After a few years of waiting, Magic Leap says it will finally ship its first hardware this summer. The company has already detailed that the Magic Leap One would be shipping the device in 2018, but after scant follow-up it was a little dubious whether they would actually hit that deadline. In a developer-focused Twitch […]
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Does Ready Player One reveal the future of VR?
Maggie Lane Contributor Share on Twitter Maggie Lane is a writer and producer of virtual reality experiences and covers the industry for various publications. It was barely minutes after the Ready Player One premiere, and texts from my friends and colleagues in the VR community began pouring in… “How was it?” Those of us in […]
View More Does Ready Player One reveal the future of VR?Magic Leap raises $461 million in fresh funding from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Magic Leap still hasn’t released a product, but they’re continuing to raise a lot of cash to get there. The Plantation, Florida-based augmented reality startup announced today that it has raised $461 million from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s sovereign investment arm, The Public Investment Fund. The Saudi Arabian fund contributed $400 million of the raise, with… Read More
Magic Leap is partnering with Turner Sports and the NBA to stream games on an app
Magic Leap and the National Basketball Association are partnering with Turner Sports to show live games on its platform in an app that will be available to Magic Leap One ‘Creator Edition’ customers.
The partnership announced onstage at the Code Media conference in Huntington Beach, Calif. is the first, very vague, very nebulous, use case for Magic Leap (at least that I’ve… Read More
Axel Springer is investing in Magic Leap for some reason
Magic Leap is the gift that keeps on giving. The company has been working for years on augmented reality technologies and raised a gigantic pile of cash on the way. German media company Axel Springer is announcing today that it is investing an un…
View More Axel Springer is investing in Magic Leap for some reasonAR/VR startups raised $3 billion last year led by a few industry juggernauts
Tech companies working with augmented reality and virtual reality technologies raised more than $3 billion in venture funding in 2017. This data comes from analytics firm Digi-Capital and suggests that while the buzz surrounding the AR/VR space has tapered off, the sheer amount of cash getting pumped into the industry is continuing to surge. Read More
The identity politics of emoji
Welcome back to CTRL+T, TechCrunch’s latest weekly podcast in which Megan Rose Dickey and I pick the stories we thought were interesting enough to talk to you about. This week we wondered if cell phones can adversely affect your health (or kill you), the goggles of Magic Leap and the problem Twitter has with the hateful people on its platform. Then later in the ep, Megan chats up… Read More
Crunch Report | Magic Leap Finally Unveils Its Headset
Magic Leap headset is finally unveiled to the public, Bitcoin Cash comes to Coinbase and Litecoin founder sells all of his Coins. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
View More Crunch Report | Magic Leap Finally Unveils Its HeadsetMagic Leap’s mixed reality headset is real, and it looks totally steampunk
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After years of boasting about its game-changing augmented reality technology, Magic Leap finally revealed its first headset, the Leap One.
Set to ship in early 2018, the Leap One promises to bring your wildest sci-fi dreams to life, letting users do things like layer digital screens and objects on top of the real world. It looks like really kickass stuff, but can we talk about the design of the headset for a second?
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Designing attractive headsets, especially ones loaded with as many cameras and sensors necessary for accurate head and body-tracking, is hard.
Just look at all the AR or VR headsets released in the last few years — i.e. Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Samsung Gear VR, Microsoft HoloLens, Acer Windows Mixed Reality headset, etc. — and you can easily see a common trend: They’re all kinda bulky and look dorky. Read more…
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View More Magic Leap’s mixed reality headset is real, and it looks totally steampunkMagic Leap shows off its Magic Leap One ‘Creator’s Edition’ AR headset, shipping in 2018
At long last, the day has come. Magic Leap has shared a first look at what they’ve been building with the cash they’ve raised from Google, Alibaba and others. Today, the highly-valued augmented reality startup shared early details on the Magic Leap One “Creator’s Edition,” an AR headset for developers (“Built for Creators”) that the company says it… Read More
Why the YouTube of AR won’t be YouTube
A couple of years ago when I was working at Samsung, around the time the GearVR was being launched, there were lots of ideas flying around regarding the services to offer alongside the device. Many (most) of these ideas were related to hosting 360 Video content, and our boss David Eun (ex-YouTube) often reminded everyone that YouTube will be the YouTube of VR. He meant that the content on… Read More
Why the YouTube of AR won’t be YouTube
A couple of years ago when I was working at Samsung, around the time the GearVR was being launched, there were lots of ideas flying around regarding the services to offer alongside the device. Many (most) of these ideas were related to hosting 360 Video content, and our boss David Eun (ex-YouTube) often reminded everyone that YouTube will be the YouTube of VR. He meant that the content on… Read More