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Vive Pro date and price, MagicLeap announcements, Nvidia’s real-time ray-tracing, and Budget Cuts resurfaces. MagicLeap announcements. image courtesy MagicLeap. MagicLeap has launched the SDK for the device’s Lumin OS , with support for Unity and Unreal engines. Image courtesy HTC.
The company offers access to one of the most affordable and flexible VR headsets on the market in the form of the Oculus Quest, allowing all businesses, large or small to explore virtual reality. Meta recently announced the arrival of a popular architectural tool “ Unity Reflect ” in the Meta Quest environment for 2022. MagicLeap.
Image by MagicLeap). MagicLeap may be in trouble, but its CEO remains confident. Some weeks ago, I’ve reported of rumors about MagicLeap being in big trouble and having assigned all its patents as collateral to bank JP Morgan, probably because it is looking for a loan or to raise a round E.
I have anyway selected four news that can be relevant for you: NVIDIA has announced a new GPU architecture, called Hopper, that represents the evolution of Ampere. MagicLeap 2 bridges AR and VR. The interest in MagicLeap 2 is growing. We had almost no news explicitly directed towards VR or AR. More info.
Last Monday, I walked three blocks uphill on Mason St in San Francisco to the Fairmont Hotel to demo a stealth product that had been touted to me as one of the biggest advancements in XR tech this side of MagicLeap. Comparison shot of Varjo Bionic display and Oculus Rift display. So what is Varjo? Varjo solves this problem.
Rumors hint to Oculus discontinuing the current Quest and selling the new one at $299 and $399. The Facebook Connect is close and we all expect that during that conference Oculus is finally going to announce the new Oculus Quest. Facebook is temporarily suspending the sale of Oculus Quest devices in Germany.
There is no point if you have face tracking and it doesn’t work well… and the positional tracking alone is very difficult to provide well even for established companies (only Oculus’s one is very fluid) In the video they say confusing things like “R&D is cheap now” (really? Then why MagicLeap hasn’t delivered a solid product with 2B?)
He has always been a great innovator and I admire his work since the good old Oculus DK 2 times, when he published “Sightline: The Chair” Now he is continuing this innovation work by building a completely open metaverse called Neos , where thanks to object modeling and scripting, it is possible to create everything you want.
They should guarantee better tracking both for the headset and the controllers; The controllers are smaller and seem a mix between the Oculus Touch and the WMR 1 controllers. I don’t see this device stealing the scene from Oculus, since Oculus is cheaper, but I’m quite sure this new headset will be able to grab a good market share.
The Oculus Quest 2 continues its march towards mainstream adoption. It wouldn’t be a normal week without some news about Facebook and/or the Oculus Quest. The first one is that the Quest 2 has now sold in some months more than all the other Oculus headsets (with the exclusion of Gear VR) combined in all these years.
Late to the party after Oculus and Microsoft already released prototypical implementations, but finally Valve has implemented OpenXR into its runtime SteamVR. Someone is working on a Linux driver for the Oculus Rift. Indie developer Thaytan is working on a Linux driver for the Oculus Rift. Other relevant news. Funny link.
It’s been called the AR Cloud by many, the Magicverse by MagicLeap, 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.
Dynamic generative applications The lightbulb in my brain powered on by reminding my interview with the amazing John Gaeta (when he still was at MagicLeap). file, that points also to a 1-hour long video where I comment in detail about the architecture of the code, the problems I had, and how I solved them.
As a tech guy, of course, I’m all in for retro compatibility, and I would still love to sometimes attach my Oculus DK2 to my laptop and remember the good old times playing Tuscany. I know that I’m saying something unpopular, but I understand Microsoft’s decision.
We are a stock 3D models marketplace , where designers share and sell more than 640,000 models for everything from VR, games, architectural visualizations, video production, AI training, to 3D printing. Most of our customers come from video production, advertising, architecture, game and software development.
These range from anime, comics, beauty, makeup, sport, through to art and architecture with personalized content sent to users based on the spaces and profiles they interact with. Headsets already planned for include PlayStation VR, Oculus, HTC Vive, Gear VR and even MagicLeap.
. “Fifty-eight degrees doesn’t sound like much compared to an Oculus Rift, but compared to an nreal Light, which is 52 degrees, it’s already pretty competitive,” says JC Kuang, an analyst with AR/VR market intelligence firm VRS. “I’ve always been skeptical of 2020,” he says.
The system is capable of quintillions of operations per second and it is able to speed up the machine learning process from 3x to 20x with regard to the previous supercomputer cluster architecture in use by Meta. Image by MagicLeap). MagicLeap 2 to feature dynamic dimming. Other relevant news. Upload VR).
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It doesn’t seem to be on par with the Oculus Quest 2, but as a first device by Nolo, it is not that bad. A decent budget for Microsoft and Facebook… but something impossible for companies like HTC or MagicLeap (do you remember when we all thought that $2.5B MagicLeap partners with AMD for its next-generation device.
This could be for something like a MagicLeap or an Oculus or something like that. Austin: Another area where I see a lot of B2B traction is in architecture and construction planning. MagicLeap just raised another $280-million. And when I say this, it’s for headset-based experiences.
This could be for something like a MagicLeap or an Oculus or something like that. Austin: Another area where I see a lot of B2B traction is in architecture and construction planning. MagicLeap just raised another $280-million. And when I say this, it’s for headset-based experiences.
So I actually started out in architecture. I have a masters of architecture, and worked as an architect for a number of years. At Oculus, they said 10 years. You've seen MagicLeap pivot to enterprises. So I actually started out in architecture. Jamie: Sure, yeah. For starters, this is Jamie.
So I actually started out in architecture. I have a masters of architecture, and worked as an architect for a number of years. At Oculus, they said 10 years. You've seen MagicLeap pivot to enterprises. So I actually started out in architecture. Jamie: Sure, yeah. For starters, this is Jamie.
What that means that from a software architecture standpoint and a hardware standpoint, we try to make our software as optimized as possible for their reference designs. Alan: With Facebook now working on AR, and you've got MagicLeap, and Microsoft's Hololens. And I know Oculus Quest just introduced hand tracking.
What that means that from a software architecture standpoint and a hardware standpoint, we try to make our software as optimized as possible for their reference designs. Alan: With Facebook now working on AR, and you've got MagicLeap, and Microsoft's Hololens. And I know Oculus Quest just introduced hand tracking.
VR is currently being used to train surgeons, analyze road scenarios for automobile companies, and design architecture. HTC, MagicLeap, and other enterprise companies tend to emphasize how long their products will last — offering either comparatively long-lasting batteries or swappable ones. And maybe they will. Ugh, okay.
As you know, I do some work with MagicLeap — I don’t speak on their behalf — but they just launched the headsets at several AT&T stores, and one of the demos is an AR…well, no, a spatial computing experience for Game of Thrones. So that was really exciting. You know, Game of Thrones as well.
As you know, I do some work with MagicLeap — I don’t speak on their behalf — but they just launched the headsets at several AT&T stores, and one of the demos is an AR…well, no, a spatial computing experience for Game of Thrones. So that was really exciting. You know, Game of Thrones as well.
Oculus Go showcased. The Oculus Go (Image by Oculus). At GDC, the Oculus Go has been one of the main characters. First of all, Oculus has showcased all its main technical characteristics : I advise you to read the post dedicated to that on Oculus blogs , where Chris Pruett introduces you to them.
This could be for something like a MagicLeap or an Oculus or something like that. Austin: Another area where I see a lot of B2B traction is in architecture and construction planning. it wasn't architecture, but it was in the sort of B2B use cases for spatial computing. MagicLeap just raised another $280-million.
So I actually started out in architecture. I have a masters of architecture, and worked as an architect for a number of years. At Oculus, they said 10 years. You've seen MagicLeap pivot to enterprises. So I actually started out in architecture. Jamie: Sure, yeah. For starters, this is Jamie.
What that means that from a software architecture standpoint and a hardware standpoint, we try to make our software as optimized as possible for their reference designs. Alan: With Facebook now working on AR, and you've got MagicLeap, and Microsoft's Hololens. And I know Oculus Quest just introduced hand tracking.
Google is also hiring high-profile people for it, like Bernard Kress, principal optical architect on Microsoft’s HoloLens team, and Paul Greco, the previous CTO of MagicLeap. Samsung has just announced its new Exynos 2200 mobile chipset , powered by AMD RDNA 2 architecture. Meta releases runtime v37 for Quest.
Bob: Well, actually, what was interesting for me being at Laval is, I put on a — for the first time — a VR architecture event… actually, over a year ago, now; this was January 2018. But it was hard for me to get a feel for where architecture uptake was, from a VR perspective, in the US. We had good participation.
Bob: Well, actually, what was interesting for me being at Laval is, I put on a — for the first time — a VR architecture event… actually, over a year ago, now; this was January 2018. But it was hard for me to get a feel for where architecture uptake was, from a VR perspective, in the US. We had good participation.
For instance, in the box I’ve found a cleaning cloth for an Oculus device… and I don’t think it actually comes with a Microsoft HoloLens! Anyway, the unboxing above is very interesting to evaluate how VR Expert sends its devices… I’ll come to this in a while.
Bob: Well, actually, what was interesting for me being at Laval is, I put on a -- for the first time -- a VR architecture event. But it was hard for me to get a feel for where architecture uptake was, from a VR perspective, in the US. And I see that right now, Oculus is filling that void. We had good participation. Alan: Yeah.
There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. We've been approached by some of the bigger headset manufacturers -- Microsoft, Hololens and MagicLeap -- to build exclusively for them.
There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. We've been approached by some of the bigger headset manufacturers -- Microsoft, Hololens and MagicLeap -- to build exclusively for them.
There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. We've been approached by some of the bigger headset manufacturers -- Microsoft, Hololens and MagicLeap -- to build exclusively for them.
There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. We've been approached by some of the bigger headset manufacturers -- Microsoft, Hololens and MagicLeap -- to build exclusively for them.
While on the topic of acquisitions Facebooks takeover of Oculus initially was somewhat hostile with internal disputes between Oculus founders and Zuckerberg and his leadership team. The Metaverse is simply an evolution of many of those past ideas coming together with newer device architectures.
Companies like MagicLeap and Hololens, those are great devices where most of the compute is done on the headset… well MagicLeap is actually done on a pack that’s wired in. We also had Oculus participate, which was great. So what we want to do is increase the pipe, right? Hey, we are Switzerland.
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