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Magic Leap Lays Off Sales & Marketing Amid Report of “last ditch” Pivot to License AR Optics

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Storied AR headset unicorn Magic Leap has laid off its entire sales and marketing departments, making for around 75 jobs cut from its rolls. We will continue to actively support Magic Leap’s customers, developers and our large ecosystem through the Developer Support and Care teams.”

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Unicorn AR Startup Magic Leap is Killing Its First Headset Next Year

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Magic Leap 1, the AR headset that helped the Plantation, Florida-based startup attract over three billion dollars in funding, will be completely defunct by late next year. The company announced this week that Magic Leap 1’s cloud services are due to be shut off on December 31st, 2024.

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Magic Leap 1 AR Headsets Will "Cease To Function" After 2024

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Magic Leap 1 AR headsets will "cease to function" from 31 December 2024, the company announced. Magic Leap sent an email to all customers containing the following: As such, we are announcing that Magic Leap 1 end of life date will be December 31, 2024.

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My predictions for Meta Connect 2024

The Ghost Howls

So let’s see together what are my predictions for tomorrow’s 2024 edition! “The Quest users spent in total 3 million hours in 2024 in Horizon Worlds”). These are my speculations for tomorrow’s Meta Connect 2024. Honestly, these AR glasses are the only reason why I truly regret not being at Connect.

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AWE 2024: Magic Leap to Wow Attendees with Android Smartwatch AR Input Device

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

At AWE this week, leading XR headset vendor Magic Leap and gesture technology innovators Doublepoint Technologies are highlighting a deep product partnership to distribute WowMouse, an input device that leverages Android smartwatches to enable gesture controls such as pinch and gaze for AR applicaitons.

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HUSH Deploys Magic Leap AR to Showcase Designs

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

HUSH selected the Magic Leap Workshop to help design installations for a building development in New Jersey known as the ‘Helix’. Available on Magic Leap 2 devices, Workshop enables real-time collaboration on design works, no matter where team members are based in the world.

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Meta Reportedly In Talks With Magic Leap For 'Mainstream AR Products' Tech Deal

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Meta is in talks with Magic Leap over a potential "multiyear agreement", the Financial Times reports. The original Magic Leap One launched in 2018 as the first AR headset available to consumers, priced at $2300. That IP could include some of the company's augmented reality (AR) waveguide patents.