AR Insider

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Why Facebook and Amazon have joined the race to bring computing to your face. — Facebook and Amazon each discussed computer glasses at launch events this week. — Amazon’s approach is to get a lightweight product out now, while Facebook is promising advanced technology in a few years. by Kif Leswing, CNBC, 9/29/19.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 30, 2023

This includes the company’s long list of clients: Coca-Cola, British Telecom (BT), ScotRail, Amazon, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Five Guys, and the Royal Air Force. The acclaimed firm recently hosted the Learning Technologies 2023 Conference in London in early May.

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Charlie Fink

JUNE 7, 2019

The conference and expo saw nearly 7,000 attendees, a 30% increase over 2018. RealMax's AR and VR device with hand tracking by Leap Motion and an epic 102-degree field of view, was used for a multiplayer AR game which involved grabbing fish and knocking over boxes.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 30, 2024

On the other hand, firms like Magic Leap and XREAL are receiving millions in funding to potentially leapfrog the forecasted success of Apple’s Vision Pro. He explained that MR displays from vendors such as Magic Leap and HoloLens may not replace classic AR in the short term “because of some regulations and safety aspects.”

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

And shortly after the event, Mark Zuckerberg from Facebook got on stage at the Facebook annual conference. But of course, with Electric Runway, we go in to technology events and conferences looking for that fashion and beauty and consumer experience angles. Alan: It’s incredible. They were all decorated, all nice. Amanda: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

And shortly after the event, Mark Zuckerberg from Facebook got on stage at the Facebook annual conference. But of course, with Electric Runway, we go in to technology events and conferences looking for that fashion and beauty and consumer experience angles. [laughs] Alan: It’s incredible. They were all decorated, all nice.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

well, it's funny, that conference -- it was called In-store, and it was an immersive event on the future of retail -- and we were really trying to highlight the most prominent technologies that were of interest to the retail industry, and they were augmented reality, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence. Alan: It's incredible.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Image by Magic Leap). Is Magic Leap in trouble? The Magic Leap could become a tragic leap , using some words from Palmer Luckey. In the meantime, the competition of Chinese companies like nReal is threatening even more the appeal of Magic Leap. Top news of the week.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

And it’s just incredible because it feels like a small conference, even though it’s not small, it feels like a small conference because everybody there is super passionate. Anne-Marie: Magic Leap’s doing a workshop. Alan: That’s full conference pass? And then we’ve got workshops too.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

And it’s just incredible because it feels like a small conference, even though it’s not small, it feels like a small conference because everybody there is super passionate. Anne-Marie: Magic Leap’s doing a workshop. Alan: That’s full conference pass? And then we’ve got workshops too.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 20, 2019

I dragged my camera down to meet her and her team in their offices in Marina Del Rey, near Los Angeles, to get a look at the business visualizations they are building for use in both Spatial Computing headsets, like Magic Leap, and VR, for HTC Vive, Oculus Quest or Rift, or others. Think about dwell times in retail stores.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

And it’s just incredible because it feels like a small conference, even though it’s not small, it feels like a small conference because everybody there is super passionate. Anne-Marie: Magic Leap’s doing a workshop. Alan: That’s full conference pass? And then we’ve got workshops too.

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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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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

At the first AWE conference back then, I think there was 300 people in total. Like my Dekko, and what we built at Samsung were exactly the same technology that ARKit and ARCore and Magic Leap and others built. You can mess around with Amazon Sumerian. I kind of jumped in expecting it to be happening pretty soon.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

At the first AWE conference back then, I think there was 300 people in total. Like my Dekko, and what we built at Samsung were exactly the same technology that ARKit and ARCore and Magic Leap and others built. You can mess around with Amazon Sumerian. I kind of jumped in expecting it to be happening pretty soon.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

The last time we saw each other was at the Mixed Reality Marketing Summit in New York City, which was a really amazing conference. It was kind of like an un-conference. I think one of the key things was, as I’m sitting here in my office and watching UPS deliver the package I ordered yesterday from Amazon.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

The last time we saw each other was at the Mixed Reality Marketing Summit in New York City, which was a really amazing conference. It was kind of like an un-conference. I think one of the key things was, as I’m sitting here in my office and watching UPS deliver the package I ordered yesterday from Amazon.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 30, 2019

We’ve known each other for a few years now, and we keep seeing each other at different conferences, and it’s always fun. Cathy Hackl — who’s at Magic Leap — and I wrote about Marketing New Realities about a year and a half ago. Samantha: Amazon! Samantha: Hi, Alan. Good to be here.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 30, 2019

We’ve known each other for a few years now, and we keep seeing each other at different conferences, and it’s always fun. Cathy Hackl — who’s at Magic Leap — and I wrote about Marketing New Realities about a year and a half ago. Samantha: Amazon! Samantha: Hi, Alan. Good to be here.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2019

He’s the founder and managing partner for Super Ventures and the CEO of AugmentedReality.org, a nonprofit that produces Augmented World Expo, the top industry conference for AR since 2010. I think Magic Leap calls it the Magicverse. Ori, welcome to the show, my friend. Ori: Thank you, Alan. Ori: Thank you, Alan.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

So I gave a talk there at a kind of optical conference, and I was able to control the presentation and look at my notes using Focals, which was pretty-- it was pretty cool. So you can actually use Amazon, Alexa to help you with stuff. We've got a Magic Leap, a Hololens, we have all the tech. And-- Alan: It really is.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

So I gave a talk there at a kind of optical conference, and I was able to control the presentation and look at my notes using Focals, which was pretty-- it was pretty cool. So you can actually use Amazon, Alexa to help you with stuff. We've got a Magic Leap, a Hololens, we have all the tech. Alan: It really is.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 30, 2019

We've known each other for a few years now, and we keep seeing each other at different conferences, and it's always fun. Cathy Hackl -- who's at Magic Leap -- and I wrote about Marketing New Realities about a year and a half ago. Samantha: Amazon! Samantha: Hi, Alan. Good to be here. How can people get a copy that book?

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

At the first AWE conference back then, I think there was 300 people in total. Like my Dekko, and what we built at Samsung were exactly the same technology that ARKit and ARCore and Magic Leap and others built. You can mess around with Amazon Sumerian. I kind of jumped in expecting it to be happening pretty soon.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

The last time we saw each other was at the Mixed Reality Marketing Summit in New York City, which was a really amazing conference. It was kind of like an un-conference. Companies like Magic Leap and Hololens, those are great devices where most of the compute is done on the headset. It was kind of like an un-conference.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2019

He’s the founder and managing partner for Super Ventures and the CEO of AugmentedReality.org, a nonprofit that produces Augmented World Expo, the top industry conference for AR since 2010. I think Magic Leap calls it the Magicverse. Ori, welcome to the show, my friend. Ori: Thank you, Alan. Ori: Thank you, Alan.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Amazon Sumerian. We’re not tied to Magic Leap. Michael: And this is why I’ve been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building — there’s VRTK for Unity… there’s just all these tools. We’re not tied to Microsoft. We’re not tied to Intel.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Amazon Sumerian. We’re not tied to Magic Leap. Michael: And this is why I’ve been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building — there’s VRTK for Unity… there’s just all these tools. We’re not tied to Microsoft. We’re not tied to Intel.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

So I gave a talk there at a kind of optical conference, and I was able to control the presentation and look at my notes using Focals, which was pretty-- it was pretty cool. So you can actually use Amazon, Alexa to help you with stuff. We've got a Magic Leap, a Hololens, we have all the tech. Alan: It really is.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Alan: It’s interesting you say that, I’m speaking at a printing conference this week and my original presentation was talking about bringing print to life with AR and that sort of thing. And it’s because of companies like Amazon that are out there, and everybody’s buying online and using FedEx as the logistics partner.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Alan: It’s interesting you say that, I’m speaking at a printing conference this week and my original presentation was talking about bringing print to life with AR and that sort of thing. And it’s because of companies like Amazon that are out there, and everybody’s buying online and using FedEx as the logistics partner.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

When you walk into a Best Buy’s or you walk into any retailer, they’re selling you the Amazon Echo and they’re selling you the Google Home, where you ask a question, it plays a video. These are like the Microsoft Hololens, Magic Leaps. Now you see peaks of it right now, early variations of it.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Amazon Sumerian. We're not tied to Magic Leap. Michael: And this is why I've been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building -- there's VRTK for Unity. there's just all these tools. You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Alan: It's interesting you say that, I'm speaking at a printing conference this week and my original presentation was talking about bringing print to life with AR and that sort of thing. And it's because of companies like Amazon that are out there, and everybody's buying online and using FedEx as the logistics partner.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

When you walk into a Best Buy's or you walk into any retailer, they're selling you the Amazon Echo and they're selling you the Google Home, where you ask a question, it plays a video. These are like the Microsoft Hololens, Magic Leaps. Now you see peaks of it right now, early variations of it.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

When you walk into a Best Buy’s or you walk into any retailer, they’re selling you the Amazon Echo and they’re selling you the Google Home, where you ask a question, it plays a video. These are like the Microsoft Hololens, Magic Leaps. Now you see peaks of it right now, early variations of it.

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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. March 2016.

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