Road to VR

JULY 29, 2019

The standard has been in development since April 2017 and is presently supported by virtually every major hardware, platform, and engine company in the VR industry, including key AR players like Magic Leap. A reference guide published by Khronos Group gives a high-level technical overview of the API’s structure.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Qualcomm supports partners with hardware and software reference designs which act as blueprints for companies like Lynx to quickly commercialize headsets. Image courtesy Lnyx. One of those shortcuts to market comes through Qualcomm’s hardware accelerator program and its XR SDK.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The idea behind Tilt Five is creating a pair of glasses that are not general-purpose ones, like HoloLens or Magic Leap : Jeri knows the technology is not ready yet. I appreciated having a tour inside them and seeing many gaming references, retrogaming devices, and other fun stuff scattered around them. the FOV is very little).

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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. It seems a clone of the Vive Focus Plus, and this is because actually it is based on a reference design provided by HTC.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2019

I had to start really low, building out core programming blocks, that are analogues of variables, references, lists, trees, classes and so on and then build out the engine from these. It’s like being inside of Unity engine with your friends. As you can see, it resembles a bit the one of Unity (Image by Frooxius).

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

This option gives you a headset plus $500 credit for Microsoft Azure , a three-month free trial of Unity Pro , and the PiXYZ plugin — giving you all the necessary tools to test, create, and launch enterprise apps for the HoloLens 2. If you’re a developer working on your own, Microsoft offers the HoloLens 2 Development Edition.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 4, 2024

If you're not familiar with it, Godot is a free and open-source alternative to Unity and Unreal. 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. Spatial anchors allow you to make this persistent.

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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). After AR, my lovely Focus can also do DR. And it is interesting to notice that this is something that is currently only possible with VR headsets … doing something like that with HoloLens or Magic Leap is impossible.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

It’s an umbrella term referring to various technologies influencing how we interact with computer systems. The term refers to many different technologies and tools which work together to improve human/machine interaction. Countless companies are beginning to explore this landscape, from Microsoft and Apple to Unity and Magic Leap.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

The third major change came from Unity which recently announced that it will now be serving AR ads on mobile. Unity has one of the world’s largest mobile ad serving businesses and at the end of last year they partnered with Fossil to pilot this new ad format in mobile games. The Evolution of Brand Activations.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

This could actually be quite beneficial for Meta, Microsoft, and Magic Leap. The reveal that Apple will be using Unity to bring 3D applications and games to Vision Pro was exciting. Their partnership with Unity will get them there quickly. Apple will use Unity to bring 3D applications and games to Vision Pro.

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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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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

They’re a Unity authorized training partner and their team of 20 people is giving professionals the skills they need to build value-driven XR experiences. Like, “Unity 101: here’s how to make a model.” Are they building stuff for Magic Leap? Alan: So how did you begin?

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

They’re a Unity authorized training partner and their team of 20 people is giving professionals the skills they need to build value-driven XR experiences. Like, “Unity 101: here’s how to make a model.” Are they building stuff for Magic Leap? Alan: So how did you begin?

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

I remember years ago — I think it was probably, I want to say about five years ago — we had a Unity session in our office, where we did Unity development basics, and we invited a lot of companies from the area in Austin to come to our office, and we would run a Unity training session around 2D/3D asset development.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

I remember years ago — I think it was probably, I want to say about five years ago — we had a Unity session in our office, where we did Unity development basics, and we invited a lot of companies from the area in Austin to come to our office, and we would run a Unity training session around 2D/3D asset development.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

They're a Unity authorized training partner and their team of 20 people is giving professionals the skills they need to build value-driven XR experiences. Like, "Unity 101: here's how to make a model." Are they building stuff for Magic Leap? From this journey, Circuit Stream's 10-week online course emerged.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

They're a Unity authorized training partner and their team of 20 people is giving professionals the skills they need to build value-driven XR experiences. Like, "Unity 101: here's how to make a model." Are they building stuff for Magic Leap? From this journey, Circuit Stream's 10-week online course emerged.

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VRGuy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Many game engines – such as Unity, Unreal and SteamVR- immediately support it. For those that want to design their own hardware, the OSVR goggle is a good reference design. Magic Leap is not commercial yet. We worked with several goggle manufactures to create plugins for their products. Others did this work themselves.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

I remember years ago -- I think it was probably, I want to say about five years ago -- we had a Unity session in our office, where we did Unity development basics, and we invited a lot of companies from the area in Austin to come to our office, and we would run a Unity training session around 2D/3D asset development.

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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. Software-wise, we use Unity, Vuforia, and OpenCV. As platforms for LBAR is conceptually better Hololens or Magic Leap?

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

The circle will close with the release of XR glasses, and we know that Niantic is also working on a reference system for them. Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap has sold units of its first device for $550. Other relevant news. News worth a mention. Snap shares lose -30% of its stock value.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

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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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

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. Simple WebXR” aims at bringing WebXR to Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

Lumus Maximus proves to be one of the most interesting reference designs for AR glasses. Things are going great lately, and for this, we are going to hire different figures including: Unity developers 2D/3D artists UI/UX designers Project Managers. More info (Ghostbusters VR) More info (Zenith) More info (Demeo). Other news.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

They are based on the Atraxa reference design (Image by Road To VR). Yeah, the 3D model of the trainer seems taken from the Unity Asset Store… Samsung has not talked about the glasses, not even revealing the name, or the specifications. And in fact, Neon reminds me a bit too much Magic Leap’s Mica project.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 9, 2021

Internally the device is referred to as NGVR (Next-Gen VR), but honestly, I still believe it will be called PSVR 2. VR To Tablet is a Unity plugin that lets you build your VR Android games in a way so that they can be enjoyed also by people that have a standard tablet. Subscribe to this new fresh channel to support him!

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2016

John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity Technologies, predicted that tech journalists would start gleefully writing that the virtual reality revolution is over because sales of VR headsets fell short of expectations, and analysts are in the midst of shaving back their predictions. That’s pretty scary for the AR industry because Magic Leap raised $793.5

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

That allows devices which don’t have the compute capabilities today — lightweight AR headset devices — to have the kind of capability that a higher-end device like a Hololens 2 or Magic Leap might have, or even better in some cases. We’ve got the Hololens silo, we’ve got the Magic Leap silo.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

That allows devices which don’t have the compute capabilities today — lightweight AR headset devices — to have the kind of capability that a higher-end device like a Hololens 2 or Magic Leap might have, or even better in some cases. We’ve got the Hololens silo, we’ve got the Magic Leap silo.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 26, 2019

They refer to something called a digital twin. So, as we begin to work with Magic Leap and Hololens and some of these others, and you’re able to do hands-free, and the headsets become able to be worn for longer periods, et cetera, et cetera, we expect that to increase over time. .” Are you familiar with this term?

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 26, 2019

They refer to something called a digital twin. So, as we begin to work with Magic Leap and Hololens and some of these others, and you’re able to do hands-free, and the headsets become able to be worn for longer periods, et cetera, et cetera, we expect that to increase over time. .” Are you familiar with this term?

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 26, 2019

They refer to something called a digital twin. So, as we begin to work with Magic Leap and Hololens and some of these others, and you're able to do hands-free, and the headsets become able to be worn for longer periods, et cetera, et cetera, we expect that to increase over time. In the Internet of Things sort of industry 4.0

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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. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. Magic Leap rebrands and kills the whale.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

This is everything I have been able to find on specifications: Snapdragon 835 VR reference design; Same high-quality lenses of Oculus Go; FOV around 95°-100°; 1600×1440 per eye resolution; 72 FPS; Adjustable IPD; 4 GB ram. It is standalone (as HoloLens and Magic Leap ) and has cameras through which it sees the environment.

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VRScout

JULY 17, 2016

MAGIC LEAP, THE NOTORIOUSLY SECRETIVE STARTUP, STEPS INTO SPOTLIGHT. Magic Leap has raised $1.5B Boldly equating Magic Leap to a “baby Apple” (a reference to their end-to-end approach making not only the hardware but also software, chips, sensors, UI, electronics, etc.) MONEY MOVES & FUNDING.

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