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Magic Leap

Magic Leap jumps into the enterprise market for augmented reality in ‘coopetition’ with Microsoft

Now that the metaverse is finally getting real, Magic Leap isn’t playing games. When the mysterious augmented-reality venture was founded… Read More

Taqtile, a Seattle startup that sells AR-enabled job training tech, raises $5M

The news: Taqtile, a Seattle-based augmented reality startup that works with enterprise customers for software-enabled job training, raised $5 million… Read More

Tech Moves: Magic Leap adds another Microsoft vet; GameStop hires Amazon and Zulily execs

— Magic Leap continues to hire from the Seattle region. Anuj Gosalia, a veteran of Microsoft, Facebook and Google, joined… Read More

Tech Moves: Sea.citi adds board members; another Microsoft vet joins Magic Leap; and more

— Sea.citi, an organization that works to connect tech sector employees with civic life, announced three new board members: Zillow… Read More

Spencer Rascoff

Tech Moves: Zillow co-founder joins Palantir board; Hootsuite names new CEO; and more

— Zillow Group co-founder and former CEO Spencer Rascoff joined the board of Palantir Technologies, a big data company backed… Read More

Augmented reality startup Magic Leap hires key Microsoft exec Peggy Johnson as its new CEO

Microsoft leader Peggy Johnson is departing and will become the chief executive officer at high-profile augmented reality startup Magic Leap.… Read More

Heavily funded tech company Magic Leap sued by its Seattle landlord over $52k in unpaid rent

Magic Leap, the once high-flying augmented reality company that raised more than $2.6 billion in funding before cutting half its… Read More

Augmented reality giant Magic Leap is closing its Seattle office amid layoffs

Update, 4:42 p.m. PT: We’ve confirmed that the office has closed. Original story: Magic Leap will close its Seattle satellite… Read More

Latest game for Magic Leap AR headset gives a taste of device’s potential mass-market appeal

A pair of trees spring up from a coffee table. Gardens grow out of coffee cups and couch cushions. A… Read More

Hands-on with Magic Leap’s One Creator Edition headset, and a peek inside its secretive Seattle outpost

RELATED: Latest game for Magic Leap AR headset gives a taste of device’s potential mass-market appeal In its early days, Magic… Read More

Magic Leap finally reveals what’s going on at its Seattle office, and role in larger vision for augmented reality

Two years ago, the secretive augmented reality company Magic Leap established a Seattle office nearly 3,300 miles away from its… Read More

TLDR: Amazon’s Whole Foods grocery pick-up service, Magic Leap’s mixed reality headset, Ofo bike graveyard

Today’s featured stories Amazon to offer Whole Foods drive-up grocery pickup for the first time, starting at two stores  Hype… Read More

Hype turns into (mixed) reality as Magic Leap finally unveils its long awaited headset

The hiding and the teasing are over. Magic Leap, the mysterious augmented reality startup backed by big money, has finally… Read More

AT&T invests in secretive augmented reality startup Magic Leap in exclusive distribution deal

AT&T said it has struck a deal with Magic Leap to invest in the secretive startup, provide mobile data service… Read More

Magic Leap files preemptive lawsuit against ‘disgruntled’ security exec for alleged extortion

Florida augmented reality company Magic Leap filed a lawsuit last week against its current senior director of global security Todd… Read More

Podcast

Week in Geek: Magic Leap’s first product revealed; what Bill Gates gave his Secret Santa; and more

Secretive augmented reality startup Magic Leap finally lifted the veil on its first product this week: Magic Leap One, a… Read More

Secretive Magic Leap unveils its first product: an augmented reality headset powered by a pocket-sized computer

The ever-mysterious augmented reality startup Magic Leap has come out of hiding with its first ever product: a headset with… Read More

Magic Leap opens Seattle office as new details emerge about its secretive ‘N+1’ research teams

Closely-watched augmented reality company Magic Leap of Plantation, Fla., has opened a new office in Seattle’s Georgetown neighborhood, south of downtown, as… Read More

Star Wars Magic Leap

Video: Watch C-3PO and R2-D2 enter your living room as Star Wars meets Magic Leap

Whatever Magic Leap is up to when it comes to augmented reality (other than building an office in Seattle), the… Read More

Augmented reality company Magic Leap building new Seattle office

Augmented reality company Magic Leap is solidifying its presence in Seattle, in its notoriously secretive style — adding an intriguing new twist to… Read More

Magic Leap Robert Scoble

Get real: Robert Scoble’s Google Glass shower photo reimagined in Magic Leap patent filing

Wash the soap out of your eyes. That really (probably) is Robert Scoble’s Google Glass shower photo rendered as a… Read More

Alibaba leads Magic Leap’s new $793.5M funding round at $4.5 billion valuation

Magic Leap hasn’t released a consumer version of its augmented reality tech. It hasn’t released a developer unit. It hasn’t… Read More

Magic Leap looks to enter unicorn territory before it even reveals first product

Mysterious augmented reality startup Magic Leap is looking to raise $827 million in a Series C funding round, according to… Read More

Mysterious Magic Leap shows new mixed-reality demo, points to ‘operating system for reality’

Virtual reality may be the next big thing, with the Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR and even Google Cardboard bringing… Read More

Sci-fi writer Neal Stephenson lands coolest job ever: ‘Chief Futurist’ for Magic Leap

How’s this for a great job? Augmented-reality startup Magic Leap has brought on sci-fi writer and game designer Neal Stephenson to… Read More

Google leads $542M Magic Leap deal, betting on augmented reality

Google this morning confirmed that it is leading a whopping $542 million investment in Magic Leap Inc., a secretive augmented… Read More

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