Road to VR

JULY 11, 2018

Magic Leap today announced that AT&T, one of the leading cellular carriers in the US, has invested in the company and solidified a partnership making AT&T the “exclusive wireless distributor of Magic Leap products for consumers in the U.S.” Cingular merged with AT&T in 2007.

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Next Reality AR

OCTOBER 9, 2018

One the main gripes against cutting-edge augmented reality headsets like the Magic Leap One and the HoloLens is the price — they're pretty expensive compared to most consumer devices. Magic Leap's new partner Affirm facilitates the financing.

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VRScout

AUGUST 8, 2018

Magic Leap’s computer vision headset is now on sale in cities across the U.S. startup Magic Leap unveiled its long-awaited mixed reality headset, a secretive device five years and $2.44B USD in the making. More experiences are on the way from Magic Leap in-house developers, as well as independent, 3rd party creators.

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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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Peter Graham

MARCH 22, 2020

San Francisco, CA. Magic Leap. Magic Leap. Magic Leap. Magic Leap. Magic Leap. Magic Leap. Machine Learning Engineer. Click Here to Apply. Machine Learning Engineer. Click Here to Apply. Plantation, FL. Senior Product Experience Designer. Tokyo, Japan.

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Next Reality AR

MARCH 7, 2019

To build hype for the HoloLens 2 among developers, Microsoft is borrowing a page out of Magic Leap's playbook. Similarly, Magic Leap launched a monthly series on Twitch previewing Magic Leap One in 2018. The first episode will serve as a recap of Mobile World Congress, which hosted.

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Next Reality AR

MARCH 19, 2019

After launching its first augmented reality title for Angry Birds on the Magic Leap One, Rovio has doubled back to the platform that made its franchise famous. On Tuesday, Rovio and its development partner, Resolution Games, announced the new game at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.

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Tech Trends VR

AUGUST 30, 2019

The webinar topics came out as the six core areas of interest for people in the VR and AR community, and will all be discussed in more depth at the VRX Conference & Expo (Dec 12-13, San Francisco). With NIVEA, L’Oreal, Deutsche Telekom, Nestlé and Magic Leap.

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

And while Portland is by no means a backwater, it’s still not a major tech or immersive content hub like LA or San Francisco either. Zachary and Hoffman believe that bringing competition is one way to achieve this, and that, in a way is where the real value of having Magic Leap enter the arena lies.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 13, 2016

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VRScout

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Spatial , a team of 3D Design and AR/VR experts based out of New York and San Francisco, today unveiled their cross-reality collaboration platform after two long years in stealth. Cross-reality collaboration arrives as Spatial reveals holographic teleportation through augmented reality.

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Tech Trends VR

AUGUST 12, 2019

We will be joined by Michael Haddad (Augmented Beauty US Director, L’Oréal), Jasper Krog (Senior Global Digital Innovation Manager, NIVEA), Max Andaker (Digital Innovation Manager, Nestlé Silicon Valley Innovation Outpost), Cathy Hackl (Enterprise Director, Magic Leap) and Terry Schussler, Director, Immersive Technology, Deutsche Telekom).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

You know well that I’ve been at SXSW , but, shame on me, I haven’t stayed a few days more to attend the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Magic Leap 2 bridges AR and VR. The interest in Magic Leap 2 is growing. GDC 2022 featured many VR companies, but few announcements. News worth a mention.

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VRScout

JULY 2, 2019

Magic Leap, Disney, and Epic Games are bringing their A-game to the annual tech conference. City of Sparkles – Through using authentic Twitter messages, City of Sparkles portrays storytelling through a virtual reality experience in New York City and San Francisco. Explore each room to uncover clues.

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Upload VR

APRIL 25, 2023

I completed a handful of puzzles in an early prototype of Laser Dance , ending with me rolling down a quiet hallway under some virtual lasers at the Moscone Convention Center of San Francisco. It was immediately reminiscent of mixed reality work done by Magic Leap with its AR headset and projects like Dr. Grordbort's Invaders.

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VRScout

AUGUST 1, 2019

Pop music sensation Lil Miquela on Instagram, Mica from Magic Leap, and even Fable’s own Lucy are all great examples of an ever-growing industry of digital humanoid entities. Those selected will receive $1K – $25K in support of their Virtual Beings concept. Edward Saatchi of Fable Studio says virtual beings are already here.

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ARPost

JULY 16, 2019

Are you attending XRDC’s AR and VR conference in San Francisco on October 14-15? XRDC is an AR and VR conference that will be held in San Francisco’s Fort Mason Festival Pavilion on October 14-15. Do you follow all the latest tech trends? The XRDC AR/VR Healthcare Report is out now and is a must-read.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 23, 2024

VR|MR 2024 – a conference taking place in San Francisco, California, between 29 and 31 January 2024. Many XR industry giants, such as Google, Magic Leap, and Meta Reality Labs, are poised to appear at the event. To close off what is already a bumper month for XR is SPIE.AR|VR|MR

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 4, 2017

Magic Leap. For a secretive company, we can learn a lot about Magic Leap from their patent filings and acquisitions, namely that they launched without a clear path to executing their vision. In April of last year Abovitz landed himself on the cover of Wired magazine with what was dubbed the Magic Leap “photonic chip.”

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 15, 2023

Spatial Hits Big at GDC 2023 In March, at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2023 in San Francisco, Spatial announced the platform’s new Unity Creator Toolkit is entering its beta stages. Steinerman noted that Spaital started as a platform solely available on XR headsets such as Microsoft’s HoloLens and the Magic Leap.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 24, 2019

Another is Mica, a CGI character being designed by Magic Leap to push the boundaries of realistic rendering of digital humans, with the end-goal of using her as an AI-powered assistant and interface for augmented reality. The suitablye named Virtual Berings Conference is planned for Summer 2019 in San Francisco.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

San Francisco, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York City, and Seattle?—?for Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap has sold units of its first device for $550. This is the reason why I think this announcement is so important. News worth a mention.

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TechCrunch VR

OCTOBER 14, 2021

I had the chance to demo the headset in-person in San Francisco and my first impression of the device was around just how compact and well-designed the hardware appeared. The headset overall hosts a lightweight design more akin to the Magic Leap One than existing standalone headsets.

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Upload VR

MAY 20, 2022

To get support for the project, team members apparently warned that companies like Facebook and Magic Leap could end up owning the sector. Earlier prototypes apparently integrated the battery into the headband, but Ive “prefers” a design with a tethered battery the user wears.

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VRScout

MAY 30, 2017

After quietly settling a gender discrimination lawsuit recently, it turns out that Magic Leap is back on the fundraising trail. that the secretive company has already secured is not enough to bring their proprietary augmented reality wearable tech to market, so reportedly Magic Leap is currently raising a Series D round of financing.

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AllThingsVR

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Stephenson’s forward thinking has recently landed him a job as a futurist at enigmatic AR company, Magic Leap. He was also on hand at this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco to answer questions about his new book, Sevneves, and a reality that is inching ever more closely to the fantasy he crafted in 1992.

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Peter Graham

AUGUST 30, 2019

At the installations, guests will be able to wear Magic Leap headsets to view imagery on the cube as they walk around it. “A large part of US homelessness hinges on the facilitation of court-ordered evictions.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 1, 2016

San Francisco based Osterhout Design Group (aka ODG) announced today that they’ve raised a significant $58 million Series A investment to accelerate production and R&D of its smart glasses products. ODG’s current flagship device is the enterprise-focused R-7 Smartglasses System which sell for $2,750 a pop.

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VRScout

JUNE 19, 2017

Last Monday, I walked three blocks uphill on Mason St in San Francisco to the Fairmont Hotel to demo a stealth product that had been touted to me as one of the biggest advancements in XR tech this side of Magic Leap.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

VR is being used to correct conditions like amblyopia (sometimes called “lazy eye”) by San Francisco-based company Vivid Vision; instead of a childhood-scarring eyepatch or invasive surgery, virtual reality is the prescribed treatment. The covert product still has not been publicly shown, and the well-funded Magic Leap ($1.3B

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VRScout

MARCH 30, 2017

Iger also said he spends his Tuesday afternoons wearing a some kind of head-mounted device at the Disney engineering lab (prompting speculation that he’s referencing their partnership with Magic Leap , which was announced back in June). INVESTMENT & FUNDING WRAPUP.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 31, 2016

At this year’s IMMERSE Summit , Road to VR sat down with Matt McIlwain , managing director at Madrona Venture Group (investor in Envelop VR and Pixvana ), and Patrick Eggen , managing director at Qualcomm Ventures (investor in Owlchemy Labs and Magic Leap ), to discuss their investing strategies when it comes to virtual and augmented reality.

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Road to VR

MARCH 18, 2018

Held annually in San Francisco, Game Developers Conference has undeniably been a focal point for VR the industry, and as augmented reality continues to heat up, we expect it to be increasingly important for AR as well. Continued on Page 2: Sony, Magic Leap, LG & Microsoft ».

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 11, 2023

With our smart glasses, they can get an expert from New York City, San Francisco, or [Baltimore-based] Johns Hopkins to join the theatre experience. Compared to Google Glass, Microsoft’s HoloLens 2, and the Magic Leap 1 and 2, Vuzix’s products operated with an eight-hour charge, compared to rivals.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 11, 2016

That year saw San Francisco hosting not just the hippies and free love, but a very significant presentation was held. Certainly Magic Leap won big by attracting Google, Qualcomm, Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins, among other investors. 1968 was a year widely known for hippie culture, green smoke, free love etc.

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VRWorld

JULY 5, 2017

Now, there’s a Finnish startup emerging from stealth mode offering 70 times higher resolution than offered (or promised) by HTC, Oculus or even Magic Leap, with its 1-2K floating display. You can see the comparison images below: Varjo 20|20 technology (above) vs. Oculus Rift (below) on San Francisco demo image.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 20, 2019

I dragged my camera down to meet her and her team in their offices in Marina Del Rey, near Los Angeles, to get a look at the business visualizations they are building for use in both Spatial Computing headsets, like Magic Leap, and VR, for HTC Vive, Oculus Quest or Rift, or others. BadVR has the answers.

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