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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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Vancouver’s VR/AR Global Summit Puts Content First

VRScout

After the release of Magic Leap One earlier this month – the most anticipated launch in the sector – the industry’s best minds have shifted to content. . Already a Battle Royale [has] happened in the past five years for buying first option broadcast rights for AR content across sport, music, comics, and films.

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‘Angry Birds VR’ is Coming to All Major VR Platforms in 2019

Road to VR

While we don’t know much about gameplay mechanics yet, it’s possible the Magic Leap One release of Angry Birds: FPS – First Person Slingshot may hold some answers. The studio is also working on an upcoming VR arcade experience for its the release of The Angry Birds Movie 2 film.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.09.07): new Quest is coming at $299 and $399, NVIDIA RTX3070 is powerful and affordable and more!

The Ghost Howls

But before talking about it, let me invite you once more to visit the Venice VR Expanded virtual worlds that we did in VRChat for the Venice Film Festival. HTC CEO Yves Maitre resigns. HTC, you did it again. Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap now is worth a bit more than $450M. Top news of the week.

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‘Ready Player One’ Author Ernest Cline Explains Why VR Is The.

AllThingsVR

and Universal Pictures is adapting Armada for a film adaptation, based on a script written by Cline. Cline has seen his fictional universes blend with reality after the consumer launches of Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive (with Sony’s PlayStation VR slotted for an October debut). You’ve been gung-ho about VR with your books. It’s amazing.

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The High-end VR Room of the Future Looks Like This

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

The HTC Vive is arguably the best out there, but having to buy a souped-up laptop just to run it, paying full price for brief games that feel more like demos, and trailing a huge cable off your head and fumbling to mount trackers on your ceiling…it’s not ideal. Neural plugins: The Matrix (film). Total Recall (film).

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The XR Week Peek (2020.10.09): All about the Quest 2 launch and much more!

The Ghost Howls

It is “easy” to create hype and get preorders and many sales on the first day: Even the Magic Leap One had a very strong first day, and the community was flooded with pictures of people donning the device… but in the end, it was a huge flop. Companies like HTC and Facebook have TOS that allows for the gathering of anonymized data.

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