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Report: AR Startup Magic Leap is Looking for a Buyer

Road to VR

The Plantation, Florida-based company has raised $2.6 And it probably won’t until it can at least replicate the success of Microsoft’s purely enterprise-focused HoloLens headsets. Other options reportedly under consideration are potential partnerships and a stake sale.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.10.19): HTC launches Vive Flow, Magic Leap 2 announced, and more!

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HTC advertises it as a headset for relaxation and productivity because it wants to position it as a different product than a gaming machine like Oculus Quest 2. Magic Leap is back: CEO Peggy Johnson has just unveiled in a post on the company blog the Magic Leap 2 , the new version of the AR glasses from the company in Florida.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.12.16): Oculus Quest gets hand tracking, Magic Leap pivots towards enterprise and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Oculus Quest gets hand tracking. Last week, the runtime v12 of Oculus Quest has been rolled out , and this took with it lots of interesting updates. To start, now the Oculus Link is more stable and it is compatible with some AMD GPUs. Oculus Quests have started getting vocal commands in the menu. Top news of the week.

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Top XR Vendors Majoring in Education for 2022

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Meta (Oculus). With the Oculus ecosystem, schools and professional training companies alike are beginning to scale their virtual curriculums for a wide range of use cases. Perhaps the biggest company in the mixed reality landscape right now, Microsoft is paving the way to a future of incredible hybrid learning. Pico Interactive.

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‘FlyInside Flight Simulator’ Preview – A Promising Start in VR-native Flying

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FlyInside FSX , the crowdfunded VR plugin for Microsoft Flight Simulator X (2006) , was built well before first-party VR motion controllers existed, developed back in the DK2-era of 2015 as an ad hoc way of jumping into an already highly-detailed flight sim. It’s still early days for FlyInside.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

In the fall of 2016, Microsoft announced a partnership with a handful of hardware manufacturers to make developer headsets implementing the inside-out tracking technology seen on the HoloLens. HIGH-END VIRTUAL REALITY JUST GOT MORE AFFORDABLE. INVESTMENT & FUNDING WRAPUP.

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Big XR News from Meta, Microsoft, and Magic Leap

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The Reality Labs division develops and manufactures Meta’s VR headsets, such as the Oculus Quest 2. Microsoft first announced its acquisition in 2022. At the time, Satya Nadella, Chairman and Chief Executive of Microsoft, said that the gaming industry plays a “key role in the development of Metaverse platforms.”