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Report: Meta in Talks with Magic Leap for Multiyear AR Headset Tech Deal

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A report from the Financial Times maintains Meta is currently in talks with AR headset creator Magic Leap to strike a multiyear deal, which could include intellectual property licensing and contract manufacturing of AR headsets in North America. Its majority stakeholder is Saudi Arabia’s state-owned sovereign wealth fund.

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How Big is the Augmented Reality market?

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Augmented Reality has officially gone mainstream. The Size of the Augmented Reality Market Various reports show the size of the AR market is growing, and at a pretty incredible rate too. According to Grandview Research , in 2021, the value of the AR market was around $25.33 between 2023 and 2026.

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Report: Lenovo’s Windows MR/VR Headset to Launch Mid-August or Earlier

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One of the first in a line of Windows Holographic powered immersive devices, Lenovo’s first mixed reality headset will be here in time for US “back to school”, according to Lenovo’s North America VP of Consumer Products Mike Abary.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.12.26): WMR gets discontinued, Meta to showcase an impressive AR prototype, and more!

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(PS Remember that there is an ongoing giveaway of physical copies of the Sam&Max game for PSVR for all people in North America! But unluckily, their tracking performance was bad, especially for what concerns controllers, the manufacturing quality was debatable, and especially Microsoft never invested enough into dedicated content.

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Vodafone ‘Shifts the Paradigm’ from XR Headsets to AR Glasses

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Juho Sarvikas, President of North America at Qualcomm , which is the company behind Snapdragon, showed his support for the HyperRealityHub via LinkedIn: “Love the innovative thinking here… Vodafone and #Snapdragon are working on a split compute solution enabling next generation #XR glasses and home entertainment experiences.

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Vancouver Emerging As Top Five VR and AR Hub

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Known in the business as Hollywood North, the area is home to some of the largest VFX stages in North America. Seattle, or Portland, because you’re going up against giants like Google or Microsoft. DeMiroz isn’t the only high-profile venture capitalist looking north. Image Credit: JamesVancouver / Kate Wilson.

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Apple Drops Pegatron, Picks Luxshare for MR Headset

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Pegatron has recently moved its operations abroad to India and North America, among others, to diversify its production facilities globally. Apple-Luxshare AR Deal The development comes just weeks after Apple struck a deal with Luxshare to develop a future iteration of its augmented reality (AR) smart glasses.

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