By Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Magic Leap, the augmented-reality hardware company whose backers include Warner Bros., AT&T and Alphabet, is making significant layoffs — and tabling its efforts to create consumer-oriented AR products.
In a blog post Wednesday, Magic Leap founder/CEO Rony Abovitz announced that the company is “making targeted changes to how we operate and manage costs,” citing the current COVID-19 crisis.
As part of that Magic Leap will “lay off a number of employees.” The company is letting go about 1,000 employees, or roughly half the workforce, as first reported by Bloomberg.
The layoffs “will occur at every level of our company, from my direct reports to our factory employees,” according to Abovitz, who founded the
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