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Magic Leap’s John Gaeta talks about the future of cinema, storytelling and mixed reality

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He has joined Rony Abovitz at Magic Leap and now he’s there, trying to build the MagicVerse as the SVP of Creative Strategy of the Florida company. And what you are doing at Magic Leap to create these experiences for people? ( Magic Leap glasses. What will we need to create such an infrastructure?

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The XR Week Peek (2021.04.05): Rumors on a Apple headset intensify, Quest 2 sales grow fast, and more!

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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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The XR Week Peek (2020.10.26): DecaGear is an intriguing VR headset, HTC is working on a new device, and more!

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So at least the collaboration with Valve is true, but notice that it has not been on the headset, so they got no reference design from Valve, it has just been on the software integration. Some years ago, she performed in The Life, a Mixed Reality art piece inside the Magic Leap One. Doug Lombardi, Valve. Learn more.

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All the most important AR and VR news from the GDC 2018

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If you make a custom device for VR only, you can design it from day zero to be optimal to do only VR : this means that even if the Go is based an old VR 821 reference design, it has more power than a Gear VR mounting an S7 phone (and dissipates better the heat); The Oculus Go headset and controller (Image by Road To VR).

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VR’s Killer App May Be Full-Body Codec Avatars

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The “uncanny valley” refers to a well-known concept describing the discomfort people feel seeing faces that resemble humans but miss the mark in meaningful ways. And indeed, two other demos provided by Meta on either side of the live cross-continental call made clear just how far there is to go.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.05.24): Snap releases new Spectacles AR glasses, Quest releases runtime v29, and more!

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Digilens shows a reference design for AR glasses. DigiLens, one of the most important Waveguide optics manufacturers, has just announced the “Design v1”, a reference design for modular AR glasses. More info (Google Starline announcement) More info (Google Starline article on Wired). Track your body in VR with just two webcams.

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