Seven Ages of Man
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Royal Shakespeare Company puts ‘7 Ages of Man’ into Magic Leap

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Magic Leap sees its spatial computing as a new medium. And so it makes sense that others will use the augmented reality platform to take things from older media, like Shakespeare’s plays, and put them into AR.

The Royal Shakespeare Company did just that by putting a speech from William Shakespeare’s As You Like It into the Magic Leap One Creator Edition. I saw the demo of “The Seven Ages of Man” yesterday through the Magic Leap One AR glasses.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.