Road to VR

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

It’s not clear how many regions this is available in, but beyond the US we’ve also spotted the deal on Amazon in Australia, Mexico, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates. Oculus Quest 2 (256GB) ‘Renewed Premium’ – $350 (13% discount). Image courtesy Facebook.

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Charlie Fink

JANUARY 18, 2024

Saudi Arabia's additional $590 million investment in Magic Leap is not good news.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Midwam, a startup company from Saudi Arabia, joined the Immerse Global Summit (IGS) 2022 Europe on Thursday to discuss how the Middle Eastern nation facilitated digital storytelling by tapping innovative, immersive technologies. Khalid al-Muawad, Chief Experience Officer at Midwam.

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Road to VR

JULY 7, 2020

A recent $350 million funding round has ensured the company more runway as it no doubt strives to justify its already massive $3 billion funding, which has arrived from sources including Google, Alibaba, Qualcomm, AT&T, Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, and Axel Springer. Image courtesy Microsoft.

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GizModo VR

JULY 26, 2022

Saudi Arabia is developing a new city, 150-stories tall and built from scratch, that will serve as a semi-enclosed environment where people can live and work without ever stepping foot outside. And while the promotional videos released Monday are likely an attempt to give the development a utopian feel that recalls so… Read more.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 17, 2021

Oil-producing heavyweight Saudi Arabia recently unveiled a new tactic: making oil rigs look cool. It seems that the world’s largest oil producing countries will stop at nothing to keep drilling, despite the fact that doing so aggravates climate change and its devastating effects. Read more.

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Road to VR

JULY 22, 2024

In late 2022, Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund became majority stakeholder after injecting $450 million into the company. The company released Magic Leap 2 in late 2020 solely targeted at enterprise. The company has amassed nearly $4.5

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Magic Leap CEO Peggy Johnson took the stage at the Future Investment Initiative (FII) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia this past week to talk a bit about her time as the company’s new leader.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 6, 2023

The well-funded company, which has amassed $4 billion in funds to date, has recently taken on $450 million from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund , giving the country a majority share in the US-based augmented reality company. It has since released Magic Leap 2 , which is largely targeted at enterprise.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Live Garment Transfer” Lenses also allow AR try-ons of the official team kit for five teams – USMNT, France, Saudi Arabia, Belgium, and Qatar. There are also new World Cup-themed Cameos that help to put you in the action as well. Other Experiences Across the Snap Universe.

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Road to VR

MARCH 7, 2018

The post Magic Leap Raises $461M in New Funding Led by Saudi Arabia’s Investment Arm appeared first on Road to VR. .” Magic Leap says they’re on track to release Magic Leap One sometime in 2018 , the company’s AR headset unveiled in December last year.

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Next Reality AR

APRIL 3, 2018

It turns out that the government of Saudi Arabia has managed to do something last month's Game Developers Conference couldn't — give us a few new glimpses of the Magic Leap One being worn by someone other than Shaq.

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VRScout

AUGUST 27, 2019

With Lens Studios 2.1, So far, creators have used Landmarkers to cover NYC’s Flatiron Building in an enormous pepperoni pizza, turn LA’s Chinese Theater into a junk food paradise, and bring Paris’ Eiffel Tower to life as a wiggling cartoon character who vomits rainbows.

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Road to VR

MAY 31, 2018

The VR app is said hit the respective app stores closer to the first match, which starts on June 14th with the Russia vs. Saudi Arabia match to kick it off. . “Users will be transported to a fully immersive stadium experience, through headsets, as if they are sitting in their own hospitality box,” reports BBC Sports.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 13, 2024

Many other regions are experimenting with the Metaverse as a tool to introduce a potential tourist to a place ahead of a person’s visit – regions such as Saudi Arabia, Tokyo, and Abu Dhabi have all experimented with the prospect. The marketing approach is still emerging, and so are its tourism benefits.

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Road to VR

MAY 2, 2019

The company’s penultimate investment round netted the AR startup $461 million in March 2018, led by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign investment arm. With Docomo’s $280 million investment, Magic Leap’s total investment comes to a cool $2.6 billion, according to Crunchbase.

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Next Reality AR

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Speaking at the Future Investment Initiative conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Thursday, Magic Leap's chief product officer, Omar Khan, revealed that the Magicverse SDK 1.0 release is scheduled to drop in the first quarter of 2020. Don't Miss: The Future of the AR Cloud — a Thousand Walled Gardens Bloom A slide.

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GizModo VR

JULY 29, 2021

Scientists investigating a dried-up lava tube in northwestern Saudi Arabia were stunned to find a huge assemblage of bones belonging to horses, asses, and even humans. It was a feast to last a lifetime, and then many lifetimes after that, and the researchers who excavated the site believe they know the identity of the… Read more.

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Road to VR

MAY 29, 2020

Since its founding in 2011, Magic Leap has amassed over $3 billion in capital from investors such as Google, Saudi Arabia’s Venture Capital Fund, Alibaba, and Axel Springer, making it one of the most well-funded startups in tech history.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Archaeologists in Saudi Arabia have discovered seven well-preserved footprints belonging to humans. Dated to around 120,000 years ago, these appear to be the oldest evidence of our species in the region. Read more.

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Digital Trends

MARCH 27, 2022

Want to watch the Saudi Arabia GP later today? Here's how to watch the free Saudi Arabia GP live stream from anywhere. The race starts at 1 PM ET/10 AM PT.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Saudi Arabia to Boost Tourism Sector The news comes after ARWay partnered with leaders in Saudi Arabia to spread its AR solutions to the region. The Agency of Record for The Royal Institute of Traditional Arts in Saudi Arabia owns AI Safer, and the sub-division plans to use ARways technology for visitors by March 2024.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 21, 2022

Internet service in Yemen has been taken completely offline after an airstrike by military forces led by Saudi Arabia on a telecommunications building early Friday, according to the web monitoring group NetBlocks. Read more.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 16, 2024

This week, AR headset vendor Magic Leap secured roughly $590 million via Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, following the region becoming the firm’s majority owner in 2022. The Saudi Arabia funding has launched Magic Leap’s valuation to more than $4.5

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GizModo VR

JUNE 3, 2021

Oil-producing heavyweights like Russia and Saudi Arabia will not go quietly into the night. This week, ministers from those and other countries slammed the latest report from the International Energy Agency calling for all new oil and gas development to stop by next year, using some pretty heated (and funny) rhetoric. Read more.

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GizModo VR

JULY 27, 2022

An Egyptian TikToker living in Saudi Arabia was arrested this week by capital police in Riyadh, who claimed she made sexually suggestive comments to another woman in a live video and accused her of negatively affecting public morality. Read more.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 10, 2022

A former Twitter employee was convicted on six of his original 11 counts of operating as an agent for Saudi Arabia. What does it cost to sell out and hand over the private information of the critics for a despotic regime? Apparently $300,000 and a nice watch. The verdict came down late Tuesday, and all that’s left is… Read more.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 14, 2024

ARWay has also partnered with leaders in Saudi Arabia to introduce its AR solutions to the region. The Agency of Record for The Royal Institute of Traditional Arts in Saudi Arabia owns AI Safer, and the sub-division plans to use ARway’s technology for visitors by March 2024.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 5, 2023

Countries such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have led the charge in adopting and developing immersive solutions. Turkey’s growing immersive technology community has led to a rise in virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) solutions.

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Upload VR

MAY 30, 2024

If you're unfamiliar, Magic Leap is an AR headset company, majority owned by Saudi Arabia since last year. Magic Leap's technology is distinctly different from all three, using transparent AR optics instead. Why Magic Leap? In 2018 it launched the first transparent AR headset marketed and sold to consumers.

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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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Voices of VR

DECEMBER 22, 2022

I also wanted to learn a bit more about what’s happening with VR in Saudi Arabia, as she was one of five selected projects amongst a tout of 231 in a competition there. I had a chance to briefly catch up with Karim at IDFA DocLab 2022 to hear more about her journey into VR & immersive storytelling.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 11, 2024

ARWay also partnered with leaders in Saudi Arabia to spread its AR solutions to the region. The Agency of Record for The Royal Institute of Traditional Arts in Saudi Arabia owns AI Safer, and the sub-division plans to use ARway’s technology for visitors by March 2024.

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EON Reality

MAY 25, 2020

Saudi Students have developed this Virtual and Augmented Reality Homework consisting of The Hajj, the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the holiest city for Muslims. Is Virtual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca a solution during Pandemic time?

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Mashable VR

APRIL 5, 2022

But what about Saudi Arabia ? These Russian state-run accounts will no longer be promoted by Twitter's algorithm in users' home timelines, explore tabs, or in search. Twitter's new rules are pretty vague. Russia clearly checks the boxes outlined by the new policy. The United States ?

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 1, 2024

The Agency of Record for The Royal Institute of Traditional Arts in Saudi Arabia owns AI Safer and plans to utilize the technology for visitors by March 2024. The innovative service from ARway.ai enables clients to create customized immersive wayfinding visuals that assist visitors in navigating spaces using their phone cameras.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Therefore, it is a popular choice in the oil and gas industry, with significant pre-orders coming from over a dozen countries, including Saudi Arabia. The device has been certified by ATEX and IECEx IS, making it suitable for use in hazardous zones. The Navigator Z1 is RealWear’s most innovative.

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