Road to VR

JANUARY 10, 2019

Northern Digital is a Waterloo, Canada-based manufacturer of 3D measurement devices, and while the company has mainly focused on creating for various industries such as medicine and aeronautics throughout their 35 years of existence, they’ve recently unveiled a reference design for a magnetic tracking system for VR headsets and controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2018

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). In early 2016, I run into a paper from a professor at Caltech that was talking about data visualization in virtual reality and that blew my mind.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 26, 2023

Audi Motors recently debuted its Activesphere concept car, which features Magic Leap’s augmented reality (AR) driving user interface (UI) technologies. With Magic Leap 2, Audi Dimensions delivered a novel UI creation to empower drivers while on the road.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

He then “drops” an AR remote control car onto a small cement ledge and begins to steer it around a pair of virtual orange cones. Of course, driving a remote control car is a lot more fun with friends. ” One example is using ConjureKit with dynamic pathfinding in warehouses and displaying sensory data.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

For sure, Facebook will repeat a bazillion times that they care about privacy and I think that in the beginning, this will be mostly true: we have seen with Oculus how Facebook takes its time and boils its users slowly like the famous frog, adding over time features to get more data for targeted ads. Magic Leap will meet its fate.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

And I’m also worried about using a Facebook account for everything XR related, because Facebook has a long history of obscure practices with the data of its users , apart from the standard “personalized ads” business. Facebook already had full control of my Oculus and Facebook accounts, so it had already my XR data.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

As usual, Jensen introduced it saying that it was the biggest generational leap ever released by the company (he always says so) The first GPU released of the Hopper family will be the H100 , targeted at data centers, that features impressive performances on AI tasks. It can train a model 6–7x faster than the previous data center GPU.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 9, 2019

I got immediately hyped about this: we are all dreaming about AR glasses like Magic Leap or HoloLens 2 , but what if the future was made of AR contact lenses? Me doing a duck face with a pair of Magic Leap on. It’s an intriguing possibility, that seems taken directly from sci-fi movies.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

An analysis of the job postings of Meta shows that the company is trying to add cellular data to its headsets. Magic Leap 2 has inside-out tracked controllers. During a presentation, Magic Leap has unveiled some more features about its headset and controllers. And a demo is already live. This is cool.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 10, 2022

The solution allows IT specialists to “easily control and manage their entire RealWear device fleet from one easy-to-use interface.” The RealWear Cloud also allows data analysis across headsets. Handling this data for an individual on an individual headset is possible but, again, becomes unbearable at scale sans cloud. “Now

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VRScout

JANUARY 31, 2018

These workers already routinely use technology such as tablets to access plans and data on site, but going from 2D to 3D at scale brings that to a whole new level. It turns data into 3D holograms, which are then mapped out to scale onto the real-world environment. The application they are using is called Trimble Connect.

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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

JULY 29, 2020

Steve answered me that they don’t want to over promise as other companies have done in the past (cough…cough… Magic Leap ), but of course, they have to talk about what they are doing to generate awareness and attract investors. I was excited reading the news of Mojo at CES, but many people were quite skeptical.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

“He has one million cars collecting data of the world. They are collecting data of the world surrounding them and Tesla is building amazing maps out of that. Why can’t it be Facebook, or Magic Leap ? They control all their ecosystem : software, hardware, chips. PRNewsfoto/BadVR).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2023

At CES, Shiftall brought also the concept of innovative controllers called FlipVR. Then, with another fast hand flip, you can regain control of the buttons to keep playing. Transformable/adjustable @shiftall_global VR controller at CES 2023, no problem grabbing a drink or switching between controller input and finger tracking!

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Road to VR

JUNE 11, 2020

The camera also tracks the PlayStation Move controllers the same way. More pixels means more precision when detecting the glowing tracking markers on PSVR and the PS Move controllers. The PS5 controller has some lights on it, but none that seem obvious for tracking usage | Image courtesy Sony. A Big Hint. Image courtesy Sony.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

.” They partnered with Visyon , a Barcelona-based practical immersive technology company, to provide a widespread selection of technical experiences in VR from Oculus and Vive, and AR through Magic Leap, HoloLens, and Moverio glasses.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 5, 2018

Called Vuzix Blade, the smartglasses are more of a heads-up display akin to Google Glass than a positionally-tracked AR headset like Microsoft Hololens or the upcoming Magic Leap One , although the Blade’s styling certainly comes closer to ‘normal’ than many we’ve seen before. image courtesy Vuzix.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 4, 2017

Magic Leap. For a secretive company, we can learn a lot about Magic Leap from their patent filings and acquisitions, namely that they launched without a clear path to executing their vision. In April of last year Abovitz landed himself on the cover of Wired magazine with what was dubbed the Magic Leap “photonic chip.”

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In the letter, he accused the Chinese firm of collecting data for the Communist Party of China via the TikTok social media and user-generated content (UGC) application. Carr called the company a “wolf in sheep’s clothing” due to the firm alleged data farming operations. Data Processing Oversight.

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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. VR Scout) More info (Apple’s real patent on a ring controller).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2020

We also have an older build for Magic Leap, but currently there are technical limitations preventing third party browsers on that platform. And within those, people will want to do many of the same things they do on the web, but in 3D: view images, read text, look at visualizations of data, and listen to audio. Mozilla Hubs.

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ARPost

AUGUST 2, 2023

Just on the main floor, we had Vuzix promoting their Ultralite turnkey AR solution, Sightful with a screenless Spacetop AR laptop , XREAL presenting XREAL Air glasses , and Magic Leap returning with Magic Leap 2. It also comes with a tracked controller.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 29, 2023

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. The primary focus of the solution is to give businesses comprehensive user, device, and custom app management controls.

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AR Insider

JULY 14, 2020

It includes some of its data and takeaways. Magic Leap is building a software ecosystem around its product. They’ll also be able to quickly view and resolve conflicts with an in-browser distributed version control system. More can be previewed here and subscribe for the full report.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 29, 2018

The * just made my head hurt, and I found the controllers too small (I have large hands), but the * fitted great and the controllers were way more comfortable. Good ergonomic design seems to reduce or eliminate these concerns, and good ergonomic design relies on good data.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2022

Some people also suspected that by abandoning the Facebook login, it will be less easy also to subsidize the price of the headset with the data, but honestly, I don’t think that there won’t be data harvesting on Meta accounts. Pico 4 Controllers have been leaked.

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Tech Trends VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

The PC does all rendering and sends that data back to iPad as video. Since we’re offloading all GPU & viewer/player control processes to the PC, there was an inherent delay in that process which caused noticeable difference between reality and a sort of perceivably delayed set of AR objects & content, which was disorienting.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

These founders are a well-rounded group of leaders and entrepreneurs with a variety of focuses— from combining brain control interfaces with VR for wellness, to creating the world’s first search engine for immersive content, to using AR to accelerate skill sets and reduce costs in the construction industry.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Remote workers can conduct full audits, inspections, and quality control checks at facilities with real-time AR guidance. By combining real-time 3D (RT3D) assets, haptic tools, and data analytics, Darley WS leads in firefighter education. This company has provided life-saving immersive education for lifesaving first responders.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Researchers fed computers data on how users move their hands and eyes while interacting with the world. However, the biggest competition for HoloLens remains Magic Leap. The Magic Leap One first got into users’ hands in 2018. It also uses controllers rather than hand gestures. The Future.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 27, 2019

More info (Statistics by Superdata) More info (Statistics by AR Insider) More info (Statistics on all headsets by AR Insider) More info (Palmer Luckey disagreeing on the data). We have new developments on the Magic Leap vs nReal lawsuit. More info (nReal vs Magic Leap) More info (New nReal’s partnership).

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

It’s been called the AR Cloud by many, the Magicverse by Magic Leap, the Mirrorworld by Wired, the Cyberverse by Huawei, Planet-scale AR by Niantic and Spatial Computing by academics. Accompanying this will be persistent, stateful geographic Assets and Data, some static, others interactive with behaviors of their own.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2019

The Vive Focus Plus so worked only as a dull display showing the frames rendered by the PCs and sending back to them the data on the pose of the head and the hands of the user. This choice by Qualcomm means that in the future we will see always more AR and VR headsets that will be able to connect to mobile phones and stream data via 5G.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 4, 2024

It's technically controlled by the non-profit Godot Foundation, but all development takes place in the open. Most of the communication with OpenXR was tied into the rendering engine resulting in Godot relying more on predictive algorithms to position tracked entities such as controllers. Originally Godot 4 inherited this approach.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Each camera will have at least four angles of the game that you can control. It’s an immersive virtual world that includes all types of content, data, scores, stats, along with other ways for fans to experience the game.”. Through the app, you will have the ability to be courtside during the games, or up in the stands.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

The console works in conjunction with the innovative DualSense controller. Also because you have to consider that with 170M users using this camera-based app, it won’t be that difficult for Snap to gather data to build the AR Cloud. Tracking doesn’t work yet , though, neither the positional one nor the one of the controllers.

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