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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 VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

Releasing a simple 360 video as a marketing ploy is old news these days, so it’s refreshing when companies embrace VR to enhance their experiential brand activations in unique ways. 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 Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.07.01): Valve Index shipping, Cosmos display revealed, Oculus Rift S may work with next-gen Xbox and much more!

The Ghost Howls

The one that caught more my attention is the official release of the “Vive Video 6 DOF Lite” mode. You know that 360 videos are nice, but one of the main annoyance is that if you try to move your head, the visuals actually remain fixed. This breaks immediately the magic. nReal answers to Magic Leap.

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The IKEA of AR: Making Content Effortlessly, with EON Reality’s Dan Lejerskar

XR for Business Podcast

So you don’t know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. Alan: So how do you then get people to learn how to do Unreal and Unity without teaching them? So the traditional way to do it is to use Unreal or Unity. Maybe I guess the Unity asset store would be the same. Or even 360 videos, we support that, too.

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The IKEA of AR: Making Content Effortlessly, with EON Reality’s Dan Lejerskar

XR for Business Podcast

So you don’t know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. Alan: So how do you then get people to learn how to do Unreal and Unity without teaching them? So the traditional way to do it is to use Unreal or Unity. Maybe I guess the Unity asset store would be the same. Or even 360 videos, we support that, too.

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The IKEA of AR: Making Content Effortlessly, with EON Reality's Dan Lejerskar

XR for Business Podcast

So you don't know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. Alan: So how do you then get people to learn how to do Unreal and Unity without teaching them? So the traditional way to do it is to use Unreal or Unity. Maybe I guess the Unity asset store would be the same. Or even 360 videos, we support that, too.

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Pivoting Game Dev Skills into XR Utility for Enterprise, with Extality’s Arash Keshmirian

XR for Business Podcast

We're going to dig into using Magic Leap and Hololens and mixed reality headsets as a tool for business. And so we got-- our main first break as Extality was leveraging some of our game connections and things like that, to get close to Magic Leap. Just take 360 video, for example. Well, there we go.

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