The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

OMG, it’s almost 3 years that I write these roundups… the first week peek was exclusive for my blog subscribers and it featured as best news the release of Google Blocks and in the other news something about Samsung Gear VR… how much time has passed since then! Magic Leap raises other $350M. It would be very intriguing….

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

It may also feature eye tracking, that can be very important for some training applications. It is not as perfect as Oculus Insight, it still features movements that are not completely fluid, but for standard enterprise usage (mainly in training applications), it is more than ok. Samsung AR glasses. but we know zero about it.

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RealVision VR

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

While everyone counted on Magic Leap to bring AR eye-wear to the masses, what Magic Leap did in-fact was lend a stigma to Augmented Reality with unfulfilled promises. However the positives that came with the Magic Leap debacle is, it renewed an interest in competitors and entrepreneurs to do AR right.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 7, 2018

I remember some cool moments in my career with virtual and augmented reality, some WOW moments I can’t forget: the first time I’ve tried the Oculus DK2 and discovered what VR meant; the first time I’ve tried the Samsung Gear VR and experienced wireless virtual reality; the first time I’ve tried the Oculus Rift CV1 and its comfort (..)

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Additionally, founding the Upload Academy, a VR/AR developer training program, which graduated its first class in August with a number of success stories including Found – a gorgeous Miyazaki-esque narrative experience created by four of our students which was recently recognized on stage during the Oculus Connect Keynote. August 2016.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

You’ve done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung. Alan: I don’t know if you’ve tried to Magic Leap. The advantage that something like a Magic Leap or even an Oculus Quest has is that it’s tracking you with cameras. What an amazing piece of technology. I assume you have.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

You’ve done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung. Alan: I don’t know if you’ve tried to Magic Leap. The advantage that something like a Magic Leap or even an Oculus Quest has is that it’s tracking you with cameras. What an amazing piece of technology. I assume you have.

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EnterpriseWear

AUGUST 1, 2018

More recently, the use of wearable augmented and virtual reality devices by airport and airline technicians to train, perform maintenance, and receive remote support has gained traction. Around the same time, Vueling, Iberia, and Air Berlin launched smartwatch boarding passes for early Pebble and Samsung smartwatches.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Charlie: VR has a lot of fantastic applications in training and simulation. You can have that in your warehouse, and whenever you’re training a new worker, you have them spend a few hours on the simulator. But the success seems to be, right now, limited to both medical applications and training applications. Alan: Sure.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Charlie: VR has a lot of fantastic applications in training and simulation. You can have that in your warehouse, and whenever you’re training a new worker, you have them spend a few hours on the simulator. But the success seems to be, right now, limited to both medical applications and training applications. Alan: Sure.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk. Our guest today, Jacob, has also been a partner at Samsung NEXT. And when Jinha finished up at Samsung, AR had sort of started catching on in earnest. Jacob, welcome to the show.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk. Our guest today, Jacob, has also been a partner at Samsung NEXT. And when Jinha finished up at Samsung, AR had sort of started catching on in earnest. Jacob, welcome to the show.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 27, 2019

— it was the Samsung GearyVR at the time. Have you tried Magic Leap? Sam: I have tried the Magic Leap, yeah. You’ve got Magic Leap, you’ve got Nreal, you’ve got HoloLens, you’ve got all these companies. It’s the little magic window of your phone.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 27, 2019

— it was the Samsung GearyVR at the time. Have you tried Magic Leap? Sam: I have tried the Magic Leap, yeah. You’ve got Magic Leap, you’ve got Nreal, you’ve got HoloLens, you’ve got all these companies. It’s the little magic window of your phone.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

You've done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung. Alan: I don't know if you've tried to Magic Leap. The advantage that something like a Magic Leap or even an Oculus Quest has is that it's tracking you with cameras. What an amazing piece of technology. Michael: Glad you liked it. That's an option.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk. Our guest today, Jacob, has also been a partner at Samsung NEXT. And when Jinha finished up at Samsung, AR had sort of started catching on in earnest. Jacob, welcome to the show. That's really exciting.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 27, 2019

I remember in, oh man, it must be 2015/16, Coachella livestreamed 360 content to VR headsets and I believe it was pushing to the -- it was! -- it was the Samsung GearyVR at the time. Have you tried Magic Leap? Sam: I have tried the Magic Leap, yeah. It's the little magic window of your phone.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

GB: Magic Leap is a big presence in the AR discussion. Outside of the sort of people in this room and in the games press, I don’t think most people know what Magic Leap is. When you talk about investment, certainly Magic Leap has garnered the most, but ODG just closed a big round. VR is inherently isolating.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 31, 2019

Alan: That, to me, is something that… at the very beginning when VR was kicking off, when Samsung did this huge presentation and they had hundreds — or probably a thousand headsets — all synchronized. How important is employee training? The other thing is that it’s impossible to train for.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

He’s built AR system prototypes for Samsung, and had long executive and technical careers in mobile software infrastructure before jumping into AR back in 2009. Like my Dekko, and what we built at Samsung were exactly the same technology that ARKit and ARCore and Magic Leap and others built. So that’s one.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

He’s built AR system prototypes for Samsung, and had long executive and technical careers in mobile software infrastructure before jumping into AR back in 2009. Like my Dekko, and what we built at Samsung were exactly the same technology that ARKit and ARCore and Magic Leap and others built. So that’s one.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 31, 2019

at the very beginning when VR was kicking off, when Samsung did this huge presentation and they had hundreds -- or probably a thousand headsets -- all synchronized. How important is employee training? So, for example, Walmart trains for Black Friday; it happens once a year, so it's a rare event that they want to train for.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 31, 2019

Alan: That, to me, is something that… at the very beginning when VR was kicking off, when Samsung did this huge presentation and they had hundreds — or probably a thousand headsets — all synchronized. How important is employee training? The other thing is that it’s impossible to train for.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

He’s built AR system prototypes for Samsung, and had long executive and technical careers in mobile software infrastructure before jumping into AR back in 2009. Like my Dekko, and what we built at Samsung were exactly the same technology that ARKit and ARCore and Magic Leap and others built. So that’s one.

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AR Technology Industry Construction 60

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

Above: Samsung’s Gear 360 and Gear VR headset. Question: From a prioritization standpoint as far as investments, are you looking for the next Magic Leap, or are you looking at content platforms, content creation, codecs? You have to train. Image Credit: Ken Yeung/VentureBeat.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’d say that through at least 2022, the enterprise will account for the majority of augmented and mixed reality headsets like Hololens and Magic Leap. I think the three-degrees-of-freedom [3Dof] sets — like the Go and the Samsung Gear VR before it — are very well-suited for video viewing, that sort of thing.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’d say that through at least 2022, the enterprise will account for the majority of augmented and mixed reality headsets like Hololens and Magic Leap. I think the three-degrees-of-freedom [3Dof] sets — like the Go and the Samsung Gear VR before it — are very well-suited for video viewing, that sort of thing.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

I'd say that through at least 2022, the enterprise will account for the majority of augmented and mixed reality headsets like Hololens and Magic Leap. Alan: Although Magic Leap did publish some photos of a model wearing the Magic Leap glasses the other day. So they're. Which still has its uses!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2021

Facebook has already launched the Quest 2 ; HTC hasn’t tweeted anything, so I expect it to not launch its Quest 2 competitor at this CES ; Nreal is still in the middle of its logistic problems; Samsung is silent; etc… I hope to be wrong, but I don’t think we’ll see any kind of disruptive XR headset at CES 2021.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

Image by Samsung). Anyway, officially, both Samsung and Oculus have continued at least to support it. But at the presentation of the latest Samsung Note 10, for the first time after the Note 4, Samsung has dropped support for Gear VR in its latest flagship device. And Samsung is not abandoning XR for sure.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

But think about it, when you're on a train, let's say -- for example -- you set up a stationary space. As soon as the train starts moving and turning -- or in a car or vehicle, anything that's moving -- you have to recalibrate that. So for us, it was critical that we had a comprehensive training program for VR adoption.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

But think about it, when you're on a train, let's say -- for example -- you set up a stationary space. As soon as the train starts moving and turning -- or in a car or vehicle, anything that's moving -- you have to recalibrate that. So for us, it was critical that we had a comprehensive training program for VR adoption.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

But think about it, when you're on a train, let's say -- for example -- you set up a stationary space. As soon as the train starts moving and turning -- or in a car or vehicle, anything that's moving -- you have to recalibrate that. So for us, it was critical that we had a comprehensive training program for VR adoption.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Alan: Yeah, the new Samsung 10 does it. One is Draco file, one’s a USDZ and one is a glTF, and then we have a couple other ones that we use that were playing around with, especially for things like Magic Leap that we’re working with, and some other kind of newer file formats that we just want to be able to support them.

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Augmented Reality AR Retail Machine Learning 78

XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Alan: Yeah, the new Samsung 10 does it. One is Draco file, one’s a USDZ and one is a glTF, and then we have a couple other ones that we use that were playing around with, especially for things like Magic Leap that we’re working with, and some other kind of newer file formats that we just want to be able to support them.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Most people know Xu due to his dispute with American virtual reality company Magic Leap. In June 2019, Magic Leap accused Xu of stealing AR glasses technology when he was an engineer working at the firm. Advisor for Betting & Gaming vertical in Samsung Harman. However, in June 2020, a U.S.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Alan: Yeah, the new Samsung 10 does it. One is Draco file, one's a USDZ and one is a glTF, and then we have a couple other ones that we use that were playing around with, especially for things like Magic Leap that we're working with, and some other kind of newer file formats that we just want to be able to support them.

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