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Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund Takes Control of Magic Leap

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

To close 2022, Magic Leap’s leadership team underwent a major restructuring following a significant investment from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund. The investment by Saudi’s PIF division allows the region to own over 50 percent of Magic Leap’s ownership stake. A 16GB computing pack.

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Magic Leap Raises $502 Billions Driven by Temasek

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Magic Leap , the still-in-stealth-mode company developing an augmented-reality headset, announced that it has raised $502 million in Series D equity funding, led by Singapore investment firm Temasek Holdings. Magic Leap hopes to ship its first device to a small group of users within five months, people familiar have said.

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Google-backed Magic Leap Reveals Mixed Reality Music App

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Way in October, Magic Leap , the still-in-stealth-mode company developing an augmented-reality headset, announced that it has raised $502 million in Series D equity funding , led by Singapore investment firm Temasek Holdings. The post Google-backed Magic Leap Reveals Mixed Reality Music App appeared first on VR World.

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Is XR ‘Taking Off’ for the Commercial Aviation Industry?

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Trainees could use Microsoft HoloLens 2 and Magic Leap headsets, as well as tablets and smartphones for the platform. Additionally, airports are tapping the latest immersive kit to engage with passengers, namely following a partnership between Accenture and Singapore’s Changi Airport Groups (CAG). In-Flight Entertainment.

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Eido Inoue tells us everything we need to know about HADO and location based augmented reality

The Ghost Howls

Go on reading, I bet you will enjoy this journey into the present and the future of location-based augmented reality entertainment. By players-and-plays, it’s actually more popular outside of Japan (60% of our business) than inside it… especially in southeast Asia (Thailand, Korea, Malaysia, and Singapore).

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The World of Mobile VR After Pokemon Go

VRWorld

Perhaps it is only just that Google’s April Fools joke named “Pokemon Challenge” became the most popular, or one of most popular games on the market – the Pokemon Go , This Augmented Reality (AR), or Mixed Reality (MR or MxR, as named by Magic Leap ) which criss-crosses the technologies as merely the start of things to come.

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Over 20 Use Cases of Smart Glasses, VR Headsets, and Smartwatches at Airports

EnterpriseWear

The history of wearable technologies in the airport industry: From supporting airport ground operations with AR to in-flight VR entertainment; the airport industry has experimented with wearable technologies throughout the travel experience. Such VR entertainment could transform the cabin experience.