Magic Leap founder is back with $20M funding round for SynthBee
SynthBee, started by Magic Leap founder Rony Abovitz, has raised $20 million in funding to create a new kind of “computing intelligence.” The company...
The DeanBeat: Why Neal Stephenson is starting a metaverse company 3 decades after Snow Crash
It’s not often that you get to hear things from the horse’s mouth. In this case, I was able to do an interview with...
Rony Abovitz’s Sun and Thunder teases Yellow Dove — Misbeliever short film
Former Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz has started a new company called Sun and Thunder to focus on AI characters and interactive storytelling. And...
Peggy Johnson interview: How Magic Leap is getting traction with its enterprise pivot
Magic Leap has gone through a whirlwind in the past year. Founded in 2010 by Rony Abovitz, the company set out to be a pioneer...
The DeanBeat: Our 360-degree view of the metaverse ecosystem
I’m very proud that we were able to create an original event around the metaverse this week and that it received good attention in...
Magic Leap founder Rony Abovitz creates startup Sun and Thunder to build synthetic beings
Former Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz has started a new company called Sun and Thunder to focus on AI characters and interactive storytelling. In...
Cyberpunk creator Mike Pondsmith, Geoff Keighley, Siobhan Reddy to light up GamesBeat metaverse event
We have a multiverse of speakers coming to our metaverse event, GamesBeat Summit: Into the Metaverse. A couple of our latest speakers include Cyberpunk...
Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz interview — The Magicverse will have an ethical foundation
Rony Abovitz, CEO of Magic Leap, still has to build a big base of augmented reality glasses users and the Magicverse platform that will...
Magic Leap CEO: We’re dead serious about the ‘Magicverse’
Rony Abovitz, CEO of Magic Leap, talks about the Magicverse like it’s a real thing. That’s because it is part of the visionary manifesto,...
Greg Broadmore interview — why Weta Workshop spent seven years on its Magic Leap game
Greg Broadmore had never made a video game before, but that didn’t stop him from creating a groundbreaking augmented reality game on the Magic...