AR Insider

AUGUST 9, 2021

If you really want to understand the putative metaverse, listen to this conversation with Viacom/CBS futurist Ted Schilowitz and Magic Leap founder Rony Abovitz. It’s very similar to what Apple has been doing for smartphone,” CEO Chi Xu said. “We See his books here. Virtual beings will also be performing.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

Apple already made hardware, so it already had the infrastructure to build it and just added XR people on top of this infrastracture, while Facebook could not). Apple AR headset may have been delayed to 2025. Yes, we have rumors about Apple XR devices even this week. But it is impressive anyway. It’s believable.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 21, 2020

And Apple hasn’t yet played its hand. The collaboration platform added smartphones to the list of devices that can share in a simulation with PCs, the HoloLens, Magic Leap, and VR headset, creating the first truly cross platform XR solution. See his books here. Rec Room closed a $20 million Series C funding.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 11, 2021

A year later Magic Leap ran out of cash and laid off half the company. I’d put Apple in the top ten also for its introduction of lidar (3D depth scans) on the new iPad. Image source: Apple. See his books here. Charismatic founder and CEO Rony Abovitz raised $3.4 Niantic acquired 6D.ai Honorable Mention: LiDAR.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The CEO said they have but one competitor, Apple, which hasn’t yet announced any XR, AR or VR, products. Seems like they’re zeroing in on Maps as the sweet spot for XR and tossing everything else, like their Daydream headset, their investment in Magic Leap, Poly, and finally Tilt Brush, overboard. See his books here.

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Robert Scoble

JUNE 8, 2021

We’ve been waiting for years for Apple to reveal its mixed reality products, including visors and glasses. We’ve been seeing the potential coming in other products like the Oculus Quest, the Magic Leap 1, or Microsoft’s Hololens. So it makes sense to upgrade all audio, which Apple is in the middle of doing.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

I have been talking with hundreds of people across the industry and have discovered that the changes coming to Apple are deeper than just a VR/AR headset. This is the fourth paradigm shift for Apple. So, what is Apple getting ready to announce over the next year? Eventually, I hear, Apple will even bring 3D to 2D monitors.

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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. An Apple AR headset has been a mainstay of the rumor mills for several years, and we expect Facebook to be creating an AR Oculus device.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

In the early 90s, it no doubt felt “a bit like looking up the Wright Brothers and taking their original prototype out for a spin,” as the book describes. The year the book was published, Sega announced a VR peripheral for the Genesis. The demo described in the book finds the user riding a motorcycle down a Brooklyn street.

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TechCrunch VR

APRIL 3, 2023

As part of our Kickstarter campaign in 2013, one of the price tier perks was 50 Ready Player One books signed by Cline. And then we did a small event in Austin with Cline signing the books. “Funnily enough, [he] lives in Austin,” says Goetgeluk. “As We had a wooden prototype at the time.”

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TechCrunch VR

DECEMBER 8, 2020

When Chi Xu left Magic Leap and returned to China, he had big ambitions. He believed China would have its own augmented and virtual reality giants, just as how the domestic smartphone industry birthed global leaders like Huawei, Oppo and Xiaomi that rival Apple today. Magic Leap sucked all the air out of the room.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 8, 2023

The first one is that since the Gaming Showcase is happening on June, 1st, it seems positioned in a way to make Meta perform some announcements right before the Apple WWDC. Apple WWDC is where the Apple Reality headset may be announced, and it is taking place on June, 5th.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

Rony Abovitz steps down from Magic Leap CEO. This was a very good thing and attracted many people to Magic Leap. I hope that Magic Leap will benefit from it and will recover pretty soon. Sneak peek of the true Apple Glasses, courtesy of Chris Koomen. Road To VR) More info (Qualcomm’s Wi-fi 6 chips?—?Upload

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RealVision VR

OCTOBER 21, 2018

In the book, the main characters develop such a progressive reality “Wizer” (visor+A.I) Coincidentally or not, concept images for Apple’s rumored AR glasses actually show round frames, as does Magic Leap’s Magic Leap One glasses.

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Robert Scoble

MARCH 4, 2019

Thought I’d give you a little detail behind what brought 20 people together, and offer the community to come together to define, for Wikipedia, what Spatial Computing is (Magic Leap has been popularizing the term, but we think it is bigger than just their form of augmented reality glasses). More on the definition in a bit.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Charlie Fink is a Forbes columnist and an author of two AR-enabled books – Charlie Fink’s Metaverse: A Guide to VR and AR, and Convergence: How the World Will Be Painted with Data. First of all I want to congratulate you on the launch of your new book Convergence, an AR-enabled book about AR.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Charlie Fink is a Forbes columnist and an author of two AR-enabled books – Charlie Fink’s Metaverse: A Guide to VR and AR, and Convergence: How the World Will Be Painted with Data. First of all I want to congratulate you on the launch of your new book Convergence, an AR-enabled book about AR.

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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 - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 1, 2023

Speaking on the upcoming Apple Reality Pro headset, he explained how Lucky Palmer, Founder, Oculus said Apple’s device was “excellent.” In his talks, the icon discussed the progress of the platform, citing examples from his book ‘Snow Crash.’

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The 21st-century technologies introduced in this book also contain the power to burn both ways, albeit at a previously unimaginable level of power and scale. Magic Leap has put forth the term Magicverse, a more playful version of a global digital twin that inspires visions of the fantastical. A trillion connected things.

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Robert Scoble

JUNE 28, 2022

He played a key role in the early development of Magic Leap, an augmented reality company that just won best of show at the industry’s biggest gathering, AWE (for Augmented World Expo). He also wrote what many say is the book on Computer Vision which is still used by many computer science departments. My mom taught us to solder.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

I read a large range of books and papers on urban planning, technology, game design and gamification, locative media and governance. Apple is working on hardware but it is reportedly delayed yet again, and Magic Leap seems to have lost its flame before being able to enlarge enough its consumer base.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

That allows devices which don’t have the compute capabilities today — lightweight AR headset devices — to have the kind of capability that a higher-end device like a Hololens 2 or Magic Leap might have, or even better in some cases. Kind of like the Dewey decimal system for libraries, to be able to find a book.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

That allows devices which don’t have the compute capabilities today — lightweight AR headset devices — to have the kind of capability that a higher-end device like a Hololens 2 or Magic Leap might have, or even better in some cases. Kind of like the Dewey decimal system for libraries, to be able to find a book.

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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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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

transforming it in a lightweight browser for iOS that makes Apple users enjoy webpages implementing WebXR. I’ve just given a read to the latest book by Charlie Fink about virtual events and meetings solutions and I can tell you that it is one of the most complete collections of the solutions available on the market, both in VR and not.

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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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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

Ernest Cline, the author of the top-seller Ready Player One has announced that his book Ready Player Two, that is the sequel of RPO, is coming to all bookstores on November, 24th. Peggy Johnson is the new CEO of Magic Leap. Magic Leap has finally a new CEO: Peggy Johnson. Fans of Ready Player One, rejoice!

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

Alan: I recently read a book called “The Age of Smart Information” by Mike Pell, and he talks about how information now is just information. There’s Magic Leap– Alan: Still a challenge. Magic Leap for sure. But a few things about Magic Leap are still better than Hololens 2.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

Alan: I recently read a book called “The Age of Smart Information” by Mike Pell, and he talks about how information now is just information. There’s Magic Leap– Alan: Still a challenge. Magic Leap for sure. But a few things about Magic Leap are still better than Hololens 2.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

He has creatively led over 150,000 hours of development in mixed reality, including as a Snap Lens Studio partner, preferred developer for Facebook, and showcase developer for Euphoria and Google, as well as an early adopter and early developer for Magic Leap. But they wanted more engagement after the booking had been done.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

He has creatively led over 150,000 hours of development in mixed reality, including as a Snap Lens Studio partner, preferred developer for Facebook, and showcase developer for Euphoria and Google, as well as an early adopter and early developer for Magic Leap. But they wanted more engagement after the booking had been done.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

Is there a high book of value coming out of that?” HTC did something with Batman; that Game of Thrones thing; some of the demos that Magic Leap had really. The one thing that created that image now, in the streets, that I would have expected like XR to do; it’s those air pods from Apple. Is there a good engagement?

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

Is there a high book of value coming out of that?” HTC did something with Batman; that Game of Thrones thing; some of the demos that Magic Leap had really. The one thing that created that image now, in the streets, that I would have expected like XR to do; it’s those air pods from Apple. Is there a good engagement?

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

He has creatively led over 150,000 hours of development in mixed reality, including as a Snap Lens Studio partner, preferred developer for Facebook, and showcase developer for Euphoria and Google, as well as an early adopter and early developer for Magic Leap. But they wanted more engagement after the booking had been done.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

I do a lot with Apple technology. So we set up a website called iPadEducators.com, which went on to win an award, and it led to both of us becoming Apple distinguished educators. And I-- essentially I was considering writing a book. Ironically, the book was going be called Digital Inception. Alan: Writing a book.

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