Road to VR

MARCH 22, 2018

At a sponsored GDC 2018 session, the still mysterious augmented reality company Magic Leap has revealed how their prototype hardware has evolved from 2014 to present day. SEE ALSO Magic Leap Launches Developer SDK, Confirms Eye-tracking, Room-scanning, and More. Eye tracking. Gesture and hand tracking.

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Road to VR

JULY 24, 2019

Despite securing $280 million from Japan’s largest telecom earlier this summer, we’ve heard surprisingly little from the multi-billion dollar AR startup of late regarding its flagship headset, Magic Leap One. Image courtesy Magic Leap, Weta Workshop. Multiplayer Improvements.

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2018

Today Magic Leap has launched the Lumin SDK, the toolkit which allows developers to build AR experiences for Lumin OS, the operating system that powers the Magic Leap One headset. Eye tracking. Gesture and hand tracking. 6DOF hand controller (Totem) tracking. Spatialized audio.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Oculus Quest gets hand tracking. But, most importantly, now the Quest features hands tracking. If you update the Quest until its latest runtime, you can now activate hands tracking in its experimental features. Magic Leap pivots towards enterprise. Other relevant news. Image by Facebook).

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Road to VR

JULY 11, 2018

Today during Magic Leap’s developer livestream the company offered the first details on the compute hardware that’s built into the device, confirming that an NVIDIA CPU/GPU module, and also showed a brief developer sample demonstrating world meshing and gesture input.

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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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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2018

Vive Pro date and price, Magic Leap announcements, Nvidia’s real-time ray-tracing, and Budget Cuts resurfaces. The improved headset is pitched as an upgrade for current Vive owners, as it works with the original controllers and base stations. It is still not known exactly when the improved controllers and SteamVR 2.0

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VRScout

APRIL 20, 2023

Credit: Magic Leap The Audi activesphere does away with conventional button and touchscreen controls in favor of a virtual interface accessible using AR glasses. The system can tell what part of the vehicle you’re looking at and display interactive controls for each corresponding component.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 17, 2018

There’s a lot that can be said about the Magic Leap One. It’s trying to do a ton—eye-tracking, hand-tracking, 6DoF controllers, real-time meshing and a number of other features that haven’t been seen in a mobile MR device before. Meet the trio | Image courtesy Magic Leap.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

I guess they will steal some ideas from Magic Leap and provide a more comfortable headset (more cushions) and more customization options (more accessories to fit it on your nose, support for prescription lenses, etc…). Tracking technology. Hand Tracking. View post on imgur.com. Image by Reddit). Resolution.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Magic Leap 2 Magic Leap jumped the starting gun and played their cards early. The Magic Leap 2 was released in September last year with an entry price point of $3,299. The device will supposedly make use of hand tracking or a clothes-pin like a finger module for pointing and selection.

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VRScout

MARCH 25, 2022

Unlike existing AR headsets such as the Magic Leap 2 or Microsoft HoloLens, the Spectacles feature a discrete, light-weight design more akin to glasses than a headset. Another Lens had me interacting with an AR art project using the device’s built-in hand-tracking capabilities.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2022

Ultraleap Stratos presents itself as a square box with a lot of tiny cylinders on it and a Leap Motion controller to track the hands. The Magic Leap controller is there so that the box can track the hands and provide the haptic feedback in precise positions of them (e.g.

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Upload VR

AUGUST 31, 2023

Magic Leap 1 AR headsets will "cease to function" from 31 December 2024, the company announced. Magic Leap sent an email to all customers containing the following: As such, we are announcing that Magic Leap 1 end of life date will be December 31, 2024. The company today is still fully focused on enterprise.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Magic Leap Developer Suite. Another excellent solution for developers making their way into the spatial audio landscape comes from the innovators at Magic Leap. With the Magic Leap developer suite, innovators can leverage the existing functionality of Magic Leap solutions to build their own experiences.

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ARPost

JULY 21, 2023

The real pioneers of this are definitely Magic Leap and their waveguide lens is the future that I was expecting Apple to actually achieve some kind of breakthrough on,” said Almeida. Controller-Free Design While the Apple Vision Pro has more screens than most VR headsets, it has fewer controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Resolution : 2560×1440 Refresh rate : 75Hz FOV : 90° Sensors : SLAM + hands tracking Cameras : 720p front-facing RGB camera for mixed reality recordings Audio : 4 built-in surround sound speakers + 3 integrated Microphones. Meta 2 hands-on. of Magic Leap). The original Meta 1. Meta 2 specs. North Star.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Images appearing to show new ringless Pico controllers were shared on Chinese social media. The existing Pico 4 controllers each have a Pico system button with a colored ring icon, red on the left one and purple on the right one. Unlike the Pico 4 controllers though, the leaked controllers have no tracking ring.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 1, 2022

AR tech firm Magic Leap is set to launch in 19 countries across the world, Lisa Watts, Vice President of Product Marketing and Developer Programs for Magic Leap announced at the Immerse Global Summit (IGS) 2022 Europe on Madeira Island, Portugal. Magic Leap 2 stands on the shoulders of giants and the force.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Hand Tracking. Oculus Touch motion controllers got the community through Rift CV1’s reign and the Quest for over four months. The big news is, the Quest is getting full hand tracking support. There will always be a place for hand-controllers, especially in games,” he says. Oculus AR Glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

Road To VR reported about Manus VR’s new Quantum Metagloves with very precise hand tracking for enterprise use (cost: $9000). Magic Leap 2 bridges AR and VR. The interest in Magic Leap 2 is growing. HTC adds more parental control tools to its headsets. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

Glasses : Weight : 88g Connectivity : USB-C compatible Optics : Combined Lightguide FOV : 52° Maximum resolution: 1080p Environmental Understanding : SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping), 6DoF tracking, Plane detection, Image tracking Cameras : two tracking cameras + one RGB. On top of it, you can see the controller.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 12, 2021

Magic Leap One ), your brain kind of accept that you see augmentations only through the lens of the glasses and not in the peripheral vision, and so the limited FOV becomes more acceptable. But at least I could adjust brightness manually using the brightness controls that are on the headset. Hands Tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In my unboxing video, you may see that I’ve found an additional Leap Motion v1 controller + Leap Motion mount for RealMax + USB-C cable for Leap Motion. Thanks to these three buttons, it is possible to handle many of the operations with the Qian even without using the controller. Controller and input.

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ARPost

JUNE 8, 2022

Zappar was also nominated in the Best Developer Tool category for the ZapWorks SDK , and in the Best Head-Worn Device category for the new-and-improved ZapBox – a mobile phone adapter that includes targets and two hand-tracking controller wands. Gauld returned to the stage with the Best Creator Tool trophy still in hand.

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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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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Google can count on the acquisition of North, the experience he has matured by producing Google Glass and investing in Magic Leap, and the fact that it owns the most-used mobile operating system. All will feature tracking cameras for 6dof, hand tracking, speakers, microphone, and an additional camera to shoot photos and videos.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

It has hand tracking, and the Pro model also has eye tracking, like Apple’s device. Quest 3 is better for gaming and has precision controllers. Maybe Magic Leap, before people got to know that the device was sort of a HoloLens 1+, had such attention to it. It is better for most mixed-reality uses.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

Why can’t it be Facebook, or Magic Leap ? Suzanne Borders, CEO and founder of BadVR, at the company’s office in Marina Del Rey, with a Magic Leap One on. They control all their ecosystem : software, hardware, chips. PRNewsfoto/BadVR). for a price around $600.

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Road to VR

JUNE 17, 2024

Still, many of the existing games on other VR platforms need to be tailored to work with the headset’s eye and hand-tracking only approach to input, which leads me to my next point… Motion Controllers What : Some games simply don’t work without motion controllers—at least not in the way they were initially designed to.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

The Reverb was already a very good headset (as you can read in my hands-on impressions ) with good comfort and an astonishing resolution, but it had some problems with the display (mura, red smearing) and with the controllers (classical mediocre WMR tracking). Rony Abovitz steps down from Magic Leap CEO.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

The console works in conjunction with the innovative DualSense controller. At the current stage of the project, he’s been able to make the Rift (both CV1 and S) to work as a 3DOF headset , and he’s also been able to connect with the controllers. Two new interesting demos for Quest hands tracking. SSD (8–9 GB/s).

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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. As part of the Godot 4.3

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

These advanced haptics make us dream of PSVR 2 controllers with best-in-class immersive haptics … but we have to still wait various months before discovering if this is the truth. Then why Magic Leap hasn’t delivered a solid product with 2B?) All the reviewers are amazed. EXECUTION IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING FOR A COMPANY.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2019

Read Scott’s hands-on here ; NReal glasses, with its computational unit and its 3 DoF controller (Image by Tom’s Hardware). The journalist said that Nreal can’t be compared with HoloLens or Magic Leap , but that is anyway an interesting Augmented Reality device, with a good quality of the images.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 11, 2022

To achieve their mission of delivering highly immersive, productive, and engaging experiences, Meta invests heavily in tracking technologies. Tools like the Oculus already come with hand tracking functionality, to help users interact with some software on a hands-free basis. Unity and Magic Leap.

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Upload VR

APRIL 15, 2024

In 2020 Mozilla laid off 250 employees including staff working on Firefox Reality, and in 2022 handed over the project to "open source software consultancy" Igalia, which relaunched it as Wolvic. Today Wolvic is available on Meta Quest, Pico, Magic Leap 2, and Huawei VR Glasses.

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