Road to VR

MAY 2, 2019

Magic Leap, one of the most well-funded startups in history, just took on a $280 million investment from Japan-based mobile phone operator NTT DOCOMO. As Japan’s largest mobile operator, Docomo is slated to be Magic Leap’s exclusive telecommunications partner in Japan. billion, according to Crunchbase.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap is on sale. A report on Bloomberg informed us all that Magic Leap is exploring a sale of the company. The AR startup is in big troubles : after having overhyped its device for years and having collected billions of investments, it just delivered a HoloLens clone.

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Road to VR

JULY 11, 2018

Today during Magic Leap’s developer livestream the company offered the first details on the compute hardware that’s built into the device, confirming that an NVIDIA CPU/GPU module, and also showed a brief developer sample demonstrating world meshing and gesture input.

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Road to VR

JULY 24, 2019

Despite securing $280 million from Japan’s largest telecom earlier this summer, we’ve heard surprisingly little from the multi-billion dollar AR startup of late regarding its flagship headset, Magic Leap One. Image courtesy Magic Leap, Weta Workshop. Accessibility, Third-party Integration & More.

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VRScout

JULY 23, 2019

Undersea , a new spatial computing AR experience developed for the Magic Leap One headset, is set to premiere next week at the 46th annual SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference in Los Angeles. With each Magic Leap Studios project on Magic Leap One, we expand the ever-evolving potential of immersive experiences.

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Next Reality AR

MARCH 19, 2018

Following the surprise release of Magic Leap's SDK on Monday, March 19, Unity, Unreal Engine, and Mozilla followed up by announcing official partnerships with the company. "We We are proud to partner with Magic Leap to integrate the Magic Leap platform with Unity," Unity announced on its official blog.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

Mothers and grandmothers are the best, and they care about us during the good and the hard times… their love is infinite. A big and warm hug to all of them And while we celebrate our mommies, let’s read some cool AR/VR news! Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap looks for a $100-million deal to save itself.

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ARPost

JUNE 20, 2019

There wasn’t much talk about upcoming VR or AR experiences , though some other title releases were exciting. One of the big events at this year’s E3 was the Unreal Garden and, if you weren’t at E3, you may still be able to see it. What Is the Unreal Garden? The Unreal Garden is an AR experience developed by onedome.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2021

Today I have the pleasure of publishing an interview I had with Graham Atlee , a very smart guy that has developed the Triton Project, a DIY affordable AR headset with wide FOV and natural hands interactions! For the past 3 years I’ve been working on various AR/VR projects like Pumori.io Triton AR headset (Image by Graham Atlee).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 8, 2019

It is something that I say since the beginning of 2019 : nReal is one of the most interesting AR startups out there. The idea of nReal is producing the first consumer AR headset , that, when you wear it, you really look like wearing a pair of normal glasses. nReal glasses are designed to be the closest possible to regular sunglasses.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Magic Leap has a way of laying low for months at a time and then popping up with huge announcements. However, the Magic Leap One – released last summer – remains one of the most desired headsets in the XR world. That was when they announced partnerships with Unreal and Japanese telecommunications firm DOCOMO.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 30, 2022

From top XR trends and must-have skills for an AR/VR career, to XR hardware reviews, to the potential of the metaverse in various industries, to discussing why we’re not all wearing AR/VR headsets, these are the 22 stories ARPost readers clicked on the most this year. Hands-On Review: AI and AR Art Instruction App Cupixel.

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VRScout

JULY 30, 2019

This year’s SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference, currently taking place at the Los Angeles Convention Center, features no shortage of VR and AR technology. Among this year’s exciting offerings is a brand new augmented reality experience from Magic Leap entitled Undersea. Image Credit: Magic Leap.

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Road to VR

JULY 18, 2018

Unreal Engine 4.20 On the AR front, UE 4.20 along with Magic Leap support. Unreal Engine 4.20 For developers using Unreal Engine to build titles for the Rift, UE 4.20 Updated AR SDKs & Magic Leap. with development support for Magic Leap was released earlier this year.

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Next Reality AR

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The growing stock of augmented reality apps filling up the Magic Leap store seems to be picking up pace in recent months. On Tuesday, the latest addition to the Magic Leap World store came in the form of Dinosaur Kit, an app that offers an immersive education path for those budding paleontologists among us.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Kura promises to deliver lightweight AR glasses with astonishing features like 150° FOV, 8K resolution per eye, and outdoor use thanks to some breakthrough innovations they are working on. They could make AR enter a new immersive phase that leads towards mainstream adoption. It’s like 2 years (!!) What is Kura’s story?

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Next Reality AR

APRIL 29, 2019

With $100 million in grant funding already available to developers via its MegaGrants program, Epic Games is sweetening the pot with some gear for Magic Leap developers. Developers can apply online, with Epic judging the applications based on merit.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Unreal Engine and Photoshop), as it happens in Google Docs when many people edit the same document at the same time. The US Army is experimenting with AR goggles on dogs. It seems that after 3–4 weeks of training, the dog gets used to using AR. Google and Snapchat release features that aim at the AR Cloud.

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ARPost

JUNE 2, 2023

AWE Day Two Keynotes Day One kickstarted the keynotes, but AWE Day Two saw exciting presentations and announcements from Magic Leap and Niantic. “The small team at Magic Leap has made something that many larger companies are still struggling to achieve.”

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Could Apple Vision Pro be a serious competitor in the enterprise AR market? Desktop PC workstations and tablets are still a great way to design intricate engineering components and machines, but AR & VR are far preferable to a traditional screen for actually visualizing what they'll look like in the real world.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2018

He has joined Rony Abovitz at Magic Leap and now he’s there, trying to build the MagicVerse as the SVP of Creative Strategy of the Florida company. The science fiction leap was “You are inside the internet now. And what you are doing at Magic Leap to create these experiences for people? (

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Apple threatens future support in Unreal Engine. What is interesting for us is the last line “adoption and support of ARKit features and future VR features into Unreal Engine by their XR team”. Other relevant news. Image by Epic Games). Notice that Apple talks about “future VR features” that it is going to implement. This is huge.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 6, 2024

One of my biggest highlights has been that my article about Social AR has been featured in the famous New World Notes blog that I usually read… I’ve felt very honored about this! In my opinion, it will be the latter: Apple’s goal is still winning the AR race among the masses. This week has been quite cool for me.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

This week we cover a handful of new funding rounds, new Snap AR milestones and Oculus Quest sales Inflections, among other items. This will allow these companies to work more closely together to deploy AR applications across industries in the process of digital transformation. Over 200M Snapchat users engaged with AR daily in Q4.

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ARPost

JULY 13, 2022

Other members of the e-board have backgrounds including Magic Leap and Sony. See Also: Geenee AR and Ready Player Me Partner to Bring Full-Body Avatars to WebAR Experiences. Once the character is complete in both mind and body, they can be integrated into virtual environments created using Unreal Engine or Unity.

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Road to VR

JULY 29, 2019

OpenXR, a widely supported initiative which aims to streamline AR/VR development across headsets and platforms, has reached its 1.0 It’s a major milestone, according to Khronos Group which has overseen development of the standard by a consortium of many of the biggest names in the AR/VR sector. release today.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 10, 2022

As this article was being written, Varjo further expanded its cloud with Unreal and Unity engine integrations. This means you can run the most complex VR and AR experiences from a remote server across 5G and Wi-Fi networks to any device, while embracing the freedom to move—no wires, no limits.”. CloudXR From NVIDIA.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Magic Leap has just organized its first developers’ event, dubbed “L.E.A.P.” It is the first event of this kind organized by Magic Leap: we can say that LEAP Con is like the Oculus Connect of Magic Leap and will probably become always more important, year after year, exactly as it has happened to Oculus.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 22, 2019

OpenXR is a work-in-progress standard that aims to unify the underlying connections between VR and AR hardware, game engines, and content, making for a more interoperable ecosystem. “The spec is in great hands with Brent and the OpenXR working group, and Epic remains just as committed as ever to the standard.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Vindevogel adds that the growth of VR in the context of LBE is due in part to how VR and AR are capable of providing users with more exciting ways to bring their vision to life, making the technology suitable for visitor attractions. “It Thus, it’s likely that we’ll see more AR apps making use of AI tech in the future. “

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The device also features an RGB camera, so that to provide color passthrough AR. The great news from this week is that the company has brought Niantic Lightship VPS into its engine, so now it is possible to use VPS from a web AR application. The headset is also very small and lightweight thanks to the use of pancake lenses.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Considering that HL 1 had a FOV around 30-35° (the exact number has never been disclosed), I think that a reasonable guess is around 70-75° , that is a massive improvement, that will make AR more usable. With Microsoft Dynamics Guide 365 , for instance, it will be possible to create easily an AR solution to help maintenance workers.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

When I interviewed Kevin Williams , an expert in the LBVR market, he said that there are also some experiments with location-based augmented reality and he mentioned a Japanese arcade AR game called HADO. Well, after that article, I discovered that the CTO of MeLeap , the company behind HADO, is one of my readers! teams for Japan.

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Slashgear

MARCH 19, 2018

This week the folks at Magic Leap announced their first Technical Preview of their Creative Portal and SDK for their burgeoning spacial computing platform. These tools were announced to be joined by Technical Preview builds of Unreal Engine 4 and Unity tools for developers to connect with the Magic Leap platform.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

I’ve read a lot of hands-on reviews of the Oculus Go and they are all very positive : you can read for instance the ones of Upload VR , Road To VR and Ars Technica. Magic Leap releases its SDK. We still haven’t seen a Magic Leap device , but at least now we can see its SDK.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 11, 2023

Additionally, people can develop augmented reality (AR) experiences with the platform’s 3D viewing function. According to the tech giant, gaming firms can develop real-world models for AR-based immersive experiences. Developers can also design AR experiences for physical locations via its Geospatial Creator.

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Upload VR

MAY 2, 2024

Apple isn't the first AR or VR company to target an expensive headset at enterprises. Magic Leap 2 , Microsoft's HoloLens 2 , and Varjo's XR-4 series all primarily focus on this segment of the market. Magic Leap 2's battery lasts notably longer, though, and both it and HoloLens 2 are more comfortable to wear.

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