VRScout

JULY 12, 2021

Tech giants such as Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft have invested heavily into AR, VR and MR to speed up mass adoption through both hardware and software solutions.” ” “ XR Casino has first mover’s advantage in providing XR SaaS solutions to online, traditional casinos and sports betting companies.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 29, 2020

Google is going to buy North. A report says tha t Alphabet, the company behind Google, is in the last stages of the acquisition of North, the Canadian startup that makes the Focals smartglasses. Google adds depth APIs to ARCore. The post The XR Week Peek (2020.06.29): Oculus kills the Go, Google buys North, and much more!

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

This week, we look at tech stocks, Quest 2’s continued rise, Google’s VR sunsetting, and horsing around with Snapchat See the full roundup below. What is up with Google and XR? The product is a 3D modeling software for PC VR and Oculus Quest headsets. W elcome back to Spatial Beats. Tech Stocks Had A Great Q4.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 10, 2022

But, software is important too. The bigger your XR needs are, the larger your software needs are. This allows devices to become smaller while running more robust software. This allows devices to become smaller while running more robust software. XR hardware is on the move. But, what is the cloud anyway?

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

Magic Leap makes you look like a Minion, and even though I personally think the HoloLens looks much cooler (hey, what can I say, I’m a geek) I will also admit that it feels on the heavy side after prolonged use. It offers content such as AR enhanced golf training by Oncore Golf, Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

First of all, Google has to keep the work on the headset very secret also internally , because Samsung is afraid that Google will steal its expertise to build a competing product. Google is working in parallel to build the Android XR operating system for this headset and a Micro XR operating system for AR glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

As a long-time AR enthusiast, and one of the first to have tried Google Glass in Italy, I have to admit that I will consider AR mainstream only when it will be on glasses that we will wear all day , when we’ll live in a completely shared mixed reality world (the AR Cloud). Magic Leap will meet its fate.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 23, 2024

Magic Leap has reportedly laid off its sales and marketing teams as a result of the company’s decision to focus on licensing the technology behind its headsets. Only a few years ago Magic Leap was making headlines after raising $3.5 Only a few years ago Magic Leap was making headlines after raising $3.5

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Road to VR

JUNE 28, 2023

Google has reportedly shelved a multi-year project that sought to commercialize an AR headset, known as Project Iris. Provided the report is true, it appears Google will now need to rely on Samsung to compete with Meta and Apple in XR. And Google’s ambitions were, let’s say, very big.

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VRScout

JANUARY 24, 2019

Magic Leap makes you look like a Minion, and even though I personally think the HoloLens looks much cooler (hey, what can I say, I’m a geek), I will admit that you begin to feel the considerable weight of the device after prolonged use. Image Credit: Vuzix. Image Credit: Vuzix.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 9, 2022

With investment in everything from the hardware side of the XR collaboration story, to the software side, with apps like VR Workplace, Meta is paving the way to host of opportunities for all companies to get involved in the next generation of work. Magic Leap.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 5, 2018

Called Vuzix Blade, the smartglasses are more of a heads-up display akin to Google Glass than a positionally-tracked AR headset like Microsoft Hololens or the upcoming Magic Leap One , although the Blade’s styling certainly comes closer to ‘normal’ than many we’ve seen before.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

university, I started as a software engineer for a small Internet Service Provider in Osaka City in the mid-nineties. From there, I worked my way up through various companies to software management, then director, and since last year I’ve been the head of all things technical at meleap inc. After majoring in computer science at a U.S.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Making an AR headset accessible enough for consumers is a vastly different challenge to producing higher cost enterprise headsets— just ask Magic Leap. The team has demonstrably thinned out over the last few months, with HoloLens veterans such as principal optical architect Bernard Kress leaving the company recently for Google Labs.

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Road to VR

JUNE 22, 2023

Azure Cloud Platform competes alongside AWS and Google Cloud. To its credit, the company had the foresight to release HoloLens in 2016, a full two years before unicorn startup Magic Leap could get its first standalone AR headset out the door. Breaking the Zune Curse? Don’t get me wrong, Microsoft has success stories.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

He’s going to kill Apple and Google Maps in 2 years , at least in places where he has a lot of cars” All these cars have 8 camera, Lidar, AI chips, and they are connected to the cloud. Why can’t it be Facebook, or Magic Leap ? They control all their ecosystem : software, hardware, chips.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2020

Nreal wins first round against Magic Leap in the IP theft trial. Another bad news arrives for Magic Leap: the judge that was examining the case of IP theft from Nreal has found no evidence that a theft has actually happened , and so has closed the case. Google experiments on Lightfields streaming. Image by Nreal).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

I’m an electrical/optical/software engineer. It’s the combined use of a customized image source, customized drivers with customized ASICs , projection optics, customized optics eyepiece optics, electromechanical structures, and software and control systems. The software ecosystem will be more built. Hello Kelly!

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

This is great news for the customers of the Quest 2, but it poses some doubts about the retro compatibility of the Quest ecosystem that Zuck promised at OC6: if the Quest 2 is much more powerful than the Quest 1 and the Quest 1 is discontinued, has sense for developers to keep producing software that is compatible with Quest 1?

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

This time we don’t have more info about the hardware, but about the software. Somnium is already an investor in XTAL, and it is so strengthening its position as a leader both in the software and the hardware necessary to access virtual worlds. Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap has sold units of its first device for $550.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 11, 2023

Google has unveiled its Geospatial Creator for Unity platform, allowing developers to preview 3D assets via the Unity Editor. Viewing spatially-linked assets on a hyperrealistic 3D planet map, the toolkit powers ARCore and Photorealistic 3D Tiles via the Google Maps Platform, it said on its website.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I’m sorry about that, but it’s still a miracle I’ve managed to write it… Top news of the week (Leaked image from Samsung video) Samsung is back to XR with Google and Qualcomm The big news of the week is that Samsung is back to XR. What is even more interesting is that this device will be built in partnership with Google and Qualcomm.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Now we see a small, but healthy and growing market for VR devices, software, and services, which are focused on delivering solutions around entertainment, training, education, and clinical use. Starting Point: Why Is AR Stuck in Neutral? AR’s story relates to VR, which had a false start in the 1990s before receding to research labs.

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ARPost

JULY 16, 2019

As software, hardware, and applications improve, so do the mental health and medical fields. As a result, companies like Apple, Google, Magic Leap, Microsoft, Oculus, and others will be in attendance with experiences. Technology improves over time.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

On the client side, the system will become compatible with iOS devices, and a Magic Leap client has also been developed. On the server-side, it is being integrated with Microsoft Azure, and it is also coming in the future for Google Cloud and Tencent Cloud. Google is hiring waveguide developers for AR.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 11, 2021

Russian government hackers piggybacked on cybersecurity software (!!!!) B from Google, Disney, AT&T, Alibaba Group, JP Morgan, Kleiner Perkins, Qualcomm, and other brand name investors to make see-through AR glasses, and the content, optics, chips, and AI that go in them. The hack of the century.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 29, 2023

Virtual reality combines hardware and software to immerse users in digital environments for numerous use cases, including learning, entertainment, therapy, and others. Companies such as Varjo, Magic Leap, Meta, Pico, and HTC VIVE rely on AI to assist in foveated rendering. into their services and platforms.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Voke calls its main product TrueVR, which is a proprietary stereoscopic camera and software that can deliver content across various devices– not just virtual reality headsets. The notoriously secretive mixed reality company Magic Leap has acquired parts of Dacuda , a B2B computer vision software company.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 6, 2020

But they fall short in advanced campaign analytics when compared to web AR, where you can utilize tools like Google Analytics to track performance. Magic Leap is building a software ecosystem around its product. Built-in social graphs and media-sharing create that advantage. Microsoft is doing the same with Hololens.

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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. Both Azure Spatial Anchors and Google Cloud Anchors are leveraging existing strengths in mapping towards the AR Cloud. Who Will Own the Metaverse?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

To be able to develop for nReal glasses, you must have this software installed on your system: Unity (at least version 2018.2); Android SDK (at least version 7.0). Android Studio is Google’s IDE to create Android applications, and by installing it, you also download and install all the tools that are required for Android development.

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VRScout

MAY 30, 2017

Remember, HTC is the Taiwanese-based hardware manufacturer and the HTC Vive Tech Corporation is a subsidiary that partners with American-based software company Valve for content via their huge Steam library. After quietly settling a gender discrimination lawsuit recently, it turns out that Magic Leap is back on the fundraising trail.

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Upload VR

APRIL 15, 2024

In 2020 Mozilla laid off 250 employees including staff working on Firefox Reality, and in 2022 handed over the project to "open source software consultancy" Igalia, which relaunched it as Wolvic. Today Wolvic is available on Meta Quest, Pico, Magic Leap 2, and Huawei VR Glasses.

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Tech Trends VR

MARCH 7, 2018

This is a piece of SIM software,” Christian explains. It’s courseware that you can interact with either on a PC, or stick it on a Google cardboard and in there you’d have hotspots where you can find out more about certain elements, or control where you go within the experience. This is where it sits within a Pearson product.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 24, 2020

Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Snap and Qualcomm are all making significant investments.” Then there’s Magic Leap. These are software-based challenges such as semantic scene understanding, image persistence & occlusion, and other computational challenges. Could it run low on cash?

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ARPost

APRIL 29, 2021

Instead, this article will stick to discussions of dedicated software solutions for AR remote collaboration with a focus on enterprise use cases. A headset that uses virtual screens could be an enterprise AR solution without being collaborative, as could a training software that a user employs on their own non-connected device.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

I think that, after a year, its specifications don’t sound exceptional anymore and maybe it is better that LG jumps directly to a second generation or that enters the standalone market (as it seems, since there are some rumors about a new revolutionary headset screen developed by Google and LG). Magic Leap releases its SDK.

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