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The XR Week Peek (2020.06.13): Magic Leap exploring a sale, events are going virtual and more!

The Ghost Howls

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap is on sale. A report on Bloomberg informed us all that Magic Leap is exploring a sale of the company. The sales never skyrocketed and now Magic Leap is in desperate need of cash , after many layoffs, disappointing sales, and having put its IP as collaterals to a bank.

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The sentences about XR I’m tired of hearing

The Ghost Howls

360 Videos are not VR / Smartglasses are not AR. The best way to trigger someone from the XR communities is talking about 360 videos and define them VR , or writing a post on smartglasses, and share it with the #AR tag. We all wear Google Glasses every d… ah, no. Many marriages have broken because of this.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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GOOGLE DAYDREAM SCORES NETFLIX AND HBO APPS. Google Daydream has exclusive access to YouTube’s considerable 360 video library (although admittedly curation could be better) as well as its massive 2D video archive. MAGIC LEAP’S CONTROVERSY. in funding (with a $4.4B Want to dive deeper into the details?

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SIF: LG not interested in VR hardware anymore, Veer entering LBE and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Popular VR videos streaming service VeeR is planning to enter the LBVR sector with an all-in-one VR video installation. It is experimenting with a chair that will let people spend their time watching 360 videos. Me while trying the VR video chair. I think that it may be an interesting solution for 360 videos.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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To make matters murkier, there’s also the recently-announced partnership between Google and HTC Vive to create new standalone mobile headsets for all Google Daydream-ready Android phones. After quietly settling a gender discrimination lawsuit recently, it turns out that Magic Leap is back on the fundraising trail.

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The NBA and TNT Partner With Intel For Biggest VR Push Yet

VRScout

Just this week, Magic Leap announced the company’s first sports partnership with the NBA and Turner, to bring in what they are calling, “the next generation of sports viewing and interactivity.”. It’s currently available for Samsung Gear VR, Google Daydream, Oculus , and Google Play.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.05.25): new rumors on Apple Glasses, Oculus Quest anniversary, HP Reverb G2 and more!

The Ghost Howls

OMG, it’s almost 3 years that I write these roundups… the first week peek was exclusive for my blog subscribers and it featured as best news the release of Google Blocks and in the other news something about Samsung Gear VR… how much time has passed since then! Magic Leap raises other $350M. This is the 150th Week Peek!

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