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New Magic Leap Video Tells Us Nothing About What the Company Is Working On

Road to VR

Born out of the founder’s lifetime love affair with sci-fi, surrealism, and a fortuitous road trip across the US, the story of Magic Leap’s founding reads like a beat generation novel about discovering magic in ordinary experiences. image courtesy Magic Leap. And that was the pretty humble origin.”

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The XR Week Peek (2020.05.11): new Quest is in the works, Magic Leap may pivot to healthcare, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap looks for a $100-million deal to save itself. Some reports by Business Insider and The Information talk about the current situation of Magic Leap, that seems always more complicated. More info (Magic Leap trying to raise $100M) More info (Magic Leap timing for the future).

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Spatial raises $14M more for a holographic 3D workspace app, a VR/AR version of Zoom or Hangouts

TechCrunch VR

To see more on how it works, here’s a little video I did with Spatial earlier this month during CES. Other investors include Expa, Lerer Hippeau, Leaders Fund, Samsung NEXT and Andy Hertzfeld (of Macintosh fame). But that too appears to be getting bumped up, so to speak, because of the positive outlook. .

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Go XR or Go Extinct, with Super Ventures’ Ori Inbar

XR for Business Podcast

He’s the founder and managing partner for Super Ventures and the CEO of AugmentedReality.org, a nonprofit that produces Augmented World Expo, the top industry conference for AR since 2010. And then I realized that my kids are always stuck in front of a screen, computer screen or playing video games. Ori: Thank you, Alan.

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Go XR or Go Extinct, with Super Ventures’ Ori Inbar

XR for Business Podcast

He’s the founder and managing partner for Super Ventures and the CEO of AugmentedReality.org, a nonprofit that produces Augmented World Expo, the top industry conference for AR since 2010. And then I realized that my kids are always stuck in front of a screen, computer screen or playing video games. Ori: Thank you, Alan.

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Reaching for the Clouds with 6D.ai’s Matt Miesnieks

XR for Business Podcast

My last company… I don’t know if you’ve ever seen the big see-through touchscreen DJ controller emulator, but we made basically a touchscreen midi controller before there were touch screens in 2010. Like my Dekko, and what we built at Samsung were exactly the same technology that ARKit and ARCore and Magic Leap and others built.

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Reaching for the Clouds with 6D.ai’s Matt Miesnieks

XR for Business Podcast

My last company… I don’t know if you’ve ever seen the big see-through touchscreen DJ controller emulator, but we made basically a touchscreen midi controller before there were touch screens in 2010. Like my Dekko, and what we built at Samsung were exactly the same technology that ARKit and ARCore and Magic Leap and others built.

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