The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2022

There are still no words on the release date of the device, but rumors about a Q1 2023 release window are intensifying. There I have tried some interesting devices like Weart haptic gloves, OWO haptic suit, but especially the Magic Leap 2, which I found to be a very well-made piece of hardware! Other relevant news.

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ARPost

APRIL 17, 2023

The Most Relevant AR/VR Events in 2023 You Should Not Miss Here are some of the most important AR/VR events that are taking place until the end of this year. AWE USA 2023 When: May 31 – June 2 Where: Santa Clara, CA, US; and virtual Late spring/early summer is a great time to be in California.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The new DRIVE Thor superchip aimed at autonomous vehicles, which companies will be able to use from 2025 Omniverse Cloud , which lets companies use Omniverse completely via cloud rendering even on non-powerful machines A connector to let you use Omniverse with Unity. Rec Room announces Rec Room Studio.

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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. We’re just so happy. The award went to Verizon for The Future of Training , an XR upskilling program.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

As John Riccitiello (CEO of Unity) said some years ago , the VR market won’t be interesting enough until it will reach the 10 million users mark. 2022-2023 are the years when VR should grow a lot (Image by Road To VR). Why can’t it be Facebook, or Magic Leap ? 2022 could be the key year for XR.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

It seems that Sony is hoping for a Q4 release in time for the holidays, but analyst Ming-Chi Kuo thinks that delays will bring the release to Q1 2023. Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap has sold units of its first device for $550. Meta is experimenting with Cloud Rendering for Quest. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

But still, 3 years ago, no one would have bet on Sandbox VR still making millions in 2023, so this is in any case a remarkable result. 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.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 12, 2022

XR Today spoke to Amy Peck, Founder and Chief Executive of EndeavorXR about the top tech trends in 2023 on the sidelines of her keynote speech at the Immerse Global Summit (IGS) 2022 in Miami. Keynote 2023 Tech Trends. Tech Trends for 2023. I don’t think we did a good job in 2022, and I hope we do a better job in 2023.”

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

Microsoft Magic Leap Varjo HP Acer Samsung ASUS Dell Biel AjnaXR FYR Medical ESight Canon IrisVision VRgineers Zappar Lynx Valve Microsoft Microsoft has been increasing its focus on the extended reality landscape in recent years, with the production of solutions such as Microsoft Mesh, and a metaverse environment for Microsoft Teams.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 24, 2024

This week, AR instructional solutions provider Taqtile announced official support for Microsoft’s Unity-based Mixed Reality Toolkit 3 (MRTK3) in a move to broaden the usability of its Manifest application ready for a “growing number” of OpenXR devices in 2024.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 1, 2023

Industry conversation on the Metaverse and XR has also fuelled discussions across the Augmented World Expo (AWE) USA 2023. For him, 2023 would signal the ‘Year of AR and VR,’ which he stated would arrive “just in time for the holidays.” A mother looking for treatment for her child with cerebral palsy.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Who doesn’t want to do that can still use his/her Oculus account to log in until 2023 , but he/she won’t be able to use all the social functionalities of the device (like Venues, Horizon, etc…). After 2023, the devices won’t be guaranteed to work with an Oculus login. China is launching real name identification in games.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Apple Vision Pro I would smile that way, too, if I had $3500 to spend on an AR headset In 2023, Apple finally announced its headset, after we all spent hours in the past years watching those useless Apple events where Apple announced new phones and tablets we didn’t care about.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

This WWDC has not been an exception in this sense, and now all the Apple analysts (including Kuo and Scoble) already envision a reveal of the Apple headset for January 2023. Things are going great lately, and for this, we are going to hire different figures including: Unity developers 2D/3D artists UI/UX designers Project Managers.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 23, 2023

Magic Leap Currently focusing its attention on the enterprise landscape, Magic Leap produces AR and MR headsets designed to address the needs of various industries. The device includes two active Bluetooth controllers and access to development platforms such as Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

Then we have a new report from The Verge that says that the upcoming Apple visor is coming with an M2 chip (we knew that); Kuo saying that Apple will release its visor in January 2023 (we knew that); Apple AR glasses (not the headset, but the glasses) have now entered the design development stage and should release in 2024 (again, we knew).

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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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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

At Tilt Five, we designed a really clever system that only works on tabletop experiences but it has features that are just leaps and bounds above what the big Magic Leap or HoloLens type AR systems are. If a family can afford spending the money for 4 Magic Leap Ones, they can play this board game together (Image by Road To VR).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2023

NVIDIA announced on Tuesday at the SIGGRAPH 2023 it had expanded its CloudXR software developer kit (SDK) to deliver more scalable, customisable extended reality (XR) experiences for enterprises and developers. CloudXR Client Extensions will also offer a key plugin for Unity Editor, providing developers with bespoke CloudXR applications.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 8, 2023

Zapbox features a 100° FOV and is going to launch with a Unity SDK to create content for it. While the concept of phone holders is dead for good in VR, there are a few companies that are trying to bring it to augmented reality, exploiting also the fact that true AR headsets (like Magic Leap 2 ) are very expensive and cost thousands of euros.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

In the meantime, Bloomberg published a report saying that Apple is going to launch its XR headset in the “next several months” (a timeline that goes from now to 2023, I guess), and that it is probably waiting until there could be physical events again before doing it. This is a very welcome feature for little indie game studios. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2024

These services usually show inside the game engine that you have chosen a preview of the place you are going to augment, and they let you put the virtual 3D elements wherever you want. As for localization, compatibility means understanding which devices may run the applications powered by VPS.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 24, 2023

Don’t forget to catch the XR Awards on 25 May, 2023, where we celebrate the victories of the global immersive industry. Meta has even begun collaborating with massive automakers like the BMW Group to compete with Magic Leap, Microsoft HoloLens 2, and HTC VIVE Flow headsets. billion in 2023 alone.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 15, 2023

Early this year, at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) 2023, extended reality (XR) device start-up VITURE unveiled its mixed reality (MR) gaming mobile dock solution: the “VITURE 1.” David Jiang also noted in comparison to other AR devices, such as the Magic Leap, the VITURE 1 does not require cumbersome additional equipment.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 29, 2023

Growth Factors for 2023 The XR space has seen a meteoric rise in adoption rates across industry verticals. Doctors can leverage the technology to access detailed scans of patients in real-time with Magic Leap, HoloLens 2, and other headsets. North America would also lead global markets for the same period.

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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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XR Today - Big XR News tag

JULY 26, 2023

Doing so will also provide greater interoperability with additional platforms such as Unity and Xcode, among others. Citing informal social media polls ahead of the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 2023), Latta stated that many had resorted to “clickbait,” rather than trialling the headset.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Moreover, Apple is also pushing its Vision Pro SDK to support its first-party and Unity-supported third-party immersive applications, again in a bid to create a sophisticated piece of hardware with a system-selling lineup of integrated applications and hardware.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

These now include Magic Leap , VoxelSensors, XR Village, and Kaper. For Magic Leap, Daniel Diez, Chief Transformation Officer, Magic Leap will represent the Plantation, Florida-based firm on the XRA’s Board of Directors.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 9, 2021

Google has been the first company creating awareness for AR with Google Glass (in a wrong way, I know); it has acquired North; it has Google Maps through which it can build the AR Cloud; it has ARCore; it was one of the biggest investors in Magic Leap; it is working on a secret project regarding audio in AR.

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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. It is more probable that a Rift 2 will be released in 2019/2020 and the Rift 3 (if any) in 2022/2023.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. Magic Leap rebrands and kills the whale.

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