Road to VR

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Magic Leap announced a number of consumer-facing apps and games coming soon to Magic Leap One, the company’s long-awaited AR headset which released back in August. Check out the demo below to get an idea of SketchUp’s promised AR functionality. Image courtesy Magic Leap, Wacom.

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Road to VR

JUNE 6, 2018

Years of Magic Leap’s hype-building seems for many to be turning from excitement to disappointment, as the company continues to evangelize its AR headset with little attempt to demonstrate what it’s actually like to use it. Since the beginning, Magic Leap has been a masterful tease.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Magic Leap today revealed a collaborative AR project with Icelandic band Sigur Rós, a musical experience which fills the player’s surroundings with ethereal visuals and an interactive soundscape. Image courtesy Pitchfork, Magic Leap. By the end, orchestration is sizzling—I can almost feel it—through my fingertips.

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Road to VR

JULY 22, 2019

Magic Leap Studios plans to debut a new experience for the Magic Leap AR headset at SIGGRAPH next week. Magic Leap Studios, the company’s internal development studio, will fully reveal Undersea next week at SIGGRAPH. ” Image courtesy Magic Leap Studios.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 8, 2018

ILMxLab, Lucasfilm’s immersive media group, today announced Star Wars: Project Porg , an augmented reality “experiment” built for Magic Leap. Just ahead of this week’s Leap Con conference, ILMxLab has announced the Star Wars: Project Porg “experimental demo” for the headset.

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Road to VR

APRIL 17, 2017

Known as a brilliant comedian and capable writer/director, but not quite for his tech insight, Ricky Gervais has high praise for what he has ostensibly seen at Magic Leap. The still-secretive Magic Leap continues a culture of teasing. Gervais’ statements come as the company seems to be courting celebrities.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Magic Leap One, the company’s long-awaited AR headset, has been out for a month now. The post This Magic Leap One Demo Offers a Peek into the Future of Multiplayer AR appeared first on Road to VR. — JJ Castillo (@JJCastilloVR) September 6, 2018.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

According to a recent update to Magic Leap’s massive list of job postings , the company revealed it definitely has plans to enter the retail space, which could include everything from special in-store installations to its own bespoke retail locations. Magic Leap unveiled their first product, Magic Leap One , late last December.

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Next Reality AR

OCTOBER 18, 2018

On Thursday, yet another piece of the Magic Leap puzzle fell into place at Twilio's Signal developer and customer conference in San Francisco. During one of the stage presentations, Twilio co-founder and CEO, Jeff Lawson, walked on staging wearing the Magic Leap One to introduce the first live demo of the company's new Avatar Chat app.

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Next Reality AR

APRIL 3, 2018

It turns out that the government of Saudi Arabia has managed to do something last month's Game Developers Conference couldn't — give us a few new glimpses of the Magic Leap One being worn by someone other than Shaq.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Magic Leap is now shipping Magic Leap One, the company’s AR headset, to all states in the lower 48. To boot, Magic Leap is also offering 0% financing to help developers jump the mental hurdle of plunking down the $2,300 for the device. Image courtesy Magic Leap. Magic Leap One Control.

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Road to VR

APRIL 8, 2019

AT&T and Magic Leap formed a partnership last year which looked a lot like the one between Cingular (now merged with AT&T) and Apple which led to the launch of iPhone. Magic Leap’s marketing for its first AR headset, the Magic Leap One ‘Creator Edition’, has been… curious, to say the least.

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Road to VR

JULY 14, 2018

Magic Leap is soon to launch its first AR headset, the Magic Leap One. While we already saw the Magic Leap controller pop up at the FCC last month , the ‘Lightware’ headset and ‘Lightpack’ compute module have now followed suit. Test setup photos. User manual.

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Next Reality AR

JULY 13, 2018

The rite of passage for every tech product, formally known as Federal Communications Commission (FCC) certification, has come for the Magic Leap One: Creator Edition. Don't Miss: Magic Leap Shows Off Spatial Computing Demo, FCC Docs Reveal New Controller Images In addition.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Magic Leap’s first annual L.E.A.P. Con dev conference is set to open its doors next week, and while we expected to hear a lot about Weta Workshop’s upcoming AR shooter Dr. Grordbort’s Invaders there, Magic Leap today announced that the game will be heading to Magic Leap One headsets on October 9th.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2018

Vive Pro date and price, Magic Leap announcements, Nvidia’s real-time ray-tracing, and Budget Cuts resurfaces. Magic Leap announcements. image courtesy Magic Leap. Magic Leap has launched the SDK for the device’s Lumin OS , with support for Unity and Unreal engines. Image courtesy HTC.

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Next Reality AR

JULY 27, 2018

The long and slow road toward the actual release of the Magic Leap One continues, this time with a couple of new demonstrations of how the system works, revealed in updates along with the company's developer notes.

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Next Reality AR

JUNE 21, 2018

Magic Leap just did something it didn't do during its recent Twitch hardware demo: actually show us some new demo footage of what augmented reality really looks like through the Magic Leap One.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

The annual festival will debut new AR experiences from Magic Leap, Intel, and director Virginia Galloway. Magic Leap’s The Last Light. Magic Leap’s The Last Light. The first is The Last Light , an AR film powered by the Magic Leap One headset. SXSW Film begins on March 13th in Austin, TX.

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Next Reality AR

JULY 12, 2018

Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz doesn't engage in tweetstorms often, but when he does, those tweets are bold, exceedingly confident, and there's usually a strong takeaway regarding what the company is or isn't doing.

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Next Reality AR

AUGUST 31, 2018

That seems to be the unspoken message from Magic Leap via its latest update in the form of several new experiments posted inside its Helio app. Years ago, Magic Leap stoked its early hype by showing off an image of a massive augmented reality whale splashing around in a large gym full of astonished onlookers.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 31, 2018

Back in 2016, Magic Leap released a video clip of a breaching augmented reality whale as a backdrop to their freshly redesigned website, something meant to grab the attention of prospective investors, developers, and consumers alike. Included in the demo, which was captured by Anima Games , is a host of whale facts.

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Next Reality AR

JULY 11, 2018

After weeks of teasing what many hoped might be a live, on-device demo of Magic Leap software to go along with the hardware glimpse we got last month, it turns out that all we got was a bit of new demonstration video footage.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 9, 2018

Ahead of the launch of the Magic Leap One , several press outlets got a chance to see the device up close and personal. Robertson, who has a long history of quality VR and AR reporting at The Verge , has been following the Magic Leap story closely. Image courtesy HoloLens.

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VRScout

JULY 23, 2019

Undersea , a new spatial computing AR experience developed for the Magic Leap One headset, is set to premiere next week at the 46th annual SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference in Los Angeles. With each Magic Leap Studios project on Magic Leap One, we expand the ever-evolving potential of immersive experiences.

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Next Reality AR

JULY 30, 2018

Over the past few weeks, a trio of developer lessons (one of which was revealed in Magic Leap's most recent Twitch livestream) have revealed samples of experiences that are possible while using the Magic Leap One. By comparison, the demo is much more basic than the other published examples.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Weta Workshop’s long teased AR shooter, Dr. Grordbort’s Invaders, launches today on Magic Leap One, coinciding with Magic Leap’s first developer conference, L.E.A.P. Image courtesy Magic Leap. SEE ALSO Magic Leap One Now Shipping Across Contiguous US, Offering 0% Financing.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2019

I especially think it is great for exhibitions and demos since you don’t have to hand controllers to your users. Magic Leap pivots towards enterprise. At the same time, Magic Leap has also shipped a new runtime for its hardware , with the addition of new nice features like vocal commands.

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Next Reality AR

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Grordbort's Invaders is not the only Magic Leap demo to become a reality for the Magic Leap One. ILMxLAB, the augmented and virtual reality arm of Lucasfilm, announced on Monday the Star Wars: Project Porg for Magic Leap One.

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Next Reality AR

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

conference last month may have mostly been best for demoing the Magic Leap One in person, as the company has now uploaded the majority of the insider panels held at the event in Los Angeles. Don't Miss: Moschino & H&M Harness the Power of Magic Leap One to Intro Augmented Reality.

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Next Reality AR

JULY 25, 2018

With the launch of the Magic Leap One looming over summer's horizon, on Wednesday, Magic Leap released an essential component that will differentiate it from current augmented reality platforms. This is the scene that Magic Leap previously painted two years ago in its "Waking Up with Mixed Reality" demo.

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VRScout

AUGUST 31, 2021

Originally developed for the Magic Leap One mixed reality headset, Magic Keys uses Passthrough technology to teach you how to play the piano. There’s no official release date as of yet, though Hackle promises a “playable demo APK within the next days.” ” Most-likely via App Lab or SideQuest.

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Tech Trends VR

AUGUST 8, 2018

Magic Leap finally materializes into a product some of us can actually buy, yet the real test will be whether developers take the bait. There are plenty of players like Microsoft HoloLens and DAQRI which consistently deliver not only cool demos, but real use-cases for holographic Mixed Reality Click To Tweet.

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VRScout

JUNE 16, 2016

Secretive augmented reality startup Magic Leap is partnering up with Disney’s Lucasfilm to bring C-3PO to life inside your home. Magic Leap announced that they have partnered up with Lucasfilm and its ILMxLAB to create an immersive Star Wars experience.

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Road to VR

MAY 15, 2023

When unicorn AR startup Magic Leap released ML1 headset in mid-2018, he called it a “tragic heap,” further stating the AR headset was “a tragedy in the classical sense.” Palmer Lucker donning ML1 | Image courtesy Palmer Luckey At the time, Magic Leap was just as secretive about its hardware as Apple is today.

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Next Reality AR

JUNE 17, 2019

The collaboration between Magic Leap and Wacom, which was first announced during last year's L.E.A.P. Don't Miss: Hands-On with CNN's Magic Leap News Video App The demo was a part of Ide's roughly 40-minute presentation at last week's CES Asia. Wacom and Magic Leap are collaborating to define.

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Next Reality AR

AUGUST 29, 2018

Now that we've had a few days to recover from the VR geek versus augmented reality nerd battle between Oculus founder Palmer Luckey and Magic Leap founder Rony Abovitz, we can get back to taking a closer look at the Magic Leap One. This time, we take a very brief dip into the Abductor app.

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