Magic Leap’s Troubles: Steep Loses, No Sales
News broke a few weeks ago on the funding woes and staff exits for Magic Leap Glasses. A new article in The Information (by subscription) adds to the tale of Magic Leap’s troubles. The release of …
St. Jude’s Moving VR Memorials for Child Cancer Patients
Few health organizations are as remarkable as the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, so it’s no surprise to see their VR memorials for child cancer patients. In the past 50 years, they’ve helped improve the childhood …
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A New AR Game for Magic Leap – Strangelets
Ready for some alien animal husbandry? That’s the promise of a new AR game for Magic Leap. The Mixed Reality experience, Strangelets, is the last release from Insomniac Games, which was recently acquired by Sony. It …
Best Black Friday VR Deals – Virtual Reality at a Discount
There are some good and not so good Black Friday VR deals for VR headsets this year. Don’t expect to find the popular Oculus Quest at a huge savings. You’re going to pay full price with …
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2019 Thanksgiving Day Parade – 360 Video and Holograms
This year’s Thanksgiving Day parade includes a live broadcast in 360 and celebrity holograms from Verizon. As in years past, some 8,000 people and large balloons will wind their way through Manhattan in a tradition that …
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New Skin Patch Could Add Virtual Touch to VR
A newly invented skin patch could bring virtual touch to our VR experiences. Up to now, virtual reality has mostly been confined to visual and audio sensations. Adding haptics through virtual touch would open new opportunities …
A Simple VR Headset that Could be a Game Changer
Let’s be honest: we need a simple VR headset. Something like the Oculus Quest, but a device that anyone can pick up and use without assistance. For all the talk about the disruptive qualities of virtual …
Magic Leap Glasses: Funding Woes and Staff Exits
This is not turning out to be a good month for the Magic Leap glasses. Funding challenges and a couple of big-name departures have hit the company hard. The glasses were released only 15 months ago …
Apple’s AR Headset Won’t be out Until 2022
The well-known secrecy in Cupertino ensures we’ll never have the full picture of Apple’s AR headset until it’s released. We always thought Apple would have an augmented reality device by 2020, but it now appears that …
Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 HMD Finally Shipping
After close to a year, Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 second-gen mixed reality headset is finally out. It was introduced back in February 2019 art Mobile World Congress, and the intervening delay has brought few surprises. There’s the …
Microsoft’s DreamWalker – an Early Version of the Matrix?
No surprise that we’re huge fans of The Matrix around here. And we’re waiting impatiently for the next version (which goes into production next year). In the meantime, we’ll focus on Microsoft’s DreamWalker project, a fascinating …
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