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Magic Leap Gets Half-billion Dollar Boost Ahead of Vision Pro Launch

Road to VR

Saudi Arabia has recently injected more than half a billion dollars into augmented reality company Magic Leap, which it hopes will rival Apple’s Vision Pro mixed reality headset. Will Magic Leap 2 be able to compete with Apple? It’s certainly worth watching.

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Well-funded AR Headset Startup DAQRI is Shutting Down

Road to VR

Since its founding in 2010, the company has garnered a total of $275 million in investment funds, the most recent of which brought in $260 million in 2017. SEE ALSO iOS 13 Code Suggests Apple is Testing Its AR Headset Internally. Outside of the email announcing its shutdown, Daqri hasn’t made any further public statements.

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These Are The Stocks You Could Buy To Invest In The VR Industry

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VR investments have broken into the billions of dollars with reports showing as high as $4-5 billion since 2010 and $2 billion in the last 12 months alone. Apple – NASDAQ: AAPL – AR/VR headset. This list will mostly be made up of publicly traded companies that are confirmed to have a presence in VR. Public Companies involved in VR.

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Magic Leap Could be a Great Strategic Acquisition

VRWorld

Since Magic Leap’s inception in 2011, there has been great innovation in the technology sector focused in the virtual reality (VR)/augmented reality (AR)/mixed reality (MR) space with Magic Leap trying to create a new hardware interface designs. Enter Magic Leap.

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Go XR or Go Extinct, with Super Ventures’ Ori Inbar

XR for Business Podcast

He’s the founder and managing partner for Super Ventures and the CEO of AugmentedReality.org, a nonprofit that produces Augmented World Expo, the top industry conference for AR since 2010. Ori: Actually, if you take it back 10 years to 2010, when we did our first AWE, you had a lot of passionate people in the room.

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Go XR or Go Extinct, with Super Ventures’ Ori Inbar

XR for Business Podcast

He’s the founder and managing partner for Super Ventures and the CEO of AugmentedReality.org, a nonprofit that produces Augmented World Expo, the top industry conference for AR since 2010. Ori: Actually, if you take it back 10 years to 2010, when we did our first AWE, you had a lot of passionate people in the room.

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EXCLUSIVE: Hands-on CREAL lightfield XR headsets

The Ghost Howls

Founded by Tomas Sluka in 2017, the startup has now grown to have up to 20 highly specialized employees , some of them taken from other companies in the field like Intel and Magic Leap. So… what is the magic that these lightfields add? Apple) in the next years. I still think it will be bought by some major company (e.g.

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