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AWE 2024: Magic Leap to Wow Attendees with Android Smartwatch AR Input Device

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

At AWE this week, leading XR headset vendor Magic Leap and gesture technology innovators Doublepoint Technologies are highlighting a deep product partnership to distribute WowMouse, an input device that leverages Android smartwatches to enable gesture controls such as pinch and gaze for AR applicaitons.

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Developing the Future of Mixed Reality

Tech Trends VR

In spite of the fact we’re joking around and playing Angry Birds on Magic Leap, the whole thing feels very grown up, in the sense that these guys are in this for the long haul, and so, they reckon, is the business of making Mixed Reality.

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AR and MR Headsets and Glasses 2019 and 2020 Overview

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Microsoft set machine learning to design the MR headset to be as usable as possible despite the fact that it works entirely using gesture controls. Tethered MR headsets require a hardware connection to a computer. Magic Leap 1. The only real competition for the Microsoft’s HoloLens is the Magic Leap 1.

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U.S. Army To Receive 100,000 Microsoft HoloLens Headsets

VRScout

Several companies went through the bidding process, including HoloLens’s biggest competitor, Magic Leap, but it was Microsoft who ultimately won the bid to partner with the Army as a non-traditional defense contractor.

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How Will Xiaomi’s AR Smart Glasses Square Up with Rivals?

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Regarding hand tracking, Xiaomi’s latest AR smart glasses boast micro gesture controls, leading to enhanced human-computer interfacing (HCI) capabilities. These allow users to swipe virtual pages in manuals and eBooks, exit apps, navigate maps, and other controls.

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How Brain-Computer Interfaces Can Deliver On VR’s Promises

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Today’s MR hardware seems a bit like a 1970’s IBM. Meta is working on an AR headset, which puts them in the same league as Microsoft and Magic Leap. Gesture controls preclude hands-free operation. One thought-leader on this subject is neuroscientist and entrepreneur Meron Gribetz, CEO of Meta.

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#ICYMI: XR Today’s Big News Show on the Apple Vision Pro

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This ranged from user interfaces (UIs), filming, controls, and hardware optimisation. If the Vision Pro can live up to the technical specs, then this thing is very interesting, but they still need to deliver it” Comparatively, the Vision Pro’s price tag matched that of the Microsoft HoloLens and Magic Leap 2.

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