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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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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Road to VR

MAY 24, 2022

It looks like Magic Leap is holding a barn burner of a sale on its first AR headset, Magic Leap 1, as the one-time $2,300 device can now be had for $550. As first reported by GMW3 , Magic Leap appears to be flushing excess stock of the 2018-era AR headset via the Amazon-owned online retailer Woot. .

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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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VRScout

MARCH 19, 2018

Magic Leap launches “Creator Portal” to let you start creating content. Secretive augmented reality startup Magic Leap is finally taking its first step towards opening up their platform to outside developers. This allows you to test apps with emulated hardware.

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Road to VR

MARCH 12, 2024

.” With the entrance of Apple Vision Pro, one such entity to follow suit is Stryker’s Mako , a robotic surgery group initially founded as a standalone company by Rony Abovitz, the founder and first CEO of AR unicorn Magic Leap. And that’s in spite of its $3,500 price tag.

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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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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. I’d like to consider that what we did together took hardware and twisted it, turned it, put it in heels making it cool, casual hardwear. It’s what I believe in and what I want to see.

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Road to VR

MARCH 11, 2020

BBC Studios and AR/VR studio PRELOADED today launched BBC Earth – Micro Kingdoms: Senses, the interactive documentary for Magic Leap 1. Although originally slated to launch in Fall 2019 , the experience is arriving today on Magic Leap 1 headsets.

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Road to VR

MARCH 22, 2018

At a sponsored GDC 2018 session, the still mysterious augmented reality company Magic Leap has revealed how their prototype hardware has evolved from 2014 to present day. SEE ALSO Magic Leap Launches Developer SDK, Confirms Eye-tracking, Room-scanning, and More. ” The WD3 from 2015 is pictured below. .”

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2018

Today Magic Leap has launched the Lumin SDK, the toolkit which allows developers to build AR experiences for Lumin OS, the operating system that powers the Magic Leap One headset. SEE ALSO Magic Leap Finally Unveils its First AR Product 'Magic Leap One', Shipping Starts in 2018. Eye tracking.

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Road to VR

MARCH 30, 2018

Magic Leap, the mysterious augmented reality headset company, has apparently begun shipping its first wave of Magic Leap One AR systems to partners in limited numbers. Image courtesy Magic Leap. SEE ALSO Magic Leap Shows Prototype Headset Progress Since 2014.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

As we head into the next generation of XR hardware, here are some of the big developments and releases coming out of the industry. But at last, we are seeing a shift from dedicated platform-specific hardware to agnostic all-in-one devices that makes sense for all involved. Where Is XR Heading? What Is Everyone Working On?

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Magic Leap’s next-gen AR headset, Magic Leap 2, is officially slated to launch sometime in 2021. Some of this likely comes as response to a damning report recently released by The Information that alleges the company only sold 6,000 Magic Leap One headsets in the first six months after launch.

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Road to VR

APRIL 25, 2019

At Unreal Engine Build: Detroit 2019, Magic Leap today announced that the company will be giving away 500 Magic Leap One Creator Edition AR headsets as part of the recently unveiled Epic MegaGrants. SEE ALSO Report: Apple to Announce ARKit Updates at WWDC 2019 Including OS Support for AR Headsets.

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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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VRScout

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Blood-thirsty robots, augmented board games, and life-sized space mechs were just a few of the offering at Magic Leap’s inaugural L.E.A.P. developer conference held earlier this week at the Magic Box event space in downtown Los Angeles. Magic Leap Studios). Available now via Magic Leap World , the 1.1

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

The opening collection of the show, created by one of the upcoming designers, Gerrit Jacob, uses innovative Magic Leap spatial computing technology alongside Three’s 5G network, which will bring the designer’s inspirations to life on the catwalk and will remain installed for future use by the students.

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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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Next Reality AR

DECEMBER 10, 2019

As we predicted this time last year, Magic Leap is finally moving from consumer entertainment hype to making a firm commitment to enterprise customers. On Tuesday, the company announced a new name for its device -- the Magic Leap 1, instead of the Magic Leap One Creator Edition.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap 2 is coming in Q1 2022. Even if most of this roundup will be about Oculus, I have decided to put another brand on top of it and it is Magic Leap. Magic Leap won’t pursue anything that isn’t aimed at getting more enterprise deals. Top news of the week.

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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

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Today at Magic Leap’s first creator conference the company has revealed a bevy of AR content built on the headset—some experimental, and some actually launching on the headset soon (or today)—but all up and running on real hardware. At Leap Con today I got treated to a bevy of new Magic Leap content.

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ARPost

JUNE 3, 2022

AWE day two started off with back-to-back keynotes from mixed reality display maker Magic Leap and AR commerce solution Avataar. A Look at the Magic Leap 2. Magic Leap’s Head of Product Management, Jade Meskill, presented “Magic Leap 2 and the Augmented Enterprise.”

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Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2024

Meta is full steam ahead on its mixed reality platform, however Head of AR Glasses hardware Caitlin Kalinowski says in a new interview with Android Central that its first augmented reality glasses will offer a real “wow” moment to users thanks to its “high field of view immersion.” I can’t believe this!’

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 31, 2022

But Meta is not limiting itself to improving its hardware: always this week it has announced that it has invented a new self-supervised algorithm for machine learning training that can learn in the same way for speech, vision, and text. Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap 2 to feature dynamic dimming. Upload VR).

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Magic Leap is in the midst of a notable turnaround. But among the components of Magic Leap’s return to the tech world’s good graces, most notable could be its second swing at AR glasses. To prime the launch and offer a first-hand look, Magic Leap invited us to try ML2 for a few weeks. And below is our take.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Magic Leap is in the midst of a notable turnaround. But among the components of Magic Leap’s return to the tech world’s good graces, most notable could be its second swing at AR glasses. To prime the launch and offer a first-hand look, Magic Leap invited us to try ML2 for a few weeks. And below is our take.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 19, 2018

As with all immersive hardware and platforms, the success (or otherwise) of Magic Leap will hinge on whether it can attract creative developers to make awesome content to bring its technology to life. The Independent game studio just launched its first title for the Magic Leap One Creator Edition, called Luna: Moondust Garden.

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2021

Tech giants such as Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft have invested heavily into AR, VR and MR to speed up mass adoption through both hardware and software solutions.” ” “ XR Casino has first mover’s advantage in providing XR SaaS solutions to online, traditional casinos and sports betting companies.

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AR Insider

JULY 18, 2023

In the last installment of this series, we reviewed Magic Leap 2 from a hardware perspective, as well as its market positioning. Now we switch gears to do the same thing for a different AR headset: Snap Spectacles This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2019

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. 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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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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ARPost

DECEMBER 30, 2022

From top XR trends and must-have skills for an AR/VR career, to XR hardware reviews, to the potential of the metaverse in various industries, to discussing why we’re not all wearing AR/VR headsets, these are the 22 stories ARPost readers clicked on the most this year. KKCOBVR Quest 2 Strap and Battery Pack: Hands-On Hardware Review.

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JULY 23, 2024

Magic Leap has reportedly laid off its sales and marketing teams as a result of the company’s decision to focus on licensing the technology behind its headsets. Only a few years ago Magic Leap was making headlines after raising $3.5 Only a few years ago Magic Leap was making headlines after raising $3.5

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AR Insider

JULY 15, 2020

Visually immersive and contextually-aware AR glasses like Magic Leap One and Hololens 2 require optics whose power consumption and heat dissipation necessitate bulky headgear, rather than anything you’d consider “eyewear.”. This comes down to a classic design tradeoff. Signals in today’s market support this play.

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Tech Trends VR

JANUARY 13, 2019

As with all immersive hardware and platforms, the success (or otherwise) of Magic Leap will hinge on whether it can attract creative developers to make awesome content to bring its technology to life. The idea of seeing something come into your environment, that alone has a magical quality to it Click To Tweet.

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