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The XR Week Peek (2022.03.14): Niantic acquires 8th Wall, Magic Leap 2 previews are positive, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Image by Magic Leap). First previews show Magic Leap 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 Magic Leap 2 glasses. Google and Waymo evolve NERF to cope with cities. Other relevant news.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.06.13): Magic Leap exploring a sale, events are going virtual and more!

The Ghost Howls

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 sales never skyrocketed and now Magic Leap is in desperate need of cash , after many layoffs, disappointing sales, and having put its IP as collaterals to a bank.

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Visual Positioning Systems: what they are, best use cases, and how they technically work

The Ghost Howls

There is a lot to say and I’m sure you will find this article super informative, so let’s go! Disclaimer: this is a paid article built in collaboration with Immersal. In this blog, paid articles maintain the same objectivity, passion, and detail as non-paid ones. They are also completely written by me. What is VPS?

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.12.16): Oculus Quest gets hand tracking, Magic Leap pivots towards enterprise and much more!

The Ghost Howls

More info (Facebook announcing new social features) More info (Upload VR article on the topic?—?with Magic Leap pivots towards enterprise. At the same time, Magic Leap has also shipped a new runtime for its hardware , with the addition of new nice features like vocal commands. fast replacement of a broken unit).

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Is Wearability the Next Mobility?

AR Insider

Visually immersive and contextually-aware AR glasses like Magic Leap One and Hololens 2 require optics whose power consumption and heat dissipation necessitate bulky headgear, rather than anything you’d consider “eyewear.”. This comes down to a classic design tradeoff. The Next Mobility. ” Historical parallels.

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Leaping Into the AR Magicverse?

Tech Trends VR

Magic Leap finally materializes into a product some of us can actually buy, yet the real test will be whether developers take the bait. There’s only so much “we know something you don’t know” you can take before it starts to become annoying, but Magic Leap simply would not take a hint.

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My predictions for augmented reality in 2021

The Ghost Howls

As a long-time AR enthusiast, and one of the first to have tried Google Glass in Italy, I have to admit that I will consider AR mainstream only when it will be on glasses that we will wear all day , when we’ll live in a completely shared mixed reality world (the AR Cloud). Magic Leap will meet its fate.