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MagicLeap, the multi-billion dollar AR startup, could be exploring the possibility of a sale, a Bloomberg report maintains, citing people familiar with the matter. The company’s deep pockets funded the release of MagicLeap 1, an AR headset targeted at developers, enterprise, and anyone with $2,300 to spare.
I will write a little report soon, in the meanwhile, you can enjoy a video of me riding a mechanical bull shot by Charlie Fink: [link]. Image by MagicLeap). First previews show MagicLeap 2 qualities. More info (MagicLeap 2 preview on The Verge) More info (MagicLeap 2 preview on CNET).
Image by MagicLeap). MagicLeap is on sale. A report on Bloomberg informed us all that MagicLeap is exploring a sale of the company. The sales never skyrocketed and now MagicLeap is in desperate need of cash , after many layoffs, disappointing sales, and having put its IP as collaterals to a bank.
I thought it would have taken me a lot before I would be able to try the MagicLeap One , but luckily this has not been the case. At a certain point, I asked him: “oh, you said me that you have tried MagicLeap… how is it?” The three component of the MagicLeap One. I was amazed.
This past July Facebook released its experimental Passthrough API into the wild, allowing developers to harness the Oculus Quest’s built-in cameras to create engaging mixed reality experiences. Originally developed for the MagicLeap One mixed reality headset, Magic Keys uses Passthrough technology to teach you how to play the piano.
Oculus Quest gets hand tracking. Last week, the runtime v12 of Oculus Quest has been rolled out , and this took with it lots of interesting updates. To start, now the Oculus Link is more stable and it is compatible with some AMD GPUs. Oculus Quests have started getting vocal commands in the menu. Top news of the week.
In the interview with me, he talked about many topics, like the rumors he heard on Apple Glasses, on the Oculus Quest 2 , the America vs China war, XR entrepreneurship, Tesla, and more! If you don’t have 2 hours, don’t worry, here below I have extracted the most interesting tidbits of the videos for you to enjoy!
Leaked concept video featuring two Samsung AR devices has come to light. Known leaker ‘ WalkingCat ‘ released two videos showing a pair of separate device concepts. If Samsung AR Glasses did exist as we see them in the video above, it would signify a truly magicleap in mobile processing.
We are in the days of the MagicLeap hype : developers that have bought it are posting videos everywhere and every one of us is trying to understand if the device is valuable or not. So, here you are my editorial regarding MagicLeap. So, here you are my editorial regarding MagicLeap.
Yesterday I was reading the comments on Reddit regarding my post with the predictions for Oculus Connect 5 and the kind redditor /u/SilverWhite2 provided me the link to the latest available patent with the design of Santa Cruz. Front view (Image by Oculus). Rear view (Image by Oculus). Top view (Image by Oculus).
Devices: HTC VIVE, Oculus Rift. It takes the user through a series of magical landscapes, from deep seas to tropical forests. Devices: Samsung Gear VR, Oculus Go. 5 stars rating on the Oculus store) and costs only $2.99, so give it a try! Devices: Samsung Gear VR, Oculus Go. Mind Labyrinth VR Dreams.
He has joined Rony Abovitz at MagicLeap and now he’s there, trying to build the MagicVerse as the SVP of Creative Strategy of the Florida company. You can also skim through the written questions and click on the link to enjoy the video version of only the questions you are most interested in. MagicLeap glasses.
The app also includes a mobile centric UI as well as the ability to download images, videos, and documents. Spatial is currently available on the Oculus Quest/Quest 2 , Microsoft HoloLens/HoloLens 2 , MagicLeap , Nreal Beta , and compatible web browsers. For information on pricing visit here.
Regarding big brands, I expect Apple and Facebook still to wait a bit before releasing something, while MagicLeap will have to make its move to come out from the quicksands. My duck-face while wearing MagicLeap One glasses. The company to keep an eye on is MagicLeap. MagicLeap should be very careful.
If we talk about compatible devices, we all have a smartphone that can do AR, we all have watched on some social media short video selfies with some AR effects on. This commercial video about Google Glasses led me to immersive realities. while we have seen the complicated life of Oculus hands-on booths at Best Buy.
When MagicLeap One was revealed, Rony Abovitz stated he was already working on MagicLeap Two and Three, for instance; Facebook believes a lot in having avatars that truly represent ourselves in XR , and it is a field in which they will invest a lot. More info (HCI of the future) More info (AI for videos).
Relative to enterprise-focused AR headsets like MagicLeap 2 and HoloLens 2, it’s also less expensive due to the inclusion of cheaper and less complicated optics, called ‘birdbath’ optics, which project light from a microdisplay to the eye via what’s essentially a curved see-through mirror (among other things).
MagicLeap has just organized its first developers’ event, dubbed “L.E.A.P.” It is the first event of this kind organized by MagicLeap: we can say that LEAP Con is like the Oculus Connect of MagicLeap and will probably become always more important, year after year, exactly as it has happened to Oculus.
Custom Geometry: You can render Passthrough images to a custom mesh instead of relying on the default style mesh—for example, to project Passthrough on a planar surface. With a device like Quest 2 loaded full of cameras, it’s definitely worth thinking about privacy, especially now that third-party apps can make use of AR capabilities.
MagicLeap 2 bridges AR and VR. The interest in MagicLeap 2 is growing. This week we had a full reveal of the headset, the controller, and the computational unit in a video that reveals all their external details. A genius has found a smart way to cover the Oculus Home button on Quest controllers for public demos.
In the VR realm, the new version brings native mixed reality video compositing for VR applications, and an update to a much newer Oculus SDK. along with MagicLeap support. Up to this point, mixed reality video compositing has generally required third-party programs and game implementations. Updated Oculus SDK.
Oculus devices will require a Facebook login. The enormous piece of news of the week is tha t Facebook has communicated that from October, 20th, all people that want to use an Oculus device for personal use will have to use their personal Facebook account to log in. Top news of the week. Image by Tweakanalogy). The same on Twitter.
More info (Road To VR review) More info (Ars Technica comparison with other devices) More info (Polygon review) More info (Playing Oculus games with the Knuckles) More info (Orders backlog) More info (Valve Index fitting guide) More info (Wireless Index) More info (All games compatible with Index) More info (Gabe Newell talking about the Index).
Image by Oculus). Someone has already received it and has already shared on the social media videos of the Air Link in action. The other bombshell news is that Resident Evil 4 is coming to the Oculus Quest 2. On the client side, the system will become compatible with iOS devices, and a MagicLeap client has also been developed.
If you really want to understand the putative metaverse, listen to this conversation with Viacom/CBS futurist Ted Schilowitz and MagicLeap founder Rony Abovitz. Billion in its latest round of financing, is available on PC, PS4/PS5, Xbox Series X/S, iOS, and Oculus Quest. Ryff raises $11.7M for its real-time brand integration.
In the video provided, Huaishu wears an Oculus Rift headset outfitted with an Ovrvision stereo camera as he designs a 3D model of a teapot in a 3D space using a pair of slightly-altered Oculus Touch controllers.
.” They partnered with Visyon , a Barcelona-based practical immersive technology company, to provide a widespread selection of technical experiences in VR from Oculus and Vive, and AR through MagicLeap, HoloLens, and Moverio glasses. A video and 360 degree experience of the launching event can be found here.
HTC released a video showing off its vision of the metaverse, a reflection of what the company thinks virtual spaces will look like in the near future. HTC’s most recent concept video isn’t at fault for shooting for the stars. To think, HTC and Oculus were once competitors back in the early days of consumer VR.
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 MagicLeap One ), but to create a headset that is: Affordable; Completely open, both from a software and hardware standpoint. Reference Design Issues.
The company’s chipset can be found in leading standalone headsets like Oculus Quest, Go, Vive Focus, HoloLens 2, Lenovo Mirage Solo, and plenty more. While XR1 was made for low-end devices, XR2 5G targets high-end standalone headsets, making it a candidate for Oculus Quest 2, MagicLeap 2, and similar next-gen devices.
The first interesting forecast is about the number of sold Oculus Quest 2 headsets. and also why the $2+B investment in MagicLeap was not enough to bring it to success. The most viral video of the week is the one by startup Brickit, which made an application that uses AI+AR to make sense of a mountain of LEGO.
MagicLeap 2 has inside-out tracked controllers. During a presentation, MagicLeap has unveiled some more features about its headset and controllers. More info (MagicLeap presentation) More info (Close up of the controllers). HTC has released a trailer video with his vision of the metaverse.
Spatial hands-on video review! Are you a fan of my Youtube videos? Well, if it is the case, first of all I’m sorry for your bad taste (LOL), and then I’m happy to tell you that I’ve recorded all my hands-on session in Spatial, and commented some of its highlights in a detailed review video. Cross-platform.
Some days ago, I published on Youtube the video of my unboxing of the Realmax Qian glasses. RealMax Qian Video Review. I have prepared a cool video review about the RealMax Qian , talking about how it is in all its aspects, and showing some through-the-lenses footage. Are you ready to discover more about Realmax Qian?
It’s hard to explain this with words, so watch this video of Palmer Luckey trying them to understand what I’m talking about. Luckily Brad Lynch went to their booth and made a video to tell us his first impressions of the SHARP VR headset. It is going to be released this year.
Popular VR videos streaming service VeeR is planning to enter the LBVR sector with an all-in-one VR video installation. It is experimenting with a chair that will let people spend their time watching 360 videos. Me while trying the VR video chair. I think that it may be an interesting solution for 360 videos.
Image by Oculus). Oculus Quest may have sold only 400,000 units. It seems that according to it, Oculus Quest , considered by many the first VR headset that can become mainstream, has sold only 180,000 units in Q3 of this year, for a total number of 400,000 units sold since launch. Oculus starts its Halloween sale.
The timing for this event comes on the heels of an announcement that ILMxLab have been collaborating with MagicLeap , a company shrouded in secrecy that is promising revolutionary augmented reality technology. Where: VRChat to join live with Oculus Rift, HTC Vive or monitor. billion in funding.
Facebook, owners of VR tech giant Oculus, launched the Facebook Game Developers Showcase as their alternative offering. The event, which launched Monday and concludes Wednesday, will include special videos and blogpost announcements on both Facebook’s social games and VR games by Oculus. With that, let’s look into the launch.
Facebook has started today enforcing the “Facebook login” rule , asking Oculus users to merge their Facebook and Oculus accounts. So I imagine a Quest 2 where you can avoid having a Facebook account, but you can’t use the Oculus Store, or all the most important apps and games , and so you are de facto forced to use it.
Every year I like to play the guessing game for the Oculus/Facebook/Meta Connect making my list of predictions… which are not always correct, but they are good because they entice all the community people to play this game with me and to tell how they would love to see XR evolving.
MagicLeap, for instance, supports two focal planes and jumps between them as needed. Oculus’ Half Dome prototypes do something similar, with support for a larger number of focal planes. Below you can see a through-the-lens video showing the headset’s ability to focus at any depth in the scene.
So after the video, many people said that they understood it is not a scam and proceeded to pay the $10 to reserve the headset. Personally, I have to say that I’m not convinced at all even after the video. Then why MagicLeap hasn’t delivered a solid product with 2B?) Anyway, the message to Zuck has been sent.
They should guarantee better tracking both for the headset and the controllers; The controllers are smaller and seem a mix between the Oculus Touch and the WMR 1 controllers. I don’t see this device stealing the scene from Oculus, since Oculus is cheaper, but I’m quite sure this new headset will be able to grab a good market share.
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