Road to VR

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Magic Leap, maker of one of the best AR headsets on the market, is making a major change to its leadership with a new CEO that will face the challenge of carving out territory for its transparent AR technology against a growing wave of passthrough AR headsets. Three years later, Johnson is out and a new CEO is taking over.

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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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Road to VR

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Magic Leap today announced that it has raised $500 million in new capital at a $2 billion valuation. This comes ahead of the launch of its upcoming AR headset, Magic Leap 2, which it promises will be smaller, lighter, and tuned to be an “all day” device. The First Details on Magic Leap 2.

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Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2024

” That’s not really unusual as far as AR devices go, like HoloLens 2 or Magic Leap 2—a product category that typically uses waveguides pared with micoOLEDs in place of the passthrough cameras and traditional VR headset displays that we’re used to seeing in the company’s mixed reality headsets Quest 3 and Quest Pro.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Hands-On Review of VR Wave Prescription Lenses for Quest 2. A hands-on review and a cost analysis of the VR Wave prescription lens inserts with optional blue light and glare protection for Meta Quest 2. KKCOBVR Quest 2 Strap and Battery Pack: Hands-On Hardware Review. Will Magic Leap 2 AR Glasses Lead the Way to the Metaverse?

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

I have appreciated it a lot, so I thought it could have been a cool idea to make a post for you to describe how it is and compare it with the previous Leap Motion controller. Some weeks ago, I have reviewed the new Leap Motion Gemini (v5) runtime , and I have appreciated its robustness. Are you in? UltraLeap Stereo IR 170.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Magic Leap just gave us the first glimpse of its Magic Leap 2 AR headset earlier this week. Comments from the CEO suggest there will be no consumer headset from Magic Leap in the near-term, but the company says its open to licensing its tech for the consumer space. Image courtesy Magic Leap.

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Road to VR

JUNE 22, 2023

Now, just three weeks later, Quest 3 already has a product page at consumer electronics retailer Best Buy , as spotted by XR analyst Brad Lynch. According to the description, the headset has “a nearly 30% leap in resolution from Quest 2.”

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2022

Magic Leap reveals prices and availability of ML 2. Finally, Magic Leap has revealed information about the price and availability of Magic Leap 2. I think this is a very smart pricing strategy, because it more or less replicates the one of HoloLens 2, while undercutting it by $200 in its lowest tier.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

All you need is a Meta Quest 2 or Meta Quest Pro VR headset. Immersive production company Felix & Paul Studios has partnered with Meta and NASA to host a 4K 360-degree livestream of the historic launch in Horizon Worlds , Meta’s social VR metaverse. . No problem.

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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 Rosenberg officially assumed his role on November 1, 2023.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 26, 2024

Trace has also managed to sign up some big-name Fortune 500 customers like Qualcomm, T-Mobile, Lenovo, and Telefónica that are reportedly using Trace for brand activations, employee training, customer product education, and more. ” Trace is made up of a team with backgrounds from Magic Leap, Disney, Samsung, DARPA, and Harvard.

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VRScout

MARCH 13, 2020

Magic Leap is reportedly working closely with a financial advisor on exploring options to keep the doors of the AR startup open. If sold, Magic Leap could potentially receive more than $10 billion according to an unidentified source. This did little to discourage Magic Leap, however. But then things got weird.

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ARPost

JUNE 3, 2022

Yesterday, June 2, was the second day of AWE. AWE day two started off with back-to-back keynotes from mixed reality display maker Magic Leap and AR commerce solution Avataar. AWE day two started off with back-to-back keynotes from mixed reality display maker Magic Leap and AR commerce solution Avataar. Magic Leap 2.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 18, 2024

HUSH selected the Magic Leap Workshop to help design installations for a building development in New Jersey known as the ‘Helix’. Available on Magic Leap 2 devices, Workshop enables real-time collaboration on design works, no matter where team members are based in the world.

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Road to VR

APRIL 22, 2020

Magic Leap today announced layoffs impacting “every level of the company” and a pivot away from the company’s near-term consumer ambitions and toward the enterprise space. This has made it necessary for us to make the incredibly difficult decision to lay off a number of employees across Magic Leap. billion in capital.

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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. Magic Leap 2 (ML2) launches later this month with purpose-built features for enterprise endpoints, and to fill some gaps left by its predecessor.

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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. Magic Leap 2 (ML2) launches later this month with purpose-built features for enterprise endpoints, and to fill some gaps left by its predecessor.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Offering a convenient way to provide consumers with product information, enhanced shopping experiences, and better customer service, XR is quickly becoming a table stakes part of the new digital retail space. Magic Leap. Magic Leap has quickly emerged as one of the major market leaders in the Augmented Reality hardware environment.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Augmented World Expo , AWE for short, returns to Santa Clara this year from May 31 to June 2, 2023. Even when companies aren’t dropping new products, apps, and services, they use the time to inform and inspire listeners about this rapidly developing space. Let’s take a look. That makes the expo floor a great intro.

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Upload VR

APRIL 26, 2024

Kalinowski was previously the Head of VR Hardware at Oculus for the consumer Oculus Rift, Oculus Touch, Oculus Go, Rift S, Oculus Quest, Quest 2, and Quest Pro. The Demonstrator, Or The Eventual Product? The claim comes from an interview Caitlin Kalinowski gave to Android Central. She switched to Head of AR Glasses two years ago.

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Road to VR

MARCH 12, 2020

Magic Leap, the multi-billion dollar AR startup, could be exploring the possibility of a sale, a Bloomberg report maintains, citing people familiar with the matter. The company’s deep pockets funded the release of Magic Leap 1, an AR headset targeted at developers, enterprise, and anyone with $2,300 to spare.

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ARPost

AUGUST 2, 2023

Just on the main floor, we had Vuzix promoting their Ultralite turnkey AR solution, Sightful with a screenless Spacetop AR laptop , XREAL presenting XREAL Air glasses , and Magic Leap returning with Magic Leap 2. The Renaissance of Haptics It was hard to ignore the sheer volume of haptic-related products at AWE.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Varjo expands its product line-up with two enterprise-focused VR headsets. Yesterday, XR hardware developer Varjo unveiled two new additions to its lineup of human eye-resolution VR & AR products, the VR-2 and VR-2 Pro. Varjo’s human-eye resolution visual fidelity is unprecedented. Image Credit: Varjo.

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Road to VR

MAY 7, 2020

HoloLens 2 and Magic Leap saw the most attention, including the addition of Azure Spatial Anchors, Microsoft’s cross-platform system which enables shared augmented spaces across devices. was released and saw a host of improvements, especially to HoloLens 2 and Magic Leap. Image courtesy Magic Leap.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 23, 2024

Notably, the firm states that its product’s top-tier performance on iOS smartphones significantly contributed to the seamless development cycle for the upcoming MR device. Speaking on the Magic Leap partnership, Gappelberg highlighted how his “AI-powered” AR platform aligns with Magic Leap’s hardware “perfectly.”

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ARPost

JULY 23, 2022

Further, as we move into the third quarter of 2022, we see the metaverse taking on a horde of forms, and it seems that the industrial metaverse is taking a great leap forward. Entering the industry of manufacturing, the digital factory metaverse opens great potential for production ventures. Product Assembly.

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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. 120 Hz refresh rate. 260g headset weight.

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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2020

In that spirit, Facebook today announced that it will be introducing more collaboration and productivity apps to the Oculus Store for Quest soon. Spatial also offers a real-time collaborative space, however it’s approached the task from the AR side of things first, notably supporting HoloLens (1 and 2) and Magic Leap 1.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2020

There are some that I miss experiencing, and one of my biggest regrets of the past was that I had never been able to try the now-defunct Meta 2 augmented reality glasses. Meta 2 hands-on. What were the Meta 2? The Meta 2 had a birdbath based optics (like the modern Nreal) and it was able to provide a wide field of view (90°).

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Upload VR

MAY 22, 2023

Meta is in talks with Magic Leap over a potential "multiyear agreement", the Financial Times reports. The report cites "people familiar with early discussions" as saying the deal could involve intellectual property (IP) licensing and contract manufacturing for "mainstream AR products".

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Next Reality AR

APRIL 25, 2018

Although Magic Leap's founder Rony Abovitz has a lot to say about his product, what people really want are visuals, and it looks like we're about to get a lot more of those in the coming weeks. In a post on Magic Leap's official announcements forum page, the company revealed that it plans to begin a monthly livestream series on Twitch.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 13, 2022

Magic Leap has announced on Tuesday the release window for its sophomore augmented reality (AR) headset. The firm is making the Magic Leap 2 product commercially available on September 30 this year. Magic Leap will also debut the device in Japan and Singapore later this year.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

This week, we look at Apple’s moves across the spatial spectrum, Magic Leap 2, And Oculus Quest game sales among other items. The technology replaces products in streaming media that has already been produced. The shelves of a kitchen can be populated with new products after the fact. W elcome back to Spatial Beats.

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ARPost

JANUARY 6, 2022

Starting this spring, gamers can watch their own cities come to life in Cities: VR using Oculus Quest 2 (Meta Quest 2). Like many titles, it is also coming to Oculus Quest 2, PC VR, and PlayStation VR. In an effort to realign product branding, it’ll also be renaming its flagship virtual reality products.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

More info (GDC roundup 1) More info (GDC roundup 2) More info (GDC roundup 3) More info (Moss to be published on many platforms) More info (Manus Quantum Metagloves) More info (Sony showcasing PSVR). Magic Leap 2 bridges AR and VR. The interest in Magic Leap 2 is growing. And that’s it. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

This means that someone could use this to recreate Google Earth VR Talking about AI, Google has released to the public Google Bard and announced a new language model called AI PaLM 2. It has waited a lot before performing this launch but has not waited enough to be able to deliver a super polished product with clear use cases.

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