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Report: Magical Leap Sees Sluggish Sales Numbers Amidst Latest Funding Round

Road to VR

Magic Leap is one of the most well-funded startups in history, boasting $2.6 A new report from The Information however alleges that the company has seen sluggish sales of its Magic Leap One AR headset, something that reportedly only sold 6,000 units in the first six months following its August 2018 launch.

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

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.” Lets be honest, the last few years have seen some pretty wild speculation from industry analysts whilst the excitement and hype surrounding the most recent renaissance in immersive technology has ridden high. ” 2016 saw the arrival of 3 major consumer virtual reality headsets, the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.04.05): Rumors on a Apple headset intensify, Quest 2 sales grow fast, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Its XR headset will be the first major product launch since 2015, and Apple surely wants to launch it in the best way possible, with a cheering audience, on-site demos to journalists, and a well-orchestrated performance. The Oculus Quest 2 continues its march towards mainstream adoption. Other relevant news.

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Apple’s Tim Cook Sees Opportunity In AR, But It ‘Will Take Some Time To Get Right’

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And so you want the technology to encourage that.”. VR has some interesting applications, but I don’t think it’s a broad-based technology like AR,” Cook explained. Most recently, Apple hired Zeyu Li of Magic Leap — perhaps the most well known AR company in existence — as well as Yury Petrov from Facebook’s Oculus.

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Google Confirms Glass Team is Not Working With AR/VR Team

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Among fans of the device (myself included), there was hope that after the Project Glass had “Graduated” from within Google’s secretive Google[x] in 2015 (also the origin of Tango, Google Watch, and more) the Glass team would be moving ahead with development of new and improved versions of the device.

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Interview to Eduardo Siman: virtual reality makes data visualization fun, we should all work together to make AR and VR to succeed

The Ghost Howls

Officially he is a VR angel investor, but he is much more than this: he is also an immersive technologies enthusiast and an influencer that can really foster healthy debates about the main questions that we all have around these technologies. Magic Leap glasses. They started doing it in Second Life!

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Shower thoughts on the Magic Leap One

The Ghost Howls

We are in the days of the Magic Leap hype : developers that have bought it are posting videos everywhere and every one of us is trying to understand if the device is valuable or not. So, here you are my editorial regarding Magic Leap. So, here you are my editorial regarding Magic Leap.