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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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10 Recent VR and AR Investments You Should Know About

VRScout

The biggest gorillas in the room are the covert augmented reality company Magic Leap, which raised almost $800M in February (bringing its total funding to $1.4B), and the VR live-streaming company NextVR, which raised $80M in August (which brings its total funding to over $115M). Moscow-based VR/AR game developer Luden.io

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My Taiwanese XR Chronicles part 1: Cave, zSpace, Brogent hands-on

The Ghost Howls

Two weeks ago, I had a fantastic trip to Taiwan together with my Chinese assistant Miss S. Are you ready for immersing into Taiwan? We all participants of the VR Visionaries tour in Taiwan (Image by Digiblock). When I tell people that I have been in Taiwan, the first questions that I get are “How is Taiwan?”

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Sundance New Frontier Announces 2019 Line-Up

VRScout

Mechanical Souls / France, Taiwan (Lead Artists: Gaëlle Mourre, L.P. Emergence / United Kingdom (Lead Artist: Matt Pyke, Key Collaborators: Chris Mullany, Simon Pyke, Chris Milk, Aaron Koblin) — Enter an open-world environment, expressing the primal desire to maintain your individual identity whilst being part of a crowd.

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

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

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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How to be a good VR startupper – Part 1

The Ghost Howls

I wrote a review on Magic Leap One because my friend (and ex partner ) Gianni made me try it. As you can see, only 22% of VR games are profitable now or in the short term. Licensing your game to LBVR can give you extra cash in the west, while in China you must be very careful about piracy and people not paying the licenses.

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Suzanne Borders says it all on being a female entrepreneur in XR

The Ghost Howls

In yesterday’s part , she detailed what BadVR does and why she’s so interested in the Magic Leap One device. Me trying a marketing experience employing virtual gloves and scent emission in Taiwan. In Asia, they are very much more open to AR and VR. I hope that as well].

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