Road to VR

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

This comes alongside an alleged partnership with Samsung that would see the development of a wholly new consumer AR device that is rumored to tether to a Samsung smartphone. Making an AR headset accessible enough for consumers is a vastly different challenge to producing higher cost enterprise headsets— just ask Magic Leap.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Donning an augmented reality headset, such as the Microsoft Hololens or the Magic Leap One, users can dive into a limitless workspace composed of content from your digital devices, anytime, anywhere.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Moreover, it’s not just hardware or one specific use case. Samsung to Debut MR Headset in 2024? This week saw more rumblings about a Samsung MR headset. Samsung is following leaks from earlier in the year, showing how Google and Qualcomm are assisting with developing a Samsung headset.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Meta plans to fight Apple thanks to the help of LG, a company that has deep expertise in manufacturing hardware and displays. This seems a smart decision to me: Meta needs this kind of partner to be able to improve its hardware manufacturing capabilities, and LG is a solid one. It’s the end of an era.

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Road to VR

JUNE 22, 2023

Even with viable hardware on your side, it’s not an easy thing to do. 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.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2023

More info Meta may partner soon with Magic Leap The Financial Times this week reported a very unexpected piece of news: Meta may be working on a partnership with Magic Leap for the production of AR glasses. Magic Leap has factories in the US and Mexico able to produce AR glasses. That’s so sad.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2017

Despite Sony being pleasantly surprised by its official PSVR sales figures – with the nearly 1 million units sold since its October 2016 launch – it’s difficult to get a handle on market penetration for VR hardware to date. SEE ALSO What VR Headset Makers (not analysts) Have Actually Said About Sales Expectations.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 23, 2025

Yesterday, during Samsung’s Upacked event, the technology giant gave a short but sweet insight into the future of its elusive but attention-grabbing Moohan headset. Samsung revealed the information on the device alongside its broader ecosystem updates, putting into perspective the value of a firm like Samsung in the XR space.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

The main one regards the 4 devices we were waiting for this year , which in our opinion should have changed everything: Quest 3, Apple Vision Pro, Google-Samsung Headset, and PSVR 2. Google and Samsung Prototype of the Samsung XR headset. I have this impression for a few reasons. Long story short: things are not good.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 4, 2025

Several major firms are taking to the event to showcase the latest in their AR/VR/MR endeavours, with a headline-stealing showcase coming via Samsung’s Moohan exhibition. At MWC 2025, Samsung showcased many products, from its mobile AI suite to new smartphones. The hardware design reflects Samsungs ecosystem-first approach.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 15, 2023

Spatial is a leading RT3D Metaverse platform for various hardware, including web browsers and XR headsets. The move promotes a user-generated content ecosystem via a flexible suite for creating, building, and publishing hardware-agnostic immersive content. Spatial also assists in the We3 revolution.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

This week, a curious hire opportunity appeared over at Samsung, just in time for its concurrent augmented reality/mixed reality headset push. Specifically, the role is filling an XR Director gap at Samsung Research America as part of the division’s MPS (Mobile Platform Services), SRA, and Immersive Experiences (IMEX) Team.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JUNE 21, 2024

According to Demis Hassabis, who oversees AI research at Google, smart glasses definitely seem like the “perfect hardware” for accessing a hands-free AI assistant. It may be that Google is “once bitten, twice shy” when it comes to creating its own XR hardware. Will Google and Magic Leap Create a New Set of Specs?

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VRScout

MAY 30, 2017

I’ve been a big fan of the cute little Samsung Gear 360 camera since its first unveiling in the spring of 2016, and always recommend it to people inquiring about the best consumer-friendly 360 cameras out there. After quietly settling a gender discrimination lawsuit recently, it turns out that Magic Leap is back on the fundraising trail.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 20, 2024

With Android XR, Google wants to power a broad range of proprietary and third-party experiences, spanning all the way from the upcoming Samsung XR headset , to smart glasses, and extended reality applications infused with artificial intelligence. It isnt just creating its own proprietary software and hardware.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 24, 2024

The firm also states that as several new headsets are emerging on the market this year, from Apple’s confirmed Vision Pro to rumoured devices from Samsung, the move to support MRTK3 prepares taqtile for an increased range of end-users. The toolkit also supports XR experiences delivered on traditional 2D monitors for personal computers.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 7, 2024

According to the Steam hardware survey, Windows Mixed Reality headsets are still used by 50–80,000 people today. We don’t have much information about them, but Samsung trademarked the name “Samsung Glasses” some time ago, so this may be a possible name. I cross my fingers, but I don’t have high hopes.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 13, 2024

2024 looks to be a foundational year for the future of XR, from hardware to software and from consumer to enterprise. Notably, Google is developing the XR OS in collaboration with Samsung, which also revealed plans to release an XR headset in 2025.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Next week, on 25th and 26th, Oculus will hold its main yearly event , and as always, it will talk about the milestones reached by the company and then it will show future hardware and software. No new VR hardware announcement. So, I expect no actual hardware announcements from this event. The Oculus Connect 6 is approaching.

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Upload VR

MAY 30, 2024

Sightful was founded by ex-Magic Leap executives Tamir Berliner and Tomer Kahan. That hardware powers the proprietary Spacetop OS operating system. It's an upgraded version of the Spacetop Early Access which shipped last year to "hundreds" of early adopters.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 26, 2024

Pitched as the next potential ‘Canva of AR’, the Trace platform offers tools for developers to create immersive content for a range of devices, including phones, AR glasses, and spatial computing hardware, such as the Apple Vision Pro. ” Trace is made up of a team with backgrounds from Magic Leap, Disney, Samsung, DARPA, and Harvard.

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2017

But, the industry is still in its infancy and still seeking a firm footing that will truly form an ecosystem: a self-sustaining web of hardware builders, software developers, and consumer demand. There’s early hardware out now which has allowed what Riccitiello calls a “developer focused industry” to begin slowly growing.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Maybe Magic Leap, before people got to know that the device was sort of a HoloLens 1+, had such attention to it. So at the end of the day, “no one cares about which is the better product, period” The perception of the importance of Vision Pro in the whole community is enormou s.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 30, 2020

The worlds of virtual and augmented reality have yet to land on the applications and hardware to truly spark mass-market, consumer interest in the space, but in the meantime, a startup building mixed reality services for business users has raised a round of funding, underscoring the opportunity in enterprise.

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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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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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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. Hardware announcements: Head-worn. After years of secrecy and hype, Magic Leap finally released its first developer kit in August for $2,295.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 8, 2017

One of the biggest reasons the smartphone is not dead yet is because the hardware to replace them still hasn’t reached a point where the user experience is comparable. The best examples of this are the Magic Leap prototypes, Microsoft Hololens and Qualcomm’s VR reference design. User Experience Is Sub-Par So Far.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Android XR aims to simplify the development of MR applications by offering a set of tools and APIs compatible across various hardware devices. And, we are continuing to collaborate with Magic Leap on XR technology and future products with AR and AI. The initiative builds on ARCore, Googles existing augmented reality framework.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

And the price of the wireless add-on is even more suspicious: speaking with a hardware manufacturer, they told me that ONLY THE ANTENNAS of a Wi-Gig connection for VR streaming (like the one of the Vive Pro) costs around $100… so how can the whole wireless streaming device cost just $50?? HTC launches Vive XR Suite.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 23, 2023

Magic Leap Currently focusing its attention on the enterprise landscape, Magic Leap produces AR and MR headsets designed to address the needs of various industries. The solution turns tracking inside out to reduce setup time and loosens the hardware restrictions of other devices.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

Some weeks ago, I teased you that Meta was going to change its plans about hardware, because the recent drop in revenues forced it to be a bit more cautious with its spending for “the metaverse”. More info (Report on new directions for hardware at Meta) More info (Meta smartwatch canceled) More info (Portal will be aimed at B2B).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 19, 2020

It is impressive that all these electronics can stay inside a so little piece of hardware. Magic Leap and nReal are trying to find an agreement. The trade secrets lawsuit between Magic Leap and nReal is entering a new phase, where the two companies will start a mediation to try to find a settlement.

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VRWorld

JULY 15, 2016

To bring the matters home to the readers of this website, graphene battery technology is one of key technologies we need for headsets such as Google Glass 2, which is currently being developed in conjunction with Luxottica , or a more recent development, Magic Leap prototype augmented reality glass.

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RealVision VR

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

With Hardware (cellphones) having enough processing power to overlay decent digital content over the real world when seen through a cellphone camera, it’s now feasible to play AR ‘games’ and tournaments such as Hado World that give e-sports a whole new meaning, exercising the body and not just a player’s thumbs!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

The Pimax 8K X in all its majesty (Image by Tom’s Hardware). Learn more on: Road To VR (Artisan) Upload VR (Artisan) Upload VR (Pimax 5K SUPER) Road To VR (All Pimax devices) Tom’s Hardware (Pimax 8K X hands-on). Samsung AR glasses. Ok Samsung, you have our attention. but we know zero about it.

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