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. But it’s not only about AI.

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VRScout

MAY 30, 2017

I’ve been a big fan of the cute little Samsung Gear 360 camera since its first unveiling in the spring of 2016, and always recommend it to people inquiring about the best consumer-friendly 360 cameras out there. After quietly settling a gender discrimination lawsuit recently, it turns out that Magic Leap is back on the fundraising trail.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

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.”. 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.”.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

All these data together make me a bit skeptical about the capabilities of this company: developing such kind of a high-quality headset requires a lot of expertise, while the company is very small and features no known expert in the field. Stanford and Samsung create a super-high-resolution display.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Future of Magic Leap After Ross Rosenberg was appointed Magic Leap’s CEO in October 2023, the company has since focused on its enterprise roadmap for 2024; targeting its XR devices towards enterprise and industrial clients. Magic Leap started to understand that these walled gardens are not their future.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2020

We can understand this from the data of the sales of the games on the Quest store. It is “easy” to create hype and get preorders and many sales on the first day: Even the Magic Leap One had a very strong first day, and the community was flooded with pictures of people donning the device… but in the end, it was a huge flop.

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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. After years of secrecy and hype, Magic Leap finally released its first developer kit in August for $2,295. The company’s direction is unclear. Image source: ZDNet.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 19, 2020

Magic Leap and nReal are trying to find an agreement. The trade secrets lawsuit between Magic Leap and nReal is entering a new phase, where the two companies will start a mediation to try to find a settlement. News worth a mention. Image by nReal). The solution is still a bit rough, but it looks very intriguing.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

Samsung AR glasses. Probably the true surprise of the whole show has been Samsung, that during its press conference has teased some AR glasses. Yeah, the 3D model of the trainer seems taken from the Unity Asset Store… Samsung has not talked about the glasses, not even revealing the name, or the specifications.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Will this Convergence lead us into the futuristic dystopia of our nightmares — the one where we are jacked into a simulated reality, a siloed and centralized network where we are constantly under surveillance by dark forces operating in the shadows, all the while being mined for our data like a natural resource?

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Immersive Authority

JUNE 30, 2016

Samsung Gear VR, Google Cardboard and Oculus Rift are popular solutions that enable this form of immersive experience (in conjunction with a number of controllers and sensors). Augmented Reality supplements your view of the physical world with additional information which may originate from online data streams, cameras or sensors.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

Either way, what this means is a computer somewhere else in the world can change the data on the cube, or show users what my street looks like. So developers can leave data literally on any surface or, even, the air around you. Each virtual sugar cube, my street has millions of them now, has some unique things: A unique identifier.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Samsung starts off the month debuting its VR Internet browser for Gear VR, becoming the first to offer a VR browser. Magic Leap kicks off the month with the announcement of an enormous $794 million fundraising round, backed by Alibaba. Samsung unveils the Note 7 smartphone alongside the latest Gear VR. December 2015.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

This trend will continue in 2021 : the new LiDAR sensor, which is rumored to be installed in all future iPhones, will for sure be copied also by Android phones (Samsung?) And even if Google harvests data exactly as Facebook, it has been targeted by fewer scandals, so it is a brand people like more. Magic Leap will meet its fate.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Charlie Fink is a Forbes columnist and an author of two AR-enabled books – Charlie Fink’s Metaverse: A Guide to VR and AR, and Convergence: How the World Will Be Painted with Data. Alan: So give us an example of why that would be important, where you need to be contextually aware and why you would need 3D data. Alan: Interesting.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Charlie Fink is a Forbes columnist and an author of two AR-enabled books – Charlie Fink’s Metaverse: A Guide to VR and AR, and Convergence: How the World Will Be Painted with Data. Alan: So give us an example of why that would be important, where you need to be contextually aware and why you would need 3D data. Alan: Interesting.

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EnterpriseWear

AUGUST 1, 2018

In IATA’s 2017 Global Passenger Survey, 85% of those surveyed indicated they would be willing to give up more personal data in exchange for faster process checks and more personalized service at the airport. Around the same time, Vueling, Iberia, and Air Berlin launched smartwatch boarding passes for early Pebble and Samsung smartwatches.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

You’ve done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung. And in that way, we have an SDK for Android, an SDK for iOS, and then also an SDK for Unity, which you can use to deploy cross-platform that will allow you to interpret and read data from the sensors to do things like recognize gestures. That’s an option.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

You’ve done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung. And in that way, we have an SDK for Android, an SDK for iOS, and then also an SDK for Unity, which you can use to deploy cross-platform that will allow you to interpret and read data from the sensors to do things like recognize gestures. That’s an option.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk. Our guest today, Jacob, has also been a partner at Samsung NEXT. And when Jinha finished up at Samsung, AR had sort of started catching on in earnest. Jacob, welcome to the show. Jacob: Well, for sure.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk. Our guest today, Jacob, has also been a partner at Samsung NEXT. And when Jinha finished up at Samsung, AR had sort of started catching on in earnest. Jacob, welcome to the show. Jacob: Well, for sure.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

For example, Microsoft is gearing up for a 2024 industrial Metaverse roadmap, which sees the firm working with groups like Magic Leap and Qualcomm to provide immersive workplace solutions that operate alongside pre-existing technology stacks. The Vision Pro device is due in 2024 for $3,499.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 29, 2024

Based on LSEG data, this stake could be valued at $4.73 This chipset will reportedly be integrated into Samsung and Sony headsets, Play for Dream MR and Immersed’s Visor. Magic Leap Ditching its Hardware Business? Only a few years ago, Magic Leap made headlines after raising $3.5

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

As much as we all love Tim [Merel] over at Digi-Capital , I have a hard time reconciling his data. GamesBeat: If you take [big transactions] out for [the data in the past year] and see what everything else looks like, maybe you get a better picture? What’s the best way to stream data? Image Credit: Oculus.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk. Our guest today, Jacob, has also been a partner at Samsung NEXT. And when Jinha finished up at Samsung, AR had sort of started catching on in earnest. Jacob, welcome to the show. That's really exciting.

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VeeR VR

MARCH 16, 2018

According to John Carmack , Oculus CTO noted that the Oculus Go will perform "significantly better" than the Samsung Gear. Additionally, Magic Leap is one of the most funded startups in history. Faster speed : Data transfer speeds are projected to be about 10 times higher with 5G than is possible with 4G.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

You've done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung. And in that way, we have an SDK for Android, an SDK for iOS, and then also an SDK for Unity, which you can use to deploy cross-platform that will allow you to interpret and read data from the sensors to do things like recognize gestures. Michael: Glad you liked it.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 27, 2019

— it was the Samsung GearyVR at the time. Have you tried Magic Leap? Sam: I have tried the Magic Leap, yeah. You’ve got Magic Leap, you’ve got Nreal, you’ve got HoloLens, you’ve got all these companies. It’s the little magic window of your phone.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 27, 2019

— it was the Samsung GearyVR at the time. Have you tried Magic Leap? Sam: I have tried the Magic Leap, yeah. You’ve got Magic Leap, you’ve got Nreal, you’ve got HoloLens, you’ve got all these companies. It’s the little magic window of your phone.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

He’s built AR system prototypes for Samsung, and had long executive and technical careers in mobile software infrastructure before jumping into AR back in 2009. Like my Dekko, and what we built at Samsung were exactly the same technology that ARKit and ARCore and Magic Leap and others built.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

He’s built AR system prototypes for Samsung, and had long executive and technical careers in mobile software infrastructure before jumping into AR back in 2009. Like my Dekko, and what we built at Samsung were exactly the same technology that ARKit and ARCore and Magic Leap and others built.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 27, 2019

I remember in, oh man, it must be 2015/16, Coachella livestreamed 360 content to VR headsets and I believe it was pushing to the -- it was! -- it was the Samsung GearyVR at the time. Have you tried Magic Leap? Sam: I have tried the Magic Leap, yeah. It's the little magic window of your phone.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2024

So using the sensor data read by the smartwatch that is on your wrist and some machine-learning magic, it is possible to detect when your thumb is touching your index fingertip. My tests with WowMouse and Magic Leap 2 With the same application, I could also try to use the Wowmouse in a more traditional “mouse” sense.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 31, 2019

Alan: Today’s guest is Alexander Haque, the founder of RetinadVR, whose mission was to help pioneer virtual and augmented reality through powerful data. Our mission was, as you said at the beginning, was to bring VR analytics and data to virtual reality. RetinadVR was acquired recently by LumiereVR, in July 2018.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2019

I think there’s an inherent risk of collecting eye tracking data, and positional head tracking data, and more data about individuals. When you when you think of all of the technologies we have with Hololens and Magic Leap and we have all these amazing technologies for spatial computing.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

He’s built AR system prototypes for Samsung, and had long executive and technical careers in mobile software infrastructure before jumping into AR back in 2009. Like my Dekko, and what we built at Samsung were exactly the same technology that ARKit and ARCore and Magic Leap and others built.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 31, 2019

Alan: Today's guest is Alexander Haque, the founder of RetinadVR, whose mission was to help pioneer virtual and augmented reality through powerful data. Our mission was, as you said at the beginning, was to bring VR analytics and data to virtual reality. RetinadVR was acquired recently by LumiereVR, in July 2018.

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