Road to VR

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Speaking with Road to VR , Lynx founder Stan Larroque said that his company has raised $2 million as of 2019, and is presently in talks with investors for the company’s next funding round. Lenses: LYNX Founder Details Headset’s Unique Optics. Lynx Funding. Image courtesy Lynx. million on Kickstarter back in 2012.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

This is a simpler mechanism than the waveguides employed by Microsoft HoloLens 2 or by Magic Leap, and while it may provide a bit less immersive holograms, it is the only way to provide affordable wide-FOV glasses at the moment. Realmax has an SDK that is compatible with Unity 2017 and Unity 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

It got the attention of all the press at CES 2019 revealing an AR glass that is light, fashionable, and affordable. The NRSDK is Nreal’s SDK that lets you develop applications using the popular Unity game engine. At the time of writing it doesn’t work with Unity 2019, but only with Unity 2018.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Meleap (pronounced “may-leap”) is a combination of the words “Merry” and “Leap”. As of 2019, we are an expanding private company with about 40 people based in Japan and funded by Japanese venture capitalists. Software-wise, we use Unity, Vuforia, and OpenCV. What is Meleap? And can you describe me your product HADO?

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

High-precision 6DOF tracking, eye tracking, gesture inputs, with dedicated input controllers The SDK will support Unity , with Unreal coming Soon. The entrance to the big WCVRI VR exhibition in Nanchang China, in 2019. The official computational unit runs Android. All APIs have a plain C version. What is the expected price?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

The Unity Beta to develop for the Vision Pro is still not available, so many devs like me can’t even play with the emulator. Magic Leap flopped, HoloLens is dead, and even Nreal, with its affordable Light glasses, has not taken off. The irony is that over the years, glass-based AR struggled to find its place, too.

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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. Other devices from Magic Leap and Microsoft’s HoloLens headsets offer deeper levels of immersion. These range from the Lenovo A3 [and Magic Leap 2].

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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

JUNE 30, 2019

The new Oculus Plugin for Unity introduces some interesting features. nReal answers to Magic Leap. In a preset PR statement, nReal answers the Magic Leap claims defining them “False and anticompetitive”. In a preset PR statement, nReal answers the Magic Leap claims defining them “False and anticompetitive”.

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ARVR

JUNE 29, 2020

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. Build your first HoloLens 2 Application with Unity and MRTK 2.3.0

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

This seems to confirm that we’ll see in the future (maybe 2019) a new tethered headset, as I had already suggested in a previous post of mine. Magic Leap releases its SDK. We still haven’t seen a Magic Leap device , but at least now we can see its SDK. So Oculus is investing just as much in PC as ever.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Then why Magic Leap hasn’t delivered a solid product with 2B?) In the meanwhile, its adoption is getting better, too: the popular Unity game engine promises the first implementations of OpenXR for the end of the year with a complete implementation coming in 2021, and Microsoft has already completely switched to an OpenXR runtime.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 15, 2024

The OpenXR API is a core piece behind many XR headsets from vendors such as Acer, ByteDance, Canon, HTC, Magic Leap, Meta, Microsoft, Sony, XREAL, Qualcomm, Valve, and Varjo. Moreover, RT3D development services like Autodesk VRED, Blender, Godot, NVIDIA’s Omniverse, StereoKit, Unreal Engine, and Unity support OpenXR integration.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

In 2019, the company started a new initiative to bring “Lean Six Sigma” processes to the entire Aptiv supply chain. Unity and the University of Miami. To get the project off the ground, the learning facility turned to Unity. Magic Leap and the University of Washington. Meta Oculus and Aptiv.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

confirmed with the company that it may not be a Niantic-branded pair of glasses, but a reference design that Niantic is building with Qualcomm since 2019. Mathew Olson from The Information (subscribe to his awesome newsletter !) This is a very welcome feature for little indie game studios. Learn more.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

The third major change came from Unity which recently announced that it will now be serving AR ads on mobile. Unity has one of the world’s largest mobile ad serving businesses and at the end of last year they partnered with Fossil to pilot this new ad format in mobile games. The Evolution of Out of Home and Product Placement.

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ARPost

JUNE 6, 2023

Zappar’s Zapbox , DigiLens’ ARGO , Sony’s PlayStation VR 2 , the Magic Leap 2 , XREAL (previously Nreal) Air , and the Varjo XR 3 Focal Edition were all in the running, but the prize went to the HTC VIVE XR Elite. An earlier version of the experience had first been demod at a 2019 AWE event in Munich. We’re just so happy.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

I think that this CES is the emblem of the whole 2020, that probably won’t show big disruptions in the XR field, but will make AR and VR grow linearly, exploiting the successes of VR in 2019 (when Quest and Valve Index went sold-out). And in fact, Neon reminds me a bit too much Magic Leap’s Mica project.

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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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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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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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Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

It isn’t alone, we know of many companies that are spending billions on same, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sony, Magic Leap, Huawei, and others. You can see this in today’s AR products (and despite what Microsoft or Magic Leap call their devices, they really are augmented reality devices that you wear on your face).

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

Reliance Jio’s foray into mixed reality started in 2019 when they acquired majority stake in deep-tech startup Tesseract which has a few hardware products in XR space. Devices such as the Magic Leap and the Hololens rely on Waveguide optics.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

We're going to dig into using Magic Leap and Hololens and mixed reality headsets as a tool for business. And so we got-- our main first break as Extality was leveraging some of our game connections and things like that, to get close to Magic Leap. Today we have Arash Keshmirian, co-founder of Extality. Well, there we go.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

We're going to dig into using Magic Leap and Hololens and mixed reality headsets as a tool for business. And so we got-- our main first break as Extality was leveraging some of our game connections and things like that, to get close to Magic Leap. Today we have Arash Keshmirian, co-founder of Extality. Well, there we go.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

We're going to dig into using Magic Leap and Hololens and mixed reality headsets as a tool for business. And so we got-- our main first break as Extality was leveraging some of our game connections and things like that, to get close to Magic Leap. Today we have Arash Keshmirian, co-founder of Extality. Well, there we go.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

HoloLens vNext will be launched on February, 24th 2019 in Barcelona, Spain, at the Mobile World Congress. I guess they will steal some ideas from Magic Leap and provide a more comfortable headset (more cushions) and more customization options (more accessories to fit it on your nose, support for prescription lenses, etc…).

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And then, as of 2019 — by the end of this year — they’ll kind of cross. If companies raise money now — the end of 2019/2020 — I think it’s the perfect time, because we’re only just starting to see these real ROI-driven things come out. I don’t know about Magic Leap yet.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And then, as of 2019 — by the end of this year — they’ll kind of cross. If companies raise money now — the end of 2019/2020 — I think it’s the perfect time, because we’re only just starting to see these real ROI-driven things come out. I don’t know about Magic Leap yet.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And then, as of 2019 -- by the end of this year -- they'll kind of cross. If companies raise money now -- the end of 2019/2020 -- I think it's the perfect time, because we're only just starting to see these real ROI-driven things come out. I don't know about Magic Leap yet. Is that what you're seeing across the board?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And then, as of 2019 — by the end of this year — they’ll kind of cross. If companies raise money now — the end of 2019/2020 — I think it’s the perfect time, because we’re only just starting to see these real ROI-driven things come out. I don’t know about Magic Leap yet.

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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

AUGUST 12, 2021

It has been launched in 2019, but because of its very high price and the pandemic that prevented me to travel, in these two years, I have never had the opportunity to try it. On HoloLens 1, whatever Unity application I run had framerate problems, while here all Unity applications worked like a charm.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

The idea of Leap Motion is going against the current trend of augmented reality glasses, that is mostly based on expensive devices that have closed ecosystems (e.g. HoloLens or Magic Leap One ), but to create a headset that is: Affordable; Completely open, both from a software and hardware standpoint. Got a phone call.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 28, 2019

Do you remember when the Valve Index was finally launched and some lucky people got it immediately while the other ones could only preorder it with an estimated shipping date of September 2019? Magic Leap has just rolled an important update. Well, this is now history. Oculus is not the only company caring about its devices.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

It is standalone (as HoloLens and Magic Leap ) and has cameras through which it sees the environment. For instance, in Unity, the Oculus Utilities plugin is the same for PC, Go and GearVR. The full documentation of Oculus Quest development SDK will come out in 2019. Anyway, these can be only minor changes.

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