Munich, Germany – July 7th, 2022: NavVis, a global leader in reality capture and digital factory solutions, and Magic Leap, a global leader in advanced, enterprise-grade AR technologies, today announced a strategic partnership to deliver large-scale Augmented Reality (AR) applications in complex enterprise environments.
Combining Magic Leap’s advanced spatial computing platform with NavVis’s mobile mapping systems and spatial data platform, the two companies aim to enhance the use of AR applications across key industries, including automotive and manufacturing, with comprehensive, photorealistic, and accurate 3D digital twin data.
As part of this strategic partnership, NavVis will bring NavVis VLX and NavVis IVION Enterprise to Magic Leap’s new and existing enterprise customers with an initial focus on manufacturing. Magic Leap customers will be able to leverage NavVis’s expansive visualization capabilities to generate photorealistic, accurate digital twins of their facilities at unprecedented speed and scale.
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