Rony Abovitz has been dreaming about a new way of seeing the world since he started Magic Leap in 2011. He raised $1.9 billion in funding, but he stayed quiet about what the company was going to do. Today, he unveiled the Magic Leap One AR goggles for the first time. AR is expected to be...
Magic Leap has come out of hiding. After several years of rumors and $1.9 billion in funding, the Florida company unveiled its Magic Leap One AR goggles for the first time. Magic Leap said its “creator edition” will be available in early 2018 with a software development kit (SDK) that will enable developers to get...
Niantic has had crude augmented reality for its Pokémon Go mobile game from the outset. But soon it will launch an enhanced AR experience on iOS 11 smartphones using Apple’s new ARKit technology. The company implemented AR in a way that wasn’t just a gimmick for an app that has been downloaded more than 800...
Linden Lab‘s Sansar social VR world has launched a fashion market for user-created avatar clothing. The move opens entrepreneurial and creative opportunities for users, much like happened with Linden Lab’s predecessor world, Second Life. In addition, Sansar has launched an integration with Marvelous Designer, the fashion design software by Clo Virtual Fashion, which is used...
The Void has won a heap of praise for its New York-based virtual reality experience: Ghostbusters: Dimension. And now the Lindon, Utah-based company is expanding to open two new Void Experience Centers in Las Vegas and Glendale, California, near Los Angeles. Virtual reality fans have been dishing out some money for PC-based and mobile-based VR systems. But...
GUEST: Tools like Google Analytics, Optimizely, and KissMetrics were built for the 2D internet, which we’ve accessed through flat screens on laptops and smartphones. However, 2D analytics tools will become irrelevant as the rise of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) creates a 3D “mixed reality” internet that overlays our world. Thus, to gain...
Free VR improvisation software Mindshow is adding a major feature — sharing. So performances in Mindshow can be added to or remixed by others. For those unfamiliar, Mindshow is an innovative app which unlocks your acting skills to animate a wide range of characters. Sharing was a feature on Mindshow’s roadmap for a long time...
Seattle-based Against Gravity released an enormous update to Rec Room that adds clubhouses you can customize and have friends visit even when you’re not online. The update represents a huge step for the cross-platform app available for Rift, Vive, PlayStation VR and Windows-based VR headsets (through Steam). Now, visitors to Rec Room can express themselves...
Virtual reality may be stalled with consumers, but it might be catching on with enterprises. That’s one of the messages delivered recently by the “extended reality” team at Accenture, the big tech and business consulting company. Extended reality applies to augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed reality applications. To see a company like Accenture embracing...
Science fiction and virtual reality go together like medieval fantasy and LARPing. Two intergalactic peas in a space pod, if you will. So naturally, the popularity of the latest and greatest form of interactive entertainment – VR headsets – means it was only natural that one of the largest and beloved sci-fi properties on the planet –...
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