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The XR Week Peek (2022.07.18): Magic Leap 2 price revealed, new rumors about Apple, and more!

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Magic Leap reveals prices and availability of ML 2. Finally, Magic Leap has revealed information about the price and availability of Magic Leap 2. Microsoft Mixed Reality department is currently in a confused moment and it is not clear when, how, and if will ever reply to this device.

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Meta Reportedly In Talks With Magic Leap For 'Mainstream AR Products' Tech Deal

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Meta is in talks with Magic Leap over a potential "multiyear agreement", the Financial Times reports. The original Magic Leap One launched in 2018 as the first AR headset available to consumers, priced at $2300. Of the big tech giants only Microsoft bet on transparent optics, and HoloLens 2 is now almost three years old.

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Microsoft Explains What Exactly Will Happen To Windows Mixed Reality Headsets

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Here's what Microsoft told us about when support will end, and what that means for you. If you missed the news, Microsoft announced that Windows Mixed Reality is now officially deprecated, and will be "removed in a future release of Windows". UploadVR reached out to Microsoft officially for answers. So there you have it.

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What’s the Sales Outlook for AR Glasses?

ARVR

billion in 2026, an 80.7 million in 2026. million units in market by 2026. million units projected in 2026. million installed base in 2026 is dwarfed by the global smartphone installed base by almost 200 to 1. Meanwhile, the previously-beleaguered Magic Leap has quite a turnaround underway.

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Headworn AR: A Market Still Finding its Footing

ARVR

billion in 2026. Enterprise spending is 95 percent of that today but will retract to 62 percent by 2026 and continue to decline until consumer/enterprise trendlines intersect. One of the most notable events of the past year in the world of headworn AR was the return of Magic Leap… this time with an enterprise focus.

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AR Briefs, Episode 64: AR Glasses Outlook

ARVR

billion in 2026. million units in 2026. But if Apple does indeed keep its plans for AR glasses in the long term, it will likely be a lighter form of AR than what we see in devices like Microsoft HoloLens. For example, Microsoft is down and Magic Leap is up, which flips their previous positioning.

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Does this Mark the End of the HoloLens?

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With the debut of Vision Pro and spatial computing hitting the mainstream, audiences could reasonably assume that firms with established XR projects and products, such as Microsoft or Snap, would re-establish their investments in XR. Profoundly suggesting that Microsoft is dropping support for the two products.