Road to VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Relative to enterprise-focused AR headsets like Magic Leap 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).

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ARPost

APRIL 17, 2023

XR Expo 2023 When: June 15-16 Where: Stuttgart, Germany If you happen to be in Germany this summer for business, you can also put aside two days to attend XR Expo 2023. See Also: AWE 2023 Is Right Around the Corner They will be able to test various gadgets, discover content trends, and attend insightful keynote presentations.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 26, 2019

MRTV , the YouTube channel led by Germany-based VR enthusiast Sebastian Ang, launched a Kickstarter recently to create what he calls the MRTV Experience, which will invite the paying public to step in to try out a variety of the most recent VR headsets on offer.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Facebook halts the sale of Quest in Germany. Facebook is temporarily suspending the sale of Oculus Quest devices in Germany. Germany, please save us . More info (Facebook halting Quest sales in Germany) More info (A Redditor explaining the problem). Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap and its magic drop.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 7, 2024

While Nreal Light could only detect flat planes such floors and tables, Xreal Air 2 Ultra can apparently generate a 3D mesh of your room, as Meta Quest 3 and high-end AR devices like Magic Leap 2 can. In addition to scene meshing, Xreal is also promising hand tracking, permanent spatial anchors, and arbitrary 2D image tracking.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

ARway.ai, a firm working with various XR device leaders, such as Apple and Magic Leap, to leverage its unique immersive wayfinding platform for a broad range of use cases, recently announced a new partnership that amplifies its product offering to an increasingly sizeable international user base.

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Road to VR

JULY 12, 2022

Magic Leap today announced pricing and release date details for the company’s latest AR headset, Magic Leap 2. Magic Leap 2 Release Date and Price. Magic Leap 2 is finally set to officially launch on September 30th, 2022. Magic Leap 2 Developer Pro. Magic Leap 2 Specs.

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Road to VR

APRIL 16, 2018

Researchers at The Human Computer Interaction Lab at Hasso-Plattner-Institut in Potsdam, Germany, published a video recently showing a novel solution to the problem of wearable haptics for augmented reality. The researchers say their system “adds physical forces while keeping the users’ hands free to interact unencumbered.”

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Tech Trends VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

This is what video game giant Wargaming are hoping to prove when they start demoing their latest offering at Gamescom in Germany this week. Wargaming are also interested in developing content that will work on headsets such as Magic Leap, who Daly says they’re currently “talking to.”.

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Robert Scoble

JUNE 15, 2019

Tons of events are held there (Magic Leap will be doing one there soon). EchoAR solves this problem so the Infinite Reality team, me and Marcelo, who edited this video, headed off to its Brooklyn, New York office to meet with its CEO and CTO and had a long conversation about how developer’s lives are soon to change.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Aquarela / United Kingdom, Germany (Director: Victor Kossakovsky, Screenwriters: Victor Kossakovsky, Aimara Reques, Producers: Aimara Reques, Heino Deckert, Sigrid Dyekjær) — A cinematic journey through the transformative beauty and raw power of water. Cast: Taylor Unwin, Sandra Ruiz, Melissa Ferrari.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Germany-based startup Vality is developing a VR headset that aims to offer near-retina resolution in a compact form-factor. In addition to tethered PC functionality, Vality also plans to offer an SKU including a mobile ‘belt-pack’, which would pair the headset with a mobile compute package similar to Magic Leap.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 3, 2023

To close 2022, Magic Leap’s leadership team underwent a major restructuring following a significant investment from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund. The investment by Saudi’s PIF division allows the region to own over 50 percent of Magic Leap’s ownership stake. A 16GB computing pack.

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Peter Graham

AUGUST 1, 2019

The European leg of the Augmented World Expo (AWE) 2019 will commence this October, held across two days in Munich, Germany. Today, the AWE EU 2019 agenda has gone live, revealing a rich lineup of talks focused on current and future augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) technology. Image credit: AWE USA 2019.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Based in Germany, ThyssenKrupp is a European national conglomerate that just announced a partnership with the Microsoft Hololens. Apple also recently stole some hot talent from Oculus as well as Magic Leap, so it’s only a matter of time before we’ll see a beautifully designed mixed reality product that will take iOS fanboys by storm.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 13, 2022

Magic Leap has announced on Tuesday the release window for its sophomore augmented reality (AR) headset. The firm is making the Magic Leap 2 product commercially available on September 30 this year. Magic Leap will also debut the device in Japan and Singapore later this year.

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2022

The Magic Leap 2 will be available for purchase starting at $3,299 through select partners. American startup company Magic Leap has announced the official price and specs of the Magic Leap 2, its latest mixed reality headset designed for professionals and developers. Image Credit: Magic Leap.

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ARPost

JUNE 6, 2023

Zappar’s Zapbox , DigiLens’ ARGO , Sony’s PlayStation VR 2 , the Magic Leap 2 , XREAL (previously Nreal) Air , and the Varjo XR 3 Focal Edition were all in the running, but the prize went to the HTC VIVE XR Elite. We couldn’t have done this without our small team back in Germany,” said Vacano. We’re just so happy.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Mega-events like the Gamescom in Germany occupy far more floor space. Markers can be used to define where to show virtual elements, and in the demo that I tried were used to show virtual Chinese artworks in a room; Leap Motion device on Realmax glasses. Anyway, it is not THAT big spatially speaking : it is like 4-5 pavillions.

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Tech Trends VR

JANUARY 1, 2019

Hardware, too, has evolved significantly this part year, with the long-awaited launch of Magic Leap and the release of the Oculus Go , which means that it is now possible to have untethered, six degrees of freedom experiences in a headset costing under $200.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

I have Dr. Björn Schwerdtfeger from Germany. And among other things, his company, AR Experts, is advising about a third of Germany’s most important production companies, and is shaping their augmented reality roadmaps. At least in Germany, we face a problem. There’s Magic Leap– Alan: Still a challenge.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

I have Dr. Björn Schwerdtfeger from Germany. And among other things, his company, AR Experts, is advising about a third of Germany’s most important production companies, and is shaping their augmented reality roadmaps. At least in Germany, we face a problem. There’s Magic Leap– Alan: Still a challenge.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

VR people think that this may mean that Facebook may have to remove its mandatory Facebook login, also because other countries (like Germany) are raising similar concerns. The report also suggests taking action against this. Personally, I believe that it may even happen, but in a too little, too late fashion.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 7, 2019

If you are in Germany in August, instead, you could attend the Gamescom. SIGGRAPH showcase experiences have been unveiled and there are many high-quality titles. If you are in Los Angeles, at the end of July, the SIGGRAPH seems the place to go.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 2, 2023

Through partnerships with Mainz, Germany-based glassmaker Schott and Taiwanese firm Quanta, Lumus has explored many projects for the optics industry. This is due to several “false starts” with Google Glass , Microsoft HoloLens2, and Magic Leap, although the companies remain potential customers.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Charlie: So you’ve got a company like Visualix out of Germany that is specifically looking at geo-location in warehouses; micro geo-location. Alan: So speaking of looking into the future, somebody else who’s kind of looking to the future that you’ve been covering in your Forbes articles is Magic Leap, and their CEO, Rony.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Charlie: So you’ve got a company like Visualix out of Germany that is specifically looking at geo-location in warehouses; micro geo-location. Alan: So speaking of looking into the future, somebody else who’s kind of looking to the future that you’ve been covering in your Forbes articles is Magic Leap, and their CEO, Rony.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Many products showcased at the conference included flagship releases of VR headsets and solutions such as the Meta Quest Pro, Magic Leap 2, Lenovo ThinkReality A3, and AT&T’s Volumetric Video Photo Booth, among many others.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

HTC did something with Batman; that Game of Thrones thing; some of the demos that Magic Leap had really. The Passthrough cameras especially, because if you look at the whole AR thing, and especially the wearables, the headsets — think about Hololens and Magic Leap — I see the utility factor of where they are.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

HTC did something with Batman; that Game of Thrones thing; some of the demos that Magic Leap had really. The Passthrough cameras especially, because if you look at the whole AR thing, and especially the wearables, the headsets — think about Hololens and Magic Leap — I see the utility factor of where they are.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Like the first HoloLens the device also enables glasses wearers to simply slot the device in front of their spectacles (distinct advantage compared to Magic Leap). First shipments will begin this May in the United States, Japan, China, Germany, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Australia, and New Zealand.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Development efforts are about to get a major adrenaline shot in the arm also, with Microsoft today expanding distribution globally to Australia, France, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Meanwhile, we’re still looking to mysterious MR competitor Magic Leap to deliver some solid competition.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The very recent news, that Snap announced at AWE EU, is that Spectacles are also coming to Europe, and to be exact in Germany, France, Spain, Italy (yay!), I would say the glasses have probably more things in common with HoloLens 2 than Magic Leap 2 because of the constrained FOV and the visual artifacts.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

More info (Facebook and the unfair competition on its store) More info (Facebook vs EU) More info (Facebook vs Germany) More info (How to create a Fb fake account) More info (An example of a disabled Facebook account) More info (Oculus Quest 2 backordered). Magic Leap may partner with AWS. Other relevant news.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Anne-Marie: Magic Leap’s doing a workshop. And what’s great to do, with it being the global summit, is we’ve got speakers this year that are coming from Africa, and India, and Asia, and Germany and– you know, we’re doing a European summit next year. And then we’ve got workshops too.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Anne-Marie: Magic Leap’s doing a workshop. And what’s great to do, with it being the global summit, is we’ve got speakers this year that are coming from Africa, and India, and Asia, and Germany and– you know, we’re doing a European summit next year. And then we’ve got workshops too.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Anne-Marie: Magic Leap’s doing a workshop. And what’s great to do, with it being the global summit, is we’ve got speakers this year that are coming from Africa, and India, and Asia, and Germany and– you know, we’re doing a European summit next year. And then we’ve got workshops too.

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