The Ghost Howls

JULY 22, 2021

Challenges and co-creative opportunities arise whenever people come together to create Burning Man experiences, and that’s where real learning and collaboration happens, regardless of whether it’s happening in the desert, or in a virtual environment. Here are some numbers from the 2020 Virtual Burn.

Nevada 545

Nevada Virtual World Magic Leap United States 545

AR Insider

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Seems like they’re zeroing in on Maps as the sweet spot for XR and tossing everything else, like their Daydream headset, their investment in Magic Leap, Poly, and finally Tilt Brush, overboard. You can join virtual environments for festival mingling or join Q&As and drop into post-premiere parties.

Google 244

Google Oculus Magic Leap Data Glove 244

The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Zuck and another Meta employee entered an empty virtual world, and Zuck started saying what he wanted to see in it and the AI answered by crafting exactly what he wanted. “I Magic Leap 2 has inside-out tracked controllers. During a presentation, Magic Leap has unveiled some more features about its headset and controllers.

Magic Leap 396

Magic Leap Haptic Machine Learning Sony 396

Road to VR

APRIL 16, 2018

Both HoloLens and the upcoming Magic Leap One include a physical controller; HoloLens has a simple ‘clicker’ and ML One has a 6DoF controller. The paper discusses using EMS sparingly, playing on the user’s keen sense for plausibility while in a physical (and not virtual) environment.

Haptic 230

Haptic AR Wearables Augmented Reality 230

XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 29, 2023

Blending VR and AI in the New World For example, the travel, tourism, and healthcare sectors have leveraged AI virtual assistants to guide people in virtual environments. Dubai’s Ministry of Health and Prevention (MOHAP) began including virtual and real assistants on its metaverse healthcare portal.

Virtual Reality 227

Virtual Reality Tourism Magic Leap Retail 227

VRScout

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

The moment I turned my hand over or closed my fist, the little blue bird would flutter away and move around the room; similar to the Undersea MR experience offered by the Magic Leap One Creator Edition, in which a 3D fish cuddles in the hand of the user. However, that’s not the case with the HoloLens 2.

Microsoft 320

Microsoft Eye Tracking Magic Leap Haptic 320

XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 19, 2023

Blending VR and AI in the New World For example, the travel, tourism, and healthcare sectors have leveraged AI virtual assistants to guide people in virtual environments. Dubai’s Ministry of Health and Prevention (MOHAP) began including virtual and real assistants on its metaverse healthcare portal.

Virtual Reality 195

Virtual Reality Tourism Magic Leap Retail 195

XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 6, 2020

Until recently, Brian Kane has been highlighting more experiential demos - like one that puts a porthole to the ocean in your living room - to highlight the power of the Magic Leap, and of spatial computing in general. Magic Leap is one of these Magic Leap devices, you put it on, and your whole world is spatial computing.

Magic Leap 60

Magic Leap Training Examples Eye Tracking 60

ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

AR Apps to Increasingly Leverage AI Tech To create more immersive virtual environments, AR applications must be able to collect a wealth of information about the user’s surroundings. The Park Playground’s Vindevogel adds that virtual reality will increasingly grow to become a part of our daily lives. “

Virtual Reality 400

Virtual Reality Unreal Technology Entertainment 400

ARPost

APRIL 29, 2021

The platform, which won last year’s Auggie Award for Best Enterprise Solution, is compatible with MR headsets like HoloLens and Magic Leap. The result is that humans can appear holographically in virtual environments or virtually in physical environments. The Ever-Changing World of AR Remote Support.

AR 266

AR Augmented Reality Microsoft Magic Leap 266

The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Mixed Reality content My most successful mixed reality demo is about seeing virtual environment outside your home Mixed Reality is the word of the moment and Meta wants to show that it is strong at it. But I think we will all still be intrigued by them because they will have specifications no other AR glasses have.

AR 308

AR Augmented Reality Magic Leap Apple 308

The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 29, 2018

As we move into the realm of immersive computing, the focus of the Ergonomist will shift from the desktop computing environment to the immersive computing environment which we access through virtual and augmented reality headsets. Possible modifications to the Oculus Go to make it more comfortable (Image by Rob Cole).

Virtual Reality 289

Virtual Reality Magic Leap Examples Data 289

VRScout

MARCH 30, 2017

The German auto manufacturer evaluates design features in virtual reality before building prototypes in actual reality, using the famous high-quality physics-based rendering power of Unreal for the game engine and using the HTC Vive for the VR hardware. DISNEY USES VR FOR RESEARCH WHILE CEO SAYS WE’LL SEE AR AT THEME PARKS.

South Korea 150

South Korea Survey San Francisco Ohio 150

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Future of Magic Leap After Ross Rosenberg was appointed Magic Leap’s CEO in October 2023, the company has since focused on its enterprise roadmap for 2024; targeting its XR devices towards enterprise and industrial clients. Magic Leap started to understand that these walled gardens are not their future.

Magic Leap 88

Magic Leap Saudi Arabia Apple Switzerland 88

Road to VR

JULY 11, 2016

Konrad the Kitten is a pet simulator for the HTC Vive that attaches a virtual model of an adorable kitten on your controllerm mapping it’s position to the SteamVR controller. That said, I can’t help feel it’s augmented reality where virtual pets will come into their own.

Magic Leap 100

Magic Leap HTC Augmented Reality Virtual Environment 100

VRScout

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

A psychologist well-versed in GTP has turned her research to virtual reality and its effects on consciousness – starting with dreams. As it turns out, heavy Oculus Rift usage is linked to increased dream lucidity ; the more time people spent in virtual environments, the higher their ability to dream lucidly.

Razer 150

Razer Augmented Reality Fove Oklahoma 150

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Magic Leap. Focused primarily on the business world and corporate uses for Extended Reality, Magic Leap produces a range of powerful headsets with built-in speakers, sensors, and spatial audio. Future creations in the Oculus environment are likely to include further solutions for spatial audio too.

Magic Leap 76

Magic Leap Unity Microsoft Immersion 76

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Already, the company is partnering not just with Samsung and Qualcomm but with countless heavyweights like Sony, Magic Leap, and Unity. According to Google, just like with the Vision Pro, users will be able to effortlessly switch between being fully immersed in their virtual environment or combining content with the real world.

Google 96

Google Magic Leap Samsung Unity 96

TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

At the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, David Em made strides in the creation of explorable virtual landscapes, while the Ames Research Center iterated on VIEW (Virtual Interactive Environment Workstation). Magic Leap officially announced its One headset after years of speculation and rumors.

AR 100

AR Magic Leap Virtual Reality Los Angeles 100

The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

You can imagine the potential of such a tool when combined with a mixed reality headset (you could change some furniture in your house, or re-create a virtual environment that has the same shape as your room).

AR 296

AR Apple Microsoft Ukraine 296

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The XR Garage even built a visualisation solution where students in the healthcare environment can view holograms of a patient’s spine during surgery. Students and educators can share 3D models from different environments, and users can collaborate on education in XR. Magic Leap and the University of Washington.

Case Study 88

Case Study Education Study Magic Leap 88

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The platform is designed to support experiences that combine augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), enabling immersive applications that overlay digital content onto the real world or create fully virtual environments. The initiative builds on ARCore, Googles existing augmented reality framework.

Google 66

Google Augmented Reality Magic Leap Samsung 66

AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

Advrty wants to offer a new avenue of monetization for virtual reality developers which doesn’t involve full field-of-view pop-up ads with a platform aimed at designing and incorporating nonintrusive product placement. The core of its platform is based on the ability to accurately track user views and interactions.

AR 379

AR Examples Data Head Mounted Display 379

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Peck later segued to updates with her company, EndeavorXR, explaining it had always worked with larger original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) such as HTC, Magic Leap, Meta Platforms, and others. Amy Peck, Founder and Chief Executive of EndeavorXR. ” She said: “That’s really a big deal.

Trends 98

Trends Strategy Miami Industry 98

Immersive Authority

JUNE 30, 2016

Everyone probably has a good idea of what Virtual Reality is all about. It’s the immersion of a user into a fully virtual environment, by means of a VR headset. This allows for example a virtual pot-plant to be placed on a physical table, or a virtual mask to be placed on a physical users face correctly.

Augmented Reality 58

Augmented Reality Magic Leap Virtual Reality Virtual Environment 58

InstaVR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

The Oculus Go and Oculus Quest and Varjo and Vive all make you feel like you’re immersed in an environment. With the Quest, for instance, you can move around in 6 Degrees of Freedom, entering a virtual environment and moving around in it. AR, on the other hand, is more of an overlay on the existing world in front of you.

Augmented Reality 77

Augmented Reality Virtual Reality AR Training 77

VRWorld

JULY 14, 2016

Perhaps it is only just that Google’s April Fools joke named “Pokemon Challenge” became the most popular, or one of most popular games on the market – the Pokemon Go , This Augmented Reality (AR), or Mixed Reality (MR or MxR, as named by Magic Leap ) which criss-crosses the technologies as merely the start of things to come.

Las Vegas 40

Las Vegas Magic Leap Virtual Reality Google 40

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

For example, if I’m going through some sort of instruction or training exercise where my environment really matters, then we can understand why it might be important to jump into a VR headset and limit the distraction from the real environment around me, and replace it with an entirely virtual environment.

AR 78

AR Microsoft Samsung Magic Leap 78

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

For example, if I’m going through some sort of instruction or training exercise where my environment really matters, then we can understand why it might be important to jump into a VR headset and limit the distraction from the real environment around me, and replace it with an entirely virtual environment.

AR 78

AR Microsoft Samsung Magic Leap 78

XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

As long as you have a recently-modern device -- iPhone, Android phones, tablets, laptops -- and when it's AR enabled device it works in an AR mode, so you can place it around your physical environment. Suddenly you're in that environment, you are interacting with that environment, and there are definitely a lot of oohs and ahhs.

Training 78

Training Unity Real Estate Software 78

XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

As long as you have a recently-modern device -- iPhone, Android phones, tablets, laptops -- and when it's AR enabled device it works in an AR mode, so you can place it around your physical environment. Suddenly you're in that environment, you are interacting with that environment, and there are definitely a lot of oohs and ahhs.

Training 78

Training Unity Real Estate Software 78

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

For example, if I'm going through some sort of instruction or training exercise where my environment really matters, then we can understand why it might be important to jump into a VR headset and limit the distraction from the real environment around me, and replace it with an entirely virtual environment.

AR 60

AR Microsoft Samsung Magic Leap 60

XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

As long as you have a recently-modern device -- iPhone, Android phones, tablets, laptops -- and when it's AR enabled device it works in an AR mode, so you can place it around your physical environment. Suddenly you're in that environment, you are interacting with that environment, and there are definitely a lot of oohs and ahhs.

Training 60

Training Unity Real Estate Software 60

XR for Business Podcast

JULY 26, 2019

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. That’s with holding a phone with one hand.

Technology 78

Technology Data Industry Los Angeles 78

XR for Business Podcast

JULY 26, 2019

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. That’s with holding a phone with one hand.

Technology 78

Technology Data Industry Los Angeles 78

XR for Business Podcast

JULY 26, 2019

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. That's with holding a phone with one hand. You push this button, then pull this lever, then."

Technology 60

Technology Data Industry Augmented Reality 60

The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2019

This was the best feature for me: it was really like all of us were in this virtual environment, all together. 3D objects had washed out colors , a bit like when you see AR objects through HoloLens 1 and Magic Leap One … they appeared a bit semi-transparent.

Taiwan 230

Taiwan Simulation China Leap Motion 230