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I thought it would have taken me a lot before I would be able to try the MagicLeap One , but luckily this has not been the case. But while we were great on the technical side, we weren’t good at doing business and marketing (I only started my blog in summer 2016 ), so in 2017 we closed the curtain on our crazy adventure.
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Founded in 2016 by Anand Agarawala and Jinha Lee, the company’s social AR/VR workspace has since gone on to include support for Microsoft HoloLens 2, Oculus Quest, MagicLeap 1, Qualcomm XR2, Android/iPhone mobile device and traditional monitors. Million.
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In early 2016, I run into a paper from a professor at Caltech that was talking about data visualization in virtual reality and that blew my mind. The company officially started in August 2016, but then things skyrocketed because it basically gives the customer what the customer wants. MagicLeap glasses.
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