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 post Researchers Electrically Stimulate Muscles in Haptic Designed for Hands-free AR Input appeared first on Road to VR.

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AUGUST 8, 2018

Magic Leap’s computer vision headset is now on sale in cities across the U.S. startup Magic Leap unveiled its long-awaited mixed reality headset, a secretive device five years and $2.44B USD in the making. Haptics: LRA Haptic Device. Image Credit: Magic Leap. December of last year U.S.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2022

Ultraleap Stratos Explore is the product for which Ultrahaptics (which later became Ultraleap after the fusion with Leap Motion) was famous. It is a little box you could put on your table to feel haptic sensations on your hands without wearing any kind of gloves. Hands-on Ultraleap Stratos. on the index fingertip).

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AR Insider

JULY 15, 2020

Visually immersive and contextually-aware AR glasses like Magic Leap One and Hololens 2 require optics whose power consumption and heat dissipation necessitate bulky headgear, rather than anything you’d consider “eyewear.”. This comes down to a classic design tradeoff. Signals in today’s market support this play.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Ultraleap, a leading company focused on hand-tracking interfaces, this week announced it has secured a £60 million (~$82 million) Series D investment, with the goal of expanding its hand-tracking and mid-air haptic tech in the XR space and beyond.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 16, 2022

In this article, I will tell to you my first impressions of the Lenovo ThinkReality A3 AR glasses and the Acrtronika Skinetic haptic suit that I tried on the Laval Virtual show floor. Actronika Skinetic is a haptic suit with 20 vibrotactile voice-coil motors that can make you feel vibrations on your body to simulate the sensation of haptics.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2025

The controller of Magic Leap 2 features onboard cameras that perform inside-out tracking, too. Many VR gloves have come out using Vive Trackers for positional tracking, so that their companies could work on finger tracking and haptic feedback. having a Vive headset with Valve controllers).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Feature-wise, it is more or less as we expected it to be, with four cameras for inside-out tracking, haptic feedback, IPD adjustment , eye-tracking, HDR display. Magic Leap 2 has inside-out tracked controllers. During a presentation, Magic Leap has unveiled some more features about its headset and controllers.

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ARPost

AUGUST 2, 2023

Just on the main floor, we had Vuzix promoting their Ultralite turnkey AR solution, Sightful with a screenless Spacetop AR laptop , XREAL presenting XREAL Air glasses , and Magic Leap returning with Magic Leap 2. The Renaissance of Haptics It was hard to ignore the sheer volume of haptic-related products at AWE.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Like HoloLens or Magic Leap One, it has 6DOF inside-out tracking, but also boasts a relatively wide 52-degree (diagonal) field of view, which is thanks to a ‘birdbath’ optical design which projects imagery from dual 1080p microdisplays; both HoloLens and Magic Leap One use waveguides for their near-eye displays.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 14, 2019

A few pieces of equipment are also shown, including a curious wrist-mounted affair that may very well be a haptic device. There’s no word on whether the company plans on productizing the AR headset, or creating a developer platform such as Magic Leap One.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

Magic Leap 2 bridges AR and VR. The interest in Magic Leap 2 is growing. If headsets like Lynx or Project Cambria implement AR on a VR headset, Magic Leap 2 implements a bit of VR on an AR headset. Japanese startup H2L is working on a haptic bracelet. News worth a mention. Upload VR).

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Day Two Day two only has one proper keynote scheduled, this time with Magic Leap. Last year, the company’s Head of Product Management, Jade Meskill, took the stage to talk about the Magic Leap 2 and “augmented enterprise.” First off, a number of haptics pioneers will be there including Haptx , bHaptics , and SenseGlove.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Seems like they’re zeroing in on Maps as the sweet spot for XR and tossing everything else, like their Daydream headset, their investment in Magic Leap, Poly, and finally Tilt Brush, overboard. Former Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz launched his new company Sun and Thunder at the VentureBeat Conferences on Metaverse(s) this week.

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ARPost

JULY 21, 2023

The real pioneers of this are definitely Magic Leap and their waveguide lens is the future that I was expecting Apple to actually achieve some kind of breakthrough on,” said Almeida. I also think that they’re opening a path for haptic gloves.” Almeida sees gaming and input in general as one of these opportunities. “To

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AR Insider

JUNE 22, 2021

As examined last week, the latest signals for Apple’s AR glasses indicate regular glasses that eschew a Magic Leap-style AR experience in favor of simpler optical enhancements like helping you see better. That’s opposed to starting with advanced AR then sizing-down towards wearability. Evidence in today’s market support this play.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2023

Further references Lenovo presents Project Chronos (The Verge) Project Chronos presentation video (Lenovo Youtube channel) bHaptics leaked hardware bHaptics showcased at CES its TactGlove haptic gloves , which got good feedback from the community.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

The moment I turned my hand over or closed my fist, the little blue bird would flutter away and move around the room; similar to the Undersea MR experience offered by the Magic Leap One Creator Edition, in which a 3D fish cuddles in the hand of the user. Image Credit: Microsoft. EYE-TRACKING AND VOICE COMMAND.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

” Meta’s video, which it released during its Connect developer conference in October, is less a roadmap and more a marketing barrage—like a hundred Magic Leap ‘whale’ moments smooshed into one. If the mobile market is any indication, we can at least expect to see early efforts divided along product ecosystems.

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VRScout

JANUARY 23, 2019

Lyft drivers would access this information through an AR headset, such as a Microsoft HoloLens, Google Glass, or Magic Leap, which would place the digital content directly in the view of the Lyft driver, or through an AR enabled smartphone. You could also use your own smartphone or any type of wearable AR device to find them yourself.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

With the surge of new headsets, including the Meta Quest Pro, Pico 4 Enterprise, Varjo Aero, Vuzix M400, HTC VIVE Focus 3, Magic Leap 2, and Lenovo VRX, global firms meeting the challenges of the global workforce upskilling crisis. Changing the Way Companies Train Staff.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 27, 2017

Companies like Magic Leap are allegedly working on technology that perfectly produces the way your eyes see the real world, but that technology hasn’t arrived for consumers yet. NVIDIA is also showing new haptic research that could point toward more immersive touch sensations in VR.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 27, 2019

We have new developments on the Magic Leap vs nReal lawsuit. Do you remember Magic Leap suing nReal because its founder, a previous Magic Leap employee, may have founded the Chinese startups using Magic Leap IP? More info (nReal vs Magic Leap) More info (New nReal’s partnership).

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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

One of the biggest names in the VR data glove field is Manus VR, and VRFocus recently got to test its new flagship product, Manus Prime Haptic. At first glance, the Manus Prime Haptic gloves look a bit unwieldy with cables running along the fingers and Vive Tracker on the back of each glove. Then it came to the haptics.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Other influential figures in the XR industry support Android XR, including Qualcomm, Sony, XREAL, Magic Leap, and Lynx, an emerging player in the XR market. The Miniverse is a 3D mouse that utilizes haptic technology to replicate digital objects’ texture, weight, resistance, elasticity, viscosity, and edges.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Especially the DualSense is an amazing piece of tech, with very stable IMUs and haptic sensations that increase a lot the “immersion” in the games : they can provide you the sensation of resistance, of textures of materials, of movements. Then why Magic Leap hasn’t delivered a solid product with 2B?)

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

The notoriously secretive mixed reality company Magic Leap has acquired parts of Dacuda , a B2B computer vision software company. The company disclosed that it is divesting its 3D scanning assets which could be used to facilitate inside-out positional tracking (which does not require external sensors) for Magic Leap’s product.

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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. After years of secrecy and hype, Magic Leap finally released its first developer kit in August for $2,295. The company’s direction is unclear. Image source: ZDNet.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Future of Magic Leap After Ross Rosenberg was appointed Magic Leap’s CEO in October 2023, the company has since focused on its enterprise roadmap for 2024; targeting its XR devices towards enterprise and industrial clients. Magic Leap started to understand that these walled gardens are not their future.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 22, 2019

From headsets to haptic suits, there is going to be a lot of accessories and apparel in XR to chose from, including some that expand senses you didn’t even know were XR-compatible. You’ve got things like haptic suits, haptic gloves. Let’s start at something crazy; haptic suits.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 4, 2023

Goertek NReal Lenovo Iristick Vuzix Magic Leap XYZReality Longan Vision Rokid ThirdEye Google Toshiba Epson RealWear Microsoft Lumus TCL RayNeo Goertek Offering a variety of extended reality products for virtual and augmented experiences, Goertek has a range of smart glasses included in its portfolio.

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Road to VR

JUNE 17, 2024

Interestingly enough though, Apple may be setting future expectations by keeping the headset’s battery off the user’s head, possibly even leading the company to offload compute to a separate device in the future, like a tethered iPhone or dedicated compute puck like Magic Leap 2.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 11, 2022

The company offers a range of modules, including the Stratos Inspire, and Leap Motion controller. The organisation is also investing in haptics, to help users feel more within the XR interactions. Unity and Magic Leap. It will be interesting to see what Valve delivers next.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

Microsoft Magic Leap Varjo HP Acer Samsung ASUS Dell Biel AjnaXR FYR Medical ESight Canon IrisVision VRgineers Zappar Lynx Valve Microsoft Microsoft has been increasing its focus on the extended reality landscape in recent years, with the production of solutions such as Microsoft Mesh, and a metaverse environment for Microsoft Teams.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

For the first time I can see a real footage of the Teslasuit haptic gloves. Rony Abovitz talks about Magic Leap 2 and clarifies that it has been made by the team of ML1, which now is almost all gone. Lowe’s makes more than 500 3D models available for free to content creators. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more.

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Upload VR

JUNE 6, 2023

Apple's announcement today is a very good validation of the overall XR/spatial computing sector," Magic Leap founder Rony Abovitz wrote to me. Apple was built and then rebuilt over decades from Mac to iMac to iPod to iPhone, and now its leadership now sees a sizable market in the prospect of virtual worlds and augmenting vision.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

Controller : Weight : 23g Tracking : 3DoF Connection : Bluetooth Controls : Touchpad, Click, Haptic feedback. 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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