Road to VR

JUNE 17, 2024

Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) is over, and while Vision Pro was a big focus with the announcement of its visionOS 2 update , it’s pretty clear Apple’s first mixed reality headset isn’t in a hurry to feature-match other XR headsets at this point, let alone Meta Quest 3.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

The rumors on the Apple Glasses are intensifying. It is not a secret that Apple is working on an XR device: the mystery is when it is going to release it and what it will actually be. The hype is rising, and Apple is playing with it. (My usual terrible image to wish you Happy Easter, if you celebrate it). Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap has sold units of its first device for $550. Magic Leap has decided to put on sale its remaining units of the Magic Leap 1, its previous device, for just $550 , which is something like a -75% discount on its standard retail price. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap pivots to enterprise, lays off 1,000 employes. With a long post on Magic Leap’s blog, in the end Rony Abovitz has admitted that the company is not going that well, and has announced a new course, that should eventually lead to Magic Leap 2. Top news of the week.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Apple has been working on its plans to create an augmented reality (AR) windshield, according to new documents. In recent filings with the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Apple has begun working on designs for the AR interface. Apple ‘s new patent reveals an #AugmentedReality display system for vehicles.

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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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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

We’re a long ways off from that and it won’t happen with the first generation Apple Vision Pro. I can only begin to imagine the possibilities and Apple is currently feeding developers kits at $3,500 each to build what’s in their imaginations.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Apple is gearing up for the Vision Pro debut. However, a key difference and benefit that Apple has over some of its competition is the already-established iOS ecosystem of products and software. On the other hand, Apple is not the only XR firm pushing for interoperability and cross-pollination of hardware and software.

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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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Road to VR

MAY 9, 2018

Magic Leap has confirmed eye-tracking on their upcoming development headset. And even Apple is in the game, having reportedly acquired SMI , one of the former leaders in the eye-tracking space, and has drawn up patents implementing the technology. Fove is selling a development kit of their VR headset with inbuilt eye-tracking.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

February 2024 is here, and this month marked the end of a long, long wait for Apple’s Vision Pro. Apple has already sold 200,000 devices in the first week, which is impressive. This funding will support Magic Leap’s “Chapter 3” roadmap of delivering enterprise-grade XR solutions.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 30, 2023

As WWDC approaches, Apple continues to drop hints, leading spectators to assume an immersive device is coming that continues the transformative firm’s track record of distributing game-changing consumer hardware. An XR device from Apple could be massive. Apple’s putting a lot of money into this. Mark Zuckerberg is.

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ARVR

JUNE 29, 2020

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.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Once I got to the home menu of Orion I immediately thought of Magic Leap and HoloLens and XREAL and Tilt Five rather than Meta Quest or even the Apple Vision Pro. Unlike Apple Vision Pro, because of the wristband, I did this behind my back. Because we’re not seeing through cameras, aka “passthrough”. This is healthy.

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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. It is astonishing, especially if you consider that it is not a real fluid simulation, but just a very complicated shader.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Image by MegaDodo Simulation Games). Some years ago, she performed in The Life, a Mixed Reality art piece inside the Magic Leap One. Since IKinema has been acquired by Apple, this indie project could be a nice substitute for all developers that want an affordable full-body motion capture solution. Top news of the week.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

Morton Helig’s 1962 patent describes a system that delivers a realistic simulation for potential work and military training purposes: There are increasing demands today for ways and means to teach and train individuals without actually subjecting the individuals to possible hazards of particular situations.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

The feature that I love the most is that it lets test your AR experience in fake real-world scenarios : there is a sort of simulator that lets you test in editor how your app can perform in different rooms or open environments, so that you can test it without having to build it. For this reason, Mozilla has upgraded its sample WebXR viewer 2.0,

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TechCrunch VR

APRIL 3, 2023

It instead relies on a concave design and slip-on shoe covers, using the effect of foot slipping to simulate movement in VR. The move is especially interesting in light of the relatively recent shift toward enterprise customers that’s been explored by Meta, Magic Leap and HTC.

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Upload VR

MAY 4, 2024

Apple Vision Pro 2 reportedly targets a late 2026 launch, over 50% of Fortune 100 companies are using Vision Pro, Tilt Five is on sale, and Quest 3 is nearly tied with Valve Index on SteamVR. New releases include Astra , Contractors Showdown , Nope Challenge , Agent Simulator , Smalland VR and Homeworld VR.

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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). I had helped my parents and brothers hand build hundreds of Apple II. Adrian Kaehler is that genius. . My mom taught us to solder.

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EON Reality

JULY 17, 2024

It supports a range of AR platforms such as ARKit (iOS), ARCore (Android), Microsoft HoloLens, and Magic Leap. Known for its high-fidelity graphics and performance, Unreal Engine is preferred for projects that require photorealistic visuals and complex simulations. Asset Store : Access to a vast library of assets and plugins.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2023

For him, such industries would benefit ‘enormously’ from digital transformations via digital twinning, simulation, and computer-aided design (CAD). 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

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Today, GigXR (extended reality), a firm designing immersive healthcare training solutions, announced the availability of the Insight Series, an integrated selection of holographic, hyper-realistic, real-time 3D (RT3D) models that simulate organs.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

Apple’s Vision Pro triggered new discourse on the future of virutal, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR). Revealed at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), the Apple Vision Pro has sparked both praise and criticism from the global XR community. Apple is adept at proposing something you didn’t think you needed.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Will this Convergence lead us into the futuristic dystopia of our nightmares — the one where we are jacked into a simulated reality, a siloed and centralized network where we are constantly under surveillance by dark forces operating in the shadows, all the while being mined for our data like a natural resource?

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

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. Those are all exciting developments, but if you are following closely you learned to be reasonably skeptical.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

We're going to dig into using Magic Leap and Hololens and mixed reality headsets as a tool for business. Apple featured it a whole bunch of times. And so we got-- our main first break as Extality was leveraging some of our game connections and things like that, to get close to Magic Leap. Well, there we go.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

We're going to dig into using Magic Leap and Hololens and mixed reality headsets as a tool for business. Apple featured it a whole bunch of times. And so we got-- our main first break as Extality was leveraging some of our game connections and things like that, to get close to Magic Leap. Well, there we go.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

They’ve already got, you know, in your Apple phone, RF detection is already built in. Charlie: VR has a lot of fantastic applications in training and simulation. Of course it also has telepresence, so you could be virtually present in a place like Egypt – not in real time, but in space and simulation.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

They’ve already got, you know, in your Apple phone, RF detection is already built in. Charlie: VR has a lot of fantastic applications in training and simulation. Of course it also has telepresence, so you could be virtually present in a place like Egypt – not in real time, but in space and simulation.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

We're going to dig into using Magic Leap and Hololens and mixed reality headsets as a tool for business. Apple featured it a whole bunch of times. And so we got-- our main first break as Extality was leveraging some of our game connections and things like that, to get close to Magic Leap. Well, there we go.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

They’ve taken virtual and augmented reality for the automobile industry to the next level; from AR apps where you can see cars in your living room, to full VR simulators where you can drive the cars and see what they interact like. ” I said, “have you ever played a real simulation race game?” Alan: Yeah?

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

They’ve taken virtual and augmented reality for the automobile industry to the next level; from AR apps where you can see cars in your living room, to full VR simulators where you can drive the cars and see what they interact like. ” I said, “have you ever played a real simulation race game?” Alan: Yeah?

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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. Not to be outdone with the Oculus announcements, Valve reveals a new controller prototype that can simulate the sensations of grasping and releasing objects. February 2016.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

So, for instance, you record a video of a person from a low position and then see how it looks from a higher position Apple has just published a patent about showing invisible things on mixed reality glasses. The same concept could work with a Wi-Fi sensor, so you could see the strength of the Wi-Fi waves around you.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 7, 2019

But for a while that really looked like they and Magic Leap — and we weren’t really sure what Magic Leap looked like until very recently — were the only players in that market. And so far, the only ways that you could really do that were by simulating those experiences in the real world.

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