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The XR Week Peek (2020.06.13): Magic Leap exploring a sale, events are going virtual and more!

The Ghost Howls

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap is on sale. A report on Bloomberg informed us all that Magic Leap is exploring a sale of the company. The sales never skyrocketed and now Magic Leap is in desperate need of cash , after many layoffs, disappointing sales, and having put its IP as collaterals to a bank.

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#SXSW2019 – Magic Leap and FLOOD

Tech Trends VR

In a side area, there is a substantial line waiting to try out Magic Leap Click To Tweet. They are Magic Leap. Magic Leap is here at SXSW with FLOOD magazine. Meanwhile, in a side area, there is a substantial line waiting to try out Magic Leap’s Augmented Reality. It might be my glasses.

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SIF: LG not interested in VR hardware anymore, Veer entering LBE and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Popular VR videos streaming service VeeR is planning to enter the LBVR sector with an all-in-one VR video installation. It is experimenting with a chair that will let people spend their time watching 360 videos. Me while trying the VR video chair. I think that it may be an interesting solution for 360 videos.

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‘Bigscreen’ Social VR Desktop App Raises $3 Million Seed Investment Led VC Firm Andreessen Horowitz

Road to VR

Flat content like movies and videogames won’t suddenly disappear or get replaced by 360 videos and VR games.” As Bigscreen CEO Darshan Shankar puts it: “2D content isn’t going anywhere. Microsoft Word won’t be text flying around you in 3D space.

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Sundance Film Festival to Feature 18 VR & AR Experiences Next Month

Road to VR

The Royal Shakespeare Company explores theatre’s future with Magic Leap technology in this sublime production of the “Seven Ages of Man” speech from Shakespeare’s As You Like It. RocketMan 360. Cast : Robert Gilbert. VR Cinema. 4 Feet: Blind Date. Juana, an 18-year-old girl in a wheelchair, is anxious to explore her sexuality.

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Sundance New Frontier Announces 2019 Line-Up

VRScout

RocketMan 360 / Romania (Lead Artists: Millo Simulov, Gabriela Hirit, Key Collaborators: Filip Columbeanu, Andreea Serpe, Gabi Ranete) — A few minutes before taking off to Mars on a dangerous, noble mission to colonize the planet, an astronaut receives a 360 video from his girlfriend. Cast: Monica Odagiu, Anghel Damian. .

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Visual Positioning Systems: what they are, best use cases, and how they technically work

The Ghost Howls

This operation is similar to the “stitching” done with multiple flat videos that have to be merged into a 360 video. Performing similar reasonings on all the images , the system gradually reconstructs the whole 3D shape of the space.

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