{"id":93751,"date":"2019-05-17T17:01:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/342909"},"modified":"2019-05-17T17:01:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T17:01:00","slug":"magic-leap-acquires-mimesys-to-boost-spatial-computing-offerings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/05\/17\/magic-leap-acquires-mimesys-to-boost-spatial-computing-offerings\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic Leap acquires Mimesys to boost spatial computing offerings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The augmented reality company Magic Leap has acquired Mimesys, a Belgium-based startup behind co-presence technology that brings hologram-like projections to AR conferences.<\/p>\n<p>While a handful of companies have already tried their hand at integrating personalized avatars into VR and AR calls and conferences, Mimesys&#8217; tech allows those&nbsp;using Magic Leap One AR headsets to see realistic 3D avatars based on actual images of a call&#8217;s participants.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Though terms of the acquisition weren\u2019t released, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.magicleap.com\/news\/press-release\/mimesys-joins-magic-leap\">press release<\/a> from Magic Leap notes that the move significantly boosts the company\u2019s co-presence and communication offerings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As we expand the spatial computing ecosystem, integrating a best in class communication and collaboration solution helps us to further fulfill the promise of the next computing platform,&#8221; said Magic Leap chief product officer Omar Khan in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xrdconf.com\/attend\/passes.php?_mc=blog_x_gama_le_x_xrdc_x_x-xrdc19\"><em><strong>Register now for XRDC 2019, the premier AR\/VR\/MR event for devs!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The augmented reality company Magic Leap has acquired Mimesys, a Belgium-based startup behind co-presence technology that brings hologram-like projections to AR conferences. While a handful of companies have already tried their hand at integrating personalized avatars into VR and AR calls and conferences, Mimesys&#8217; tech allows those&nbsp;using Magic Leap One AR headsets to see realistic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}