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Apple Vision Pro Second Impressions: The Digital Crown Tunes Your Reality

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Saudi Arabia-owned Magic Leap took $500+ million more from the "sovereign" investment arm of the state to continue developing its technologies for transparent optical AR. Apple's passthrough magic might help explain why the industry is making such big shifts before this $3,500 spatial computer even ships.

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

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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 At CES 2024, Kevin got an in-person view of many headsets XR devices; he explains: One thing I did see from Samsung in their [CES] booth was they had a 3D monitor.