The Ghost Howls

MAY 6, 2024

But this should surprise no one: all the previous expensive AR/MR headsets that have been initially targeted at consumers, like Magic Leap or HoloLens, ended up being used mostly in enterprise sectors. More info Unity 6 introduces new features for XR developers The new version of Unity, called Unity 6, is currently in preview.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2018

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. People knew it was not possible to do that: the film resonated because only in a simulation, only in virtual reality you can cheat time and space. Magic Leap glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

We’re looking for a Unity dev for a freelance gig lasting 1–2 months, ideally from Italy or a nearby country (for easier management). It is in Italian, but basically it says that we’re looking for a Unity dev with preferred experience with VR and/or multiplayer games. Image by Magic Leap). Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2022

The Unity CEO opened the event with a keynote where he defined the word “metaverse” and stated that XR devices should reach similar distribution numbers of game consoles in the next 5 years (this means they won’t reach the volumes of smartphones anytime soon). More info (Quest Room Setup in the latest Oculus SDK) More info (The World Beyond).

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ARPost

JULY 13, 2022

Inworld AI is a company building a tool to create brains that experience creators can put into virtual bodies to populate the metaverse – whether that’s games, simulations for enterprise and education, embodied chatbots in immersive retail environments, or whatever else you can think of. What is Inworld AI ? A Bigger, Better, Metaverse.

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ARPost

APRIL 17, 2023

Industrial IMMERSIVE Week When: August 28-30 Where: Houston, TX Industrial IMMERSIVE Week is one of the AR/VR events for professionals interested in XR, spatial computing, digital twins, AI, IIoT, 5G, 3D models and simulations, and connected workforce solutions.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 16, 2022

This is another feature that Lenovo A3 glasses share with Nreal clones: while the visuals are somewhat good, the tracking is still subpar if compared with the golden standards of the industry from HoloLens to Quest , not to mention Magic Leap. But no, the demo was not that fun, it was just a simple Unity scene.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Dave Rhodes, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Digital Twins for Unity , delivered a keynote speech at the massive immersive tech event on Monday morning. These entities leveraged real-time 3D (RT3D) content, with Unity leading the industry as a RT3D content creation platform. PHOTO: XR Today. Predictive Digital Twins?

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Road to VR

APRIL 16, 2018

Using a HoloLens headset, researchers show their proposed solution in action, which is made up of a backpack, a laptop computer running Unity, a battery-powered EMS machine, electrode pads, and visual markers to better track hand gestures. ” image courtesy Hasso-Plattner-Institut.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap has sold units of its first device for $550. Magic Leap has decided to put on sale its remaining units of the Magic Leap 1, its previous device, for just $550 , which is something like a -75% discount on its standard retail price. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

On the client side, the system will become compatible with iOS devices, and a Magic Leap client has also been developed. Omniverse doesn’t only care about the synchronization (a bit like if it were a visual Git), but it also provides services like AI and physical simulations. HTC is going to launch its headset on May, 11th.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Image by MegaDodo Simulation Games). 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. On GitHub has appeared a new project called “Simple WebXR” aimed at letting you develop WebXR experiences inside Unity.

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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 is astonishing, especially if you consider that it is not a real fluid simulation, but just a very complicated shader.

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VRScout

MAY 30, 2017

At their flagship London store, Topshop made a waterslide simulator to celebrate the start of summer: complete with a virtual tube ride through a 3D recreation of the actual Oxford Street that lies just outside of the real-world store. Now this is what I call retail theater. INVESTMENT & FUNDING WRAPUP. Apparently the $1.4B

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

Or we can put on device on our head (a head-mounted display or HMD) that completely occludes us from the real world allowing us to enter a completely simulated environment which we can walk around and interact in because the computer is sensing our physical actions: this is Virtual Reality or VR. The Evolution of Brand Activations.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Image by Megadodo Simulation Games). Thanks to Sebastian Ang of MRTV (one of my favorite VR YouTubers), everyone can now watch the CEO and CTO of MegaDodo Simulation Games (the company behind the project) talk about this new device, their company, and even showing a prototype. Other relevant news. Even Half-Life: Alyx is 25% off!

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 8, 2023

Zapbox features a 100° FOV and is going to launch with a Unity SDK to create content for it. While the concept of phone holders is dead for good in VR, there are a few companies that are trying to bring it to augmented reality, exploiting also the fact that true AR headsets (like Magic Leap 2 ) are very expensive and cost thousands of euros.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

Unity details its MARS solution. In a blog post, Unity has detailed its MARS solution, that lets you create easily augmented reality experiences , even with little coding knowledge. The Price Is Right” TV show tried to ask how much a Magic Leap One headset is worth of, and someone has even answered 1 dollar! Well, maybe.

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ARVR

JUNE 29, 2020

Build your first HoloLens 2 Application with Unity and MRTK 2.3.0 Virtual Reality: Do We Live In Our Brain’s Simulation Of The World? Designing for a modern 3D world: A UX design guide for VR 2. Scripting Javascript Promise In Spark AR For Beginners 3. Don’t forget to give us your ?? !

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Unity and the University of Miami. To get the project off the ground, the learning facility turned to Unity. Magic Leap and the University of Washington. Now, pilots can train in an environment where physical simulators, live aircrafts, and computer modelling are all combined.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

The Metaverse Standards Forum has already gathered many important players of the XR sector like Unity, Unreal Engine, Meta, Microsoft, Lamina 1, NVIDIA, and even other relevant companies like IKEA and Adobe. Rony Abovitz talks about Magic Leap 2 and clarifies that it has been made by the team of ML1, which now is almost all gone.

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EON Reality

JULY 17, 2024

Unity Unity is one of the most popular platforms for AR development. Known for its versatility and user-friendly interface, Unity is widely used for creating both AR and VR experiences. It supports a range of AR platforms such as ARKit (iOS), ARCore (Android), Microsoft HoloLens, and Magic Leap.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

Two years ago, the company had won a $480M deal with the army to produce the first evaluation units (beating Magic Leap in this contest and condemning it to a sad fate) that should have increased soldiers’ efficiency and lethality. This is a new drawing application in VR that will come to light on May, 5th. Learn more.

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Upload VR

MAY 4, 2024

New releases include Astra , Contractors Showdown , Nope Challenge , Agent Simulator , Smalland VR and Homeworld VR. Unity, the leading engine for VR game development, appointed Matthew Bromberg as its new CEO. Trace is a new AR startup founded by three former Magic Leap developers that aims to create location-based AR experiences.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 12, 2022

They offer not only the opportunity for really critical monitoring with digital twins and artificial intelligence (AI)-backed, often closed-loop optimisation strategies, but can also simulate outcomes so that you can improve processes today and meet those goals in the future, which is the near future” IGS 2022 Miami Takeaways.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

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. They look like the nReal Light (another clone?) but we know zero about it.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2023

For him, such industries would benefit ‘enormously’ from digital transformations via digital twinning, simulation, and computer-aided design (CAD). He explained further, “Amazon is using Omniverse to visualise their warehouse, [a] giant robotic system, to help their workers [and] to simulate their fleet of AMRs. [We

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Magic Leap kicks off the month with the announcement of an enormous $794 million fundraising round, backed by Alibaba. A series of announcements from Amazon, Crytek, Epic Games and Unity Technologies showcase an evolution among their respective game engines into VR world creation toolsets. February 2016.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 31, 2022

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap 2 to feature dynamic dimming. At Photonics West, Magic Leap’s VP of Optical Engineering Kevin Curtis has revealed some new interesting details on the upcoming Magic Leap 2. To be exact, the eye box is twice as large as the one in Magic Leap One.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Moreover, Apple is also pushing its Vision Pro SDK to support its first-party and Unity-supported third-party immersive applications, again in a bid to create a sophisticated piece of hardware with a system-selling lineup of integrated applications and hardware.

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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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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

Dan: In my past, I used to work with simulators — big aircraft simulators, etc. But obviously these people couldn’t afford a $50-million simulator. So you don’t know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. Alan: So how do you then get people to learn how to do Unreal and Unity without teaching them?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

Dan: In my past, I used to work with simulators — big aircraft simulators, etc. But obviously these people couldn’t afford a $50-million simulator. So you don’t know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. Alan: So how do you then get people to learn how to do Unreal and Unity without teaching them?

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

We're going to dig into using Magic Leap and Hololens and mixed reality headsets as a tool for business. And so we got-- our main first break as Extality was leveraging some of our game connections and things like that, to get close to Magic Leap. You've done work with CNN and Magic Leap. Well, there we go.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

We're going to dig into using Magic Leap and Hololens and mixed reality headsets as a tool for business. And so we got-- our main first break as Extality was leveraging some of our game connections and things like that, to get close to Magic Leap. You've done work with CNN and Magic Leap. Well, there we go.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

And then using Hololens 2, we allow you to interact with that cockpit as if you were there, so you could be sitting in your living room or a classroom or anywhere really in the world, networked together and interacting with functions inside the cockpit, the same way that you would do in a physical simulator. And that's what we are seeing.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

And then using Hololens 2, we allow you to interact with that cockpit as if you were there, so you could be sitting in your living room or a classroom or anywhere really in the world, networked together and interacting with functions inside the cockpit, the same way that you would do in a physical simulator. And that's what we are seeing.

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