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Image by MagicLeap). First previews show MagicLeap 2 qualities. This week some selected journalists from popular online magazines like CNET and The Verge have been able to have a preview of the upcoming MagicLeap 2 glasses. Apple chips may be its secret weapon for XR. Other relevant news.
In the interview with me, he talked about many topics, like the rumors he heard on Apple Glasses, on the Oculus Quest 2 , the America vs China war, XR entrepreneurship, Tesla, and more! 2022 may be the key year when they actually buy it, also thanks to Apple , an d finally, the market will reach the magic number of 10 million devices.
Regarding the glasses, I have not big hopes for true AR glasses, but I think that thanks to Facebook and Apple, finally we’ll have some important smartglasses entering the market , making the mainstream think about wearing something on their face to enjoy notifications from the phone. Phone AR will be always more popular.
We have lots of non-news about Apple’s XR efforts. The hype around Apple glasses is huge , and everything that gets shared about Apple and XR gets many views. We already knew that Tim likes AR and “what we have to offer” may also be a potato with an Apple brand costing $400. Other relevant news. Image by The Information).
It has hand tracking, and the Pro model also has eye tracking, like Apple’s device. Then he ended the video by saying that Apple has a closed ecosystem model, while Meta is open, and sometimes an open model won, like in the PC case. ARKit), but usually, all new features announced by Apple are like old features for Android users.
MagicLeap has just organized its first developers’ event, dubbed “L.E.A.P.” It is the first event of this kind organized by MagicLeap: we can say that LEAP Con is like the Oculus Connect of MagicLeap and will probably become always more important, year after year, exactly as it has happened to Oculus.
Apple threatens future support in Unreal Engine. According to an evidence presented by Epic Games, Apple has not only removed Fortnite from the Apple Store, but it has also revoked the status of developer to Epic Games. All Apple software, SDKs, APIs, and developer tools ?—?Pre-release Image by Epic Games).
There is no official confirmation on this, and I hope to be wrong because having to use earphones would be a big hit to its comfort Release date and price : of course the release date (will it come before or after an Apple headset?) MagicLeap 2 has inside-out tracked controllers. and price (will it be affordable for PS5 users?)
Apple of My Eye So the question that remains is what it’s going to take to accelerate consumer AR acceptance. And that’s where headworn AR’s biggest looming topic factors in: Apple. If there’s one company that has the potential to jumpstart the market, per its classic “halo effect,” it’s Apple. Beyond the “if?”
Another accelerant that accounts for steep revenue growth is the ultimate wild card in the AR glasses world noted above: Apple (more on that in a bit). Purpose-Built Back to Apple, speculation on its market entrance (timing and substance) could fill its own article. But it’s not just about Apple.
In that light, its appeal will lie in elegant integration with other Apple hardware and wearables. Beyond Apple’s speculative entrance, current players continue to define shifts in the headworn AR market. MagicLeap has meaningfully turned things around,” said Boland. Think of it like the iPhone 1?—?evolving
Apple of My Eye But the big topic on everyone’s mind when it comes to AR glasses is Apple’s rumored entrance. Those hopes were scattered in the past few weeks as Bloomberg reported that Apple’s AR glasses plans may be delayed or shelved. Given that, what are all the rumors about an Apple headset launching in Spring 2023?
He doesn’t only write with a great style on important magazines like Forbes, but he is also always able to find great content to talk about , like innovative AR startups or interviews to big names of the immersive industry like Rony Abovitz. So that’s who I’d like to sit down with and can’t. I’m still a stage-struck kid.
He also is aware of Apple entering the market, and said his employees that the battle between Meta and Apple is a battle between open ecosystems vs closed ecosystems. Another interesting thing is that Pico is not copying Meta or MagicLeap in proposing inside-out tracked controllers : these ones still have a tracking ring.
It involves AR that doesn’t have the rich UX and graphical intensity of a MagicLeap One or Microsoft Hololens 2, but instead prioritizes style and wearability. MagicLeap One). Experientially Meaningful When it comes to integration, there’s one company that has a potentially-greater advantage: Apple.
The Smart-Accessory Revolution A Pew Research Center survey conducted at the beginning of 2013 showed that only 51% of adults in the United States owned a smartphone, 6 years after the launch of the 1st-generation Apple iPhone. Another survey conducted mid-June 2019, 4 years since the debut of the Apple Watch, showed that roughly 1-in-5 U.S.
The community is not happy with this news, but another piece of news spread this week by VR magazines has given us some hope. The author of the video has used a free app available on the Apple Store and with it, it was able to scan 3D objects with a quality and a speed never seen before. A report and recommendations prepared by a U.S.
Screen-through AR is less appealing than the one of HoloLens and MagicLeap , but it would allow for: Embedding AR and VR on the same device, that is the future of XR that we are all expecting; Allow for high-FOV AR , since you can use the same FOV of a VR headset in AR… that is 110°, something that is impossible with all current AR headsets.
And MagicLeap , the company we all put our AR faith in, has refocused their strategy away from consumers and towards healthcare, defense and telecommunications. You guessed it: The Apple AR glasses. Well, Apple has been warming up to this for several years. But they got acquired by Google, so they´re gone for now.
Apple seems to be cornering the popular entertainment industry, with the acquisition of NextVR, as industry rivals such as MagicLeap focus on enterprise solutions. Don’t forget to give us your ?? !
It is more refined than the original Vive, but it has not that Apple-like approach that has the Rift. The device appears better manufactured than the original Vive and I also like its blue color: black was too sad. Regarding the comfort, it is amazing. The post HTC Vive Pro first impressions: should you buy it?
The interview has been super interesting for me, because thanks to it I’ve learned a lot about the 3D modeling market, that is something that usually VR magazines do not talk about. Not to mention how 3D technologies are being adopted and developed by major companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple.
This is confirmed by companies such as MagicLeap who have raised a further 2 billion recently for the development of their second mixed reality device, although the first one hardly made much of an impact in the market regardless of how much money was initially invested. Don’t forget to give us your ?? ! link] Metaverse!
Apple is working on hardware but it is reportedly delayed yet again, and MagicLeap seems to have lost its flame before being able to enlarge enough its consumer base. Those are all exciting developments, but if you are following closely you learned to be reasonably skeptical. To be continued. Don’t forget to give us your ?? !
MagicLeap has put forth the term Magicverse, a more playful version of a global digital twin that inspires visions of the fantastical. The screens of over 1 billion new smartphones became windows into the physical world because both Apple and Android added AR software to their operating systems.
Devices such as the MagicLeap and the Hololens rely on Waveguide optics. What about Apple Glass? I was very critical of this approach with the Apple Watch?—?it it was clear from the launch keynote that Apple had no idea what this cool piece of hardware engineering would be used for?
Many journalists of important tech magazines (TechCrunch, Business Insider, etc…) are all playing a common sport now: targeting Meta and Mark Zuckerberg. Meta wants all of us closed in a VR prison, but Apple/Snap/Niantic instead are the good guys doing AR. Meta is bad, Apple is our savior! It is such a good company.
Top news of the week (Image by Meta) Meta may be working on a very cheap Quest and very expensive Quest Pro 2 Thanks to Twitter user Lunayian , I got to read an article written by a Korean magazine with some very interesting rumors about Meta. I’m not so sure that this is the kind of content people are looking for.
And I would think that Facebook, Snapchat, maybe Apple, those the main ones. In terms of who’s on the flip side of that marketplace, actually– we’re about to launch our first SDK and that’s– we think of it much more at a Unity level, than necessarily as an Apple or a Google level. Dominic: Yes and no.
And I would think that Facebook, Snapchat, maybe Apple, those the main ones. In terms of who’s on the flip side of that marketplace, actually– we’re about to launch our first SDK and that’s– we think of it much more at a Unity level, than necessarily as an Apple or a Google level. Dominic: Yes and no.
And I would think that Facebook, Snapchat, maybe Apple, those the main ones. In terms of who's on the flip side of that marketplace, actually-- we're about to launch our first SDK and that's-- we think of it much more at a Unity level, than necessarily as an Apple or a Google level. But you also need to get the AR platforms.
Dean: Yeah, I was sort of a traditional newspaper and magazine journalist for a long time, and then, when the web came along and people started podcasting and blogging, I looked around and felt like it was less of a risk to go try something new than it was to stay at a newspaper. I don’t know about MagicLeap yet.
Dean: Yeah, I was sort of a traditional newspaper and magazine journalist for a long time, and then, when the web came along and people started podcasting and blogging, I looked around and felt like it was less of a risk to go try something new than it was to stay at a newspaper. I don’t know about MagicLeap yet.
Apple Glasses may release in 2021 for $499. In the end, technologist Jon Prosser has revealed the main details he knows about the Apple Glasses. Well, on another website, I’ve been able to find someone that reading some Apple’s documents has found pictures of strange colored circular tags that may act as QR Codes for Apple devices.
Dean: Yeah, I was sort of a traditional newspaper and magazine journalist for a long time, and then, when the web came along and people started podcasting and blogging, I looked around and felt like it was less of a risk to go try something new than it was to stay at a newspaper. I don't know about MagicLeap yet.
I think people were all moving towards glTF, and then Apple decided, “hey, we got our own file format, USDZ” — how do you manage a hundred different…? We were launching partners of Apple for USDZ and we’re working on it. Let’s just take it, for example, in comparison to YouTube. So we will, yes.
Dean: Yeah, I was sort of a traditional newspaper and magazine journalist for a long time, and then, when the web came along and people started podcasting and blogging, I looked around and felt like it was less of a risk to go try something new than it was to stay at a newspaper. I don’t know about MagicLeap yet.
I think people were all moving towards glTF, and then Apple decided, "hey, we got our own file format, USDZ" -- how do you manage a hundred different.? We were launching partners of Apple for USDZ and we're working on it. Alan: Today, MagicLeap just released a press release. YouTube has MP4s, and maybe MOV files.
And so when ARKit popped up from Apple and they said surprise, now everybody with an iPhone 6 and above and use augmented reality, it really changed the game. And then when our shoulders get tired, eventually Apple and others will sell us this integrated with a pair of glasses that don’t look too nerdy. We do projects on the Go.
And so when ARKit popped up from Apple and they said surprise, now everybody with an iPhone 6 and above and use augmented reality, it really changed the game. And then when our shoulders get tired, eventually Apple and others will sell us this integrated with a pair of glasses that don’t look too nerdy. We do projects on the Go.
I think people were all moving towards glTF, and then Apple decided, “hey, we got our own file format, USDZ” — how do you manage a hundred different…? We were launching partners of Apple for USDZ and we’re working on it. Let’s just take it, for example, in comparison to YouTube. So we will, yes.
VR magazines have published this week many pieces of advice for new Quest 2 owners. It is “easy” to create hype and get preorders and many sales on the first day: Even the MagicLeap One had a very strong first day, and the community was flooded with pictures of people donning the device… but in the end, it was a huge flop.
And to be the leader in some years, it has to start going public now, also to begin competing with Apple, that will probably announce its AR glasses next year. But Facebook has a big problem and that big problem is called Apple. Concept of a future AR glass by Apple (Image by iDropNews).
And so when ARKit popped up from Apple and they said surprise, now everybody with an iPhone 6 and above and use augmented reality, it really changed the game. And then when our shoulders get tired, eventually Apple and others will sell us this integrated with a pair of glasses that don't look too nerdy. The next step is for our eyes.
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