Magic Leap Inc.has quietly begun sendingits mysterious augmented reality headsets into the wild. A small group of software developers recently received devices at their offices, according to people familiar with the matter. But access to the gadget comes with an unusual caveat: They must commit to keeping them in locked safes.
Source: bloomberg.com
Today, Facebook is fighting its fellow technology powerhouses, Apple AAPL +1.72% and Google — and still to some extent, Snap — in a high-stakes battle to rule as the platform of choice for AR developers. The technology itself, while still in its infancy, has exploded in popularity, confirming Zuckerberg’s more recent intuition that AR could sprint toward mass adoption even while VR remained an awkward technology whose appeal is largely limited to hardcore gamers. AR’s key advantage is that it doesn’t depend on a pricey, bulky headset that isolates its users.
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