Magic Leap One owners with itchy trigger fingers may have their itch scratched next week, as Magic Leap has shared a brief teaser on Twitter for the long-awaited Dr. Grordbort’s Invaders game from Weta Workshop. The video concludes with the Magic Leap logo and the hashtag #leapcon. It just so happens that the L.E.A.P. Conference,...
The latest business move by Magic Leap could result in a significant boost to its spatial computing platform’s performance and headset design. On Friday, Magic Leap announced the acquisition of Computes, Inc., makers of a decentralized and distributed mesh computing platform. The company’s founders, Chris Matthieu and Jade Meskill, now serve as senior director of...
Magic Leap has announced they are acquiring Computes, a decentralized mesh computing startup. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. From Magic Leap’s blog post: From the beginning, Chris Matthieu and Jade Meskill started Computes, Inc. based on the principle of enabling the next generation of computing. We believe Magic Leap is the perfect home to...
Tim Merel Contributor Tim Merel is managing director of Digi-Capital. More posts by this contributor The Reality Ecosystem: What AR/VR/XR needs to go big China could beat America in AR/VR long-term Last year, 30 leading venture investors told us about a fundamental shift from early-stage North American VR investment to later-stage Chinese computer vision/AR investment — but...
While many of the latest content partnerships announced by Magic Leap appear to lean towards entertainment and gaming, a new partnership with medical technology provider Brainlab has Magic Leap getting down to more serious business. The companies have arrived at an exclusive agreement where Brainlab will adapt its medical software capabilities, such as data management,...
Venom, the latest in a long list of comic book characters to headline its own movie, is known by comic book fans by his catchphrase, “We are Venom.” Now, via augmented reality, we, too, can be Venom. Sony Pictures, in conjunction with the release of the film Venom, has published new AR experiences via Snapchat...
Location-based AR game Ghostbusters World is creeping closer to launch, and developer FourThirtyThree has released some new gameplay footage and a trailer to capture the interest of the living. As hinted by previous gameplay reveals, the game from Sony Pictures and franchise caretaker Ghost Corps borrows liberally from location-based AR standard-bearer Pokémon GO while putting...
I haven’t seen a virtual reality glove system that also includes a suitcase-sized pneumatic box accessory, but then again there aren’t too many VR peripherals that have delivered quite the depth of immersion of the HaptX system. Today, HaptX announced the release of their Gloves development kit that will allow its users to feel pressure...
With Facebook holding a dominant role in the VR space, one would think that the social networking implications are all taken care of — but for the time being, it actually seems to be one of the best areas for virtual reality startups to get creative and find an audience. VR and AR has the...
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to try to survive The Purge as depicted in the popular movie series? Well, thanks to augmented reality, now you can. After four films, the dystopian horror The Purge is jumping to the small screen on USA Networks as a television series, but, if that wasn’t...
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