(Pocket-lint) - Storied startup Magic Leap will launch its second-generation AR headset in 2021, CEO Peggy Johnson has announced at Saudi Arabia s Future Investment Initiative.
Teasing some early specs for the device, the new Magic Leap boss - who took over back in July - suggested that the next Magic Leap headset will be 50% smaller, 20% lighter, with 100% larger field of view and release in Q4 2021 for early access.
There s little else to go on right now, which has been a consistent theme throughout the Magic Leap timeline, but this does shed a bit of light on the direction the company is heading.
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More than 140 global leaders from finance, technology and government sectors will attend the fourth edition of Saudi Arabia’s Future Investment Initiative next week.
The event, organised by the Future Investment Initiative Institute on January 27 and 28, will bring tech pioneers, investors and policymakers together to rethink the global economy amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
Being held under the theme of “The Neo-Renaissance” the conference will be addressed in-person by 60 speakers in Saudi Arabia s capital, Riyadh, while more than 80 will participate virtually from hubs in New York, Paris, Beijing and Mumbai, the FII Institute said in a statement on Tuesday.
The event, which was originally scheduled to take place in Riyadh in October, will be opened by Yasir Al-Rumayyan, chairman of the FII Institute and governor of the kingdom’s sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund.