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This week, we look at Apple’s moves across the spatial spectrum, MagicLeap 2, And Oculus Quest game sales among other items. Macrumors called our attention to articles in the Verge and Bloomberg that quote an unnamed source who’s supposedly seen Apple’s debut consumer HMD. It is coming soon to the Oculus store.
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. It’s a very interesting article, and if you have not read it, you should!
I thought it would have taken me a lot before I would be able to try the MagicLeap One , but luckily this has not been the case. At a certain point, I asked him: “oh, you said me that you have tried MagicLeap… how is it?” The three component of the MagicLeap One. I was amazed.
Image by MagicLeap). MagicLeap is on sale. A report on Bloomberg informed us all that MagicLeap is exploring a sale of the company. The sales never skyrocketed and now MagicLeap is in desperate need of cash , after many layoffs, disappointing sales, and having put its IP as collaterals to a bank.
Oculus Quest gets hand tracking. Last week, the runtime v12 of Oculus Quest has been rolled out , and this took with it lots of interesting updates. To start, now the Oculus Link is more stable and it is compatible with some AMD GPUs. Oculus Quests have started getting vocal commands in the menu. Top news of the week.
In this article, I try to summarize my thoughts about it. Note for the readers: For the sake of clarity and simplicity, in this article, I will consider SteamVR tracking outside-in because of the external beacons, even if the beacons are only lights, so the tracking is technically still inside-out.
Yesterday I was reading the comments on Reddit regarding my post with the predictions for Oculus Connect 5 and the kind redditor /u/SilverWhite2 provided me the link to the latest available patent with the design of Santa Cruz. So, take this article with a grain of salt. Front view (Image by Oculus). Rear view (Image by Oculus).
When MagicLeap One was revealed, Rony Abovitz stated he was already working on MagicLeap Two and Three, for instance; Facebook believes a lot in having avatars that truly represent ourselves in XR , and it is a field in which they will invest a lot. Other companies should take note…. NVIDIA launches GTC 2021.
I was reading my predictions for 2019 to prepare myself for this article, and to my surprise, I found it incredibly actual. It has not changed that much from when I wrote that article at the beginning of 2019. My duck-face while wearing MagicLeap One glasses. The company to keep an eye on is MagicLeap.
But it is very interesting , because it will touch a lot of hot topics, like: Data visualization in XR; MagicLeap; Being a woman working in XR; How is XR in Asia. Today the interview will cover the first two topics: dataviz in VR thanks to BadVR solution and MagicLeap. and many other interesting stuff!
He has joined Rony Abovitz at MagicLeap and now he’s there, trying to build the MagicVerse as the SVP of Creative Strategy of the Florida company. And if you are super-lazy, you can directly go to the end of the article and just read the key points of the interview. MagicLeap glasses.
I expect the smartglasses from Facebook, first of all, to be Facebook-branded (so, goodbye Oculus), to be very stylish (remember that Luxottica is the leading company for glasses and sunglasses), and to be able to connect to the smartphone without a tether. while we have seen the complicated life of Oculus hands-on booths at Best Buy.
So many green pigs that must be got, yet so little time… Rovio and Resolution Games have brought out a fully immersive version of their popular Angry Birds franchise for the HTC VIVE and Oculus Rift. This article was originally published on VRScout. This article was originally published on VRScout.
MagicLeap 2 has inside-out tracked controllers. During a presentation, MagicLeap has unveiled some more features about its headset and controllers. More info (MagicLeap presentation) More info (Close up of the controllers). The last article tells you about his. News worth a mention. Learn more.
MagicLeap 2 bridges AR and VR. The interest in MagicLeap 2 is growing. If headsets like Lynx or Project Cambria implement AR on a VR headset, MagicLeap 2 implements a bit of VR on an AR headset. The object is not reconstructed as a 3D mesh, but the system calculates all the possible views of it via AI.
During these days at GDC, Oculus has showcased the Oculus Go (that will be officially released during the F8 in May) and has provided some new insights on the Oculus Santa Cruz. Everything contained in this article may represent a disruptive news that you will discover in preview or absolute b t or something in the middle.
Facebook has started today enforcing the “Facebook login” rule , asking Oculus users to merge their Facebook and Oculus accounts. So I imagine a Quest 2 where you can avoid having a Facebook account, but you can’t use the Oculus Store, or all the most important apps and games , and so you are de facto forced to use it.
The first interesting forecast is about the number of sold Oculus Quest 2 headsets. More info (Link to original article) More info (Article on this report not behind a paywall). This shows once more how unfair is the treatment for indie developers on the Oculus platform. But actually, this has not happened.
It’s been the week of CES, and we’ve got many news and articles about AR and VR in these days! Actually, I’m writing another article with the best news from CES, so I’m just writing few lines about it here, and then I will focus on the few most important non-CES news from this week. We believe that with you, Marky Z….
Stay tuned on my blog for more articles about my Chinese experience in the upcoming days! Image by Oculus). Oculus Quest may have sold only 400,000 units. The Quest is selling well, and Oculus itself didn’t expect billions of sales. I love these research articles, and I hope you will love them as well.
Every year I like to play the guessing game for the Oculus/Facebook/Meta Connect making my list of predictions… which are not always correct, but they are good because they entice all the community people to play this game with me and to tell how they would love to see XR evolving. Who of you will make the best predictions?
I’m finally finding some time to write a few articles that I have left back from my journey to Silicon Valley to attend AWE US. It has been founded by Jeri Ellsworth , a former Valve employee that worked directly with Michael Abrash in the lab that was experimenting with AR and VR before Oculus was even a thing.
And sorry if it took more days than expected to assemble this article… A good year for XR at CES Before listing all the most important pieces of news, let me tell you how XR presence was overall at CES. And it seems that can also change your Oculus Quest 2 with a total of 2.5 hours of exercise.
Spatial works from the smartphone to the MagicLeap One. It is compatible with: Microsoft HoloLens Oculus Quest MagicLeap One PC VR headsets PC/Mac/smartphone/whatever through the web portal. There were Wikipedia articles, news, tons of images, and even 3D models. Cross-platform. Header image by Spatial).
We’ve summarized what’s at stake with varifocal displays at the bottom of the article. “There is no fixed number of focal planes, compared to MagicLeap for example who has only 2,” Laffont explains. BACK TO THE ARTICLE. ‘Verifocal’ VR Kit by Lemnis.
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?)
And it will have a happy open-source ending , so make sure to read this article until the very end! There is also a video version of this article if you prefer watching videos to reading text!
It doesn’t contain 100% the information of the written article, but it’s a very good summary. The unit runs over a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 Chipset , offering so more horsepower than the Oculus Quest. The Oculus DK2 crashed continuously, and had a very simple runtime, for instance.
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. Image by HP).
WebXR is a JavaScript application programming interface (API) that enables applications to interact with augmented reality and virtual reality devices, such as the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Google Cardboard or Open Source Virtual Reality (OSVR), in a web browser.?—?Wikipedia Trending AR VR Articles: 1. ExpiCulture?—?Developing
Arrived at the booth, I sadly discovered that the two devices were just an Oculus Go and a Pico Goblin. Chinese AR and smartglasses manufacturer Seengene (that has a website much inspired by MagicLeap) had a booth showcasing its smartglasses for enterprise usage. I so went there, eager to try the new LG devices.
I and my partner Gianni bought every new headset on the market : the Oculus Rift DK2, the Vive, the Rift CV1, the Gear VR, etc… We also went to almost every event we were invited to, even the smallest one (I remember once we went to a public plaza with like 7 people listening to our talk about VR…). The reasons?
This is a simpler mechanism than the waveguides employed by Microsoft HoloLens 2 or by MagicLeap, and while it may provide a bit less immersive holograms, it is the only way to provide affordable wide-FOV glasses at the moment. If you like photonic lightfield chips (whatever this means), buy a MagicLeap One.
Facebook said that this growth has been mostly due to the sales of Oculus Quest. Admitting that Oculus Quest is the only responsible for this big growth from last year (just an assumption, I want to be clear), we obtain that the sales of Quest for Q3 account for $81M. Oculus Quest may have an assistant soon.
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. You can now try games on the Oculus Store. Some articles on the metaverse. Some articles on the metaverse. Learn more.
I really enjoy your articles, I even read the ones about devices I don’t have… now I know how to remove the controller on the Vive Focus , but I don’t have it… (laughs). When they saw the Kickstarter campaign of Oculus, they immediately grabbed it and started thinking about how they could do data visualization in VR.
This article features the latest episode of The AR Show. We’ve seen MagicLeap raise $2.63 ” As for what’s working today — beyond the bleeding edge glimpses of the future in things like XR-1 — Chennavasin points to the Hololens 2 and Oculus Quest.
This has been the week of the OC6, but, believe it or not, I have been able to find some other interesting news that don’t regard Oculus. Image by Oculus). Oculus bets on Oculus Quest at OC6. Well, the top news of the week is, of course, the Oculus Connect 6. Do you want to read them? Top news of the week.
It’s a belief that started at least as far back as when he advised and invested in Oculus prior to the company’s 2014 acquisition by Facebook. It’s not where the VR industry is today that brings Riccitello to VRLA, it’s where he believes it will ultimately go. It is going to work. These guys have invested billions.
This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. 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. Authors’ opinions are their own. by Marko Balabanovic.
However, following the release of consumer equipment like the HTC Vive , Oculus Rift , Sony PSVR and the various mobile VR headsets , we now have a different situation with a much larger group of people (the general population) using virtual reality on a regular basis, for longer periods of time.
This article features the latest episode of The AR Show. But the focus of these articles is often the guest’s commentary, as that’s most fitting to a narrative format. ” As just one example, Facebook has increased its annual R&D spend by $10 billion between 2014, when it bought Oculus, to the present.
And that’s it: this short list is the “tl;dr” of the whole article by CNET. An article that has become pretty popular, since every time that Apple makes something in an industry, it for sure changes all the market dynamics. Here’s @oculus chief researcher Michael Abrash suggesting we’ll have “4Kx4K” per eye by 2021.
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