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Following years of product teasers, Magic Leap finally made its augmented-reality headset available to a few select customers in 2018. Three years later, a second generation was announced, and now the Magic Leap 2 is going on sale from September.Contin… Continue reading Magic Leap 2 augmented-reality headset finally goes on general sale
Three years after finally launching its debut augmented reality headset, Magic Leap has outlined plans for a follow-up. The announcement comes as the startup reveals a fresh round of funding to the tune of US$500 million, and continues a shift toward t… Continue reading Magic Leap reveals plans for a second-generation AR headset
Microsoft executive vice president Peggy Johnson is leaving the software giant and will assume the CEO role at Magic Leap, maker of an erstwhile HoloLens competitor.
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In a sign of the times, the Federal Communications Commission has officially signed off on remote testing sessions for amateur radio licensing in the United States. Testing in the US is through the Volunteer Examiner Coordinator program, which allows teams of at least three Volunteer Examiners to set up in-person …read more
The company’s concept videos were obviously misleading to anyone who cares about mixed reality. Continue reading There Is No Magic in Magic Leap
Magic Leap’s AR headset is finally available for purchase, but it’s only slightly better than the HoloLens.
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Yesterday Magic Leap announced that it will ship developer edition hardware in 2018. The company is best known for raising a lot of money. That’s only partially a joke, since the teased hardware has remained very mysterious and never been revealed, yet they have managed to raise nearly $2 billion through four rounds of funding (three of them raising more than $500 million each).
The announcement launched Magic Leap One — subtitled the Creator Edition — with a mailing list sign up for “designers, developers and creatives”. The gist is that the first round of hardware will be offered for …read more
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[Florian] has been putting a lot of work into VR controllers that can be used without interfering with a regular mouse + keyboard combination, and his most recent work has opened the door to successfully emulating a Vive VR controller in Steam VR. He uses Arduino-based custom hardware on the hand, a Leap Motion controller, and fuses the data in software.
We’ve seen [Florian]’s work before in successfully combining a Leap Motion with additional hardware sensors. The idea is to compensate for the fact that the Leap Motion sensor is not very good at detecting some types of movement, such …read more
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Magic Leap wants to put a Millenium Falcon in your living room. Continue reading Magic Leap Enlists Star Wars to Show Off Its Mixed Reality Prowess
This week: Magic Leap, Snapchat’s game-losing fumble, and the new Vivaldi browser. The post Gadget Lab Podcast: Hello, Magic Leap. Peace Out, Snapchat appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading Gadget Lab Podcast: Hello, Magic Leap. Peace Out, Snapchat