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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.
He has also recently written together with Irena Cronin “The Infinite Retina” , a great book about the technologies of the future, like XR, AI, and autonomous vehicles. But of course, the technology is still not there: the Oculus Quest is still uncomfortable, we can’t read texts in it, and so on. PRNewsfoto/BadVR).
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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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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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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?
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.”
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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.
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.
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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.
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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. 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.
I had basically booked a trip through what were the four biggest hubs down the West Coast. Are they building stuff for MagicLeap? When you look at Facebook or Oculus’s announcement of their varifocal lenses: basically, they’re creating lenses inside a headset that will allow you to focus on multiplane.
I had basically booked a trip through what were the four biggest hubs down the West Coast. Are they building stuff for MagicLeap? When you look at Facebook or Oculus’s announcement of their varifocal lenses: basically, they’re creating lenses inside a headset that will allow you to focus on multiplane.
I had basically booked a trip through what were the four biggest hubs down the West Coast. Are they building stuff for MagicLeap? When you look at Facebook or Oculus's announcement of their varifocal lenses: basically, they're creating lenses inside a headset that will allow you to focus on multiplane.
I had basically booked a trip through what were the four biggest hubs down the West Coast. Are they building stuff for MagicLeap? When you look at Facebook or Oculus's announcement of their varifocal lenses: basically, they're creating lenses inside a headset that will allow you to focus on multiplane.
You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go. “Here’s the airplanes of the future, and here’s what we’re gonna do, and here’s the first class cabin,” you book your ticket. We’re not tied to MagicLeap. Oculus has sold a couple million.
You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go. “Here’s the airplanes of the future, and here’s what we’re gonna do, and here’s the first class cabin,” you book your ticket. We’re not tied to MagicLeap. Oculus has sold a couple million.
You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go. Here's the airplanes of the future, and here's what we're gonna do, and here's the first class cabin," you book your ticket. We're not tied to MagicLeap. Oculus has sold a couple million. there's just all these tools.
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These are like the Microsoft Hololens, MagicLeaps. So something like an Oculus Go, for example, allows you to look around and be inside of a video. A five-year-old could see someone else do this and I’m watching a textbook, then I read the book. But you can’t move around in it. It’s a tactile thing.
These are like the Microsoft Hololens, MagicLeaps. So something like an Oculus Go, for example, allows you to look around and be inside of a video. A five-year-old could see someone else do this and I'm watching a textbook, then I read the book. Several other companies are probably renounced, they're--.
These are like the Microsoft Hololens, MagicLeaps. So something like an Oculus Go, for example, allows you to look around and be inside of a video. A five-year-old could see someone else do this and I’m watching a textbook, then I read the book. But you can’t move around in it. It’s a tactile thing.
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