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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. It is coming soon to the Oculus store. MagicLeap’s next headset to ship in Q4 2021. Over 60 titles on the Oculus platform surpass $1M in revenue. See his books here.
This week, we look at new AR and VR funding rounds, MagicLeap 2, and the latest in virtual collaboration. MagicLeap CEO Peggy Johnson says their new AR headset will arrive Q4, 2021. The lighter, slight less bulky MagicLeap 2 will double the size of its field of view. See his books here.
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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 what you are doing at MagicLeap to create these experiences for people? ( MagicLeap glasses.
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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.
When they saw the Kickstarter campaign of Oculus, they immediately grabbed it and started thinking about how they could do data visualization in VR. I know that you like a lot MagicLeap and the work that Rony Abovitz is making… why do you love it so much? ( MagicLeap glasses. Everything would be possible.
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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.
T he event will be presented by Oculus Studios Executive Producer Ruth Bram like last year, but introduce new pre-event and post-event sessions. On June, 1st, at 10 am PT, Meta is going to stream a presentation with a lot of news about upcoming titles or upgrades of existing titles for the Meta Quest.
Hollywood is adapting both of these Random House books into big screen adventures. Ready Player One has become required reading at Oculus VR, literally. Cline has seen his fictional universes blend with reality after the consumer launches of Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive (with Sony’s PlayStation VR slotted for an October debut).
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?
In the early 90s, it no doubt felt “a bit like looking up the Wright Brothers and taking their original prototype out for a spin,” as the book describes. The year the book was published, Sega announced a VR peripheral for the Genesis. The demo described in the book finds the user riding a motorcycle down a Brooklyn street.
As part of our Kickstarter campaign in 2013, one of the price tier perks was 50 Ready Player One books signed by Cline. And then we did a small event in Austin with Cline signing the books. “Funnily enough, [he] lives in Austin,” says Goetgeluk. “As We had a wooden prototype at the time.”
When Chi Xu left MagicLeap and returned to China, he had big ambitions. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips are used almost exclusively by serious players, from Facebook’s Oculus Quest in the U.S. MagicLeap sucked all the air out of the room. to Pico and Nreal in China. ”
We’ve been seeing the potential coming in other products like the Oculus Quest, the MagicLeap 1, or Microsoft’s Hololens. Playing games, watching TV/movies, reading books, listening to music, etc. Then Mark Zuckerberg bought Oculus and several of those investors they visited called back. Same will happen here.
Speaking on the upcoming Apple Reality Pro headset, he explained how Lucky Palmer, Founder, Oculus said Apple’s device was “excellent.” In his talks, the icon discussed the progress of the platform, citing examples from his book ‘Snow Crash.’
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I have seen the ODG R9, HoloLens and the Meta in controlled demos and so far only the HoloLens comes close to magic. And I mean actual magic – not the VC Kool-Aid-drinking Magic-Leapmagic. Who: Oculus Story Studio (Saschka Unseld, Wesley Allsbrook). Dear Angelica. WHAT ELSE CAN YOU DO: Nothing.
Here to delve deeper into the ins-and-outs of marketing in XR is futurist Cathy Hackl, co-author of the brand-new book, Marketing New Realities. So, I think you have an incredible insight as to this, and your book, Marketing New Realities. They could bring the book to a meeting, they could leave the book with a potential client.
Here to delve deeper into the ins-and-outs of marketing in XR is futurist Cathy Hackl, co-author of the brand-new book, Marketing New Realities. So, I think you have an incredible insight as to this, and your book, Marketing New Realities. They could bring the book to a meeting, they could leave the book with a potential client.
Alan: I recently read a book called “The Age of Smart Information” by Mike Pell, and he talks about how information now is just information. There’s MagicLeap– Alan: Still a challenge. MagicLeap for sure. But a few things about MagicLeap are still better than Hololens 2.
Alan: I recently read a book called “The Age of Smart Information” by Mike Pell, and he talks about how information now is just information. There’s MagicLeap– Alan: Still a challenge. MagicLeap for sure. But a few things about MagicLeap are still better than Hololens 2.
He’s authored two books: Opening the XBox, and The XBox 360 Uncloaked. I remember seeing the Oculus guys — Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go.
He’s authored two books: Opening the XBox, and The XBox 360 Uncloaked. I remember seeing the Oculus guys — Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go.
So, if you want to build a Las Vegas Sports Book, or a room that has dozens of TVs, you will be able to do so. If you haven’t seen a Microsoft Hololens or a MagicLeap you probably have no clue about how amazing this will be. That will let Apple virtualize TVs to be way way way bigger than that TV in the back of the store.
Ernest Cline, the author of the top-seller Ready Player One has announced that his book Ready Player Two, that is the sequel of RPO, is coming to all bookstores on November, 24th. Peggy Johnson is the new CEO of MagicLeap. MagicLeap has finally a new CEO: Peggy Johnson. Fans of Ready Player One, rejoice!
The one thing obviously that is already clearly missing from this mix, is the word Oculus. For those that are outside of the Middle East region, just for context, Oculus has next to no presence in the Middle East at all. And I-- essentially I was considering writing a book. Alan: Writing a book.
He's authored two books: Opening the XBox, and The XBox 360 Uncloaked. I remember seeing the Oculus guys -- Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go.
He’s authored two books: Opening the XBox, and The XBox 360 Uncloaked. I remember seeing the Oculus guys — Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go.
The one thing obviously that is already clearly missing from this mix, is the word Oculus. For those that are outside of the Middle East region, just for context, Oculus has next to no presence in the Middle East at all. And I-- essentially I was considering writing a book. Alan: Writing a book.
And that machine at Dave & Busters in Denver, Colorado, was back-to-back booked, and families were playing. You can do it with an Oculus Quest. You’ve got great stores with the Oculus Store, and Steam, and VIVE. It was pretty awesome. And that’s what we’re able to do with this, and do it with a VIVE Focus.
And that machine at Dave & Busters in Denver, Colorado, was back-to-back booked, and families were playing. You can do it with an Oculus Quest. You’ve got great stores with the Oculus Store, and Steam, and VIVE. It was pretty awesome. And that’s what we’re able to do with this, and do it with a VIVE Focus.
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And that machine at Dave & Busters in Denver, Colorado, was back-to-back booked, and families were playing. You can do it with an Oculus Quest. You've got great stores with the Oculus Store, and Steam, and VIVE. I do think with the pending release of the Oculus Quest, I think it's going to change a lot of things.
Think about what happened to VR: we had the Oculus devkits, which interested only us developers. When I entered VR in 2014, I was expecting the market to enter the mainstream in 2016, with the release of Oculus CV1. I nnovation usually doesn’t follow a linear route, but goes through sprints and disruptions.
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