Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Magic Leap, the mysterious augmented reality startup with a multiple-billion dollar valuation , could soon be taking on more investments, bringing its total valuation close to $6 billion, Bloomberg reports. ” Both Temasek and Magic Leap declined to speak on the matter. image courtesy US Patent Office.

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Next Reality AR

JANUARY 14, 2020

This week, the beginning of an epic legal battle was set to begin between augmented reality players Magic Leap and Nreal, the small China-based startup accused by the former of stealing trade secrets. However, a new wrinkle has emerged in the legal skirmish that could change everything. Later, he went on to.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Magic Leap’s first annual L.E.A.P. Con dev conference is set to open its doors next week, and while we expected to hear a lot about Weta Workshop’s upcoming AR shooter Dr. Grordbort’s Invaders there, Magic Leap today announced that the game will be heading to Magic Leap One headsets on October 9th.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Angry Birds, the mobile breakout hit, is coming to Magic Leap in a brand new game called Angry Birds FPS: First Person Slingshot. Now, in partnership with Resolution Games, Rovio is bringing Angry Birds FPS: First Person Slingshot to augmented reality on Magic Leap this fall. Image courtesy Rovio, Resolution Games.

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Next Reality AR

JANUARY 14, 2020

This week, the beginning of an epic legal battle was set to begin between augmented reality players Magic Leap and Nreal, the small China-based startup accused by the former of stealing trade secrets. However, a new wrinkle has emerged in the legal skirmish that could change everything. Later, he went on to.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Magic Leap is one of the most well-funded startups in history, boasting $2.6 A new report from The Information however alleges that the company has seen sluggish sales of its Magic Leap One AR headset, something that reportedly only sold 6,000 units in the first six months following its August 2018 launch.

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VRScout

JUNE 21, 2020

US Courts says Magic Leap has failed to state their claims against Nreal. Back in June of 2019, Magic Leap filed a lawsuit against Nreal claiming the company stole technology and design that belonging to the Florida-based AR company. The last several months have been rocky for Magic Leap.

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Next Reality AR

AUGUST 7, 2018

With the official launch of Magic Leap One expected by the end of summer (translation: days from now), Magic Leap's hype machine just took a big hit with the sudden loss of a key marketing executive. Gattis's resume includes stints at HTC, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and TiVo.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 13, 2018

We are in the days of the Magic Leap hype : developers that have bought it are posting videos everywhere and every one of us is trying to understand if the device is valuable or not. So, here you are my editorial regarding Magic Leap. So, here you are my editorial regarding Magic Leap.

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Object Theory are pretty much the oldest Mixed Reality company around, having launched in June 2015, before the HoloLens had even started shipping. Object Theory are the oldest Mixed Reality company around, having launched in June 2015, before the HoloLens had even started shipping Click To Tweet.

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Road to VR

MARCH 16, 2023

Launched in 2017, Google Glass for enterprise was a revival of sorts, as the company had ceased production of the storied device in 2015. You can learn more about the differences between AR headsets and smartglasses here.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 21, 2022

Before joining Microsoft in 2015, Kress worked as principal optical architect behind Google Glass, the company’s smartglasses that found marked success in the enterprise sector after a rocky reception by consumers in 2013.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Grordbort’s Invaders is an upcoming shooter for Magic Leap One , and while not much is really known about Weta’s AR game, a recent job posting searching for a Networking Programmer at Weta Workshop could mean the company is pushing to make it a multiplayer experience. You can check out the full job posting here.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

The biggest gorillas in the room are the covert augmented reality company Magic Leap, which raised almost $800M in February (bringing its total funding to $1.4B), and the VR live-streaming company NextVR, which raised $80M in August (which brings its total funding to over $115M). has now joined the Baobab team as CTO.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 20, 2018

While we don’t know much about gameplay mechanics yet, it’s possible the Magic Leap One release of Angry Birds: FPS – First Person Slingshot may hold some answers. Surprisingly enough, this isn’t the first time Rovio has jumped into virtual reality with some flavor of Angry Birds for VR.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 27, 2018

For a category-defining first-gen device introduced in early 2015, HoloLens has had a remarkably long lifespan. years old, and the launch of its first real competitor—Magic Leap—earlier this year, #3 is starting to look increasingly plausible, especially considering how long HoloLens 2 seems to have been in development.

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VRScout

JANUARY 31, 2018

Trimble – a California-based company that specializes in advanced location-based technology – was one of the first HoloLens partners that Microsoft onboarded back in 2015. Other features enable users to view and capture data with onsite measuring tools, make annotations, and assign tasks.

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ARPost

JULY 21, 2023

The job descriptions first showed up across the internet and that started the rumors, I’m going to say back in 2014, 2015.” The real pioneers of this are definitely Magic Leap and their waveguide lens is the future that I was expecting Apple to actually achieve some kind of breakthrough on,” said Almeida.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

In comparison to Facebook, Magic Leap, and Microsoft, Canon has been in somewhat of a backseat position when it comes to AR/VR hardware development. MREAL display MD-20 / MD-10 common, interface cable (20m).

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Road to VR

MAY 19, 2017

Among fans of the device (myself included), there was hope that after the Project Glass had “Graduated” from within Google’s secretive Google[x] in 2015 (also the origin of Tango, Google Watch, and more) the Glass team would be moving ahead with development of new and improved versions of the device.

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Peter Graham

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Last year Resolution Games diversified into augmented reality (AR) with Angry Birds FPS: First Person Slingshot for Magic Leap One. Thanks to the Magic Leap Independent Creator Programme the studio has just announced its next project, an original IP called Glimt: The Vanishing at the Grand Starlight Hotel.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2018

It started with big data , and I started blogging about that at the end of 2015 basically because I couldn’t find anyone to talk about it with (laughs). I know that you like a lot Magic Leap and the work that Rony Abovitz is making… why do you love it so much? ( Magic Leap glasses.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JUNE 21, 2024

Even the Enterprise edition, introduced after the initial specs were phased out in 2015, ended up being discontinued. More recently, Google also shared that it was partnering with Magic Leap on a new solution. All we really know is that Google and the extended reality innovator (Magic Leap) are working on a project.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 5, 2021

and also why the $2+B investment in Magic Leap was not enough to bring it to success. Investors are pouring money into the XR market like in 2015–2016 when there was the hype for VR, and many XR companies got investments just because investors wanted to put some fiches on the technology.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

When the original headset was revealed back in 2015, the company used (admittedly very cool) mixed reality compositing to show a third-person perspective of all the virtual objects floating around the user. This isn’t the first time that Microsoft has been called out for doing a poor job of representing the HoloLens field of view.

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HoloLens

APRIL 3, 2018

All those early prototype images Magic Leap is so fond of showing off are great, but they rank a far second when compared to a new set of images just revealed by Microsoft in relation to the HoloLens. 2015 and kick off the next phase of immersive computing in. 2015 and kick off the next phase of immersive computing in.

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VRWorld

APRIL 28, 2017

Since Magic Leap’s inception in 2011, there has been great innovation in the technology sector focused in the virtual reality (VR)/augmented reality (AR)/mixed reality (MR) space with Magic Leap trying to create a new hardware interface designs. Google discontinued the interface in January 2015.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Initially, the Cupertino-based firm filed a series of patents dating back to 2015 linked to the solution. Companies like Mercedes-Benz have already experimented with Magic Leap’s second-generation head-mounted displays (HMDs) to create a car-agnostic solution for real-time data interfacing.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 30, 2017

With 2015 breaking previous records, industry observers entered 2016 wondering if VR/AR funding would be able to keep pace. billion, ending significantly above 2015. Nevertheless, there where many companies that closed a deal in 2015 that raised at least one more round in 2016. Dollars and Deals.

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Road to VR

JUNE 17, 2024

As a result, the company seems more cautious with how it’s handling Vision Pro in comparison other new product lines, the most analogous being its first generation Apple Watch in 2015, which was initially criticized for being expensive, sluggish, and lacking critical functionality over the iPhones of that era (sound familiar?).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2016

In 2013, Apple acquired a company called PrimeSense which created the original motion sensors used in Microsoft’s Kinect hardware.Then, in 2015, Apple bought a German AR firm called Metaio and another motion capture named Faceshift.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

“Back in 2015 and 2016, headsets came online… and ‘everybody’s gonna get rich on VR.’ What came next was dabbling in nearly all aspects of VR — everything from 360 video of boat raves to enterprise implementations. ’ I was like, ‘This is not going to be a one-year, two-year, three-year thing.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Rather than creating a traditional dissection lab to teach anatomy, her organisation considered spatial computing products readily available in 2015. Several of the world’s biggest tech giants, including Meta Platforms, Sony, Agora, HTC VIVE, Unity Technologies, Qualcomm, Magic Leap, Lenovo, and many others joined the event.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Organisations such as the VR/AR Association have responded to the demands of a rapidly changing tech sector since 2015 by providing a platform capable of facilitating such transformative development.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 17, 2019

When Magic Leap One has been released, most people criticized it for being much less than what it was expected, but actually, when I reviewed it , I noticed that it is not a bad device. This is a prediction for the VR market I used in a business plan around 2015. Don’t you believe me? Do you find it accurate?

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

HoloLens’ inside-out tracking is better than anything we’ve seen from other big names in AR, including Magic Leap and Meta. According to a source working with the headset, the tracking has indeed improved with time. HoloLens’ sensor cluster has a whopping 11 elements.

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VRWorld

JULY 7, 2016

this technology is also beginning to be marketed as Mixed Reality or MxR (blame Magic Leap for that one). In the US alone, sales made from a mobile reached a staggering $104 billion in 2015 – an enormous 38.7% However, this relationship should be prepared to add a new addition into their lives: Augmented Reality i.e. AR.

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