The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

Another busy week has passed by, and here in Italy we just got the news that lockdown measures will start to loosen from next week, but the road to go out as we wish is still long. We’re looking for a Unity dev for a freelance gig lasting 1–2 months, ideally from Italy or a nearby country (for easier management). Image by Magic Leap).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 8, 2019

I love going to China, but I love more my Italy. Last year I went there and interviewed John Gaeta (the inventor of The Matrix’s bullet-time, now at Magic Leap) and talked with amazing people like Eloi Champagne and Donald Greenberg. Either in China or in Italy, this would be overly cool! to 11.00am. See you there.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 7, 2024

While Nreal Light could only detect flat planes such floors and tables, Xreal Air 2 Ultra can apparently generate a 3D mesh of your room, as Meta Quest 3 and high-end AR devices like Magic Leap 2 can. In addition to scene meshing, Xreal is also promising hand tracking, permanent spatial anchors, and arbitrary 2D image tracking.

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MAY 4, 2017

Essilor is the world’s largest lens manufacturer, and recently merged with Luxottica of Italy, the world’s largest eye-frames company. Magic Leap. Magic Leap has experimented with a variety of optical designs in order to find a feasible light-field display that can be manufactured at massive scales.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2022

In the long and troublesome travel back to Italy from AWE, I’ve lost the last flight and so I’m currently here writing my newsletter from the lobby of the hotel where I spent the night :|. Hello all from L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, the small town of the Barcelona airport. News worth a mention. Image from OpenBCI).

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 29, 2024

EssilorLuxottica, a multinational corporation based in Italy and France, is already working with Meta on developing Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. Magic Leap Ditching its Hardware Business? Magic Leap has reportedly laid off its sales and marketing teams because it decided to focus on licensing the technology behind its headsets.

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Road to VR

JULY 12, 2022

Magic Leap today announced pricing and release date details for the company’s latest AR headset, Magic Leap 2. Magic Leap 2 Release Date and Price. Magic Leap 2 is finally set to officially launch on September 30th, 2022. Magic Leap 2 Developer Pro. Magic Leap 2 Specs.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

As a long-time AR enthusiast, and one of the first to have tried Google Glass in Italy, I have to admit that I will consider AR mainstream only when it will be on glasses that we will wear all day , when we’ll live in a completely shared mixed reality world (the AR Cloud). Magic Leap will meet its fate.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 17, 2019

I will depart my lovely Italy on Saturday, to attend the Sandbox Immersive Festival (SIF) in Qingdao, China. When you see a title of mine written in Chinese, you already know what is going to happen. Yes, I am returning again to China. Yes, new adventures await me. Yes, my stomach won’t be that happy, but I am a lot.

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EON Reality

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The winners for all categories stand to win prize money, the latest Magic Leap headset, an EON Reality Global Classroom Champion trophy, and an annual campus license with full access to the AVR Platform. The winners shall be announced on May 14, 2020 at the EON Reality Experience Fest in Bologna, Italy. Contest Rules.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

After a few days where we thought we were all living in a big oven, here in Italy we’re having the first taste of Autumn, with the temperatures going down and a lot of rain falling from the sky. Since MRTK was used especially for AR applications, it is natural that these three giants of augmented reality are interested in keeping it alive.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

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. Road To VR) More info (Qualcomm’s Wi-fi 6 chips?—?Upload Upload VR). In the end, it has happened. Contact me.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 10, 2023

I will leave you the link to donate for these two causes below. Let me take a moment before to thank anyway all my Patreon donors for the support they give to me: Alex Gonzalez VR DeoVR GenVR Eduardo Siman Jonn Fredericks Jean-Marc Duyckaerts Reynaldo T Zabala Richard Penny Terry xR. appeared first on The Ghost Howls.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 16, 2022

I have just returned back home to Turin (Italy) after my trip to Laval and Paris, and as usual when I attend an event, here I am reporting to you the impressions of some of the hardware and software I have tried there. I think Qualcomm has to do something to solve this problem once and for all for everyone.

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Tech Trends VR

JANUARY 1, 2019

Hardware, too, has evolved significantly this part year, with the long-awaited launch of Magic Leap and the release of the Oculus Go , which means that it is now possible to have untethered, six degrees of freedom experiences in a headset costing under $200. Brazil, U.K.

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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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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Magic Leap flopped, HoloLens is dead, and even Nreal, with its affordable Light glasses, has not taken off. If you add VAT, in Italy it will cost €600. Pico 4 has pass-through MR, too (even if not stereo-corrected), but I’ve heard of no great use of it, either. The Quest 3 is also going to be released at $500.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 29, 2021

It’s a sunny lockdown day here in Italy, the sun is shining and the trees are blossoming. If we exclude the major tech companies (Facebook, Valve, etc…) and the meteor Magic Leap, this is the first VR company to reach this status, and this is another sign of the health of the virtual reality ecosystem.

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2022

The Magic Leap 2 will be available for purchase starting at $3,299 through select partners. American startup company Magic Leap has announced the official price and specs of the Magic Leap 2, its latest mixed reality headset designed for professionals and developers. Image Credit: Magic Leap.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 13, 2022

Magic Leap has announced on Tuesday the release window for its sophomore augmented reality (AR) headset. The firm is making the Magic Leap 2 product commercially available on September 30 this year. Magic Leap will also debut the device in Japan and Singapore later this year.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

Today in Italy it should be the day when we go pic-nicking… but given the fact that we are in lockdown, I’ll just eat a lot at home While I send you a lot of good vibes, let’s see together what have been the best pieces of AR/VR news of this week, that has been incredibly interesting! (My

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

It’s hot and the drought is creating some issues here in northern Italy. 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. Top news of the week. Image by Meta). Meta showed prototype headsets from its R&D department. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Bredow was recently in Milan, Italy for the VIEW Conference. Several of the early VR projects from ILMxLab, including Trials on Tatooine and the Magic Leap mixed reality droid experience , were built using Epic Games Unreal Engine 4 technology. “We 6 Star Wars Battlefront Rogue One: X-Wing VR Mission.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

You can register on the website for a chance to be part of it; The Last Light, a little gem developed by Magic Leap’s creative people before the big layoffs, has finally been released for free on the Magic Leap store. More info (Beat Saber DLC) More info (Frostpoint VR) More info (The Last Light).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 7, 2019

I’m in Italy again and here in these days, it is damn hot and wet. I’m hoping to attend a VR event in the North Pole, so that I can feel some cold again. This week in XR has been quite cold instead, and there have not been many interesting news. Anyway, it has not been that useless either…. Top news of the week. Image by Valve).

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 2, 2023

This is due to several “false starts” with Google Glass , Microsoft HoloLens2, and Magic Leap, although the companies remain potential customers. Replacing parts required a person from Italy to hop on a plane and fly on-site to help with the repairs. Those days are totally gone and will never come back.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 18, 2018

I’m very happy to talk about a very important event that will take place very soon in my city of Turin (Italy): the VIEW Conference. The Metaverse, that becomes the MagicVerse, in Magic Leap’s terms (Image by Magic Leap). More details. October, 26th (Friday) – 17.30. “What is the MagicVerse?”

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Coronavirus is back in Italy and from yesterday we’re having new restrictions like a night curfew, some kind of shops closed, etc… I hope that you and the people you love are safe. Some years ago, she performed in The Life, a Mixed Reality art piece inside the Magic Leap One.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 30, 2022

It is also promoting the metaverse everywhere, also on mainstream media: yesterday a friend of mine who doesn’t work in tech told me to have seen a TV spot here in Italy about the metaverse. Do you remember when everyone was criticizing Magic leap because it got $2.5B So, Magic Leap was even cheap in comparison.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

They’re launching today at $300 direct from Ray-Ban as well as official online retailers in the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Italy and Australia. Stories are being offered in three distinct flavors: Wayfarer, Round, and Meteor, all of which appear to be pretty similar to original Ray-Ban frame designs. Smart er glasses, maybe?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

We’ve just done one in Bologna in Italy. And that allowed us to expand the business and have a presence that today, although we don’t have investment, I think we have more locations than Magic Leap, that has a $2.7-billion And I’m together with Magic Leap, I think Magic Leap is a wonderful product.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

We’ve just done one in Bologna in Italy. And that allowed us to expand the business and have a presence that today, although we don’t have investment, I think we have more locations than Magic Leap, that has a $2.7-billion And I’m together with Magic Leap, I think Magic Leap is a wonderful product.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

We've just done one in Bologna in Italy. And that allowed us to expand the business and have a presence that today, although we don't have investment, I think we have more locations than Magic Leap, that has a $2.7-billion And I'm together with Magic Leap, I think Magic Leap is a wonderful product.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2019

I wrote a review on Magic Leap One because my friend (and ex partner ) Gianni made me try it. Is that VR event in the mountains of Italy really a good opportunity? Try to spare money whenever you can. When I needed a Vive OG last year to play around with eye tracking , I bought a used one. Mostly not, there will be few people.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 27, 2019

I’m back in Italy, and finally, I can eat again some good pasta… even if I will miss ?? 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?

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 28, 2019

and this is good from one side, but stressful on others… much thanks to air conditioning to make me survive in that oven that is Italy in these days!). Magic Leap has just rolled an important update. In the meanwhile, Puzzlar, the first indie game developed with the dev grants of Magic Leap, has been released.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The very recent news, that Snap announced at AWE EU, is that Spectacles are also coming to Europe, and to be exact in Germany, France, Spain, Italy (yay!), I would say the glasses have probably more things in common with HoloLens 2 than Magic Leap 2 because of the constrained FOV and the visual artifacts.

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