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10 Recent VR and AR Investments You Should Know About

VRScout

The biggest gorillas in the room are the covert augmented reality company Magic Leap, which raised almost $800M in February (bringing its total funding to $1.4B), and the VR live-streaming company NextVR, which raised $80M in August (which brings its total funding to over $115M).

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

It’s a (not very well-kept) secret that Apple has been working on mixed reality technology , and recent comments from CEO Tim Cook might indicate that we can look forward to an augmented iOS device. This research is one of the first to examine how VR could alter our consciousness… welcome to Inception? AppleEyes, anyone? …and more.

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All the best AR/VR news from CES 2023

The Ghost Howls

Everyone I spoke with talked about an interesting event to attend for us XR people, and this shows that immersive realities are now in a quite mature status… to be niche technologies. MAIN HEADLINES Let me list for you what have been, in my opinion, the most important XR technologies from this CES. Details coming to @RtoVR soon.

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The XR Week Peek (2024.05.07): Apple Vision Pro is used by Fortune 100 companies, its cheaper version may come in 2025, and more!

The Ghost Howls

But this should surprise no one: all the previous expensive AR/MR headsets that have been initially targeted at consumers, like Magic Leap or HoloLens, ended up being used mostly in enterprise sectors. So the fact that Apple is targeting the B2B market makes absolutely sense because $3500 is a price that is too high for average people.

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HTC's New VR Headset Leaked, and It's the Weirdest-Looking One Yet

GizModo VR

Even if you put aside its decidedly bug-eyed appearance, the leaked HTC Vive Flow is a baffling headset. By all accounts, it’s supposed to be a standalone consumer VR device that’s made for activities like meditating and streaming media. It also will allegedly come with its own take on the metaverse. In a somewhat… Read more.

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OSVR - a Look Ahead

VRGuy

Sensics and Razer launched OSVR 18 months ago with the intent of democratizing VR. Acer, NVIDIA, Valve, Ubisoft, Leap Motion and many others joined the ecosystem. This allows applications to work without regards to the particular device or technology choice. Magic Leap is not commercial yet.

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