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This past July Facebook released its experimental Passthrough API into the wild, allowing developers to harness the Oculus Quest’s built-in cameras to create engaging mixed reality experiences. Originally developed for the MagicLeap One mixed reality headset, Magic Keys uses Passthrough technology to teach you how to play the piano.
I thought it would have taken me a lot before I would be able to try the MagicLeap One , but luckily this has not been the case. At a certain point, I asked him: “oh, you said me that you have tried MagicLeap… how is it?” The three component of the MagicLeap One. I was amazed.
ILMxLab, Lucasfilm’s immersive media group, today announced Star Wars: Project Porg , an augmented reality “experiment” built for MagicLeap. Just ahead of this week’s Leap Con conference, ILMxLab has announced the Star Wars: Project Porg “experimental demo” for the headset.
AT&T and MagicLeap formed a partnership last year which looked a lot like the one between Cingular (now merged with AT&T) and Apple which led to the launch of iPhone. MagicLeap’s marketing for its first AR headset, the MagicLeap One ‘Creator Edition’, has been… curious, to say the least.
Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus who left the company in 2017, appears to have insider knowledge of upcoming Apple XR headset, which is expected to be unveiled at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) next month. To Luckey, Apple’s hotly awaited entrance into the space is apparently “so good.”
Vive Pro date and price, MagicLeap announcements, Nvidia’s real-time ray-tracing, and Budget Cuts resurfaces. MagicLeap announcements. image courtesy MagicLeap. MagicLeap has launched the SDK for the device’s Lumin OS , with support for Unity and Unreal engines. Image courtesy HTC.
Oculus Quest gets hand tracking. Last week, the runtime v12 of Oculus Quest has been rolled out , and this took with it lots of interesting updates. To start, now the Oculus Link is more stable and it is compatible with some AMD GPUs. Oculus Quests have started getting vocal commands in the menu. Top news of the week.
In the interview with me, he talked about many topics, like the rumors he heard on Apple Glasses, on the Oculus Quest 2 , the America vs China war, XR entrepreneurship, Tesla, and more! 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.
So many green pigs, so little time… Rovio and Resolution Games’ fully immersive version of their popular Angry Birds franchise is now available on the HTC VIVE and Oculus Rift. on the Oculus Store , Steam and Viveport. The post Angry Birds VR Now Available On Oculus Rift & HTC Vive appeared first on VRScout.
Now that we've had a few days to recover from the VR geek versus augmented reality nerd battle between Oculus founder Palmer Luckey and MagicLeap founder Rony Abovitz, we can get back to taking a closer look at the MagicLeap One. This time, we take a very brief dip into the Abductor app.
nReal has been sued by Epic Games for the name too similar to Unreal and by MagicLeap that claims that nReal CEO Chi Xu has stolen the technology of the American company while working there. No one from MagicLeap or nReal is authorized to talk about this topic, so I won’t address it here. Controller.
Founded in 2016 by Anand Agarawala and Jinha Lee, the company’s social AR/VR workspace has since gone on to include support for Microsoft HoloLens 2, Oculus Quest, MagicLeap 1, Qualcomm XR2, Android/iPhone mobile device and traditional monitors.
The funding round was led by Europe’s most active proptech VC, Pi Labs, with participation from Silicon Valley-based commerce experts Sugar Capital and deep tech specialists 7Percent Ventures – one of the first backers of Oculus VR – alongside several notable angel investors. to build the digital layer for the physical world!
Regarding big brands, I expect Apple and Facebook still to wait a bit before releasing something, while MagicLeap will have to make its move to come out from the quicksands. My duck-face while wearing MagicLeap One glasses. The company to keep an eye on is MagicLeap. MagicLeap should be very careful.
Like in The Diamond Age from influential sci-fi author Neal Stephenson —who coincidentally is the Chief Futurist at mysterious AR startup MagicLeap—AI isn’t sufficiently convincing enough for users in virtual experiences, so troupes of actors play out the roles of NPCs to make the story more flexible and realistic.
Relative to enterprise-focused AR headsets like MagicLeap 2 and HoloLens 2, it’s also less expensive due to the inclusion of cheaper and less complicated optics, called ‘birdbath’ optics, which project light from a microdisplay to the eye via what’s essentially a curved see-through mirror (among other things).
So many green pigs that must be got, yet so little time… Rovio and Resolution Games have brought out a fully immersive version of their popular Angry Birds franchise for the HTC VIVE and Oculus Rift. Angry Birds VR Now Available On Oculus Rift & HTC Vive via @alicebonasio [link] pic.twitter.com/AB2V4Bldbj.
MagicLeap has just organized its first developers’ event, dubbed “L.E.A.P.” It is the first event of this kind organized by MagicLeap: we can say that LEAP Con is like the Oculus Connect of MagicLeap and will probably become always more important, year after year, exactly as it has happened to Oculus.
Image by Oculus). The other bombshell news is that Resident Evil 4 is coming to the Oculus Quest 2. On April, 21st, Oculus will host its first Gaming Showcase , with news on ‘Lone Echo II’, ‘Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge’, and many other titles. Shariiing VR helps you in providing demos in VR. Top news of the week.
Windup Minds, a new studio with talent from Oculus, Niantic, MagicLeap, wants to bring virtual creatures into your headsets. Yee also talked about his early VR development experience, highlighting the impact of the early Dreamdeck demoes for Rift at Oculus Connect. "We The studio announced a $1.6
While we don’t know much about gameplay mechanics yet, it’s possible the MagicLeap One release of Angry Birds: FPS – First Person Slingshot may hold some answers. ” SEE ALSO Brilliant Sole Wants to Put a VR Controller in Your Shoes.
MagicLeap 2 bridges AR and VR. The interest in MagicLeap 2 is growing. If headsets like Lynx or Project Cambria implement AR on a VR headset, MagicLeap 2 implements a bit of VR on an AR headset. A genius has found a smart way to cover the Oculus Home button on Quest controllers for public demos.
Last Monday, I walked three blocks uphill on Mason St in San Francisco to the Fairmont Hotel to demo a stealth product that had been touted to me as one of the biggest advancements in XR tech this side of MagicLeap. Comparison shot of Varjo Bionic display and Oculus Rift display. Varjo solves this problem.
I can’t think about an AR-app that is actually popular : many have tried to make AR games, AR educational experiences, AR sports… but they all ended up being tech demos or gimmicks. while we have seen the complicated life of Oculus hands-on booths at Best Buy. MagicLeap will meet its fate.
It’s been an interesting demo. And a demo is already live. MagicLeap 2 has inside-out tracked controllers. During a presentation, MagicLeap has unveiled some more features about its headset and controllers. More info (MagicLeap presentation) More info (Close up of the controllers).
Given the timing, we expect to see HTC demoing content almost exclusively on Vive Pro headsets, and there’s a good chance we’ll see a few more experiences using the new Vive Trackers with SteamVR 2.0 Image courtesy Oculus. Santa Cruz is Oculus’ high-end standalone VR headset. Image courtesy Oculus.
MagicLeap, for instance, supports two focal planes and jumps between them as needed. Oculus’ Half Dome prototypes do something similar, with support for a larger number of focal planes. While Creal has previously demonstrated its impressive light-field display technology, we’ve only ever seen in it large benchtop demos.
Every year I like to play the guessing game for the Oculus/Facebook/Meta Connect making my list of predictions… which are not always correct, but they are good because they entice all the community people to play this game with me and to tell how they would love to see XR evolving.
Vive XR Elite is a headset that is very lightweight, and many people that tried it at CES reported that it felt very comfortable for the time of the demo. The headsets shown there were more to showcase SHARP components at work together in a demo VR HMD than to hint at a future SHARP headset. And it left many journalists impressed.
This is a simpler mechanism than the waveguides employed by Microsoft HoloLens 2 or by MagicLeap, and while it may provide a bit less immersive holograms, it is the only way to provide affordable wide-FOV glasses at the moment. When I got it, it just had a rough launcher to execute some demo programs.
Facebook has started today enforcing the “Facebook login” rule , asking Oculus users to merge their Facebook and Oculus accounts. So I imagine a Quest 2 where you can avoid having a Facebook account, but you can’t use the Oculus Store, or all the most important apps and games , and so you are de facto forced to use it.
Late to the party after Oculus and Microsoft already released prototypical implementations, but finally Valve has implemented OpenXR into its runtime SteamVR. Someone is working on a Linux driver for the Oculus Rift. Indie developer Thaytan is working on a Linux driver for the Oculus Rift. Other relevant news.
An earlier tech demo showed impressive fundamentals, and this week at CES 2020 the company revealed its progress toward shrinking its tech toward a practical size. MagicLeap, for instance, supports two focal lengths and jumps between them as needed. That’s why I was impressed when I saw their tech demo at CES 2019.
This is a cool video of me unboxing the Nreal Light Devkit: I have to say that I loved unboxing this headset : while Nreal has not reached the mastery of packaging that Oculus has, it has done a great job: the external box is in a very elegant silver color, and the case of the glasses is small and beautiful.
SEE ALSO Exclusive: Meta 2 AR Demos Revealed in Full. VR in general would not be where it is today if Oculus hadn’t been able to generate early excitement and ship more than 175,000 DK1 & DK2 units to developers and early enthusiasts who were figuring out what works well in VR and what doesn’t. Photo by Road to VR.
reaction as the original Oculus Rift. Kalinowski was previously the Head of VR Hardware at Oculus for the consumer Oculus Rift, Oculus Touch, Oculus Go, Rift S, Oculus Quest, Quest 2, and Quest Pro. Meta's Head of AR Glasses Hardware claims they give the same "Oh my God, wow! I can't believe this!"
OK, I will be able give a more definite verdict after I actually get a hands-on demo first thing tomorrow, but in the meantime, here are our first impressions from having seen the live demos on the stage here at MWC Barcelona. In other words, down with the “walled garden” approach favored by companies such as Apple and Oculus.
Facebook said that this growth has been mostly due to the sales of Oculus Quest. Admitting that Oculus Quest is the only responsible for this big growth from last year (just an assumption, I want to be clear), we obtain that the sales of Quest for Q3 account for $81M. Oculus Quest may have an assistant soon.
Arrived at the booth, I sadly discovered that the two devices were just an Oculus Go and a Pico Goblin. Chinese AR and smartglasses manufacturer Seengene (that has a website much inspired by MagicLeap) had a booth showcasing its smartglasses for enterprise usage. I so went there, eager to try the new LG devices.
For instance, in the box I’ve found a cleaning cloth for an Oculus device… and I don’t think it actually comes with a Microsoft HoloLens! In all demos that I’ve tried, though, I have rarely seen it used in a convincing way. You don’t have this nice stuff on the vertical side, though.
Oculus recently showed off a new prototype seen for the first time with eye-tracking. MagicLeap has confirmed eye-tracking on their upcoming development headset. It’s believed that this illusion could be done in a way that’s completely invisible to the user; anecdotally, I’ve seen recent demos where this was the case.
Want to do a demo? Starting on June 24th, PlayStation will offer PSVR demos at about 300 Best Buy and GameStop locations across the US and Canada. PlayStation VR’s release date is October 13, and it will be priced at a very accessible $399.
Helena playing around with MagicLeap One. Standalone headsets, like the Oculus Go , have decent speakers built in, but oftentimes for demo purposes at crowded events, the noise floor isn’t taken into account. This device also features Tonandi, an experience all focused on audio (Image by Noctvrnal).
Also, the controllers were the ones of Vive 1 and being used to my Oculus Touch , I felt back to the nineties. Oculus Rift CV1 vs HTC Vive Pro. Coming from the Oculus Rift CV1, the Vive Pro felt absolutely ???? Unluckily there were only SteamVR 1.0 HTC Vive 1.0 vs HTC Vive Pro. Targeted features for the professionals.
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