Road to VR

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Rumors from back in September of Magic Leap raising a Series D investment were confirmed today as the company revealed an additional $502 million in venture funding, led by a Singaporean investment firm Temasek, with participation from strategic and financial investors. Morgan Investment Management, and T. Rowe Price, Inc.

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Next Reality AR

MARCH 14, 2019

While painting in augmented reality is not a groundbreaking pursuit, the ability for Magic Leap One, iPhone and iPad, and Android users to collaborate remotely on virtual artwork would be. That is what Across Realities is aiming to do with Spatiate, an app that launched on Thursday through Magic Leap World for $9.99.

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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 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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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

According to the very famous market analysis company Gartner, Augmented Reality is no more an “emerging” technology, but it has graduated as a mature one. It provides a digital legend in the form of a point cloud to annotate (augment) objects and places in the physical world. Considering that companies like 6d.ai

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ARPost

JULY 31, 2019

It seems like just a short while ago augmented reality eyewear seemed like a thing of the distant future. There is now a growing market including Magic Leap , Epson, Nreal , ThirdEye , and now Norm. Magic Leap has some entertainment experiences, but the price and size make them more of a tool. I tried Nreal.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Angry Birds, the mobile breakout hit, is coming to Magic Leap in a brand new game called Angry Birds FPS: First Person Slingshot. The original game of the same name has more than 100 million installs on Android, according to the Google Play store. Image courtesy Rovio, Resolution Games.

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Next Reality AR

MAY 14, 2019

Because of its ability to place digital content into the real world, augmented reality lends itself well to artists and creatives. Two new mobile apps, one from Google and another from an indie developer with ties to Magic Leap, invert the creative conceit by taking the real world and morphing it via augmented reality.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap looks for a $100-million deal to save itself. Some reports by Business Insider and The Information talk about the current situation of Magic Leap, that seems always more complicated. More info (Magic Leap trying to raise $100M) More info (Magic Leap timing for the future).

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Road to VR

JANUARY 21, 2022

Bernard Kress, principal optical architect on Microsoft’s HoloLens team, has left the company to take on the role of Director of XR Engineering at the recently formed Google Labs. Now Kress is back at Mountain View working on Google’s next AR headset.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2024

A VPS system detecting visual features in the surrounding environment (Image by Google) VPS stands for Visual Positioning System. GPS together with the sensors on the phone is all that we need to orient ourselves on a 2D map like Google Maps that we use every day. What is VPS?

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 29, 2020

Google is going to buy North. A report says tha t Alphabet, the company behind Google, is in the last stages of the acquisition of North, the Canadian startup that makes the Focals smartglasses. Google adds depth APIs to ARCore. (Image by North). The deal should be in the price range of $180M. News worth a mention.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Magic Leap recently announced that it will be holding LEAP Developer Days next month as part of their Leap Year Celebration. Here we’ll talk a bit about Magic Leap in general, as well as share everything we know about the LEAP Developer Days. Background on Magic Leap. How to Apply.

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ARPost

JUNE 4, 2020

Augmented reality is here to stay, and the number of smartglasses that will become available in the next two years announce a decade of change regarding smartphones and tablets. Smartglasses will allow for a handsfree browsing of augmented reality content, enhancing our user experience with handsfree branded content.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2019

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. 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.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 31, 2024

Google and Magic Leap have partnered to “advance the potential of XR technologies”, the latter has said in a blog post. The announcement was light on detail, but Magic Leap said the tie-up would combine its AR credentials with Google’s technology platforms. Google is already an investor in Magic Leap.

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2021

Tech giants such as Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft have invested heavily into AR, VR and MR to speed up mass adoption through both hardware and software solutions.” ” “ XR Casino has first mover’s advantage in providing XR SaaS solutions to online, traditional casinos and sports betting companies.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Google has announced the launch of Android XR, a platform designed to support the creation of mixed reality (MR) applications. And, we are continuing to collaborate with Magic Leap on XR technology and future products with AR and AI. The initiative builds on ARCore, Googles existing augmented reality framework.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Smartglasses are a wearable device separate from augmented reality, and are generally defined by their ability to present useful information to the user, often in the form of a small floating screen or heads-up display (HUD). Think Google Glass or Vuzix Blade—not Microsoft HoloLens or Magic Leap 1.

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Road to VR

MAY 19, 2017

Among fans of the device (myself included), there was hope that after the Project Glass had “Graduated” from within Google’s secretive Google[x] in 2015 (also the origin of Tango, Google Watch, and more) the Glass team would be moving ahead with development of new and improved versions of the device.

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Tech Trends VR

AUGUST 8, 2018

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 are plenty of players like Microsoft HoloLens and DAQRI which consistently deliver not only cool demos, but real use-cases for holographic Mixed Reality Click To Tweet.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

This means that if you employ 4 for tracking, you can still use two for instance for eye-tracking and one for lips tracking; Be able to finally offer passthrough augmented reality with appropriate resolution and framerate. Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap may be in trouble, but its CEO remains confident.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Today, Google announced Android XR , an operating system the firm purpose-built for XR devices and services, which Google calls the “next generation of computing. Notably, Google is developing the XR OS alongside Samsung; during the announcement, Samsung also highlighted how it is poised to release a headset in 2025.

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VRScout

JULY 18, 2017

Fresh out of stealth-mode, Mira is looking to bring augmented reality (AR) to the masses. In comparison to other higher-end mixed reality headsets like Meta and Magic Leap that will likely require powerful PCs, Mira’s Prism lets you just snap in your iPhone and begin interacting with holographic content.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Google is diving head-first back into the world of extended reality and this time, the company is going big. While it might not be ready to show off any physical products just yet, Google has officially laid out its vision for a brand-new unified Android XR ecosystem.

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Road to VR

JUNE 30, 2016

The announcement video for Pokémon Go, an “augmented reality” game for smartphones, opens by asking us to “imagine Pokémon in the real world.” ” And imagination is exactly what you’ll need to consider the game as landing anywhere within the realm of augmented reality.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 23, 2024

Magic Leap has reportedly laid off its sales and marketing teams as a result of the company’s decision to focus on licensing the technology behind its headsets. The technology news provider Bloomberg shared the news that the augmented reality startup cut 75 jobs last week, according to two of its sources “familiar with the matter”.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

First of all, Google has to keep the work on the headset very secret also internally , because Samsung is afraid that Google will steal its expertise to build a competing product. Google is working in parallel to build the Android XR operating system for this headset and a Micro XR operating system for AR glasses.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 16, 2020

For those unfamiliar, it’s a foundational principle that helps contextualize the future of augmented reality. Representing varied approaches from tech giants, it’s been called everything from LiveMaps (Facebook) to Magicverse (Magic Leap). Before diving in, what is the AR cloud? The Application Layer.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 4, 2025

The device comes as a cross-collaboration between Samsung, Qualcomm, and Google, with Qualcomm providing a chipset foundation and Google working to deploy its much-touted AndroidXR framework on the upcoming headset. The company describes it as the next generation of computing.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 31, 2024

Sightful Reveals Revamped Screenless AR Laptop Sightful has introduced Spacetop, a screenless AR laptop that uses augmented reality to create a 100-inch virtual display. Google and Magic Leap Form XR Partnership Google and Magic Leap have announced a collaboration to advance augmented reality (AR) technology.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 23, 2025

One is that Google will contribute to developing the device via the AndriodXR OS, another is that the device will adopt elements of Samsung’s mobile AI technology, and thirdly, it will receive more public-facing updates this year. Notably, Google is developing this XR OS in collaboration with Samsung.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 23, 2025

This week, following last month’s AndriodXR announcement and this week’s Samsung Moohan teasers, Google made a massive parrel move. In return, Google will gain valuable XR-related support from the headset vendor. What a HTC/Google Unitifaction Mean? This move is huge for the industry.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Augmented and mixed reality technologies unify the diverse global workforce and makes collaboration even more efficient. See Also: Magic Leap Exec: MR App Developers Are “the Foundation of Spatial Computing”. Augmented reality and virtual reality take video conferencing to another level.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

2018 will see the introduction of a number of ‘smartglasses’ Initially, very few of these products will be capable of augmented reality, but many of them will be (or already are being) conflated with AR. Image courtesy Google. Google Glass. What Are Augmented Reality (AR) Glasses? Magic Leap One.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 23, 2019

But it is very interesting , because it will touch a lot of hot topics, like: Data visualization in XR; Magic Leap; 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 Magic Leap. and many other interesting stuff!

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JUNE 18, 2024

At AWE this week, leading XR headset vendor Magic Leap and gesture technology innovators Doublepoint Technologies are highlighting a deep product partnership to distribute WowMouse, an input device that leverages Android smartwatches to enable gesture controls such as pinch and gaze for AR applicaitons.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 9, 2022

Users can stream virtual and mixed reality experiences from the cloud for the first time ever. Magic Leap. Though the Magic Leap start-up might have struggled to find its footing when it first launched several years ago, the company has since repositioned itself as an Enterprise solution for XR, to great success.

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