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

Road to VR

.” Since it exited stealth in 2014, Magic Leap has released two AR headsets, Magic Leap 1 and Magic Leap 2, which have been compared in functionality to Microsoft’s HoloLens AR headsets. Its majority stakeholder is Saudi Arabia’s state-owned sovereign wealth fund.

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Boeing, Microsoft Back Australia’s Air Force with HoloLens M&O Tool

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

According to the news, Boeing leveraged its Augmented Training Operations Maintenance (ATOM) solution in a major test run for the US Air Force (USAF)’s Air Mobility Command. USAF engineers used Microsoft’s mixed reality headset, the HoloLens 2, to conduct the field test.

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Caregility Opens XR Solution at Saudi’s Seha Virtual Hospital

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

These include Oracle Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Saudi Arabia, UAE Lead MENA Region in XR Telehealth The news comes as the Saudi and Dubai governments aim to cement positions as top tech hubs in the region and worldwide.

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What is the Influence of Major Corporations in XR and Spatial Computing?

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Microsoft and Zoom have also released their respective apps into the Vision Pro this week. Magic Leap has also secured roughly $590 million through Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund this year, launching the firm’s valuation to more than $4.5 It’s still more or less the game of of Microsoft.

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Convergence, Enterprise AR, and Mapping the Inside World with Charlie Fink

XR for Business Podcast

Charlie: VR has a lot of fantastic applications in training and simulation. You can have that in your warehouse, and whenever you’re training a new worker, you have them spend a few hours on the simulator. But the success seems to be, right now, limited to both medical applications and training applications. Alan: Sure.

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Convergence, Enterprise AR, and Mapping the Inside World with Charlie Fink

XR for Business Podcast

Charlie: VR has a lot of fantastic applications in training and simulation. You can have that in your warehouse, and whenever you’re training a new worker, you have them spend a few hours on the simulator. But the success seems to be, right now, limited to both medical applications and training applications. Alan: Sure.

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