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AWE 2022: Hands-on with Magic Leap 2 and its awesome visuals

The Ghost Howls

” and from this afternoon, I always ask the same thing: Magic Leap 2. Magic Leap 2 hands-on. I just had two quick demos of a few minutes each with Magic Leap 2, so of course, I’m not able to write a complete review for you , but just a first impressions article. Let me explain to you why.

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Diorama-style AR Detective Game ‘Glimt’ Arrives on Magic Leap 1, Trailer Here

Road to VR

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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Saudi Arabia Gains Majority Stake in Magic Leap in $450M Deal

Road to VR

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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Google Partners With Magic Leap to Secure Key Tech for AR Headsets

Road to VR

Google and Magic Leap today announced a “strategic technology partnership.” Now its tapping AR headset maker Magic Leap in an effort to secure key technology needed to make a compact AR device. Magic Leap has had starts and stops of its own. But the company hasn’t given up yet.

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Tons of New Magic Leap 2 Details Shed Light on Dynamic Dimming & More

Road to VR

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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Magic Leap 2 Controller May Use On-board Inside-out Tracking, an Industry-first

Road to VR

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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Mixed Reality Update is a Natural Fit for Rube Goldberg Game ‘Gadgeteer’, Now Available on Quest 3

Road to VR

Launched in 2019 for PC VR headsets, Gadgeteer was initially conceived to work in homey virtual spaces that replicated what it might be like to build a massive marble ramp in your kitchen, ad hoc music boxes in your living room, and (of course) intricate loops of machines filling the floorplan of an entire virtual apartment.