{"id":31522,"date":"2016-10-30T03:47:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T10:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/magic-leap-goes-to-finland-in-pursuit-of-nordic-vr-and-ar-talent"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:18:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:18:55","slug":"magic-leap-goes-to-finland-in-pursuit-of-nordic-vr-and-ar-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/magic-leap-goes-to-finland-in-pursuit-of-nordic-vr-and-ar-talent","title":{"rendered":"Magic Leap goes to Finland in pursuit of Nordic VR and AR talent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/magic-leap-goes-to-finland-in-pursuit-of-nordic-vr-and-ar-talent.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Florida-headquartered<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.magicleap.com\/#\/home\"> Magic Leap<\/a> has set up a company in Helsinki to gain access to Finland\u2019s vast, Nokia- and gaming-driven reservoir of VR and AR talent.<\/p>\n<p>In July, Magic Leap<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.finder.fi\/Tekniikan+tutkimus+ja+kehitt%C3%A4minen\/Magic+Leap+Finland+Oy\/Helsinki\/yhteystiedot\/3134360\"> registered a company in Helsinki<\/a> with CFO Scott Henry as the chairman of the board. The company did not return my request for a comment.<\/p>\n<p>The Finnish VR and AR companies I spoke with would not confirm or deny working with the company dubbed one of the most secretive startups in the world. But considering the country\u2019s strong know-how in technologies (especially in optics, hardware, and software) that are all highly relevant in the quest for VR\/AR domination, it\u2019s no surprise that multinational giants and hot startups are courting the country\u2019s talent pool.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/10\/28\/magic-leap-goes-to-finland-in-pursuit-of-nordic-vr-and-ar-talent\/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Techcrunch+(TechCrunch)&sr_share=facebook\">https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/10\/28\/magic-leap-goes-to-finland...e=facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida-headquartered Magic Leap has set up a company in Helsinki to gain access to Finland\u2019s vast, Nokia- and gaming-driven reservoir of VR and AR talent. In July, Magic Leap registered a company in Helsinki with CFO Scott Henry as the chairman of the board. The company did not return my request for a comment. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,1509,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-entertainment","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31522"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59911,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31522\/revisions\/59911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}