Magic Leap uses VR to turn its office into first person battleground
By Tom Anstey 23 Mar 2015
The impressive footage turns a normal office into a first-person shooter Credit: Youtube.com
Google-backed virtual reality company Magic Leap has unveiled its latest product, which shows its office turned into an robot-populated first person shooter.
The video starts off in what looks like a normal office before the VR elements appear as a heads up display (HUD), depicting a VR operating system. The user then selects the game from a menu at which points everything escalates and they find themselves in a gun battle against a swarm of robots.
Magic Leap – which is generally very secretive about its multi-million dollar plans – revealed very little beyond the impressive footage, offering a glimpse of what it is working on right now.
The footage was originally intended to be shown by Magic Leap at TED
Despite the fact nobody really knows what Magic Leap actually does, Google revealed in October that it had invested US$524m (£352.8m, €486.1m) in the virtual reality company.
According to the video titled Just another day in the office at Magic Leap on the company’s YouTube channel, the game is something “we’re playing around the office right now,” says the description. How close to reality the footage actually is, remains to be seen.
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Magic Leap uses VR to turn its office into first person battleground
POSTED 23 Mar 2015 . BY Tom Anstey
The impressive footage turns a normal office into a first-person shooter Credit: Youtube.com
Google-backed virtual reality company Magic Leap has unveiled its latest product, which shows its office turned into an robot-populated first person shooter.
The video starts off in what looks like a normal office before the VR elements appear as a heads up display (HUD), depicting a VR operating system. The user then selects the game from a menu at which points everything escalates and they find themselves in a gun battle against a swarm of robots.
Magic Leap – which is generally very secretive about its multi-million dollar plans – revealed very little beyond the impressive footage, offering a glimpse of what it is working on right now.
The footage was originally intended to be shown by Magic Leap at TED
Despite the fact nobody really knows what Magic Leap actually does, Google revealed in October that it had invested US$524m (£352.8m, €486.1m) in the virtual reality company.
According to the video titled Just another day in the office at Magic Leap on the company’s YouTube channel, the game is something “we’re playing around the office right now,” says the description. How close to reality the footage actually is, remains to be seen.
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the entertainment giant thinks of virtual reality and its plans for the future, shying away
from the popular headset model and instead looking at the potential for a fully immersive
virtual environment.
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wireless virtual reality headset used in conjunction with the iPhone handset.
Neurophysicists have discovered that the space-mapping neurons in the brain
react differently when exposed to virtual reality (VR), with a study on rats showing VR
makes a significant impact on the brain, though it is not yet known what effects this will
have in future.
Researchers have taken the completely immersive Oculus Rift virtual reality
headsets for a test run, sending roller coaster technology to a different
dimension.
QC New York, a luxury Italian day spa on Governors Island, will expand its offering this July by
adding an extra 15,000sq ft of space. This new area will feature sensory saunas, waterfalls, a
salt room, an ice room, a lavender room, a 142-seat bistro and a waterbed relaxation room.
The Global Wellness Institute (GWI) has released promising new research on the wellness real
estate market at its third-annual Wellness Real Estate & Communities Symposium in
Manhattan.
Paul Hawco, a seasoned figure in the international wellness industry, has assumed the role of
executive director – integrated wellbeing at independent, hospitality group Banyan Group.
The Ritz-Carlton Reynolds, Lake Oconee in the southeastern US state of Georgia is celebrating a
new milestone after unveiling its newly renovated 27,000sq ft destination spa.
Art’otel, Radisson’s contemporary art-inspired lifestyle hotel brand, has strengthened its
presence in London with a new hotel in Hoxton fusing art, design and hospitality.