Wednesday, May 4, 2016

The world's hottest startups - Magic Leap


Now is precisely the slope after the Silicon Valley chapter of actual fairy tale, a tech startup company a huge surge in the world last year: This year, write and tell me zero of the stock exchange listing has been put together, while investments fell 30 percent. Everyone picks up the neck, waits and hopes that no hiccups together. In this environment a sinister, mysterious Florida is a startup that has no finished product, no public demo, only promises, and a couple of video - that does not show nothing more than working in the VR / AR about the subject. 200 other companies. In comparison, the Magic Leap over 4 months of 1.4 billion dollars was pumped high rollers investors, the big stink about anything. And we are not talking about gambler, but the largest companies that in the tech world, Hollywood and the banking world: Google, Alibaba, Legendary Entertainment, Warner Bros., Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan. And in the background even the US Department of Defense, NASA also is appearing.



The Magic Leap, founded in 2010, is a more Rony Abovitz, an American guy, a subsidiary of the then already well-running medical robots development company, MAKO Surgical side. After the latter, on Christmas Day in 2013 sold for $ 1.6 billion, the full attention could be paid to the previous hobbies firm, which recruited quite amazing team. Just a few examples of those who work in mysterious super company:

  • Richard Taylor, The Lord of the Rings trilogy has gone to heaven company, WETA founder
  • Graeme Devine, legendary game developer, Quake 3 and the CEDE as a carrier medium success 7th Guest designer,
  • Neal Stephenson's sci-fi writer, who was the cyberpunk genre and virtual reality to keep habits father William Gibson addition,
  • Rio Caraeff, who reconciled as President of VEVO the music industry and Google, and arranged for them to be formally filled with music and video clips on YouTube,
  • Bill Wallace marketing guru, he made trendy Samsung brand in America from the Next Big Thing advertising campaign.



Magic Leap = Google Glass + Hololens.

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