

APRIL 26, 2024

In 2019, Facebook secured the entire future output of a startup supplier, but Ma reported the companies still haven't been able to achieve a high manufacturing yield, meaning they can only produce a small number of displays at a high cost.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

It’s the beginning of 2019, and this means that this is that time of the year when we all make predictions for this year in AR and VR! Jokes apart, what has happened in AR in 2018… and what can you expect to happen in 2019? Magic Leap. Me, wearing a Magic Leap One. Magic Leap.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 22, 2023

In 2019, Facebook secured the entire future output of a startup supplier, but Ma reported the companies still haven't been able to achieve a high manufacturing yield, meaning they can only produce a small number of displays at a high cost.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 24, 2020

What progress did we see in 2019? We are fundamentally visual creatures who think in three dimensions and live in a physical world […] As Kevin Kelly penned in his article entitled Mirrorworld in 2019, we are entering the photonic era, an era shaped by light.” Other signals abound if you consider all the AR action in 2019.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Microsoft, Google and Apple all have their own approaches to augmented reality and virtual reality, but the race for the face is particularly critical to Facebook and Amazon, because they have yet to establish computing gateways. Meanwhile, heftier VR products from Facebook’s Oculus and Magic Leap have mostly been for gamers.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

I think that, after a year, its specifications don’t sound exceptional anymore and maybe it is better that LG jumps directly to a second generation or that enters the standalone market (as it seems, since there are some rumors about a new revolutionary headset screen developed by Google and LG). Magic Leap releases its SDK.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

While discussing the earning calls for Q3 2019, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has admitted that VR is taking longer than expected to become successful. 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 releases new tools for developers.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Between that, I worked on consumer cloud software with Google for five years… managing engineering teams for Gmail, Japanese mobile, Google Labs, and social (Blogger etc.) Meleap (pronounced “may-leap”) is a combination of the words “Merry” and “Leap”. As platforms for LBAR is conceptually better Hololens or Magic Leap?

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In contrast to HoloLens 2 or Magic Leap One, PinMR doesn’t use waveguides, which the company says cuts down manufacturing complexity and cost. What’s more, the smartglasses didn’t feature a chunky protrusion like Google Glass, or super wide temple pieces as with standalone smartglasses like Vuzix Blade.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Gartner Hype Cycle 2019. Traditionally, leading tech vendors have invested in distributed network infrastructure, but many of them (such as Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft) are adapting to a new paradigm to support localized, persistent, collaborative, shared, multiuser interactions.

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