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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

We’re a long ways off from that and it won’t happen with the first generation Apple Vision Pro. I can only begin to imagine the possibilities and Apple is currently feeding developers kits at $3,500 each to build what’s in their imaginations.

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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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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 - 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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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 - 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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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

MARCH 18, 2025

Scoperlys parent company is owned by Saudi Arabias Public Investment Fund, meaning that Pokemon Go now belongs to the king of Saudi Arabia. This means that Samsung wont go all-in with hand tracking like Apple did. For this purpose, it created a spin-off called Niantic Spatial which starts with $250M in funds.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2024

This has been the week when the preorders of the Apple Vision Pro have been opened and s**t just started getting real! I’m very curious about what Apple’s headset is going to bring to our ecosystem… and you? Of course, some people from all over the world made some tricks to buy it anyway.

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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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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Top news of the week (Image by Niantic) Niantic is evaluating selling its gaming division According to a report from Bloomberg, Niantic is in talks with Saudi Arabia-owned Scopely to sell its gaming division for $3.5 A new week, a new selection of XR news to read! Plus, most of the content on Quest is currently just VR.

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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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