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Magic Leap Announces First Round of Independent Creator Program Grant Recipients

Road to VR

Magic Leap is giving away serious cash to developers this year through their Independent Creator Program , which has earmarked an “eight-figure” number destined to fund app developers working in gaming, entertainment, collaboration, productivity, and more. Productivity. Entertainment. Enterprise.

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Leaping Into the AR Magicverse?

Tech Trends VR

Magic Leap finally materializes into a product some of us can actually buy, yet the real test will be whether developers take the bait. There’s only so much “we know something you don’t know” you can take before it starts to become annoying, but Magic Leap simply would not take a hint.

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AWE 2023 Is Right Around the Corner

ARPost

Day Two Day two only has one proper keynote scheduled, this time with Magic Leap. Last year, the company’s Head of Product Management, Jade Meskill, took the stage to talk about the Magic Leap 2 and “augmented enterprise.” with Nokia Head of Ecosystem and Trend Scouting Leslie Shannon.

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Slowly Going The Way of the Dinosaur in Augmented Reality

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

In nascent markets where competition is under-developed, it’s easy to mistake modest sales growth for good strategy. The main contenders were present last week at AR in Action in New York City. Even Magic Leap showed up to say much and show little. Right strategy, wrong time.

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The Road Ahead in VR and AR Will Have Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

The New York Times is going to run that on the front page, right before Christmas, to p**s us all off. And the AR industry took a major blow when The Information published a well-reported but speculative story saying that Magic Leap’s technology is not likely to live up to its demos. The reality is going to be like this.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.05.30): Niantic launches VPS, Pico launches Neo 3 Link, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

San Francisco, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York City, and Seattle?—?for This shows the growing trend of European companies to try to create a new technological hub that can compete with the US and China for this new tech revolution. News worth a mention. Image by Magic Leap).

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The New 3D Apple Arriving at WWDC

Robert Scoble

For instance, the old Siri understands me just fine when I ask it “how many people are checked in on Foursquare at the New York City Ritz?” If you haven’t seen a Microsoft Hololens or a Magic Leap you probably have no clue about how amazing this will be. A new 3D Apple and paradigm shift arrives.

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