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Magic Leap And Google Announce AR Partnership

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Magic Leap has entered a "multi-faceted, strategic technology partnership" with Google. The companies say the partnership will combine Magic Leap's "leadership in optics and manufacturing" with Google's "technology platforms". Google was an initial investor in Magic Leap, leading a $542 million funding round back in 2014.

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Apple Vision Pro Second Impressions: The Digital Crown Tunes Your Reality

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Saudi Arabia-owned Magic Leap took $500+ million more from the "sovereign" investment arm of the state to continue developing its technologies for transparent optical AR. A few researchers at Meta, and maybe Google or Amazon, are likely waiting for those exact same benchmarks. Microsoft formally killed its PC VR platform.

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Convergence, Enterprise AR, and Mapping the Inside World with Charlie Fink

XR for Business Podcast

There’s a whole range of services, and GPS is getting better now that it’s being married to computer vision, so you can get highly-localized Google directions – really accurate, down to a couple of feet. Is this a job for Google Glass? Charlie: Yeah it’s Google Glass. Google put in 500 million dollars.

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Convergence, Enterprise AR, and Mapping the Inside World with Charlie Fink

XR for Business Podcast

There’s a whole range of services, and GPS is getting better now that it’s being married to computer vision, so you can get highly-localized Google directions – really accurate, down to a couple of feet. Is this a job for Google Glass? Charlie: Yeah it’s Google Glass. Google put in 500 million dollars.

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