AR Insider

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Always see chart date for context, and refer to newer data if applicable. Always see chart date for context, and refer to newer projections if applicable. Always see chart date for context, and refer to newer data if applicable. Magic Leap is building a software ecosystem around its product. Platform Rundown.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2019

HTC 5G streaming. HTC was at MWC showcasing its new headset Vive Focus Plus together with a 5G network. There was a real 5G network created by HTC where on one side there were some special computers that mocked a rendering farm and on the other side there was a user wearing a Vive Focus Plus. The look it provides is also cool.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

HADO” is a name we use either standalone to refer to our flagship and most popular team sports game , but it also refers to a genre of games where an energy ball is released by the player through gestures. The Vive Pro Eye just launched by HTC at CES (Image by HTC). With “technosports”, you will sweat.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

HTC has finally revealed the price of the Vive Pro : it will cost $799 just to have the headset (no controller and no base stations, so you must already have a Vive 1 kit) and will be available for pre-orders since April, 5th. But, as Road To VR has stated, maybe HTC should have clarified that in all its marketing material.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Create a spatial anchor that references a place on your wall, and you can show a virtual screen there anytime your user comes back to your application. Magic Leap 2 "Support for the Magic Leap ecosystem was recently added to the vendor plugin as well. Spatial anchors allow you to make this persistent.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

HP and Microsoft have a long track in offering enterprise hardware, so this headset may battle HTC on his own land (B2B). Rony Abovitz steps down from Magic Leap CEO. This was a very good thing and attracted many people to Magic Leap. I hope that Magic Leap will benefit from it and will recover pretty soon.

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Upload VR

MAY 20, 2022

References to realityOS were found in App Store upload logs and Apple code earlier this year. Early prototypes in 2016 used jury-rigged HTC Vives and software running on Microsoft Windows, with one being so heavy it had to be suspended by a small crane. The board of directors includes CEO Tim Cook.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

confirmed with the company that it may not be a Niantic-branded pair of glasses, but a reference design that Niantic is building with Qualcomm since 2019. This pairs well with a piece of news from mid-2020, where Niantic said that it intended to build a reference design, but not its own Pokemon Go glasses.

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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. The pilot, which used an iPad and HTC Vive powered by Marxent’s 3D Cloud Service, showed that VR increases average order value by 60%. The company’s direction is unclear.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

“Apple has invented the glasses of the future” is probably what journals and magazines will say the day of launch, and all the various HoloLens , Magic Leap , etc… will be forgotten by mainstream media. I also see Oculus finally announcing a wireless accessory for the Rift S.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Around the event venue, instead, there are many writings about VR, and many references around the tech. In the surroundings of the event, there are many references to VR and 5G. Me with a Droolon F1 inside an HTC Vive Cosmos! I shot this photo at the metro stop. Hands-on Droolon F1. And it costs only $150! Vive Cosmos….

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TechCrunch VR

APRIL 3, 2023

The move is especially interesting in light of the relatively recent shift toward enterprise customers that’s been explored by Meta, Magic Leap and HTC. That’s due, in part, to the fact that while the original was compatible with HTC headsets, this one is only available bundled with a customized Pico Neo 3 headset.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

Last year we had nReal showing us that AR can be trendy, and HTC making us dream with the Vive Cosmos. Yes, the biggest companies were not there with a booth (Oculus will probably target the OC6, HTC the VEC, etc…), but it is the first time that I read the XR news from CES and I dont’ remain surprised. Sony Playstation.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 31, 2016

At this year’s IMMERSE Summit , Road to VR sat down with Matt McIlwain , managing director at Madrona Venture Group (investor in Envelop VR and Pixvana ), and Patrick Eggen , managing director at Qualcomm Ventures (investor in Owlchemy Labs and Magic Leap ), to discuss their investing strategies when it comes to virtual and augmented reality.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

Steve Mann is commonly referred to as the “father of wearable computing” for innovations like the EyeTap, which combined computer processing with graphical design and textual overlays. Image Credits: TechCrunch When HTC began imagining life after the smartphone, it looked a lot like VR. The feedback we were getting from them was that.

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VRWorld

JULY 5, 2017

More sharp eyed readers of this post can see the pixel grid on both HTC Vive and Oculus Rift headsets, and this is where Varjo hopes to make the difference. While I am an enthusiast for VR and all associated technologies, one major issue that’s really breaking my immersion into different VR environments is – resolution.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 15, 2016

The HTC Vive is arguably the best out there, but having to buy a souped-up laptop just to run it, paying full price for brief games that feel more like demos, and trailing a huge cable off your head and fumbling to mount trackers on your ceiling…it’s not ideal.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 30, 2023

Quest 3, A Quick History Most recently, Meta entered a negotiation with Magic Leap to leverage the former’s AR technology for an unspecified immersive device – notably, the deal foreshadows both firms’ monumental presence at AWE this week. Mark Zuckerberg is. Features may change for the WWDC announcement.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

Magic Leap. Me, wearing a Magic Leap One. The most important news has been for sure the launch of the Magic Leap One. Rear view of the Magic Leap One. Leap Motion. You may ask why I’m adding Leap Motion here. Leap Motion’s North Star headset (Image by Leap Motion).

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 26, 2022

This idea is used in mainline Quests, Pico headsets, Valve Index, HP Reverbs, Oculus Go, and the original Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. HoloLens 2, Magic Leap 2, iPhone Pro, and iPad Pro automatically scan your room and create a 3D mesh, which apps leverage for collision and occlusion between virtual and real objects.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Tech companies across the industry have widely adopted the XR2 for their immersive devices, including market leaders such as Lenovo’s ThinkReality VRX and A3 devices, Meta’s Quest series, as well as HTC VIVE and Pico Interactive product lineups. AR Smart Viewer Design.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

I was working a school group here known as GESS -- which is the acronym for Jumeirah English Speaking School -- also broadly referred to as GESS Dubai now. You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. And for those 11 years, I've always worked at the same school. And you know what?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

This could actually be quite beneficial for Meta, Microsoft, and Magic Leap. AR can also assist in quality inspections by highlighting defects, providing real-time feedback, and comparing finished products to digital reference models. When you look at streaming channels, they compete against each other and make better content.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

I was working a school group here known as GESS -- which is the acronym for Jumeirah English Speaking School -- also broadly referred to as GESS Dubai now. You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. And for those 11 years, I've always worked at the same school. And you know what?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

Correction: The $2 billion a year refers to global VR investment numbers, while the $50 billion U.S. Question: From a prioritization standpoint as far as investments, are you looking for the next Magic Leap, or are you looking at content platforms, content creation, codecs? If we’re talking about a $2 billion to 2.5

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

HTC has revealed the design of the Vive Cosmos. HTC has finally unveiled some information on the Vive Cosmos. HTC has told in the past that this is a headset more consumer-oriented , but Sebastian Ang of Mixed Reality TV has reported that, according to a reliable source, the price will be 899. Magic Leap is suing nReal.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 19, 2018

If you have seen Avengers: Infinity War, for sure you will get this reference (Image by Memes and Gifs). ” Mister President unleashing the Vive superpowers (Image by HTC). How to hide the object. Once you have found the object, you have to hide it. And so I started experimenting. A wild Oculuso Go appears in front of my eyes!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2019

HTC has been able to create some hype about this device, also because of the rumored features regarding the smartphone integration. This new reference design for VR headsets shows a USB-C connection (most probably a VirtualLink ) that can be plugged into a PC or a smartphone. And how does it work?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2019

HTC Vive Cosmos and its controllers, just announced at CES (Image by HTC). HTC has been the VR star of this CES 2019. The biggest announcement has been the HTC Vive Cosmos , a headset that has generated a lot of hype also because HTC has not revealed all its features, but it has only teased them. FinchShift.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 5, 2020

But as far as I know, nothing disruptive for the industry : Oculus has already shots all its bullets, and HTC for the first time isn’t announcing anything. If it happens, it would also interesting to see what happens with the WMR reference design. The Reverb follows the design, that anyway only features 2 cameras. Let’s see.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2022

If the rumor is true, Meta by 2024 is going to basically release the Nreal glasses or a mix of Nreal Light and Magic Leap 2. It seems that the beta of the upcoming iOS 16 is full of references to glasses and the Reality OS operating system, so it seems that the launch of the Apple XR headset is imminent. The reason?

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

And, they’re maybe not focused around the headsets and stuff, but you guys even dabbled in the headsets and built a reference design. Companies like Magic Leap and Hololens, those are great devices where most of the compute is done on the headset… well Magic Leap is actually done on a pack that’s wired in.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

And, they’re maybe not focused around the headsets and stuff, but you guys even dabbled in the headsets and built a reference design. Companies like Magic Leap and Hololens, those are great devices where most of the compute is done on the headset… well Magic Leap is actually done on a pack that’s wired in.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

And, they're maybe not focused around the headsets and stuff, but you guys even dabbled in the headsets and built a reference design. In the case of the previous product -- Alloy -- that we did as a reference design, that was one of the few times we'd actually created a fully-hatched device to be used as a reference design in the VR space.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

And I think it's a really interesting point, because many VR users tend to buy VR to play games, including Steam or Oculus or HTC Vive. And even HTC is teasing it, these lightweight pair of glasses. Joonmo: Yeah, about one or two years ago we tried to use AR glasses, such as Magic Leap or Nreal. Alan: That's fantastic.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

And I think it's a really interesting point, because many VR users tend to buy VR to play games, including Steam or Oculus or HTC Vive. And even HTC is teasing it, these lightweight pair of glasses. Joonmo: Yeah, about one or two years ago we tried to use AR glasses, such as Magic Leap or Nreal. Alan: That's fantastic.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

And I think it's a really interesting point, because many VR users tend to buy VR to play games, including Steam or Oculus or HTC Vive. And even HTC is teasing it, these lightweight pair of glasses. Joonmo: Yeah, about one or two years ago we tried to use AR glasses, such as Magic Leap or Nreal. Alan: That's fantastic.

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