XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 29, 2023

Virtual reality combines hardware and software to immerse users in digital environments for numerous use cases, including learning, entertainment, therapy, and others. This also applies to companies like IKEA and Amazon, where customers can superimpose virtual furniture, electronics, and clothing stocks in physical locations.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 19, 2023

Virtual reality combines hardware and software to immerse users in digital environments for numerous use cases, including learning, entertainment, therapy, and others. This also applies to companies like IKEA and Amazon, where customers can superimpose virtual furniture, electronics, and clothing stocks in physical locations.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Someone invokes saviors like Google and Amazon, but even if they managed to succeed, they are other data-harvesting companies , so in any case, we are f**ked. Well, now he has amazing hardware, a very good operating system, a profitable store, some of the best XR games, full control of the user accounts.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Jokes apart, Lenovo’s new hardware, dubbed ThinkReality VRX , has innovative features you have seen in no other headset launched these weeks: Snapdragon XR 2 chipset, pancake optics, RGB passthrough. The device is available on Amazon for $379. Lenovo has announced a new headset. It’s like its 357th one. Some news on the metaverse.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JUNE 21, 2024

Amazon has its Echo Frames. According to Demis Hassabis, who oversees AI research at Google, smart glasses definitely seem like the “perfect hardware” for accessing a hands-free AI assistant. It may be that Google is “once bitten, twice shy” when it comes to creating its own XR hardware. Could Google be next?

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 30, 2020

The worlds of virtual and augmented reality have yet to land on the applications and hardware to truly spark mass-market, consumer interest in the space, but in the meantime, a startup building mixed reality services for business users has raised a round of funding, underscoring the opportunity in enterprise.

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Magic Leap finally dropped to mixed reviews and BrainXchange published its Definitive Guide to Adopting Wearables, AR and VR in Enterprise. Hardware announcements: Head-worn. After years of secrecy and hype, Magic Leap finally released its first developer kit in August for $2,295.

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VRWorld

APRIL 28, 2017

Since Magic Leap’s inception in 2011, there has been great innovation in the technology sector focused in the virtual reality (VR)/augmented reality (AR)/mixed reality (MR) space with Magic Leap trying to create a new hardware interface designs. Google discontinued the interface in January 2015.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The news of course has attracted a lot of funny comments, like “these dogs have better hardware than me”, or the invention of new terms like “Dogmented Reality”, or “AR Doggles”. FIVARS developed a custom platform powered by the Janus open source framework and Amazon Web Services (also the engine behind Netflix and Hulu).

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ARVR

JUNE 29, 2020

Recent advances in computer hardwares and AI assistants are charting a path for AR devices to to re-emerge into a more technology-savvy generation. Photo by Rahul Chakraborty on Unsplash By far the most popular is the Amazon Alexa with about 69% share of the U.S. With already 29% U.S. Don’t forget to give us your ?? !

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

It’s been called the AR Cloud by many, the Magicverse by Magic Leap, the Mirrorworld by Wired, the Cyberverse by Huawei, Planet-scale AR by Niantic and Spatial Computing by academics. ARtillery Intelligence predicts $14B of consumer AR revenues by 2021, with only around $2B of that from hardware sales. by Marko Balabanovic.

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VRScout

MARCH 30, 2017

The German auto manufacturer evaluates design features in virtual reality before building prototypes in actual reality, using the famous high-quality physics-based rendering power of Unreal for the game engine and using the HTC Vive for the VR hardware. AMAZON MIGHT OPEN AR SHOPPING STORES. THEME PARKS LOVE VR AND AR, BUT HOW?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2019

For instance, there are lots of new headsets being released by hardware companies: just in the last year, there have been the Oculus Quest & Rift S , HTC Vive Focus Plus , HP Reverb , Valve Index , Acer OJO 500, and HoloLens 2 … just to mention the most popular ones. Try to spare money whenever you can.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Even if they are not general-purpose glasses like Hololens or Magic Leap, these glasses feature inside so many technological innovations that made all we of the tech communities fall in love with them, and with their creator Jeri Ellsworth. Amazon announces Echo Frames smartglasses. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 30, 2020

Thanks to the control of software and hardware, Apple is far ahead of all the Android systems for what concerns AR , something that many experts (like Robert Scoble) already forecasted years ago. If you’re interested in these devices, have a look at Amazon and Oculus websites. I really can’t wait to see the Apple AR glasses….

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap 2 has been teased. Magic Leap is back: CEO Peggy Johnson has just unveiled in a post on the company blog the Magic Leap 2 , the new version of the AR glasses from the company in Florida. Other relevant news. Pimax and Varjo are ready to announce new headsets.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Also keep in mind that there are plenty of private companies worth investing in, and some public companies listed below have invested in them like Magic Leap who has investments to the tune of $1.39 AMD – NASDAQ: AMD – GPUs, CPUs and other computer hardware for VR. Amazon – NASDAQ: AMZN – VR content.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 6, 2023

Both companies and Microsoft, Google, Snap, Amazon, and many other US tech firms launched a massive wave of workforce layoffs in recent months to streamline operations. Spaces can facilitate this by allowing enterprise users to integrate bespoke programmes on Xiaomi’s hardware platform.

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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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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Facebook has been working in the augmented reality (AR) space for several years now, that’s no secret, but it hasn’t revealed any actual hardware at the moment. The ‘Orion’ project still exists but is a far more advanced AR device along the lines of Magic Leap One or HoloLens 2.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Alibaba and Amazon. Certainly Magic Leap won big by attracting Google, Qualcomm, Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins, among other investors. Magic Leap is also followed not by a hardware vendor, but a VR/AR solutions/services category with NextVR’s $80 million round from heavyweights like CITIC, Netease and Softbank.

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EON Reality

JULY 30, 2021

For infrastructure, EON Reality is able to rely on the world’s largest hosting company, Amazon Web Services , to provide a cloud-based backbone. Combined with EON-XR’s hardware-agnostic infrastructure that provides support for 30+ manufacturers, EON Reality is already able to bring the knowledge metaverse directly into people’s lives.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2023

This included adopters of the Omniverse such as Amazon, Deutsche Bahn, and others. He explained further, “Amazon is using Omniverse to visualise their warehouse, [a] giant robotic system, to help their workers [and] to simulate their fleet of AMRs. [We We are] creating a digital twin of the [Earth’s climate system].

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

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. At Magic Leap, Paul recognized the lack of accessible tools for non-game developers that was hindering widespread adoption of immersive and spatial computing technologies.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

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. At Magic Leap, Paul recognized the lack of accessible tools for non-game developers that was hindering widespread adoption of immersive and spatial computing technologies.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

But there’s gonna be the makers of the of the actual hardware, but then there’s going to be solutions providers, like companies like Upscale, where they’re actually providing kind of the software back-end and other companies– Charlie: They are Reflect. Charlie: Yeah it’s it’s a series on Amazon.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

But there’s gonna be the makers of the of the actual hardware, but then there’s going to be solutions providers, like companies like Upscale, where they’re actually providing kind of the software back-end and other companies– Charlie: They are Reflect. Charlie: Yeah it’s it’s a series on Amazon.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap 2 is coming in Q1 2022. Even if most of this roundup will be about Oculus, I have decided to put another brand on top of it and it is Magic Leap. Magic Leap won’t pursue anything that isn’t aimed at getting more enterprise deals. Top news of the week.

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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

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

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. At Magic Leap, Paul recognized the lack of accessible tools for non-game developers that was hindering widespread adoption of immersive and spatial computing technologies.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

You still see it on the hardware, software, and interaction side. On the hardware side, if you set up a high-end VR experience, it would have a freaking bloody big PC. HTC did something with Batman; that Game of Thrones thing; some of the demos that Magic Leap had really. It’s the same with hardware partners.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

You still see it on the hardware, software, and interaction side. On the hardware side, if you set up a high-end VR experience, it would have a freaking bloody big PC. HTC did something with Batman; that Game of Thrones thing; some of the demos that Magic Leap had really. It’s the same with hardware partners.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

It is intriguing that many companies are already experimenting with this new chipset, and one of these partners is Niantic, that is thinking about going the AR hardware route after all its hard work on gelocalized AR games like Pokemon Go. Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap may be in trouble, but its CEO remains confident.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

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 if you look at just the engineering side of the hardware, I mean, that's spectacular on its own. Alan: I think this is more than a hardware product. And-- Alan: It really is. Stefan: Yeah!

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

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 if you look at just the engineering side of the hardware, I mean, that's spectacular on its own. Alan: I think this is more than a hardware product. Alan: It really is. Alan: Oh, my God.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 23, 2019

And I don’t know if that’s the hardware’s catching up, or the bandwidth, or whatever, but I would assume it’s combination of hardware, the bandwidth, the Wi-Fi, and also your techniques for loading these really quickly. It’s really wonderful. How are businesses using this technology right now?

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

No special hardware needed; just wave your phone around, and it builds that 3D model. Aside from the improvements of the actual hardware itself. And largely it was technology problems; both hardware and software. You can mess around with Amazon Sumerian. And that was kind of the germ; the start of the company.

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