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AR Glasses For Diabetics: Magic Leap Considers ?Glucose Monitoring? Eyewear

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According to a patent released last week by the US Patent and Trademark Office, AR startup Magic Leap has begun exploring the concept of smart glasses that can “monitor glucose levels over time” along with other vitals. The patent was first filed by Magic Leap in November of last year.

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Magic Leap CEO: ‘We have made something that is small, mobile, powerful, and we think pretty cool’

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Magic Leap is a mystery. Parsing through their pre-factual, post-cool ad campaign leaves you with the impression that the brains at the company have created the next be-all and end-all of augmented reality devices thanks to an ingenious fight field display technology; and as a curious onlooker, getting a peek of the $4.5

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The Future of Mixed Reality Is Much Bigger Than Magic Leap

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Over the past three years Magic Leap have been one of the darlings of Augmented/Mixed reality. More recent videos from Magic Leap do clarify that you’re looking at the actual tech, but those videos show holograms that are – perhaps unsurprisingly – fuzzier and less impressive than the earlier one.

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Is Facebook Building a ‘Social Layer’ For the Spatial Web?

AR Insider

So predicting AR’s trajectory becomes an exercise in “ following the money.” We’ve been toying with this “ follow the money ” exercise for a while, but it gained steam at yesterday’s OC6 keynote. Abrash has said at past OC conferences that AR and VR share technological underpinnings.

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What’s Driving Instagram’s AR Play?

AR Insider

This exercise includes pinpointing fitting AR use cases, as well as more granular strategies around user experience (UX). Some are AR-native players building tools and technologies to advance the state of the art ( AR enablers ). Just like Magic Leap has the “magicverse,” this is essentially Facebook’s own flavor of the AR cloud.

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XR Today Guide: What is Augmented Reality?

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Data linked to specific positions in the physical world come to life with AR technologies. Smart glass manufacturers and solution providers like Vuzix, Google, Nreal, RealWear, Lenovo, Magic Leap, and others offer full-spectrum devices capable of agile use cases. AR’s Humble Origins. AR Software. Lenses and Waveguides.

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The AR Show: Projecting AR’s Fate in 2020

AR Insider

AR Insider’s ongoing coverage of The AR Show episodes is an exercise in deconstructing and synthesizing the musings of spatial computing’s top minds. I think smart glasses are the next step in that evolution of personal information technology. This “ follow the money ” exercise is a key AR confidence signal.

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