Upload VR

JULY 19, 2024

Its founder and former CEO, Rony Abovitz, raised billions of dollars for the effort from the likes of Google and Saudi Arabia's private investment fund before the well for its increasingly large investment rounds ran dry around the time COVID-19 spread globally.

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Upload VR

MAY 30, 2024

Samsung is also building a headset with Google powering the software, but Samsung's device is expected to be a VR-style headset with passthrough cameras like Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest 3. If you're unfamiliar, Magic Leap is an AR headset company, majority owned by Saudi Arabia since last year. Why Magic Leap?

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XROM

JANUARY 16, 2024

Magic Leap, the renowned AR headset vendor, has recently received a staggering $590 million in funding from Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund. With this newfound support, Magic Leap is gearing up to take on tech giants like Apple and Meta. This injection of capital has propelled Magic Leap's valuation to over $4.5

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The MWC news comes as RealWear works on an already busy 2024; as the firm champions its workplace immersive solutions and its portfolio benefits to tangible use cases, the headset space is booming with interest stemming from the Apple Vision Pro. The Navigator Z1 is RealWear’s most innovative.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

February 2024 is here, and this month marked the end of a long, long wait for Apple’s Vision Pro. Apple has already sold 200,000 devices in the first week, which is impressive. However, the optics are positive for now in terms of enterprise and consumer XR markets. “They make technology easier to use,” Jay remarked.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 29, 2022

Multiple trademark filings spotted by Bloomberg over the weekend support the notion that Apple’s long-rumored mixed reality headset will be running under the ‘Reality’ naming scheme. The report maintains Apple may be using a M2 SoC with 16 GB of memory. making it a mixed reality headset.

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TechCrunch VR

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Apple’s highly anticipated mixed reality headset may now have a name, according to a Bloomberg report earlier this week. and global markets related to the device that were filed by Apple-affiliated firms. Australia, Saudi Arabia, Costa Rica and Uruguay. Apple did not respond to our request for comment.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

According to AlMuawad, Midwam’s solutions were key to developing Saudi Arabia as a strategic tech and metaverse incubator. Users could also choose where their avatars would interact with digital assets in different environments. Currently, ExplodedView is iOS exclusive.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2023

Meta bought Luxecel, Apple Limbak. It is obvious that this product was ideal to build AR glasses. Meta’s competitor Apple has instead acquired Limbak (even if the acquisition has not been officially confirmed). More info (Meta acquires Luxecel) More info (Limbak got acquired) More info (Probably Apple acquired Limbak).

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

They’ve already got, you know, in your Apple phone, RF detection is already built in. Once they did that, it activated a lot of large investors, including Disney and Warner Brothers, and AT&T, and the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia. Alan: Yeah it’ll be interesting to see what Apple comes up with.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

They’ve already got, you know, in your Apple phone, RF detection is already built in. Once they did that, it activated a lot of large investors, including Disney and Warner Brothers, and AT&T, and the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia. Alan: Yeah it’ll be interesting to see what Apple comes up with.

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