Magic Leap's CEO and CTO talk about the future of the company, as a filing shows Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund has invested $590M in debt funding
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :
Kuo: due to development issues, Apple is “more likely” to debut its mixed-reality headset in the spring or at WWDC 2023, not January as previously predicted
delayed due to ‘issues’ Richard Priday / Tom's Guide : Apple AR/VR headset launch could come as soon as March Muhammad Zuhair / Appuals.com : Apple's AR Headset Expected to Be Further Delayed Followin...
Sources: Magic Leap is laying off about half its employees, or around 1,000 people, as it winds down its consumer business; Magic Leap has raised over $2B
50 percent of its workforce — and shutting down its consumer division: https://www.bloomberg.com/... Jon Evans / @rezendi : This is going to go down as one of the biggest failures in the history of te...
Report: Magic Leap sold ~6,000 headsets in six months after release, compared to a goal of 100,000 in the first year, and recently laid off dozens of employees
And Google CEO Sundar Pichai reportedly left its board — Magic Leap's sales numbers reportedly haven't matched CEO Rony … Source: The Information .
Magic Leap's One AR headset is now available via its website for $2,295+ in Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Francisco (Bay Area), and Seattle
The Magic Leap One AR headset is out now for $2,295, but not everywhere — Surprise! But there's a good chance you still may not be able to buy it.
Magic Leap says this summer it will start shipping the Magic Leap One Creator Edition, running on the Nvidia Tegra X2, with AT&T as the sole US wireless vendor
The Verge Adi Robertson / The Verge : Magic Leap is shipping its first headset this summer Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web : Magic Leap's mixed reality headset is coming this summer Matthew Handrahan...
Sources: Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund in talks to invest up to $400M in Magic Leap at ~$6B valuation, would bring Magic Leap's funds raised to $2.3B
Financial Times :
Reporter describes new demos of Magic Leap's mixed-reality headset and talks with founder Rony Abovitz about the science behind it
Rony Abovitz talks with Glixel about the tech and ambitions behind new MR Goggles — Magic Leap today revealed a mixed reality headset that it believes reinvents …
Sources: Magic Leap's consumer prototype is in “good shape” ahead of board meeting, but January demos used vaporware; as timeline slips, SDK expected in 2017
Thursday, February 9 Madison Malone Kircher / New York Magazine : Source: Beyoncé Tried Magic Leap's Augmented-Reality Tech and Was ‘Bored’ Adi Robertson / The Verge : Beyoncé reportedly tried Magic L...
Former Magic Leap employees say planned release won't include tech seen in early prototypes; Magic Leap recruited with video created by a visual effects studio
Reality check — Magic Leap's allegedly revolutionary augmented reality technology may in fact be years away from completion and …