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Magic Leap Claims He Stole Augmented Reality Ideas as an Employee, but Who Is Chi Xu, the Founder of Nreal?

Next Reality AR

Chi Xu, the CEO and founder of Nreal, previously worked at Magic Leap as a software engineer. Earlier this year, when I met Xu a second time in Barcelona, Spain at Mobile World Congress (our first meeting was last year, in Silicon Valley), I asked him why he decided to leave Magic Leap.

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AR Glasses Creator Nreal Secures $100M Series C Financing to Expand Internationally

Road to VR

Nreal is probably best known for its smartphone-tethered AR glasses, dubbed Nreal Light which made headlines back at CES 2019 for its relatively small form-factor in comparison to Magic Leap One or Microsoft HoloLens. Image courtesy Nreal. Nreal Light achieves this by offloading processing to a compatible smartphone.

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Nreal Launches $600 ‘Light’ AR Glasses in United States via Verizon

Road to VR

Relative to enterprise-focused AR headsets like Magic Leap 2 and HoloLens 2, it’s also less expensive due to the inclusion of cheaper and less complicated optics, called ‘birdbath’ optics, which project light from a microdisplay to the eye via what’s essentially a curved see-through mirror (among other things).

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Mozilla Announces ‘Firefox Reality’ AR Web Browser for Hololens 2

Road to VR

Today at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain Mozilla announced a collaboration with Microsoft to bring the Firefox Reality web browser to the recently revealed Microsoft HoloLens 2. Image courtesy Mozilla. SEE ALSO 3 Impressive WebVR Examples Worth Checking Out With Firefox's New Support for Vive and Rift.

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Magic Leap Launches Collaboration Package as Businesses Workaround Coronavirus Lock Downs

Peter Graham

Now, Magic Leap has announced a new initiative to aid businesses in this process. The Magic Leap Collaboration Package is designed to facilitate remote collaboration through spatial computing, offering companies Magic Leap 1 devices for a trial period of 45 days for $5,000 USD (shipping included) + applicable taxes.

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

The Ghost Howls

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap 2 has been teased. 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. Other relevant news. Pimax and Varjo are ready to announce new headsets.

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This AR Wayfinder Platform Could Debut in over 35,000 Offices

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

ARway.ai, a firm working with various XR device leaders, such as Apple and Magic Leap, to leverage its unique immersive wayfinding platform for a broad range of use cases, recently announced a new partnership that amplifies its product offering to an increasingly sizeable international user base.