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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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Meta Hints It Might Demo A 'Prohibitively Expensive' AR Glasses Prototype In 2024

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That means glasses using it will have to be assembled inside the US, significantly raising the production cost, despite most of the manufacturing and components coming from China and Taiwan. LCoS isn't a new technology, it has been used in movie projectors since the 90s as well as in AR products like HoloLens 1 and Magic Leap 2.

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

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

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Google and Sony both have intellectual property around waveguide designs similar in nature. 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. Near-eye Optics Basics.

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Leap Motion’s North Star is the DK1 of AR: hands-on preview and how to buy it!

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The idea of Leap Motion is going against the current trend of augmented reality glasses, that is mostly based on expensive devices that have closed ecosystems (e.g. HoloLens or Magic Leap One ), but to create a headset that is: Affordable; Completely open, both from a software and hardware standpoint. On the downtown 3 train.

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The sentences about XR I’m tired of hearing

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The belonging of 360 videos to the VR realm causes more harsh debates than the dispute of Taiwan with Mainland China. For instance, this is the forecast of the analysts for the Google Glass adoption in 2013, that I used for a business plan. We all wear Google Glasses every d… ah, no. It has become true, isn’t it?

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The XR Week Peek (2021.05.24): Snap releases new Spectacles AR glasses, Quest releases runtime v29, and more!

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Google unveils Starline communication solution. At Google I/O, Google has announced Project Starline, an interesting project it has worked on for five years. It is about creating a bridge between two distant people. It feels like magic. I think it can become just the nth XR project that Google will abandon.

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