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Magic Leap’s AI ‘Mica’ Won’t Turn Off Your Lights, Play Your Music, or Give Directions

Road to VR

Magic Leap today released a blogpost detailing more motivation behind building Mica, the company’s upcoming AI announced at Leap Con last year. In typical Magic Leap fashion, the blogpost reads more like an experimental art piece than a nuts and bolts explanation of what’s to come.

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My predictions for augmented reality in 2021

The Ghost Howls

For sure, Facebook will repeat a bazillion times that they care about privacy and I think that in the beginning, this will be mostly true: we have seen with Oculus how Facebook takes its time and boils its users slowly like the famous frog, adding over time features to get more data for targeted ads. Magic Leap will meet its fate.

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How Different XR Companies Approach Cloud Services

ARPost

The RealWear Cloud also allows data analysis across headsets. Handling this data for an individual on an individual headset is possible but, again, becomes unbearable at scale sans cloud. “Now For example, Magic Leap has had a partnership with Google Cloud for the past year now. Parents and Partners.

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My predictions for augmented reality in 2020

The Ghost Howls

Regarding big brands, I expect Apple and Facebook still to wait a bit before releasing something, while Magic Leap will have to make its move to come out from the quicksands. My duck-face while wearing Magic Leap One glasses. The company to keep an eye on is Magic Leap. Standalone/All-in-two headsets.

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Interview with Robert Scoble about Oculus Quest 2, Apple Glasses and more!

The Ghost Howls

“He has one million cars collecting data of the world. They are collecting data of the world surrounding them and Tesla is building amazing maps out of that. Why can’t it be Facebook, or Magic Leap ? Amazon and Tesla could be two outsider of the XR ecosystem instead. PRNewsfoto/BadVR).

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Is Facebook Building a ‘Social Layer’ For the Spatial Web?

AR Insider

Amazon wants AR for product visualization, pursuant to boosting e-commerce sales and reducing returns. Amazon will be the commerce layer, Microsoft the productivity layer and Facebook, the social/identity layer. Just like Magic Leap has the Magicverse , this is essentially Facebook’s flavor of the AR Cloud.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.08.24): Facebook login gets imposed on Quest and the community riots, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

And I’m also worried about using a Facebook account for everything XR related, because Facebook has a long history of obscure practices with the data of its users , apart from the standard “personalized ads” business. Facebook already had full control of my Oculus and Facebook accounts, so it had already my XR data.

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