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Magic Leap Update Brings Hand Occlusion, Expanded Multiplayer Support & More

Road to VR

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. Check out Magic Leap’s full blogpost for more detail.

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AR contact lenses are far away, but a new research is paving their way

The Ghost Howls

Some days ago, I found an article on Futurism talking about a university in France able to create the “first smart contact lens” The article also talked about Augmented Reality and the interest of the DARPA for using this product. Me doing a duck face with a pair of Magic Leap on.

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This Is How Big Business, Cities & Native American Tribes Are Leveraging the Power of AR via DAQRI Headsets

Next Reality AR

While the mainstream consumer market waits for cool augmented glasses to arrive from Magic Leap, or maybe even Snap Inc. recent example comes by way of Siemens Energy Services, in Toul, France. Spectacles 2.0??),

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Holographic Waveguides: What You Need To Know To Understand The Smartglasses Market

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

A series of waveguide joint-research projects were also done by HiMax and Optivent of France; HiMax and Lumus; and Lumus and Essilor of France. Magic Leap. Magic Leap has experimented with a variety of optical designs in order to find a feasible light-field display that can be manufactured at massive scales.

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LYNX Has Raised $2 Million for Its R-1 Headset, and Other Background on the XR Newcomer

Road to VR

The France-based company revealed its R-1 headset earlier this month and expects to deliver the first units this Summer for $1,500. LYNX is a startup building a standalone MR headset that’s primarily focused on passthrough AR scenarios for enterprise applications.

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Sundance New Frontier Announces 2019 Line-Up

VRScout

Gloomy Eyes / France, Argentina (Lead Artists: Jorge Tereso, Fernando Maldonado, Key Collaborators: Antoine Cayrol, German Heller, Santiago Amigorena) — 1983, Woodland City. Mechanical Souls / France, Taiwan (Lead Artists: Gaëlle Mourre, L.P. Being a zombie is against the law. Cast: Aiden Torres, Jovanna Vidal, Phoebe VanDusen.

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Magic Leap Launches Collaboration Package as Businesses Workaround Coronavirus Lock Downs

Peter Graham

Now, Magic Leap has announced a new initiative to aid businesses in this process. The Magic Leap Collaboration Package is designed to facilitate remote collaboration through spatial computing, offering companies Magic Leap 1 devices for a trial period of 45 days for $5,000 USD (shipping included) + applicable taxes.