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Spatial Beats: Magic Leap 2, Holoride & Leo

AR Insider

This week, we look at new AR and VR funding rounds, Magic Leap 2, and the latest in virtual collaboration. Magic Leap CEO Peggy Johnson says their new AR headset will arrive Q4, 2021. The lighter, slight less bulky Magic Leap 2 will double the size of its field of view. W elcome back to Spatial Beats.

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Microsoft’s Meandering XR Strategy Could Lead to Another Zune Moment

Road to VR

It had a compelling reason to exist, which is why Microsoft directly competed against iPod Touch over the course of three device generations before eventually giving up the goat in 2011 and discontinuing the third-gen Zune. Three years later it released HoloLens 2, which directly competes today against Magic Leap Two.

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Oculus CTO John Carmack Talks Immersive Technology On The Joe Rogan Podcast

VRScout

It was a fairly engaging conversation, during which Rogan remained uncharacteristically quiet as Carmack dove into each new topic with considerable detail; not a huge surprise considering Rogan’s well-known love of Quake and DOOM , two video games in which Carmack served as lead programmer. . Image Credit: Joe Rogan Experience. [

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Report Predicts AR and VR Headsets Shipments to Approach 100 Million by 2021

Road to VR

. “While there was clear demand coming primarily from technology enthusiasts, what became readily apparent were the use cases for enterprise users across multiple verticals and for consumers with gaming and content consumption.

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2016’s Record Breaking VR/AR Venture Funding Totals $1.8 Billion

Road to VR

Both median deal size and total number of deals in 2016 outpaced those in 2015, with a 58% increase in average deal size and 30% more deals, according to year-end analysis from Greenlight Insights of individual deals back to 2011. “In Encouragingly, there is a growing list of notable investors committed to the space.

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Magic Leap Could be a Great Strategic Acquisition

VRWorld

Since Magic Leap’s inception in 2011, there has been great innovation in the technology sector focused in the virtual reality (VR)/augmented reality (AR)/mixed reality (MR) space with Magic Leap trying to create a new hardware interface designs. Enter Magic Leap. Kinect version 2.0

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DreamGlass is an interesting Augmented Reality glass that costs only $399

The Ghost Howls

But for developers that have not the money to buy a HoloLens or a Magic Leap (when it will come out, maybe in 3018), Dreamglass can be an interesting opportunity. Its SDK is compatible with Unity, so us developers can use a game engine we already know well to create AR apps. Hello Tony, I’m Kevin, the CEO of Dreamworld.