Road to VR

JULY 29, 2019

It’s a major milestone, according to Khronos Group which has overseen development of the standard by a consortium of many of the biggest names in the AR/VR sector. OpenXR’s ‘working group’, under which representatives from member companies have been actively developing the standard, is facilitated by Khronos Group.

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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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VRScout

MARCH 25, 2022

Snap has opted instead to distribute hardware to a select group of creators familiar with Lens Studio , the company’s Lens-building software. Unlike existing AR headsets such as the Magic Leap 2 or Microsoft HoloLens, the Spectacles feature a discrete, light-weight design more akin to glasses than a headset.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 18, 2024

Google and Magic Leap Form XR Partnership Google I/O 2024: The Latest XR Updates from Google Google Blocks is a 3D modelling platform for virtual reality that does not require expert knowledge to use. “That software also requires building 3D objects on a 2D screen—something our brains aren’t wired to do.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 19, 2024

Google and Magic Leap Form XR Partnership Google I/O 2024: The Latest XR Updates from Google According to the computer graphics news website CG Channel, the original version can still be accessed via Steam and the Meta store, but it is no longer receiving updates. Google AR Glasses: Is This the Return of Google Glass?

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Road to VR

JANUARY 22, 2019

Intel’s Brent Insko has taken over as the Chair of the OpenXR working group after Epic’s Nick Whiting passed the torch. The standard has been in development since April 2017 and is presently supported by virtually every major hardware, platform, and engine company in the VR industry, including key AR players like Magic Leap.

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VRScout

AUGUST 15, 2018

E-commerce supergiant, Alibaba Group, recently announced Taobao Buy, an AR infused shopping experience that reimagines how you shop online with an interactive experience that looks and feels futuristic, but is also easy to use. Through cooperation with Microsoft, Taobao Buy’s AR content will be accessible through the HoloLens headset.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

At the same time, Meta’s flexible software landscape ensures teams can access a wide range of educational apps, or make and implement their own learning tools from scratch. VIVE’s technology combines incredible high-definition visuals and audio with ease of use and a flexible ecosystem for software programs. Magic Leap.

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VRScout

MARCH 25, 2019

The Rift S also does away with the manual IPD adjustment mechanism featured on the original Rift in favor of a fixed lens system and ‘software IPD adjustment’; a decision that has apparently struck a cord with the Oculus Rift’s original designer. Image Credit: Palmer Luckey.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Virtual reality (VR) medical training firm Vantari VR has begun rolling out its software platform across the Middle East and Italy to help democratise medical training worldwide, the company announced last week.

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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2022

Former Vice President Al Gore, then–Disney CEO Bob Iger and other Apple board members walked from room to room, trying out prototype augmented and virtual reality devices and software. The report says Cook “rarely visits the group at its offices away from the main Apple campus.”

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

ManageXR (extended reality) is a hardware administration service for deploying virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (AR/VR/MR) devices and software across a dispersed workforce. The solution is cross-compatible with various AR/VR/MR hardware brands, including Meta, Magic Leap, and Pico. A History of Partners.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Grove wants to take support groups to VR. Grove is an interesting project on Kickstarter that aims at taking support groups to virtual reality. And VR could guarantee to these people even more anonymity than standard anonymous groups. We have new developments on the Magic Leap vs nReal lawsuit.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 19, 2020

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.

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ARPost

JULY 16, 2019

As software, hardware, and applications improve, so do the mental health and medical fields. Creating new standalone headsets make sharing VR a social experience, which can aid in training and group activities. Technology improves over time. The conference will have topics on games, entertainment, healthcare, and more.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 29, 2018

Historically, virtual reality systems were prohibitively expensive and were limited to being used in controlled conditions by a small number of researchers, scientists, and groups like astronauts. It was typical to customize headsets to suit these users , just as space suits were made to fit specific astronauts.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Metaverse Tech Will Be Built and Used by a More Diverse Group of People John Payne, CEO of Croquet , believes that metaverse technologies will be built and utilized by more diverse groups. This, he thinks, will prompt the growth of the number of VR consumers.

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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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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 16, 2024

Shawn Frayne, Co-founder & CEO of Looking Glass , gives a sense of the wide range of use cases for its 16” and 32” displays: “We’ve seen so many industries and individuals benefit from our group-viewable spatial displays. For the best possible group-view experience , you can broadcast 45 to 100 views.

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Magic Leap finally dropped to mixed reviews and BrainXchange published its Definitive Guide to Adopting Wearables, AR and VR in Enterprise. Meanwhile, Boeing and Delta Air Lines have been testing exoskeletons to augment employee safety; and both companies joined the exoskeleton advisory group X-TAG launched by Sarcos Robotics in March.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

This is a free association headed by Khronos Group, the consortium behind the OpenXR standard, which aims at creating standards for the future metaverse. The Khronos Group already succeeded with OpenXR, so it has a good track in helping in creating standards. Metaverse Standards Forum aims at setting standards for the metaverse.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2020

We also have an older build for Magic Leap, but currently there are technical limitations preventing third party browsers on that platform. Mozilla Hubs instead is not usually much considered by people, that still seem to prefer VRChat, Altspace or similar software. Mozilla Hubs. What is the reason in your opinion?

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

While widespread consumer adoption is still far away, many AR hardware and software firms are leading the pack in spreading the technology worldwide. Nreal, Meta, Magic Leap, and RealWear produce AR devices that suit consumer, enterprise, or industrial environments. The device took a while to hit the market.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 6, 2020

Until recently, Brian Kane has been highlighting more experiential demos - like one that puts a porthole to the ocean in your living room - to highlight the power of the Magic Leap, and of spatial computing in general. Magic Leap is one of these Magic Leap devices, you put it on, and your whole world is spatial computing.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2019

But in software this is not guaranteed. People often tell me that software has to only target particular demographic, but we all work and exist in the same physical world, so the virtual one should let us do that too, but better. No other VR software offers it at this level, from within VR and in multiplayer.

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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. What kind of devices and software will we need to participate in this AR Cloud? Find out more details, dynamics and submission guidelines here. .

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

This has allowed companies to access standalone headsets with the latest specs along with major support for software development via the company’s Snapdragon Spaces platform. The tech industry responded by rallying as a community and a group. These range from the Lenovo A3 [and Magic Leap 2].

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 30, 2024

This week, Meta released its Quest v68 software update , which introduces a new first-party application for innovative passthrough situations and optimisation of other application processes. Meta designed the layout application, following similar immersive customer experience innovations from groups like Ikea.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

Image from Khronos Group). Realize Medical has just launched Elucis, a software that makes doctors look and analyze medical images in VR. Afterlife ”, a horror VR game; Internal logs of latest Minecraft release shows that there may be an internal demo of the software that can work on PSVR. Other relevant news. Well, maybe.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 10, 2017

AR/VR is the next generation technology that will change the world after PC Internet and mobile Internet,” said Lenovo Capital and Incubator Group President, George He, in a prepared statement. “It is a required technology investment direction for virtually every enterprise.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Moreover, for businesses looking to jump into XR, Zapper offers Zapworks, Mattercraft, and Designer, a collection of streamlined XR software frameworks that enable clients to create and distribute 3D web content, immersive applications, and AR/VR content on a variety of end devices, including smartphones and desktops.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 15, 2024

The OpenXR API is a core piece behind many XR headsets from vendors such as Acer, ByteDance, Canon, HTC, Magic Leap, Meta, Microsoft, Sony, XREAL, Qualcomm, Valve, and Varjo. The OpenXR Working Group leverage industry-wide feedback to improve its API service. Moreover, Muniz explained that OpenXR 1.1 Muniz also added: OpenXR 1.1

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

A little fact: due to their combined shape, the unit+the controller form a group called “Oreo” Controller. HoloLens is winning over Magic Leap because it is inserted in the context of a great platform (great SDK, Azure AI/ML/Cloud services, Microsoft tools like Teams, etc…).

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AllThingsVR

APRIL 18, 2017

Magic Leap acquires FuzzyCube Software 1) TheWaveVR has released the beta version of its social VR music platform on the Steam Early Access on the PC. Seattle-based Maveron led the round, with participation from Madrona Venture Group of Seattle, Trilogy Equity Partners of Bellevue and other individual investors.

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ARVR

JULY 15, 2020

Apple seems to be cornering the popular entertainment industry, with the acquisition of NextVR, as industry rivals such as Magic Leap focus on enterprise solutions. Unity 3D is probably the most common software used for developing VR/AR applications?—?you By the way, all these softwares are free of charge!

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Upload VR

MAY 20, 2022

Apple’s VR/AR team is called Technology Development Group (TDG) and is led by former Dolby executive Mike Rockwell. To get support for the project, team members apparently warned that companies like Facebook and Magic Leap could end up owning the sector.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2018

Most of our customers come from video production, advertising, architecture, game and software development. Another notable group is Physically Based Rendering (PBR) models, which are gradually becoming a standard in the industry because their textures render correctly and look great in any lighting conditions.

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