Road to VR

MARCH 12, 2020

Magic Leap, the multi-billion dollar AR startup, could be exploring the possibility of a sale, a Bloomberg report maintains, citing people familiar with the matter. Other options reportedly under consideration are potential partnerships and a stake sale. The Plantation, Florida-based company has raised $2.6

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Road to VR

MAY 22, 2023

A report from the Financial Times maintains Meta is currently in talks with AR headset creator Magic Leap to strike a multiyear deal, which could include intellectual property licensing and contract manufacturing of AR headsets in North America.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Magic Leap, the storied unicorn developing enterprise AR headsets, announced at CES 2023 that its flagship device Magic Leap 2 earned a certification that clears it for use in the operating room. It has since released Magic Leap 2 , which is largely targeted at enterprise.

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Road to VR

MARCH 27, 2020

Resolution Games, the studio behind Acron: Attack of the Squirrels (2019) and Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs (2019) , today launched their latest game on Magic Leap 1. Called Glimt: The Vanishing at the Grand Starlight Hotel , the detective game arrives today on Magic Leap World for free.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Welcome back to Spatial Beats, AR Insider's weekly series that features observations and insights of author and futurist Charlie Fink. This week, we look at Meta's moves, Roblox's Results and Magic Leap 2 so far. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Resolution Games’ latest title is a magical mystery perfect for wannabe detectives. . Resolution Games , developer behind immersive experiences such as Angry Birds VR, Angry Birds AR, and Angry Birds FPS: First-Person Slingshot , yesterday announced an original AR game for Magic Leap One headsets.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Welcome back to Spatial Beats, AR Insider's weekly series that features observations and insights of author and futurist Charlie Fink. This week, we look at Magic Leap's CEO swap and big tech earnings' AI boost. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Road to VR

JULY 22, 2024

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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AR Insider

JANUARY 17, 2022

Welcome back to Spatial Beats, AR Insider's weekly series that features observations and insights of author and futurist Charlie Fink. This week, we look at the second coming of second life, Magic Leap, and the latest XR funding. The post appeared first on AR Insider.

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VRScout

MARCH 13, 2020

Once valued at $8 billion, sources say the AR start-up is now seeking an acquirer. Magic Leap is reportedly working closely with a financial advisor on exploring options to keep the doors of the AR startup open. If sold, Magic Leap could potentially receive more than $10 billion according to an unidentified source.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 18, 2024

Welcome back to Spatial Beats, AR Insider's weekly series that features observations and insights of author and futurist Charlie Fink. This week, we look at Magic Leap's new funding and a post-CES week in XR. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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AR Insider

MAY 30, 2023

One of AR's recent milestones was the return of Magic Leap. To maximize impact, this pivot was coupled with a second swing at AR glasses: Magic Leap 2. This post appeared first on AR Insider. this time with an enterprise focus. We break down the strategy.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 18, 2021

New names and old ones round out this week in XR with big funding for Magic Leap, and Sky Mavis,… Continue reading → Spatial Beats: Magic Leap, Microsoft & HTC. The post Spatial Beats: Magic Leap, Microsoft & HTC appeared first on AR Insider. Welcome back to Spatial Beats.

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Road to VR

JUNE 7, 2022

In an ongoing shift away from a somewhat proprietary development environment on its first headset, Magic Leap has committed to bringing OpenXR support to its Magic Leap 2 headset later this year. Although Magic Leap 2 is clearly the successor to Magic Leap 1, the goal of the headsets are quite different.

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AR Insider

JULY 18, 2022

Welcome back to Spatial Beats, AR Insider's weekly series that features observations and insights of author and futurist Charlie Fink. This week, we look at TikTok's sleeping-giant status, Magic Leap Two's pricing & positioning, and other happenings from the spatial spectrum. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Magic Leap today announced that it has raised $500 million in new capital at a $2 billion valuation. This comes ahead of the launch of its upcoming AR headset, Magic Leap 2, which it promises will be smaller, lighter, and tuned to be an “all day” device. The First Details on Magic Leap 2.

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Road to VR

APRIL 22, 2020

Magic Leap today announced layoffs impacting “every level of the company” and a pivot away from the company’s near-term consumer ambitions and toward the enterprise space. This has made it necessary for us to make the incredibly difficult decision to lay off a number of employees across Magic Leap.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2023

Saudi Arabia has taken majority share of the US-based augmented reality company Magic Leap, The Telegraph reports, widening the stake via its state-owned sovereign wealth fund with a deal amounting to $450 million. The investment puts the country’s ownership of Magic Leap over 50 percent, giving it overall majority control.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

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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Road to VR

JANUARY 26, 2022

Although it’s expected to launch this year, there’s still no firm release date on Magic Leap 2. This week at the SPIE Photonics West 2022 conference, Magic Leap’s VP of Optical Engineering, Kevin Curtis, took to the stage to share a bevy of new details on the headset. Dynamic Dimming Lenses. The Headset.

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Road to VR

APRIL 10, 2020

Now Giant Army has released a version of its galactic physics sandbox on Magic Leap 1, bringing what the studio says an “undiluted” experience. “The experience is a vast physical simulation that pushes the performance boundaries of what the Magic Leap platform can do,” says Giant Army in a Magic Leap blog post.

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Road to VR

APRIL 25, 2023

Though delayed from its commitment last year, Magic Leap today announced that ML2 now fully supports OpenXR. Magic Leap had planned to deliver OpenXR support for its ML2 headset last year, but it was seemingly delayed until now. Today the company announced that Magic Leap 2 is conformant with OpenXR.

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Road to VR

JULY 7, 2020

Peggy Johnson, Microsoft’s Executive VP of Business Development, is slated to take the reins as the new CEO of Magic Leap, effective August 1st. Magic Leap recently pivoted to the enterprise space after seeing lackluster success with its $2,300 AR headset, Magic Leap 1 (previously known as Magic Leap One Developer Edition).

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Magic Leap just gave us the first glimpse of its Magic Leap 2 AR headset earlier this week. Comments from the CEO suggest there will be no consumer headset from Magic Leap in the near-term, but the company says its open to licensing its tech for the consumer space. Image courtesy Magic Leap.

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Road to VR

JUNE 10, 2022

Magic Leap 2 isn’t available just yet, but when it hits the market later this year it will be directly competing with Microsoft’s HoloLens 2. Though Magic Leap 2 beats out its rival in several meaningful places, its underlying design still leaves HoloLens 2 with some advantages. Magic Leap 2 Hands-on.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Magic Leap, maker of one of the best AR headsets on the market, is making a major change to its leadership with a new CEO that will face the challenge of carving out territory for its transparent AR technology against a growing wave of passthrough AR headsets.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

The annual festival will debut new AR experiences from Magic Leap, Intel, and director Virginia Galloway. Attendees of the SXSW Trade Show in Austin, TX will be the first to experience the next phase of movie and concert entertainment powered by cutting-edge AR technology. Magic Leap’s The Last Light.

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Road to VR

MARCH 7, 2022

A new photo of Magic Leap 2 appears to show the device’s controller equipped with cameras for inside-out tracking which would be the first time we’ve seen the approach employed in a commercial XR headset. A recent photo of Magic Leap 2 posted by Peter H. Image courtesy Peter H. Diamandis.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 18, 2024

Saudi Arabia has recently injected more than half a billion dollars into augmented reality company Magic Leap, which it hopes will rival Apple’s Vision Pro mixed reality headset. Will Magic Leap 2 be able to compete with Apple? It’s certainly worth watching.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2022

It was able to provide an SDK and various templates to make companies create easily robust AR experiences that ran directly from the web, without forcing the user to download an app, as it happens for AR applications made with ARCore/ARKit. Image by Magic Leap). First previews show Magic Leap 2 qualities.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2022

Magic Leap reveals prices and availability of ML 2. Finally, Magic Leap has revealed information about the price and availability of Magic Leap 2. These are all right considerations, but it is also true that Magic Leap has much better visuals. Top news of the week.

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VRScout

APRIL 22, 2019

When the Magic Leap One (ML1) originally shipped and went to market, I eagerly tried the headset the first moment I could. The post The Future of Fashion: Magic Leap One Street-Style As You Never Imagined appeared first on VRScout. It’s what I believe in and what I want to see. Pics or it didn’t happen, ya know?

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

This week, we look at Apple’s moves across the spatial spectrum, Magic Leap 2, And Oculus Quest game sales among other items. It’s got 8K resolution and a dozen external cameras and and sensors that offer the possibility of doing pass-through AR. Magic Leap’s next headset to ship in Q4 2021.

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AR Insider

MARCH 17, 2022

What are the biggest insights and observations in immersive tech & media this week? Welcome to Reality Bytes, featuring lightning-round video commentary from AR Insider partner, M7 Innovations. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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ARPost

JULY 19, 2023

On top of incorporating sustainability with its electric motor engine alongside a dynamic redesign, Vision-One Eleven uses Magic Leap 2 AR glasses for a more immersive car experience. By partnering with Mercedes-Benz, Magic Leap also takes another step towards making AR experiences a part of everyday life.

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Next Reality AR

MARCH 11, 2020

The rumors have been circulating for months, but now there's a source attached to the notion that Magic Leap is looking to sell itself off after a rough couple of years following the launch of its Magic Leap 1 augmented reality device.

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Next Reality AR

JANUARY 8, 2021

But amid that shift, one question that has repeatedly come up is: Where are the augmented reality tools that promised to help us navigate this new remote frontier? While many upstarts and established players have gradually moved to meet our new needs, it turns out that Magic Leap is.

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