Road to VR

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Magic Leap, for instance, supports two focal lengths and jumps between them as needed. Oculus’ Half Dome prototype does the same, seems to support a larger number of focal lengths. We saw progress on that front early this year at CES 2020 , the last major conference before the pandemic cancelled the remainder for the year.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

When Magic Leap One was revealed, Rony Abovitz stated he was already working on Magic Leap 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. Read about Microsoft’s Ignite conference. Some news on content.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2018

One of the best moments ever at View Conference 2018 , has been when I was able to interview John Gaeta. He has joined Rony Abovitz at Magic Leap and now he’s there, trying to build the MagicVerse as the SVP of Creative Strategy of the Florida company. Magic Leap glasses.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Image courtesy ‘WalkingCat’ The AR glasses appear to be tethered on the left temple, suggesting it could have a dedicated compute unit that users can pocket, such as Magic Leap 1. Before their official announcements, the user revealed Oculus Quest 2 , HP Reverb G2 and HoloLens 2.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Magic Leap has just organized its first developers’ event, dubbed “L.E.A.P.” It is the first event of this kind organized by Magic Leap: we can say that LEAP Con is like the Oculus Connect of Magic Leap and will probably become always more important, year after year, exactly as it has happened to Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

You know well that I’ve been at SXSW , but, shame on me, I haven’t stayed a few days more to attend the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Magic Leap 2 bridges AR and VR. The interest in Magic Leap 2 is growing. GDC 2022 featured many VR companies, but few announcements. News worth a mention. More info.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 24, 2019

Fable, founded by former Oculus Story Studio alumni, today announced a distinct pivot in their focus, moving from an immersive storytelling studio to a “virtual beings” company which plans to build persistent, AI-powered, characters which can interact naturally with viewers.

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ARPost

JULY 16, 2019

Are you attending XRDC’s AR and VR conference in San Francisco on October 14-15? This year, new standalone headsets from Oculus and Vive debuted. XRDC is an AR and VR conference that will be held in San Francisco’s Fort Mason Festival Pavilion on October 14-15. Do you follow all the latest tech trends?

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Road to VR

MARCH 18, 2018

Held annually in San Francisco, Game Developers Conference has undeniably been a focal point for VR the industry, and as augmented reality continues to heat up, we expect it to be increasingly important for AR as well. Image courtesy Oculus. Santa Cruz is Oculus’ high-end standalone VR headset. Image courtesy Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Magic Leap 2 has inside-out tracked controllers. During a presentation, Magic Leap has unveiled some more features about its headset and controllers. More info (Magic Leap presentation) More info (Close up of the controllers). Oh look, we have again an Oculus account on Twitter! News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

The idea of Leap Motion is going against the current trend of augmented reality glasses, that is mostly based on expensive devices that have closed ecosystems (e.g. HoloLens or Magic Leap One ), but to create a headset that is: Affordable; Completely open, both from a software and hardware standpoint. Meet Noah Zerkin.

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ARPost

MARCH 17, 2020

As many VR gamers are aware, the Game Developers Conference was canceled this year due to coronavirus fears. Facebook, owners of VR tech giant Oculus, launched the Facebook Game Developers Showcase as their alternative offering. However, seeing that kind of a move from Oculus is exciting for VR gamers and developers alike.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

” Meta’s video, which it released during its Connect developer conference in October, is less a roadmap and more a marketing barrage—like a hundred Magic Leap ‘whale’ moments smooshed into one. To think, HTC and Oculus were once competitors back in the early days of consumer VR.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Meta Quest for Business, unveiled at the Connect conference in 2023, represents a new era for extended reality in the enterprise. This offering could be the key to helping the tech giant preserve its market share, as innovators like Apple , Microsoft, and Magic Leap all increase their focus in the business world.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Just like Magic Leap has the Magicverse , this is essentially Facebook’s flavor of the AR Cloud. Abrash has said at past OC conferences that AR and VR share technological underpinnings. to Oculus headsets. The eventual vision is to have a sort of 3D rendering of the social graph. Integrated Systems.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 19, 2019

As with past reports, this survey is done as a primer for the upcoming XRDC Conference. Magic Leap isn’t far behind, growing from 7 percent of current projects to 12 percent of future interest. Oculus Quest is the biggest mover, not surprisingly , going from 12 to 24 to 28 in the past/present/future split.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

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 Magic Leap hasn’t delivered a solid product with 2B?)

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VRScout

JUNE 19, 2016

Major gaming industry players brought the noise to this year’s E3 conference. Other huge gaming names like Capcom, Rocksteady Studios, Square Enix, and Bethesda are throwing big brands into virtual reality – Resident Evil, Batman Arkham, Final Fantasy, Fallout, and Doom all had moments of glory at the packed Los Angeles conference.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

When you think of Oculus you typically think of one thing: virtual reality. Today, flush with Facebook’s seemingly endless resources, Oculus is at the forefront of the VR industry’s research and development. The Oculus product roadmap as shown at last year’s F8 conference.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

When you think of Oculus you typically think of one thing: virtual reality. Today, flush with Facebook’s seemingly endless resources, Oculus is at the forefront of the VR industry’s research and development. The Oculus product roadmap as shown at last year’s F8 conference.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Microsoft debuts their latest mixed reality device at Mobile World Conference 2019. Like the first HoloLens the device also enables glasses wearers to simply slot the device in front of their spectacles (distinct advantage compared to Magic Leap).

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Just this week, Magic Leap announced the company’s first sports partnership with the NBA and Turner, to bring in what they are calling, “the next generation of sports viewing and interactivity.”. The NBA on TNT VR app will also be a part of the playoff games, through the 2018 Western Conference Finals.

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Magic Leap finally dropped to mixed reviews and BrainXchange published its Definitive Guide to Adopting Wearables, AR and VR in Enterprise. Just three months ago, the company revealed it’s putting 17,000 Oculus Go headsets in Walmart stores for employee training. The company’s direction is unclear. Body-worn.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

According to Gajsek, “Anyone that decided to buy from the Oculus store or use Meta’s products essentially becomes a ’subscriber‘ in Meta’s user base. He goes on to share that the success of the Quest 2 will fuel interest in the new Quest 3, which should will be released in 2023.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

The collaboration platform is device agnostic (so you could use a Microsoft Hololens while communicating with someone wearing an Oculus Rift), and the B2B company is focusing on the training and education space. The notoriously secretive mixed reality company Magic Leap has acquired parts of Dacuda , a B2B computer vision software company.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 16, 2019

Magic Leap, for instance, supports two focal lengths and jumps between them as needed. Oculus’ Half Dome prototype does the same, and—from what we know so far—seems to support a wide range of continuous focal lengths. One of those projects wasn’t in CES’s AR/VR section at all.

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2017

So what was he doing giving a keynote to a few hundred VR developers at VRLA 2017 last month, which, by the measure of the rest of the games conference industry, is a rather small affair? 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.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2019

This signs seems to say: 2019 World Conference on NO VR INDUSTRY. But I think that the WCVRI needs to make various steps forward if it wants to propose itself as being one of the most important worldwide conferences on VR. So, if you need help, they will do the best to support you. So…ehm…is VR a fad?

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 1, 2019

“I’ve been saying for a while that augmented and virtual reality is going to be the next major computing platform,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on stage at the Oculus Connect 6 conference. Meanwhile, heftier VR products from Facebook’s Oculus and Magic Leap have mostly been for gamers. Momentum is picking up.

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TechCrunch VR

DECEMBER 8, 2020

When Chi Xu left Magic Leap 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. Magic Leap sucked all the air out of the room. to Pico and Nreal in China. ”

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 17, 2019

Me and my business partner Max, super elegant, at a press conference. Maybe you get featured on Road To VR, you get 200 likes on /r/Oculus. When the Oculus Go was released, everyone was excited saying that VR was going to become mainstream thanks to that. In my opinion, having a team is fundamental. The team is fundamental.

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Charlie Fink

JUNE 7, 2019

The conference and expo saw nearly 7,000 attendees, a 30% increase over 2018. RealMax's AR and VR device with hand tracking by Leap Motion and an epic 102-degree field of view, was used for a multiplayer AR game which involved grabbing fish and knocking over boxes.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

See Also: Former Oculus VP of Engineering Demonstrates Long Range VR Tracking System. HoloLens’ inside-out tracking is better than anything we’ve seen from other big names in AR, including Magic Leap and Meta. See Also: Oculus CTO Affirms Positional Tracking Priority for Gear VR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 30, 2023

This month, Oculus – the original development firm behind the Quest portfolio – Founder Palmer Lucky confirmed the development of the Meta Quest 3 and Apple’s upcoming device. The Oculus Quest 3 is probably what they’re gonna call it, but it is a lot more compact. Is the Next Quest XR Headset Incoming?

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Image by Magic Leap). Is Magic Leap in trouble? The Magic Leap could become a tragic leap , using some words from Palmer Luckey. In the meantime, the competition of Chinese companies like nReal is threatening even more the appeal of Magic Leap. Image by Oculus, from Road To VR).

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InstaVR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Virtual Reality (VR), by contrast, can be published across a wide range of devices (headsets like Oculus Go/Quest and Gear VR, phones, Google Cardboard, WebVR, and much more), is completely immersive, and doesn’t necessarily require a real-time data connection (ie can be run offline). VR is basically totally immersive, if done properly.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

We're going to dig into using Magic Leap and Hololens and mixed reality headsets as a tool for business. And we later did a project called Zombie Guns Raptor with Oculus and Oculus Go, Gear VR. And Magic Leap, of course, did an amazing job of evangelizing mixed reality across the world. How is news made?

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