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Insomniac Releases ‘Strangelets’ on Magic Leap One, Its Final Indie Project
Insomniac Games, the studio behind VR games Stormland (2019) and The Unspoken (2017), announced its acquisition by Sony Interactive Entertainment back in August, and while we imagined their last independent project was surely the open-world Rift adventure Stormland, it appears the studio had another title...
Magic Leap Releases Toolkit With Pre-built Components for Easier AR Development
Magic Leap has released a new set of development components in a 'Magic Leap Toolkit' (MLTK) which includes a slew of pre-built tools which aim to make it easier for creators to bring their AR vision to life without...
Magic Leap Update Brings Hand Occlusion, Expanded Multiplayer Support & More
Despite securing $280 million from Japan's largest telecom earlier this summer, we've heard surprisingly little from the multi-billion dollar AR startup of late regarding its flagship headset, Magic Leap One. Now, the company has announced a number of new features...
Magic Leap Raises $280M from Japanese Telecom NTT DOCOMO
Magic Leap, one of the most well-funded startups in history, just took on a $280 million investment from Japan-based mobile phone operator NTT DOCOMO.
As Japan’s largest mobile operator, Docomo is slated to be Magic Leap's exclusive telecommunications partner in...
Magic Leap is Giving Away 500 AR Headsets as Part of Epic’s $100M Unreal MegaGrants
At Unreal Engine Build: Detroit 2019, Magic Leap today announced that the company will be giving away 500 Magic Leap One Creator Edition AR headsets as part of the recently unveiled Epic MegaGrants.
Epic MegaGrants is Epic Games’ $100 million initiative...
AT&T and Magic Leap Partnership is All About 5G, While Selling a $2,300 Headset Without It
AT&T and Magic Leap formed a partnership last year which looked a lot like the one between Cingular (now merged with AT&T) and Apple which led to the launch of iPhone. The idea was that the iPhone was an...
Magic Leap Announces First Round of Independent Creator Program Grant Recipients
Magic Leap is giving away serious cash to developers this year through their Independent Creator Program, which has earmarked an "eight-figure" number destined to fund app developers working in gaming, entertainment, collaboration, productivity, and more. Now, the company has released...
ILMxLAB’s ‘Star Wars: Project Porg’ Virtual Pet Experience Comes to Magic Leap One
As movie tie-ins go, the Star Wars franchise has it all (even Star Wars-branded fruit at one point). Now, Magic Leap says the porg-tastic AR experience Star Wars: Project Porg is available on Magic Leap One. Latent Tamagotchi fans, look...
Madefire Releases 3D Comics App for Magic Leap One
Madefire, the minds behind the Motion Books 3D comic format and publishing platform, today released a new app for Magic Leap One that will let users not only publish their own 3D 'motion comic' creations directly to the AR...
Magic Leap’s AI ‘Mica’ Won’t Turn Off Your Lights, Play Your Music, or Give Directions
Magic Leap today released a blogpost detailing more motivation behind building Mica, the company's upcoming AI announced at Leap Con last year. And Magic Leap doesn't want Mica to be a run-of-the-mill AI assistant that carries out commands like...
Magic Leap Job Listing Points to Future Platform Support for Mobile AR
It looks like Magic Leap could be gearing up to jump into the world of mobile AR, as the company recently published a job listing for a senior software engineer who will be tasked with building "a cross-platform framework...
Magic Leap One Prescription Inserts Are Finally Available
Magic Leap One launched back in August with a glasses frame insert in the box, although the onus was on the user to find an optician to fit it with prescription lenses. Now, the company has finally unveiled their...
Magic Leap Received Over 6,000 Applications for Independent Creator Grant Program
The application deadline for Magic Leap's Independent Creator Grant Program is up, and the company has revealed that over 6,000 applications have been received for consideration.
The grant program has earmarked between $20,000 to $500,000 per project to populate their content store,...
Insomniac Launches ‘Seedling’, Magic Leap One’s First Paid App
Insomniac Games, the minds behind Rift titles Edge of Nowhere (2016), The Unspoken (2017), and upcoming open-world adventure Stormland, today released their first AR experience for Magic Leap One. Dubbed Seedling, the experience is AR headset's first paid app.
Seedling puts you in the...
Mozilla Releases Developer Build Browser for Magic Leap One
Mozilla has just released an early developer preview of a web browser for the Magic Leap One AR headset.
The browser is built on Mozilla's Servo engine technology, the company's high-performance browser engine designed for both application and embedded use.
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