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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 AR startup is in big troubles : after having overhyped its device for years and having collected billions of investments, it just delivered a HoloLens clone.

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Meta's Head Of AR Glasses Hardware Claims They're As Mindblowing As The Original Oculus Rift

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Meta's Head of AR Glasses Hardware claims they give the same "Oh my God, wow! She switched to Head of AR Glasses two years ago. Regardless, it's clear that what Kalinowski means here is that trying Meta's AR glasses is just as mindblowing as trying good VR for the first time. I can't believe this!"

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Meta Hints It Might Demo A 'Prohibitively Expensive' AR Glasses Prototype In 2024

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Meta's CTO seemed to suggest the company could demo a highly advanced true AR glasses prototype in 2024. Meta has been working on AR glasses for at least eight years now, spending tens of billions of dollars on the project that Mark Zuckerberg hopes will one day deliver him an "iPhone moment".

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Holographic Waveguides: What You Need To Know To Understand The Smartglasses Market

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Magic Leap. For a secretive company, we can learn a lot about Magic Leap from their patent filings and acquisitions, namely that they launched without a clear path to executing their vision. In April of last year Abovitz landed himself on the cover of Wired magazine with what was dubbed the Magic Leap “photonic chip.”

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Sundance New Frontier Announces 2019 Line-Up

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The showcase is packed with 33 projects by creators who are pushing artistic innovation across new mediums that include VR, AR, MR, and AI. An interactive narrative combining Augmented Reality and Projection Mapping where you control time by moving your body. Mechanical Souls / France, Taiwan (Lead Artists: Gaëlle Mourre, L.P.

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The sentences about XR I’m tired of hearing

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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. 5-10 years AR Cloud? You live ahead of anyone else, today you are already in 3021.

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How to be a good VR startupper – Part 1

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I wrote a review on Magic Leap One because my friend (and ex partner ) Gianni made me try it. And when I was in Taiwan, someone told me this very crude sentence: (Almost) no one is making money in VR at this moment. We are developing the game HitMotion because I asked HTC to try the 6DOF controllers devkit for the Focus.

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