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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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I hope to see your there, physically or virtually . 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 situation looks uncertain, and probably we will hear about Magic Leap’s plans at the next LEAP Conference.

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How Inworld AI Is Populating the Metaverse

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Inworld AI is a company building a tool to create brains that experience creators can put into virtual bodies to populate the metaverse – whether that’s games, simulations for enterprise and education, embodied chatbots in immersive retail environments, or whatever else you can think of. What is Inworld AI ?

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Magic Leap’s John Gaeta talks about the future of cinema, storytelling and mixed reality

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He has joined Rony Abovitz at Magic Leap and now he’s there, trying to build the MagicVerse as the SVP of Creative Strategy of the Florida company. People knew it was not possible to do that: the film resonated because only in a simulation, only in virtual reality you can cheat time and space. Magic Leap glasses.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.01.31): Meta builds a new AI supercomputer, Magic Leap 2 details unveiled, and more!

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Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap 2 to feature dynamic dimming. At Photonics West, Magic Leap’s VP of Optical Engineering Kevin Curtis has revealed some new interesting details on the upcoming Magic Leap 2. To be exact, the eye box is twice as large as the one in Magic Leap One.

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Spatial Ops & Laser Dance Point To A Big Future For Mixed Reality Gaming

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It overtook a physical wall and replaced it with a portal featuring enemies from another world that could run into my room. It was immediately reminiscent of mixed reality work done by Magic Leap with its AR headset and projects like Dr. Grordbort's Invaders.

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NVIDIA Research At SIGGRAPH Aims To Fix VR Headset Limits

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Current VR headsets can certainly make you believe you’re in a virtual world, but consumer devices can’t yet reproduce the exact way your eyes see the real world. A nearby object they are not looking at will be more blurry just as it is in the real world.

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Apple Vision Pro And Meta Quest Are Building Toward Super Vision

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In fact, with Saudi Arabia still pouring $500 million into companies like Magic Leap as Meta continues to invest in optical AR glasses, the question of whether VR-style headsets with passthrough on them are going to be used outdoors in any significant way is not a forgone conclusion.

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