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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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How to be a good VR startupper – Part 1

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I and my partner Gianni bought every new headset on the market : the Oculus Rift DK2, the Vive, the Rift CV1, the Gear VR, etc… We also went to almost every event we were invited to, even the smallest one (I remember once we went to a public plaza with like 7 people listening to our talk about VR…). The reasons?

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

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In yesterday’s part , she detailed what BadVR does and why she’s so interested in the Magic Leap One device. Devices like the Oculus Quest and the Vive Focus Plus, with their easiness of use, can really foster the adoption of VR among consumers and enterprise customers. I hope that as well].

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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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I mean, yes, it’s dead… I like to put on my dead Oculus Quest 2 to play dead beautiful games like InDeath: Unchained and have dead fun. The belonging of 360 videos to the VR realm causes more harsh debates than the dispute of Taiwan with Mainland China. Those journalists are dead right. I ask for a friend, of course.

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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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Oculus Quest gets v29 update. This week Facebook has started rolling out the v29 runtime update for Oculus Quest , and it brings some interesting features like: Multi-user mode on the original Quest 1 A renewed UI of the “toolbar” of the device. Other relevant news. Image by Facebook). You can now touch a virtual cat with full haptics.

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