Ahead of a deliberate enterprise launch later this 12 months, Magic Leap has supplied a bunch of healthcare corporations with early entry to its second-generation augmented actuality headset. One of the businesses, SentiAR, gives software program that permits medical doctors to see a 3D mannequin of a affected person’s coronary heart whereas they’re working them. Another firm, Brainlab, needs to make its Mixed Reality Viewer software program obtainable on Magic Leap 2.
That Magic Leap is making its newest wearable obtainable to digital healthcare startups first isn’t shocking; CEO Peggy Johnson stated as a lot would occur final April. “Augmented actuality could rework healthcare greater than every other business, not less than within the close to time period,” she stated on the time, noting additionally that the corporate would concentrate on enterprise clients at launch.
Magic Leap has famously struggled since its emergence as one in all Silicon Valley’s most hyped startups. In 2019, it got here out that the corporate had reportedly solely offered 6,000 items of its $2,300 Magic Leap One Creator Edition headset by way of the primary six months that the system was obtainable. It subsequently spent months shedding staff earlier than a $350 million funding gave it a brand new shot of life.