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Magic Leap Announces First Round of Independent Creator Program Grant Recipients

Road to VR

Magic Leap is giving away serious cash to developers this year through their Independent Creator Program , which has earmarked an “eight-figure” number destined to fund app developers working in gaming, entertainment, collaboration, productivity, and more. Data Visualization. Magic Lines. – – — – –.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.09.04): Meta may be working on the next Quest Pro with LG, Meta Avatars get legs, and more!

The Ghost Howls

It’s interesting to read that the displays also support a foveated-rendering mode, which cuts down the transmitted data bandwidth to 60%. Magic Leap managed to stimulate a lot of hype for its headset, which should have revolutionized XR and instead turned out to be just a HoloLens clone. This seems a great result to me.

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Exposing Homelessness Through Eviction With ‘These Sleepless Nights’ Mixed Reality Mini-Doc

VRScout

The Magic Leap-powered AR exhibit premiers at the Venice Film Festival. During the 22-minute experience, you move around a giant illuminated cube while wearing a Magic Leap headset. Homelessness is an epidemic that affects people all around the globe.

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Magic Leap Could be a Great Strategic Acquisition

VRWorld

Since Magic Leap’s inception in 2011, there has been great innovation in the technology sector focused in the virtual reality (VR)/augmented reality (AR)/mixed reality (MR) space with Magic Leap trying to create a new hardware interface designs. Enter Magic Leap. What Lead to VR/AR/MR.

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BMW Group Taps Meta for XR Car Gaming System

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The new system combines BMW’s sensor data with Meta’s tracking systems and technologies to create a “car-locked” immersive entertainment console. With the new system, passengers can watch films, play video games, meditate, and send messages on social media for other uses.

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Big News from XR Awards, Microsoft, Meta, and Sony

XR Today - Big XR News tag

Meta is Licensing Magic Leap This week, rumours revealed that Meta might acquire Magic Leap licensing rights for upcoming XR hardware. Meta looks to ink a deal with Magic Leap to share intellectual property licencing and contract manufacturing to create AR-based solutions. Meta is required to pay roughly €1.2

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Spatial Beats: Oculus, Google & Snap

AR Insider

Seems like they’re zeroing in on Maps as the sweet spot for XR and tossing everything else, like their Daydream headset, their investment in Magic Leap, Poly, and finally Tilt Brush, overboard. Sundance Film Festival brings VR Storytelling and Movie Premieres to your home. HaptX Ready To Ship Enterprise Data Gloves.

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