Magic Leap news and trends

Magic Leap Appoints Former Belden Executive Ross Rosenberg as CEO
Personnel // October 25, 2023

Magic Leap, an augmented reality (AR) platform, appointed Ross Rosenberg as its new CEO. Effective Nov. 1, Rosenberg, an experienced technology executive, will succeed Peggy Johnson, who is stepping down after guiding the company through a multiyear transformation into an AR platform, Magic Leap said...

Meta Looks to Launch AR Partnership With Magic Leap
Meta // May 21, 2023

Meta is reportedly pursuing a partnership with augmented reality (AR) firm Magic Leap. According to a Saturday (May 20) report by the Financial Times citing unnamed sources, the tech giant is looking at ways Magic Leap could help it create mainstream AR products through intellectual property licensing and...

Apple’s Nonexistent Smartglasses Beat Google’s In Survey
Apple // May 28, 2019

The product doesn’t even exist yet, but Apple still managed to beat Google in the smartglasses market. A recent survey of AR/VR industry insiders by Digi-Capital and AWE saw Apple come in as the third-most important smartglasses platform, after Microsoft HoloLens and Magic Leap. The...

Baidu Buys xPerception For Bigger AI Push
Partnerships / Acquisitions // April 14, 2017

Baidu, the Chinese Internet company, has inked a deal to acquire xPerception, a U.S. computer vision firm, for an undisclosed sum. According to a report in Reuters, the move on the part of Baidu to buy the computer vision company comes as it is renewing...

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Report: Google Could Be Inching Back to Augmented Reality

May 30, 2024
Google is forming a partnership with augmented reality (AR) startup Magic Leap. “We’ve shipped a couple of different versions of augmented reality devices so far, so we’re out there delivering things, and Google has a long history of platforms thinking,” Magic Leap Chief Technology Officer Julie Larson-Green told Reuters Thursday (May 30). “So, we’re thinking, […]

Magic Leap Appoints Former Belden Executive Ross Rosenberg as CEO

October 25, 2023
Magic Leap, an augmented reality (AR) platform, appointed Ross Rosenberg as its new CEO. Effective Nov. 1, Rosenberg, an experienced technology executive, will succeed Peggy Johnson, who is stepping down...

Meta Looks to Launch AR Partnership With Magic Leap

May 21, 2023
Meta is reportedly pursuing a partnership with augmented reality (AR) firm Magic Leap. According to a Saturday (May 20) report by the Financial Times citing unnamed sources, the tech giant is looking at...

Apple’s Nonexistent Smartglasses Beat Google’s In Survey

May 28, 2019
The product doesn’t even exist yet, but Apple still managed to beat Google in the smartglasses market. A recent survey of AR/VR industry insiders by Digi-Capital and AWE saw Apple...