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SK Telecom Rolls Out Magic Leap In-Stores in South Korea, Announces Harry Potter & League of Legends AR Partnerships

Next Reality AR

The partnership between Magic Leap and leading South Korean wireless carrier SK Telecom took on an added importance earlier this week as the company unveiled the world's first nationwide 5G network.

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AR Takes Center Stage At SXSW 2020

VRScout

The annual festival will debut new AR experiences from Magic Leap, Intel, and director Virginia Galloway. Magic Leap’s The Last Light. Magic Leap’s The Last Light. The first is The Last Light , an AR film powered by the Magic Leap One headset. Intel’s Superhuman AR. Badges are available now.

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Nreal AR Glasses to Begin Shipping Next Week to Consumers in Korea

Road to VR

Nreal is getting ready to ship its Nreal Light AR headset to consumers in South Korea. As reported by The Verge , Nreal is now taking pre-orders from Korea-based consumers, available through Korean telecom LG Uplus. SEE ALSO Apple is Snapping up Many of Magic Leap's Former Employees.

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AR Glasses Creator Nreal Secures $100M Series C Financing to Expand Internationally

Road to VR

Nreal is probably best known for its smartphone-tethered AR glasses, dubbed Nreal Light which made headlines back at CES 2019 for its relatively small form-factor in comparison to Magic Leap One or Microsoft HoloLens. Image courtesy Nreal. Nreal Light achieves this by offloading processing to a compatible smartphone.

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Leveraging 5G Networks to bring VR to South Korea, with Korea Telecom’s Joonmo Park

XR for Business Podcast

One exception is South Korea, where a 5G network is quickly proliferating. Korea Telecom’s Joonmo Park discusses how his company is using the network to evangelize VR. Today, we're speaking with Joonmo Park, new media business development manager at Korea Telecom, the largest telecommunications company in South Korea.

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Leveraging 5G Networks to bring VR to South Korea, with Korea Telecom’s Joonmo Park

XR for Business Podcast

One exception is South Korea, where a 5G network is quickly proliferating. Korea Telecom’s Joonmo Park discusses how his company is using the network to evangelize VR. Today, we're speaking with Joonmo Park, new media business development manager at Korea Telecom, the largest telecommunications company in South Korea.

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Nreal Launches $600 ‘Light’ AR Glasses in United States via Verizon

Road to VR

Relative to enterprise-focused AR headsets like Magic Leap 2 and HoloLens 2, it’s also less expensive due to the inclusion of cheaper and less complicated optics, called ‘birdbath’ optics, which project light from a microdisplay to the eye via what’s essentially a curved see-through mirror (among other things).