Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Andy Serkis, the actor-director you may recognize for his award-winning performances as Gollum in the Lord of The Rings film franchise, is lending his likeness to a new AR creation for Magic Leap One headset in what The Hollywood Reporter describes as an “orc-like creature.” Image courtesy Magic Leap.

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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. Augmented vision is commonplace in futuristic films, from Minority Report to Iron Man. Who Will Own the Metaverse? by Marko Balabanovic.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Future solutions will get rid of clunky wired headsets and move onto glasses that can project a high-definition image onto the eye, a la Magic Leap, and eventually contact lenses that contain tiny screens. Neural plugins: The Matrix (film). Total Recall (film). Avatar (film). Sword Art Online (TV show).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The Sundance Film Festival has just kickstarted. The Sundance Film Festival, one of the most important movie festivals happening every year, has just started. After stepping down from the role of CEO of Magic Leap, Rony Abovitz has started a new venture called Sun And Thunder about digital beings.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Back in 2016, designer and filmmaker Keiichi Matsuda released Hyper-Reality, a concept film that imagined an augmented reality future where physical and virtual realities have merged, resulting in a "city saturated in media." The film was heavily circulated, covered extensively across media and news outlets when it released.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Most people know Xu due to his dispute with American virtual reality company Magic Leap. In June 2019, Magic Leap accused Xu of stealing AR glasses technology when he was an engineer working at the firm. Chaitanya has had a multi-faceted career in the Indian Film & CreativeArtsIndustry for over 17 years.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

More info (Virtual VR Awards) More info (Cannes Film Festival postponed) More info (Summer GDC) More info (Rokid thermal glasses) More info (HTC faceplate delayed) More info (Google Chrome 81 delayed) More info (Zoom spiking, VR not). Magic Leap reveals updates and new enterprise solutions. Another great UX post by Leap Motion.

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