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This chipset will reportedly be integrated into Samsung and Sony headsets, Play for Dream MR and Immersed’s Visor. MagicLeap Ditching its Hardware Business? MagicLeap has reportedly laid off its sales and marketing teams because it decided to focus on licensing the technology behind its headsets.
Yesterday, during Samsung’s Upacked event, the technology giant gave a short but sweet insight into the future of its elusive but attention-grabbing Moohan headset. Samsung revealed the information on the device alongside its broader ecosystem updates, putting into perspective the value of a firm like Samsung in the XR space.
Notably, Google is developing the XR OS alongside Samsung; during the announcement, Samsung also highlighted how it is poised to release a headset in 2025. Moreover, other XR industry figures are supporting Android XR, including Qualcomm, Sony, XREAL, MagicLeap, and Lynx, a new entry into the XR market.
Several major firms are taking to the event to showcase the latest in their AR/VR/MR endeavours, with a headline-stealing showcase coming via Samsung’s Moohan exhibition. At MWC 2025, Samsung showcased many products, from its mobile AI suite to new smartphones. The hardware design reflects Samsungs ecosystem-first approach.
This week, a curious hire opportunity appeared over at Samsung, just in time for its concurrent augmented reality/mixed reality headset push. Specifically, the role is filling an XR Director gap at Samsung Research America as part of the division’s MPS (Mobile Platform Services), SRA, and Immersive Experiences (IMEX) Team.
With Android XR, Google wants to power a broad range of proprietary and third-party experiences, spanning all the way from the upcoming Samsung XR headset , to smart glasses, and extended reality applications infused with artificial intelligence. Google has already shared that its working with companies like Sony, MagicLeap, and Lynx.
This won’t be the year of AR : exactly as I said for virtual reality, let’s not hype the technology and think that this is the year when mainstream adoption of wearable AR glasses is going to happen. MagicLeap will meet its fate. Duck Face, MagicLeap One, and me. What about MagicLeap ?
And, we are continuing to collaborate with MagicLeap on XR technology and future products with AR and AI. Google has partnered with several hardware manufacturers for Android XR, including Samsung and Qualcomm. The initiative builds on ARCore, Googles existing augmented reality framework.
Most notable is Samsung’s entry into the headset space with an XR device, which leverages the AndriodXR OS. Moreover, the Samsung headset comes as other leading XR technology firms, including Qualcomm, Sony, XREAL, and MagicLeap, are championing the AndriodXR OS. Its upcoming moves may reflect this pressure.
While wearable technologies, including wearable XR, didn’t exactly “blow up” this year, the technology did further entrench itself in enterprise—the number of companies in the evaluation stage rose significantly, several large deployments made headlines, and solution providers continued to partner and expand their products to more platforms.
I’ve been a big fan of the cute little Samsung Gear 360 camera since its first unveiling in the spring of 2016, and always recommend it to people inquiring about the best consumer-friendly 360 cameras out there. After quietly settling a gender discrimination lawsuit recently, it turns out that MagicLeap is back on the fundraising trail.
This week, following last month’s AndriodXR announcement and this week’s Samsung Moohan teasers, Google made a massive parrel move. Firms such as Samsung, MagicLeap, Lynx, Sony, Qualcomm, and XREAL are already poised to support this effort. What a HTC/Google Unitifaction Mean?
Microsoft MagicLeap Varjo HP Acer Samsung ASUS Dell Biel AjnaXR FYR Medical ESight Canon IrisVision VRgineers Zappar Lynx Valve Microsoft Microsoft has been increasing its focus on the extended reality landscape in recent years, with the production of solutions such as Microsoft Mesh, and a metaverse environment for Microsoft Teams.
This week, following last month’s AndriodXR announcement and this week’s Samsung Moohan teasers, Google made a massive parrel move. Firms such as Samsung, MagicLeap, Lynx, Sony, Qualcomm, and XREAL are already poised to support this effort. What a HTC/Google Unitifaction Mean?
The Future of MagicLeap After Ross Rosenberg was appointed MagicLeap’s CEO in October 2023, the company has since focused on its enterprise roadmap for 2024; targeting its XR devices towards enterprise and industrial clients. MagicLeap started to understand that these walled gardens are not their future.
MagicLeap Currently focusing its attention on the enterprise landscape, MagicLeap produces AR and MR headsets designed to address the needs of various industries. IrisVision Technology vendor IrisVision produces low-profile, wearable hardware solutions for the XR space.
Secretive augmented-reality start-up MagicLeap is partnering with online comic book publisher Madefire to deliver mixed reality comics to MagicLeap’s devices when they launch. The MagicLeap version will apparently feature spatial sound and comics will appear much crisper and more readable on it.
Other investors include Expa, Lerer Hippeau, Leaders Fund, Samsung NEXT and Andy Hertzfeld (of Macintosh fame). It’s not disclosing valuation at this stage, Anand Agarawala, the CEO who co-founded the company with Jinha Lee (CPO), said in an interview.
To bring the matters home to the readers of this website, graphene battery technology is one of key technologies we need for headsets such as Google Glass 2, which is currently being developed in conjunction with Luxottica , or a more recent development, MagicLeap prototype augmented reality glass.
The report notes that the forecasted uptick hinges on various market leaders, including Google, Sony, Apple, Samsung Electronics, Microsoft, HTC, Oculus, MagicLeap, Blippar, and Upskill. The development of XR for enterprises and consumers is notably rising in the US and EU.
marks the rise of AR and VR headsets, smart glasses, wearables, and sensors. MagicLeap has put forth the term Magicverse, a more playful version of a global digital twin that inspires visions of the fantastical. This gave smartphones the capability to display 3D contextual information and 3D interactive objects in space.
Ideas on the ground and on board: The airport industry first began toying with wearable technology with the release of the original Google Glass in 2013. More recently, the use of wearable augmented and virtual reality devices by airport and airline technicians to train, perform maintenance, and receive remote support has gained traction.
On the other hand, firms like MagicLeap and XREAL are receiving millions in funding to potentially leapfrog the forecasted success of Apple’s Vision Pro. He explained that MR displays from vendors such as MagicLeap and HoloLens may not replace classic AR in the short term “because of some regulations and safety aspects.”
A new OS for wearable, on face, computers. Samsung has started putting UWB chips into their devices but they don’t have the M1 chip sitting next to these things, so Samsung is way behind and, really, who will buy an entire house full of stuff from Samsung? A new OS arrives for on-face wearables.
Most notable is Samsung’s entry into the headset space with an XR device, which leverages the AndriodXR OS. Moreover, the Samsung headset comes as other leading XR technology firms, including Qualcomm, Sony, XREAL, and MagicLeap, are championing the AndriodXR OS. Its upcoming moves may reflect this pressure.
You’ve done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung. Alan: I don’t know if you’ve tried to MagicLeap. The advantage that something like a MagicLeap or even an Oculus Quest has is that it’s tracking you with cameras. What an amazing piece of technology. I assume you have.
You’ve done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung. Alan: I don’t know if you’ve tried to MagicLeap. The advantage that something like a MagicLeap or even an Oculus Quest has is that it’s tracking you with cameras. What an amazing piece of technology. I assume you have.
And as I got into the book and editing the work of my collaborators, it was clear everyone was talking about the same thing, which is this world of ubiquitous, wearable computing. Charlie: Well, a few things about MagicLeap, just to describe it for your readers who don’t know: they use a multi-planer system to place objects in-depth.
And as I got into the book and editing the work of my collaborators, it was clear everyone was talking about the same thing, which is this world of ubiquitous, wearable computing. Charlie: Well, a few things about MagicLeap, just to describe it for your readers who don’t know: they use a multi-planer system to place objects in-depth.
You've done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung. Alan: I don't know if you've tried to MagicLeap. The advantage that something like a MagicLeap or even an Oculus Quest has is that it's tracking you with cameras. We've also started putting them in every wearable we made. That's an option.
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GB: MagicLeap is a big presence in the AR discussion. Outside of the sort of people in this room and in the games press, I don’t think most people know what MagicLeap is. When you talk about investment, certainly MagicLeap has garnered the most, but ODG just closed a big round. VR is inherently isolating.
And so I think the use is going to really increase once wearables support AR with our app, which should come sometime next year. I think both are great, but AR is going to be an even better fit for us, especially once wearables support AR straight from the embedded player. And we have much more objects than places. Alan: I saw that!
And so I think the use is going to really increase once wearables support AR with our app, which should come sometime next year. I think both are great, but AR is going to be an even better fit for us, especially once wearables support AR straight from the embedded player. Alan: Today, MagicLeap just released a press release.
And so I think the use is going to really increase once wearables support AR with our app, which should come sometime next year. I think both are great, but AR is going to be an even better fit for us, especially once wearables support AR straight from the embedded player. And we have much more objects than places. Alan: I saw that!
Meta has not officially answered this report, but Andrew Bosworth, the CTO of the company, has indirectly commented on it: “ We’re going to ship wrist wearables and AR glasses that bring completely new tech?—?like like EMG?—?to The path to groundbreaking products is not a straight line.
Yes, Google might still be resurgent with Android, powered by Owlchemy's insights and Samsung's hardware , and other companies might surprise with a novel strategy too. We already have wearable personal computers and they're increasingly with us most of the day both inside and outside the home. Vision Pro did AR in VR that well.
.” The Year of AR and VR The real-life speaker then explained that new headsets would offer a wider range of options, including “smaller, better, [and] cooler” headsets and wearables. ” Timing for the device’s release was also “perfect,” he continued.
Alan: Yeah, the new Samsung 10 does it. One is Draco file, one’s a USDZ and one is a glTF, and then we have a couple other ones that we use that were playing around with, especially for things like MagicLeap that we’re working with, and some other kind of newer file formats that we just want to be able to support them.
Alan: Yeah, the new Samsung 10 does it. One is Draco file, one’s a USDZ and one is a glTF, and then we have a couple other ones that we use that were playing around with, especially for things like MagicLeap that we’re working with, and some other kind of newer file formats that we just want to be able to support them.
Alan: Yeah, the new Samsung 10 does it. One is Draco file, one's a USDZ and one is a glTF, and then we have a couple other ones that we use that were playing around with, especially for things like MagicLeap that we're working with, and some other kind of newer file formats that we just want to be able to support them.
Alan: Yeah, the new Samsung 10 does it. One is Draco file, one’s a USDZ and one is a glTF, and then we have a couple other ones that we use that were playing around with, especially for things like MagicLeap that we’re working with, and some other kind of newer file formats that we just want to be able to support them.
Image by Samsung). Anyway, officially, both Samsung and Oculus have continued at least to support it. But at the presentation of the latest Samsung Note 10, for the first time after the Note 4, Samsung has dropped support for Gear VR in its latest flagship device. And Samsung is not abandoning XR for sure.
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