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. This was one of the first ones that what actually wearable.”

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VRScout

JUNE 20, 2018

According to a patent released last week by the US Patent and Trademark Office, AR startup Magic Leap has begun exploring the concept of smart glasses that can “monitor glucose levels over time” along with other vitals. The patent was first filed by Magic Leap in November of last year.

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AR Insider

JUNE 22, 2021

Applying that principle to AR, could wearability be the next era’s mobility? That’s opposed to starting with advanced AR then sizing-down towards wearability. Whether it’s for consumers or enterprises, the point is that all-day wearable displays need to have UX endpoints in mind, as they impact key development decisions.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 18, 2024

Last week, at CES 2024, Ross Rosenberg, the CEO of Magic Leap, and Daniel Diez, the firm’s CTO , spoke to VentureBeat on the current state of Magic Leap’s roadmap following a busy 2023, which saw the firm undergo a major leadership shake-up. ” The firm is ready to leverage a new market.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 9, 2023

Augmented reality (AR) wayfinding firm ARway, recently announced it would partner with Magic Leap to integrate its solution on the latter’s headsets. Magic Leap 2 devices will also allow ARway to leverage its eye tracking, spatial audio, and six degrees of flight (6DoF) for greater interactivity with creative content.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

According to a recent update to Magic Leap’s massive list of job postings , the company revealed it definitely has plans to enter the retail space, which could include everything from special in-store installations to its own bespoke retail locations. Magic Leap unveiled their first product, Magic Leap One , late last December.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 3, 2023

To close 2022, Magic Leap’s leadership team underwent a major restructuring following a significant investment from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund. The investment by Saudi’s PIF division allows the region to own over 50 percent of Magic Leap’s ownership stake. A 16GB computing pack.

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Next Reality AR

AUGUST 8, 2018

About eight months after unveiling Magic Leap One: Creator Edition, on Wednesday, Magic Leap made the device available for order through a reservation page on its website. The day has finally come.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 10, 2023

Magic Leap , a leading manufacturer of augmented reality (AR) headsets, announced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2023 fresh updates on its collaboration with industry verticals. The news comes as the firm partnered with SentiAR to link physicians with data displayed on the Magic Leap 2 headset.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 1, 2022

AR tech firm Magic Leap is set to launch in 19 countries across the world, Lisa Watts, Vice President of Product Marketing and Developer Programs for Magic Leap announced at the Immerse Global Summit (IGS) 2022 Europe on Madeira Island, Portugal. Magic Leap 2 stands on the shoulders of giants and the force.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

JANUARY 16, 2023

Additionally, Mojo Vision is removing roughly 75 percent of its staff as the firm refocuses its direction towards MicroLED production for smart and immersive wearables. Magic Leap 2 Gains Medical Certification. IEC 60601-ready devices allow surgeons and doctors to use a product in an operating room and other medical settings.

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ARVR

JUNE 25, 2021

Applying that principle to AR, could wearability be the next era’s mobility? That’s opposed to starting with advanced AR then sizing-down towards wearability. Whether it’s for consumers or enterprises, the point is that all-day wearable displays need to have UX endpoints in mind, as they impact key development decisions.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Magic Leap 2 Magic Leap jumped the starting gun and played their cards early. The Magic Leap 2 was released in September last year with an entry price point of $3,299. The common themes you’ll see pushed by the marketing teams are weight and resolution. Let’s take a look at the technology coming our way.

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ARPost

MAY 3, 2022

The two companies combine their technologies to bring us the next level of AR experiences through state-of-the-art augmented reality and mixed reality wearables. These waveguides have been instrumental in bringing Magic Leap, Microsoft HoloLens, and other AR devices to the consumer market. Dispelix Waveguide Technology.

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 4, 2018

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.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Over the past three years Magic Leap have been one of the darlings of Augmented/Mixed reality. More recent videos from Magic Leap do clarify that you’re looking at the actual tech, but those videos show holograms that are – perhaps unsurprisingly – fuzzier and less impressive than the earlier one.

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ARVR

AUGUST 23, 2022

Moreover, its V1 design will target larger markers by prioritizing style and wearability over graphical immersiveness. In that light, its appeal will lie in elegant integration with other Apple hardware and wearables. Magic Leap has meaningfully turned things around,” said Boland. Think of it like the iPhone 1?—?evolving

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Slashgear

AUGUST 8, 2018

After many years of waiting, Magic Leap is finally ready to launch its flagship product, the Magic Leap One mixed reality headset. This is a launch that’s been a long time coming, but even though the headset is shipping out today, there’s still plenty of progress to be made.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 16, 2024

This week, AR headset vendor Magic Leap secured roughly $590 million via Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, following the region becoming the firm’s majority owner in 2022. The Saudi Arabia funding has launched Magic Leap’s valuation to more than $4.5

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Slashgear

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Magic Leap’s CEO has denied the accuracy of the supposedly leaked hardware from the clandestine augmented reality firm, claiming it’s not a prototype of the upcoming AR glasses. Unsurprisingly for a startup which has provoked as much … Continue reading.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Magic Leap. Magic Leap has quickly emerged as one of the major market leaders in the Augmented Reality hardware environment. Introducing consumers and businesses to a new generation of smart headsets, Magic Leap allows for the convenient alignment of digital and physical experiences.

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ARVR

MARCH 16, 2023

Consumer/ enterprise spending shares could flip as AR glasses gain wearability. An iPhone succession plan meanwhile happens through a suite of integrated wearables that augments the iThings at the center of our computing lives. In this way, AR glasses will be a key puzzle piece in Apple’s high-stakes wearables road map.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Magic Leap Inc. , billion to build a wearable computing device, is trying to raise even more cash as it readies a long-awaited debut product. As stated, they are thinking of taking part in a new financing round of more than $500 million, bringing Magic Leap valuation close to $6 billion. Qualcomm Inc.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

But despite that lower-tech orientation, the device’s appeal could be in its elegant integrations with other wearables. This would comprise a holistic wearables suite and a classic Apple ecosystem play. For example, Microsoft is down and Magic Leap is up, which flips their previous positioning.

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ARPost

JULY 21, 2023

While this device first piqued Almeida’s interest in the future of XR wearables, he doesn’t think that it’s the real spiritual predecessor of consumer XR. The real pioneers of this are definitely Magic Leap and their waveguide lens is the future that I was expecting Apple to actually achieve some kind of breakthrough on,” said Almeida.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

That being said, the device represents a major step forward for wearable technology; a baby step, but a step nonetheless. The Microsoft HoloLens and Magic Leap One: Creator Edition—while impressive pieces of hardware—have yet to capture the attention of mainstream audiences. And that’s okay.

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AR Insider

APRIL 16, 2021

The enterprise focus is comparatively what Magic Leap failed to do — at least at first. That underlying challenge of wearability versus graphical UX is currently the AR hardware industry’s greatest barrier. ” Is Wearability the Next Mobility? Design Tradeoff.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Smartglasses are a wearable device separate from augmented reality, and are generally defined by their ability to present useful information to the user, often in the form of a small floating screen or heads-up display (HUD). Think Google Glass or Vuzix Blade—not Microsoft HoloLens or Magic Leap 1. pic.twitter.com/ul748jBS2Y.

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AR Insider

MARCH 4, 2021

AR glasses’ style crimes and wearability issues aren’t as prevalent in the workplace. By doing this, Apple could kick off wearability as the new design target that everyone shoots for. Smartglasses’ central point of value from day one could be wearability. Is Wearability the Next Mobility? By the Numbers.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Secretive augmented-reality start-up Magic Leap is partnering with online comic book publisher Madefire to deliver mixed reality comics to Magic Leap’s devices when they launch. The Magic Leap version will apparently feature spatial sound and comics will appear much crisper and more readable on it.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Enterprise AR: 7 real-world use cases for 2021 Style Crimes Going deeper on lite AR, it eschews the world-immersive (SLAM) properties of AR seen in devices like Microsoft Hololens 2 and Magic Leap One. There are clearly design tradeoffs in sacrificing UX robustness for device sleekness and wearability. As usual, it depends.

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ARVR

JANUARY 13, 2022

It involves AR that doesn’t have the rich UX and graphical intensity of a Magic Leap One or Microsoft Hololens 2, but instead prioritizes style and wearability. Backing up, smart glasses have a design tradeoff between wearability (e.g., Magic Leap One). Ray-Ban Stories ) and graphical UX (e.g.,

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

Are we finally getting closer to affordable, good-looking AR wearables? Magic Leap makes you look like a Minion, and even though I personally think the HoloLens looks much cooler (hey, what can I say, I’m a geek) I will also admit that it feels on the heavy side after prolonged use.

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VRScout

JANUARY 24, 2019

Are we finally getting closer to affordable, good-looking AR wearables? Magic Leap makes you look like a Minion, and even though I personally think the HoloLens looks much cooler (hey, what can I say, I’m a geek), I will admit that you begin to feel the considerable weight of the device after prolonged use. Image Credit: Vuzix.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 28, 2020

We also highlighted some of the multi-layered challenges in making truly wearable displays viable for everyday use. The challenge of redirecting light within see-through wearable displays gets harder from here. Hololens and Magic Leap). These “combiner optics” are typically semi-transparent curved mirrors (e.g.,

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 12, 2023

Take a look at the enterprise headset market, and you’ll see most of the latest wearables produced specifically for companies have included Mixed Reality features. 4. Magic Leap will Release More Affordable Headsets. In September 2022, the Magic Leap 2 was released as an “Augmented Reality” headset.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 22, 2020

What’s Holding Wearable Displays Back? Over the last seven years, we’ve seen the introduction of a number of see-through AR glasses for consumers and enterprises from companies such as Google, Microsoft, Magic Leap, North, Meta, ODG, DAQRI, Vuzix, and the list goes on. Find out more or contact us to participate here.

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