Search results for: “hololens”
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Startups
Stephanie Zhan walks through the Rec Room pitch deck that won Sequoia’s investment
6:15 am PDT • October 7, 2021Sequoia partner Stephanie Zhan and Nick Fajt, founder and CEO of social gaming platform Rec Room, explained what the venture capital firm looks for in consumer-facing startups.
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I stood outside a 50s truck stop diner and gas station under a dark, dusky sky. A bright neon sign that said Norm’s Drive In illuminated the space. Behind a…
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Hardware
Magic Leap reportedly slashes 1,000 jobs and steps away from consumer plans
8:49 am PDT • April 22, 2020Magic Leap laid off a “number of employees” this morning and announced they were backing away from their consumer ambitions to focus more heavily on selling to enterprise customers. Bloomberg…
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Startups
Artificial raises $21M led by Microsoft’s M12 for a lab automation platform aimed at life sciences R&D
5:02 am PDT • May 18, 2021Automation is extending into every aspect of how organizations get work done, and today comes news of a startup that is building tools for one industry in particular: life sciences.…
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Startups
Magic Leap has apparently raised another $350 million, in spite of itself
2:05 pm PDT • May 21, 2020Magic Leap has reportedly received a $350 million lifeline, a month after slashing 1,000 jobs and dropping its consumer business. Noted by Business Insider and confirmed by The Information, CEO…
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Startups
NextMind’s Dev Kit for mind-controlled computing offers a rare ‘wow’ factor in tech
7:04 am PST • December 21, 2020NextMind debuted its Dev Kit hardware at CES last year, but the hardware is now actually shipping, and the startup shared with me the production version to take a test…
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AI
Magic Leap has a new chief executive and it’s former Microsoft exec Peggy Johnson
5:59 am PDT • July 7, 2020Peggy Johnson, the former executive vice president of business development at Microsoft, has been named as the new chief executive of Magic Leap, the company said in a statement. Johnson,…
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Unity announced today they are acquiring Finger Food Advanced Technology Group, a Vancouver-based studio best known for their AR/VR services. The 225-person team will be joining Unity with CEO Ryan…
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Snagging Pearson’s AR assets and $1 million in cash, GIGXR is ready for its close up
5:57 am PST • December 18, 2019Meet GIGXR, the new owner of all the assets of Pearson Immersive Learning Group, a subsidiary of the education and media publishing giant, Pearson. Formed specifically to roll up Pearson’s…
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Hardware
Apple Watch designer reveals the device’s origins on its fifth birthday
11:30 am PDT • April 24, 2020Update: We mistakenly noted in an earlier version that Chaudhri had been a part of Microsoft’s Hololens team. The story has been updated to remove the reference. In his two…
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Since first uploading a YouTube teaser video of its tech five years ago, Magic Leap’s presence in the augmented reality industry has been controversial. Some have lauded the team’s ambitions,…
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Earlier this year, at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft announced the second generation of its HoloLens augmented reality visor. Today, the $3,500 HoloLens 2 is going on sale in…
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AI
XYZ Reality secures £5M to bring a hologram headset to the construction industry
10:44 am PDT • March 10, 2020Augmented reality technology did not, it turns out, light the touch paper on a booming new industry. What we got instead were a few cute applications on smartphones and devices…
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Unity Software, which sells a game development toolkit primarily for mobile phone app developers, raised $1.3 billion in its initial public offering. The company, which will begin trading today with…
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Startups
Envisics nabs $50M for its in-car holographic display tech at a $250M+ valuation
6:04 am PDT • October 7, 2020The jury is still out on what might become the most viable business models for augmented reality technology, but in the meantime a startup out of the U.K. is betting…
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Daily Crunch: Former Twitter employees charged with spying
11:57 am PST • November 7, 2019The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you…
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Remote collaboration tools like Zoom are gathering massive amounts of attention as people begin working from home en masse. But, as with most trends, virtual reality seems to be sitting…
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Media & Entertainment
Google’s Glass dreams live on with the arrival of enterprise hardware
11:34 am PST • February 4, 2020Google Glass was ahead of its time. That’s not to say that the people who wore it out in public didn’t look like giant dorks, of course, but in hindsight…
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Startups
Augmented reality startup Mira announces $10M more in funding from Sequoia and others
11:09 am PDT • July 23, 2020The last few years haven’t proven too friendly to hardware companies in the augmented reality world. Enterprise-centric efforts like ODG, Daqri and Meta flared out, Magic Leap raised massive amounts…
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At its annual Surface hardware event in New York, Microsoft today announced the expected set of updates to its existing hardware lineup. The biggest surprise, though, was surely the announcement…
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Hardware
Modified HoloLens helps teach kids with vision impairment to navigate the social world
11:59 am PST • January 28, 2020Growing up with blindness or low vision can be difficult for kids, not just because they can’t read the same books or play the same games as their sighted peers;…
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AI
Will Apple, Facebook or Microsoft be the future of augmented reality?
3:41 pm PST • February 12, 2020While startup insurgents make a huge difference, big platforms may exert disproportionate influence over the future of AR.
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As part of its rather odd Thursday afternoon pre-Build news dump, Microsoft today announced the HoloLens 2 Development Edition. The company announced the much-improved HoloLens 2 at MWC Barcelona earlier…
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AI
Qualcomm launches the XR2 platform for 5G-connected AR and VR devices
11:00 am PST • December 5, 2019At its Snapdragon Boondoggle Summit in sunny Maui, Hawaii, Qualcomm today announced the launch of its XR2 platform, which it describes as the “world’s first 5G-supported extended reality (XR) platform.”…
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So you thought there were 800 million Windows 10 Devices that will get Microsoft’s most recent out-of-band emergency patch? Think again. As the company announced on Twitter today, Windows 10…
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AI
Microsoft’s $399 Azure Kinect AI camera is now shipping in the US and China
12:00 pm PDT • July 11, 2019Earlier this year, at MWC, Microsoft announced the return of its Kinect sensor in the form of an AI developer kit. The $399 Azure Kinect DK camera system includes a…
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AI
Robotics startup lets machines get closer as humans keep their distance
9:30 am PDT • June 3, 2020Using micro-location robotics, this MIT spinout is tracking five miles of New York subway, showing the transportation authority where six of its trains are — down to the centimeter.
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Magic Leap’s $2.6 billion bait and switch
12:00 pm PDT • April 26, 2020Intended or not — I assume it wasn’t — Magic Leap became a $2.6 billion bait-and-switch, the consequences of which are now all too apparent.
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Featured Article
7 investors discuss augmented reality and VR startup opportunities in 2020
11:40 am PDT • October 20, 2020For all of the investors preaching that augmented reality technology will likely be the successor to the modern smartphone, today, most venture capitalists are still quite wary to back AR…
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Hardware
Varjo’s XR-1 puts your eyes on the outside of its high-end VR headset
1:22 pm PDT • May 29, 2019Varjo‘s VR headset was the best VR headset I had ever demoed; its dual display design with a micro-OLED sweet spot enabled insanely high-resolution views without requiring a supercomputer to…
