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Magic Leap is Giving Away 500 AR Headsets as Part of Epic’s $100M Unreal MegaGrants

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At Unreal Engine Build: Detroit 2019, Magic Leap today announced that the company will be giving away 500 Magic Leap One Creator Edition AR headsets as part of the recently unveiled Epic MegaGrants. SEE ALSO Report: Apple to Announce ARKit Updates at WWDC 2019 Including OS Support for AR Headsets.

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Magic Leap Reveals Developer Demo, Confirms NVIDIA TX2 Hardware

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Today during Magic Leap’s developer livestream the company offered the first details on the compute hardware that’s built into the device, confirming that an NVIDIA CPU/GPU module, and also showed a brief developer sample demonstrating world meshing and gesture input. and Vulkan.

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Developers Begin Exploring Magic Leap SDK

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Magic Leap launches “Creator Portal” to let you start creating content. Secretive augmented reality startup Magic Leap is finally taking its first step towards opening up their platform to outside developers. This allows you to test apps with emulated hardware.

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Magic Leap Announces Improved Headset and Enterprise Suite

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Magic Leap has a way of laying low for months at a time and then popping up with huge announcements. However, the Magic Leap One – released last summer – remains one of the most desired headsets in the XR world. That was when they announced partnerships with Unreal and Japanese telecommunications firm DOCOMO.

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Magic Leap Launches Developer SDK, Confirms Eye-tracking, Room-scanning, and More

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Today Magic Leap has launched the Lumin SDK, the toolkit which allows developers to build AR experiences for Lumin OS, the operating system that powers the Magic Leap One headset. Use of Unreal Engine 4’s desktop and mobile forward rendering paths. Eye tracking. Gesture and hand tracking. Room scanning and meshing.

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Magic Leap Shows Prototype Headset Progress Since 2014

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At a sponsored GDC 2018 session, the still mysterious augmented reality company Magic Leap has revealed how their prototype hardware has evolved from 2014 to present day. SEE ALSO Magic Leap Launches Developer SDK, Confirms Eye-tracking, Room-scanning, and More. ” The WD3 from 2015 is pictured below. .”

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Epic Games Gifting 500 Magic Leap Headsets to Developers via Grant Program

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With $100 million in grant funding already available to developers via its MegaGrants program, Epic Games is sweetening the pot with some gear for Magic Leap developers. While no deadline has been set for submitting applications, Epic will award the hardware grants on a.