AR Insider

JANUARY 24, 2020

Imagine knowing the answer to the question on the tip of your brain the moment you touch your phone. Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Snap and Qualcomm are all making significant investments.” Then there’s Magic Leap. Google learned this the hard way with Google Glass.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 10, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Google) Samsung XR headset may have been delayed The new rumor in town is that Samsung has delayed its upcoming headset that it is building in partnership with Google and Qualcomm. It’s been another interesting week in immersive realities, so let’s see what happened in our field in the past few days!

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

While not swapping anything out, Google is attempting to make the world an ad through its visual search app–Google Lens. Check out the example below of Mica , Magic Leap’s intelligent agent. Just imagine a world where Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant have bodies. Virtual humans are getting more and more real.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 30, 2020

thanks Alessio for the tip!). This is intriguing because a system made by only LEDs is very very cheap, and could help the widespread of eye tracking in XR headsets. The bad news is that it is only a prototype and it has not the same grade of accuracy of the current systems, like the ones developed by 7Invensun. Apple ARKit 3.5

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

Thanks Davy Demeyer for the tip). If you want to help them, there is a dedicated Google Form where you can apply. The Price Is Right” TV show tried to ask how much a Magic Leap One headset is worth of, and someone has even answered 1 dollar! And the work is not over: the Army is already working on a v4. Well, maybe.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2020

More info (Oculus Quest 2 tips & tricks) More info (How to activate 90Hz) More info (Top 15 free apps to download on Quest 2) More info (The best paid games and apps to download on Quest 2). I’ll link you some of them here below. My favorite one? The Quest 2 launch has been very positive.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 2, 2023

BlueJeans has remained a longstanding partner of immersive solutions providers like Microsoft, Vuzix, Magic Leap, Mootup, and Google Glass Enterprise. Make the most out of virtual meetings with our best features and tips for #BreakoutRooms Get better collaboration for hybrid teams. BreakoutRooms Done Right!

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 29, 2024

These glasses have outperformed the sales of Ray-Ban’s first-generation smart glasses, ‘Ray-Ban Stories’ This potential deal could grant Meta more control over EssilorLuxottica’s smart glasses division and strengthen its position in the competitive market against tech giants like Apple, Google, and Microsoft.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 18, 2018

This is a list of some of the talks that have immediately caught my attention : Google Spotlight Stories team has always been able to create amazing short movies in VR (Image by Google Spotlight). Google Spotlight Stories has always created very interesting immersive content, like the first VR doodle. More details. More details.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

Image by Google). Project Iris is the codename of Google’s AR glasses. According to a report on The Verge, Google is working on AR glasses. The operating system should be Android, but it seems that Google is also building an operating system specific for XR. Thanks Marco Giammetti for the tip). What about yours?

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

We did a project just using Google's hand tracking library. Alan: With Facebook now working on AR, and you've got Magic Leap, and Microsoft's Hololens. And, you know, Magic Leap-- people are going to expect when they walk around holograms, they stay put. We did a project just using Google's hand tracking library.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

We did a project just using Google's hand tracking library. Alan: With Facebook now working on AR, and you've got Magic Leap, and Microsoft's Hololens. And, you know, Magic Leap-- people are going to expect when they walk around holograms, they stay put. We did a project just using Google's hand tracking library.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. And it was tons of fun, despite all the obvious technical glitches that you face when you're at the tip of the spear. What age would you potentially start using a Google Cardboard with a student? I think, from the 80s.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

We did a project just using Google's hand tracking library. Alan: With Facebook now working on AR, and you've got Magic Leap, and Microsoft's Hololens. And, you know, Magic Leap-- people are going to expect when they walk around holograms, they stay put. We did a project just using Google's hand tracking library.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. And it was tons of fun, despite all the obvious technical glitches that you face when you're at the tip of the spear. What age would you potentially start using a Google Cardboard with a student? I think, from the 80s.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 4, 2018

While it’s only been released on the Vive Focus so far, Western audiences may soon have access to Beat Reality and/or similar visualizer apps with the proliferation of MR passthrough cameras on standalone headsets, similar to features we’ve seen on hardware such as Magic Leap One Creator Edition, Oculus Quest and the Lenovo Mirage Solo.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

GB: Magic Leap is a big presence in the AR discussion. Outside of the sort of people in this room and in the games press, I don’t think most people know what Magic Leap is. When you talk about investment, certainly Magic Leap has garnered the most, but ODG just closed a big round. GB: Google Glass.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2019

In Taiwan, all western websites work and so you don’t need to set up a VPN just to use Google. 3D objects had washed out colors , a bit like when you see AR objects through HoloLens 1 and Magic Leap One … they appeared a bit semi-transparent. But the more you stay there, the more you notice that there are differences.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

One of their announcements the other day was this amazing ability to create 3D objects and 3D products, and then have the back end to source and serve them up for programmatic ads on Facebook, on Google. We’re not tied to Magic Leap. 3D on Web is really becoming prevalent as well. We’re not tied to Microsoft.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

One of their announcements the other day was this amazing ability to create 3D objects and 3D products, and then have the back end to source and serve them up for programmatic ads on Facebook, on Google. We’re not tied to Magic Leap. 3D on Web is really becoming prevalent as well. We’re not tied to Microsoft.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

One of their announcements the other day was this amazing ability to create 3D objects and 3D products, and then have the back end to source and serve them up for programmatic ads on Facebook, on Google. We're not tied to Magic Leap. 3D on Web is really becoming prevalent as well. And now it's, "we can use it.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 17, 2019

I’m trying to solve this issue appealing to Google, but more than ever consider donating money on Patreon to sustain this blog , that takes me a lot of time and various expenses, to keep it alive. Thanks Mati for the tip!). Does Magic Leap want to create a big reality show? Top news of the week. More info More info.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Thanks Ivan Aguilar for the tip) More info Magic Leap One is going to be bricked in the next days As already announced by Magic Leap some time ago , soon all the servers related to managing Magic Leap One headsets will be shut down, so no one of these glasses will work anymore.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 28, 2019

And it delivers an experience much like the original videos that Google came out with for Google Glass. I’m saying, “OK, 2025 we’ll have some AR glasses that are Magic Leap, Hololens, with all the bells and whistles. It’s got this nice field of view out in front of you. And maybe sooner.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 28, 2019

And it delivers an experience much like the original videos that Google came out with for Google Glass. I’m saying, “OK, 2025 we’ll have some AR glasses that are Magic Leap, Hololens, with all the bells and whistles. It’s got this nice field of view out in front of you. And maybe sooner.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 28, 2019

And it delivers an experience much like the original videos that Google came out with for Google Glass. I'm saying, "OK, 2025 we'll have some AR glasses that are Magic Leap, Hololens, with all the bells and whistles. It's got this nice field of view out in front of you. Instructions walking down the street.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

It is also able to understand vocal commands in noisy environments, like the ones of factories Cisco and Google have joined forces and now Webex Expert on Demand, the platform for remote assistance by Cisco, will be available for Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2. More info (Realwear Navigator 500) More info (WebEx on Google Glass 2).

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Are they building stuff for Magic Leap? That’s what was used to kind of as the kernel for a curriculum that Circuit Stream started with. When you talk about XR AR, it’s virtual/augmented/mixed reality, computer vision, spatial audio, just kind of everything wrapped into this spatial computing package.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Are they building stuff for Magic Leap? That’s what was used to kind of as the kernel for a curriculum that Circuit Stream started with. When you talk about XR AR, it’s virtual/augmented/mixed reality, computer vision, spatial audio, just kind of everything wrapped into this spatial computing package.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Are they building stuff for Magic Leap? That's what was used to kind of as the kernel for a curriculum that Circuit Stream started with. When you talk about XR AR, it's virtual/augmented/mixed reality, computer vision, spatial audio, just kind of everything wrapped into this spatial computing package.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Are they building stuff for Magic Leap? That's what was used to kind of as the kernel for a curriculum that Circuit Stream started with. When you talk about XR AR, it's virtual/augmented/mixed reality, computer vision, spatial audio, just kind of everything wrapped into this spatial computing package.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

Thanks David for the tip). Thanks Eloi for the tip). Google launches AR Live View for Maps. Finally, Google will release the AR features of Google Maps for all the Android and iOS smartphones that support ARCore or ARKit. Huawei has shown the roadmap for Harmony OS, and from the timeline, it seems that Harmony 3.0,

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

So, Kura is not only smoke and mirrors, there is really an amazing tech behind it, and that technology is called “structured geometric waveguide” (that is different from the diffractive waveguides used by other products like HoloLens or Magic Leap). Google updates ARCore with Persistent Cloud Anchors.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

Google unveils Starline communication solution. At Google I/O, Google has announced Project Starline, an interesting project it has worked on for five years. It is about creating a bridge between two distant people. It feels like magic. I think it can become just the nth XR project that Google will abandon.

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