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Report: Magic Leap Ships First Wave of Headsets to Small Group of Partners

Road to VR

Magic Leap, the mysterious augmented reality headset company, has apparently begun shipping its first wave of Magic Leap One AR systems to partners in limited numbers. Image courtesy Magic Leap. SEE ALSO Magic Leap Shows Prototype Headset Progress Since 2014.

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Magic Leap One first impressions review: it’s not a leap, but a step

The Ghost Howls

I thought it would have taken me a lot before I would be able to try the Magic Leap One , but luckily this has not been the case. We had full-body room-scale VR in 2014 , we were so cool. At a certain point, I asked him: “oh, you said me that you have tried Magic Leap… how is it?” I was amazed.

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AT&T and Magic Leap Partnership is All About 5G, While Selling a $2,300 Headset Without It

Road to VR

AT&T and Magic Leap formed a partnership last year which looked a lot like the one between Cingular (now merged with AT&T) and Apple which led to the launch of iPhone. Magic Leap’s marketing for its first AR headset, the Magic Leap One ‘Creator Edition’, has been… curious, to say the least.

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Magic Leap demo is exactly what the AR startup didn’t need

Slashgear

Three years after we first started reporting on Magic Leap, and they’ve got some semblance of a real product. This company suggested that they had tech nearly ready for a broad scale release back in 2014, but now, hear near the end of 2017, they still don’t really have a product that can be purchased.

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Norm Glasses Enter Expanding Market for Augmented Reality Eyewear

ARPost

There is now a growing market including Magic Leap , Epson, Nreal , ThirdEye , and now Norm. Magic Leap has some entertainment experiences, but the price and size make them more of a tool. This was around 2014,” said Charles Sun, founder of Human Capable. So, where do Norm AR glasses fit in? I tried Nreal.

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XR Training Offers Major Boost to Learner Outcomes, CWRU Exec Says

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Some of the world’s top institutions featured across the XR medical, defence, education, and entertainment sectors debuted and highlighted their latest immersive solutions. Farrow stated that her medical school, one of the top 25 institutions in the United States, developed a new facility in 2014.

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The AR Show: Projecting AR’s Fate in 2020

AR Insider

” As just one example, Facebook has increased its annual R&D spend by $10 billion between 2014, when it bought Oculus, to the present. Then there’s Magic Leap. That could start with something that taps into current consumer comfort, such as an entertainment wearable … then evolve just like the iPhone 1 did.

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