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The XR Week Peek (2020.06.13): Magic Leap exploring a sale, events are going virtual and more!

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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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Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund Takes Control of Magic Leap

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To close 2022, Magic Leap’s leadership team underwent a major restructuring following a significant investment from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund. The investment by Saudi’s PIF division allows the region to own over 50 percent of Magic Leap’s ownership stake. A 16GB computing pack.

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Report: Magical Leap Sees Sluggish Sales Numbers Amidst Latest Funding Round

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Magic Leap is one of the most well-funded startups in history, boasting $2.6 A new report from The Information however alleges that the company has seen sluggish sales of its Magic Leap One AR headset, something that reportedly only sold 6,000 units in the first six months following its August 2018 launch.

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Nreal Launches $600 ‘Light’ AR Glasses in United States via Verizon

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Relative to enterprise-focused AR headsets like Magic Leap 2 and HoloLens 2, it’s also less expensive due to the inclusion of cheaper and less complicated optics, called ‘birdbath’ optics, which project light from a microdisplay to the eye via what’s essentially a curved see-through mirror (among other things).

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Eido Inoue tells us everything we need to know about HADO and location based augmented reality

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who first immigrated to Japan over 25 years ago. Between that, I worked on consumer cloud software with Google for five years… managing engineering teams for Gmail, Japanese mobile, Google Labs, and social (Blogger etc.) teams for Japan. Meleap (pronounced “may-leap”) is a combination of the words “Merry” and “Leap”.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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THE STANDALONE MOBILE HEADSET THAT HTC IS KEEPING IN JAPAN. HTC has announced a mobile headset called Link — which will only be available in Japan, works with HTC’s new U11 smartphone, and is not affiliated with HTC Vive. If you’re confused as to what this means regarding the boundaries HTC and HTC Vive, well– I am too.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.10.03): Quest 3 leaks, Lenovo ThinkReality VRX launch, and more!

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Bytedance is trying to expand also in Japan , launching the Pico 4 with the support of many influencers. One of the samples is a giraffe in the hands, which clearly recalls the elephant in the hands of Magic Leap. I discovered there is a website that records all the projects killed by Google. News worth a mention.

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