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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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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.

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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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Research is being done to evaluate the use of virtual reality also to treat chronic pain. You can now touch a virtual cat with full haptics. Thanks to this, you can so touch a virtual cat in a very realistic way. Epic Games has sued Nreal because its name is too close to “Unreal”, which is its trademark.

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