W|W: The Wearable Weekly – Magic Leap is almost ready for launch

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Statistics & Forecasts

Smart watch adoption surging in Nordics (eMarketer)

Device Announcements

Intel shows off wireless VR at E3 (Engadget)

VirZoom’s mobile sensor uses Gear VR to turn normal bikes into VR workout machines (Mashable)

Vuzix M300 now officially available for purchase (PR Newswire)

Magic Leap founder says launch of device is “not far away” (Next Reality)

Funding & M&A

Samsung quietly acquired VR app studio VRB, sources say for $5.5 million (TechCrunch)

Spry Health raises $5.5 million to fuel commercialization of its medical-grade wearable (WireUpdate)

Major milestones

YouTube adds heatmaps to 360 video (Engadget)

VR park in Shinjuku, Tokyo to open in July (Forbes)

Google releases new TensorFlow object detection API (TechCrunch)

Nintendo gets into VR with Mario Kart VR for arcades in Tokyo (The Verge)

Couple gets married in VR (Time)

Developers show off first ARKit demos (MacRumors)

Nokia and Technicolor announce partnership around OZO VR camera (Hollywood Reporter)

Rumours

Microsoft patent shows Hover Touch (‘3D Touch’) tech for HoloLens Devices (Patently Apple)

Apple invents an Apple Watch feature to measure respiration rate with multi-band plethysmography (Patently Apple)

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