Google leads $542 million funding of mysterious augmented reality firm Magic Leap Google is leading a huge $542 million round of funding for the secretive startup Magic Leap, which is said to be working on augmented reality glasses that can create digital objects that appear to exist in the world around you. Though little is known about what Magic Leap is working on, Google is placing a big bet on it: in addition to the funding, Android and Chrome leader Sundar Pichai will join Magic Leap's board, as will Google's corporate development vice-president Don Harrison. The funding is also coming directly from Google itself — not from an investment arm like Google Ventures — all suggesting this is a strategic move to align the two companies and eventually partner when the tech is more mature down the road. "You’re in the room, and there’s a dragon flying around, it’s jaw-dropping." Magic Leap's technology currently takes the shape of something like a pair of glasses, according to The Wall Street Journal. This is all something that Google is eager to view the results of.
Body Language - The Leverage In Your Hands Chapter 2 How the Palms and Handshakes are used to control It was Adam's first day on the job with his new Public Relations company and he wanted to make a good impression on everyone. As he was introduced to colleague after colleague, he shook their hands enthusiastically and gave everyone a broad smile. Adam stood 6 foot 3 inches (1.9m) tall and was a handsome guy, well dressed and certainly looked like a successful PR man. Here's a handy thought - whether you are heavy-handed or high-handed, engage in sleight-of-hand to avoid a hand-to-mouth existence, you might have to show your hand sometimes to gain the upper hand. The hands have been the most important tools in human evolution and there are more connections between the brain and the hands than between any other body parts. Submissive dogs reveal their throats. Humans show their palms. How to Detect Openness When children are lying or concealing something, they'll often hide their palms behind the back. The Law of Cause and Effect 1.
Anatomy of a good speaker (Brené Brown as a speaker) This Is The Demo That Magic Leap Was Going To Show At TED Before It Backed Out Virtual reality company Magic Leap has been eerily quiet since it announced its $542 million fundraising round last October, with heavyweights like Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins, and Google all participating. Now, for the first time in months, we finally have another glimpse of what the Florida-based VR startup has been cooking up in secret. This is the video of a real-world, first-person shooting game that Magic Leap says it was going to show at TED this week, before the company pulled out for reasons that are unclear. (Magic Leap declined to speak with the press about its absence.) It has lasers and robots and enough explosions to make Michael Bay shed a single, lens-flaring tear: In an email sent out to the press on Thursday, Magic Leap writes, "This is a game we’re playing around the office right now." Cool stuff?
20 Hand Gestures You Should Be Using Do you know how to speak with your hands? Holler and Beatie found that gestures increase the value of our message by 60%! The best, most charismatic speakers and influencers know the importance of using hand gestures. Leaders use specific hand gesture patterns. In our human behavior research lab, we analyzed thousands of hours of TED talks and found one striking pattern: The most viral TED Talkers spoke with their words AND their hands. Specifically, we analyzed the top and bottom Ted Talks: The least popular TED Talkers used an average of 272 hand gestures during the 18 minute talk. The most popular TED Talkers used an average of 465 hand gestures—that’s almost double! The TED research shocked us and brought up tons of questions: Why are hand gestures so important? We broke down all of the most popular TED Talks and major speeches from the last 5 decades and synthesized them into the top 20 hand gestures you can use. Crazy Facts About Hand Gestures: You’re born to speak with your hands. 1. 2.
How to Give a Brilliant Presentation - Chalksy Blog We have all endured presentations that were hard to follow, boring or by the end of which you had no idea what the presentation was actually about. Learning good presentations skills is extremely important as it allows us to communicate our ideas across to an audience. Here are my top 5 tips for better presentations: 1.) Define what you want to present and build a story around it. 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.) Chalksy is an online tutoring marketplace & distance education platform that connects learners and educators to offer live, 1-2-1 online tuition. Magic Leap Google Investment Google has led a $542 million investment in Magic Leap, a technology startup based in Florida, the company announced Tuesday morning. Magic Leap is a stealth company that describes itself as being a "developer of novel human computing interfaces and software." It just closed a $50 million-plus Series A round in February. The company is working on a new kind of augmented reality — which it calls cinematic reality — that it believes will provide a more realistic 3D experience than anything else that's out there today. Google, not Google Ventures, nor Google Capital, is making this investment for Google. Peter Kafka and Liz Gannes at Re/code reported on the company its raise previously. Not much is known about Magic Leap. Thomas Tull, CEO of Legendary, tells Fast Company: "It's so badass you can't believe it. You can get an idea of the company's vision on its website, where you see a video of a little elephant that looks as if it's hovering in someone's hands: Magic Leap Magic Leap Google
Body language – The Power is in The Palm of Your Hands by Allan Pease (Transcript) | The Singju Post Transcript – Body language, the power is in the palm of your hands by Allan Pease at TEDxMacquarieUniversity Audio-MP3: Allan Pease – Professor of Psychology, ULIM International University Good morning. Everybody hold your right hand in front like this in a handshaking position. When I say the word, “Now” here’s what we’re going to do. Pump! Freeze it. Keep your hands locked. Person’s whose hand is most on top is saying I’ll be the boss for the rest of the day. And when you meet people for the very first time, the first 4-minutes of meeting a new person you decide pretty much 80% of your attitude about it, don’t you? The first thing is likely to happen is a handshake. Let’s try a second one. Just check my cash, see if it’s all still there, yeah. Let’s try the third one. 1Yes, she’ll do anything I want. One, the angle of the hand, second, the power of the hand. Here’s your modern western handshake. It’s been in this position for about 2,000 years. When they would meet they would do this.
Are Your Presentations Powerful Or Pathetic? Over the past month, I attended three conferences. Each one brought together some of the greatest minds in B2B sales and marketing. Sadly, some of their presentations distracted us from their important messages. A chronic case of PPD (Pathetic Presentation Disorder) surreptitiously sabotaged their agenda. PPD symptoms abound at technical and B2B conferences. Jerry, I feel your pain when I am sitting in the audience! Lisa interviews Guy Kawasaki on the keys to enchanting presentations - 4 1/2 minutes Here are four time-tested tips--some borrowed from Guy and Jerry-- to help you recover from PPD: 1. 2. 3. 4. In a world filled with competing media platforms and over-stimulated professionals, it's time for everyone to take elegant, simple presentation design seriously. Lisa Nirell is the Chief Energy Officer of EnergizeGrowth®. Copyright 2011, Lisa Nirell. [Image: Flickr user koke]