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Augmented reality’s half-decade of stagnation

TechCrunch VR

Remember Magic Leap? This week, I spent an hour or so playing around with the unreleased next-generation Magic Leap headset, all while discussing the augmented reality company’s wild ride with Magic Leap CEO Peggy Johnson and other members of their executive team. So, let’s talk about it.

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10 Recent VR and AR Investments You Should Know About

VRScout

The biggest gorillas in the room are the covert augmented reality company Magic Leap, which raised almost $800M in February (bringing its total funding to $1.4B), and the VR live-streaming company NextVR, which raised $80M in August (which brings its total funding to over $115M). Baobab Studios has been called the “Pixar of VR”.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

After quietly settling a gender discrimination lawsuit recently, it turns out that Magic Leap is back on the fundraising trail. that the secretive company has already secured is not enough to bring their proprietary augmented reality wearable tech to market, so reportedly Magic Leap is currently raising a Series D round of financing.

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

The Ghost Howls

In Europe, there are venues in Britain, Spain, France, Serbia (by raw play stats it’s the most popular area in the EU; don’t ask me why), and Russia. As platforms for LBAR is conceptually better Hololens or Magic Leap? Magic Leap is one of the most popular AR glasses in this moment(Image by Magic Leap).

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The XR Week Peek (2020.10.12): Quest 2 is launching, dogs use AR, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Contrary to the news about cows using VR in Russia, this news is real and it is also accompanied by a pending patent. If the numbers are real, they are impressive: HoloLens 1 sold 50,000 headsets worldwide during its lifetime, Magic Leap has sold less than 10,000 glasses… and these companies had bigger funding than Nreal.

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The sentences about XR I’m tired of hearing

The Ghost Howls

The only thing that is harder than being a futurist is being THE CHIEF FUTURIST , the job that Neal Stephenson had a Magic Leap. We are in an era when everyone spies everyone, and I am happily sharing my data with the US (Facebook, Twitter), Russia (Telegram), China (WeChat), Italy (my ISP), and I guess many other countries.

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Top XR Stories of 2019

Tech Trends VR

Bumpy Road For Magic Leap. Magic Leap then announced it was pivoting towards enterprise customers following damning reports of extremely weak sales. Dairy farmers in Russia started testing Virtual Reality on their dairy cows. Cows Like VR Too.