Virtual and augmented reality headset developer Magic Leap said it has made company-wide layoffs, which Bloomberg reported claimed roughly half of its workforce of about 2,000 people.
“The recent changes to the economic environment have decreased availability of capital and the appetite for longer term investments,” Magic Leap founder and chief executive Rony Abovitz wrote in a blog post Wednesday.
Abovitz said “a number of employees” were to be cut, and that they were “at every level of our company, from my direct reports to our factory employees” in an attempt to freeze losses brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.