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My predictions for augmented reality in 2020

The Ghost Howls

Regarding big brands, I expect Apple and Facebook still to wait a bit before releasing something, while Magic Leap will have to make its move to come out from the quicksands. My duck-face while wearing Magic Leap One glasses. The company to keep an eye on is Magic Leap. Standalone/All-in-two headsets.

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How Different XR Companies Approach Cloud Services

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Generally, “the cloud” refers to remote servers that do work off of a device. We are now at the level that we are super happy with the latency and deployments.”. For example, Magic Leap has had a partnership with Google Cloud for the past year now. The bigger your XR needs are, the larger your software needs are.

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Hands-on: VR Motion Controller ‘Atraxa’ Offers Promising 6DOF Without Occlusion Issues

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Northern Digital is a Waterloo, Canada-based manufacturer of 3D measurement devices, and while the company has mainly focused on creating for various industries such as medicine and aeronautics throughout their 35 years of existence, they’ve recently unveiled a reference design for a magnetic tracking system for VR headsets and controllers.

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Leap Motion’s North Star is the DK1 of AR: hands-on preview and how to buy it!

The Ghost Howls

The idea of Leap Motion is going against the current trend of augmented reality glasses, that is mostly based on expensive devices that have closed ecosystems (e.g. HoloLens or Magic Leap One ), but to create a headset that is: Affordable; Completely open, both from a software and hardware standpoint. Reference Design Issues.

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Play For Dream Showcases Passthrough Latency By Weaving Between Cones While Driving

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Play for Dream teased its headset's low latency passthrough by having a racing driver weave between cones while wearing it. One of the concerns about passthrough is latency. With see-through AR you get zero latency view of the real world, whereas in passthrough systems it takes time to process the camera frames.

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Qualcomm XR2 Chip to Enable Standalone Headsets with 3K×3K Resolution & 7 Cameras

Road to VR

While XR1 was made for low-end devices, XR2 5G targets high-end standalone headsets, making it a candidate for Oculus Quest 2, Magic Leap 2, and similar next-gen devices. Today the company is introducing the latest iteration of that chipset, the Snapdragon XR2 5G. And then there’s integrated 5G. Image courtesy Qualcomm.

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The most important XR news from MWC 2019

The Ghost Howls

I have also to say that there is still a long road to go before going there: the magazines that have tried the solution of HTC found it very interesting, but at the same time highlighted how the latency was still high and sometimes if you moved too fast, you lose the tracking. The look it provides is also cool.

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