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GizModo VR
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
Saudi Arabia has utilized its Public Investment Fund to invest over $3.3 billion (that’s $3,300,000,000 for the more visual learners out there) in Electronic Arts, Take-Two Interactive, and Activision Blizzard, Al Jazeera reported (h/t Eurogamer ). Read more.
GizModo VR
JUNE 7, 2022
The obnoxiously affluent Saudi Arabia is trying to prove that maybe money can buy everything after all, pouring $1 billion a year into researching ways to slow down the effects of aging.
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GizModo VR
JANUARY 24, 2022
Calling all ladies: Saudi Arabia wants you to work to develop some special forms of energy, just for girls. Saudi Energy Minister Abdulaziz bin Salman made comments last week about the country’s supposed clean energy strides that also promote gender equality.
GizModo VR
JULY 26, 2022
Saudi Arabia is developing a new city, 150-stories tall and built from scratch, that will serve as a semi-enclosed environment where people can live and work without ever stepping foot outside.
GizModo VR
JULY 19, 2021
Cybercriminals have stolen approximately a terabyte of data from one of the world’s largest energy companies, Saudi Aramco. Read more.
Road to VR
MARCH 7, 2018
Magic Leap, the augmented reality headset manufacturer, has added another couple hundred million dollars to its Series D investment round, this time $461 million led by The Public Investment Fund, Saudi Arabia’s sovereign investment arm, Tech Crunch reports. According to the report, the Saudi Arabian fund raised $400 million of the investment, while Magic Leap says “new investors” made up the remaining amount.
GizModo VR
OCTOBER 17, 2021
Oil-producing heavyweight Saudi Arabia recently unveiled a new tactic: making oil rigs look cool. It seems that the world’s largest oil producing countries will stop at nothing to keep drilling, despite the fact that doing so aggravates climate change and its devastating effects.
GizModo VR
JULY 29, 2021
Scientists investigating a dried-up lava tube in northwestern Saudi Arabia were stunned to find a huge assemblage of bones belonging to horses, asses, and even humans. lava tube mammals hyena saudi arabia countries striped hyena continents mathew stewart crocotta
GizModo VR
JANUARY 21, 2022
Internet service in Yemen has been taken completely offline after an airstrike by military forces led by Saudi Arabia on a telecommunications building early Friday, according to the web monitoring group NetBlocks.
GizModo VR
JANUARY 13, 2021
Vicious Saudi autocrat Mohamed bin Salman has a new vision for Neom, his plan for a massive, $500 billion, AI-powered, nominally legally independent city-state of the future on the border with Egypt and Jordan.
TechCrunch VR
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
Australia, Saudi Arabia, Costa Rica and Uruguay. Apple’s highly anticipated mixed reality headset may now have a name, according to a Bloomberg report earlier this week. The outlet spotted trademarks in the U.S.
GizModo VR
JULY 27, 2022
An Egyptian TikToker living in Saudi Arabia was arrested this week by capital police in Riyadh, who claimed she made sexually suggestive comments to another woman in a live video and accused her of negatively affecting public morality.
VRScout
JULY 12, 2022
The Magic Leap 2 will be available for purchase starting at $3,299 through select partners. American startup company Magic Leap has announced the official price and specs of the Magic Leap 2, its latest mixed reality headset designed for professionals and developers.
GizModo VR
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Archaeologists in Saudi Arabia have discovered seven well-preserved footprints belonging to humans. Dated to around 120,000 years ago, these appear to be the oldest evidence of our species in the region. Read more.
GizModo VR
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
It snowed in the Middle East on Wednesday, covering parts of Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Palestine, and Israel in rare white blanket.
TechCrunch VR
JULY 18, 2019
HTT will be building a 10 km track to connect Abu Dhabi to Al Ain and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Cyrus Radfar. Contributor. Cyrus Radfar is the founding partner at V1 Worldwide. More posts by this contributor. Will tech companies change the way we manage our health? Amazon isn’t to blame for the Postal Service’s woes, but it will need to innovate to survive. Two years ago, Lime was a great addition to guacamole, rather than a sidewalk.
GizModo VR
AUGUST 10, 2022
A former Twitter employee was convicted on six of his original 11 counts of operating as an agent for Saudi Arabia. What does it cost to sell out and hand over the private information of the critics for a despotic regime? Apparently $300,000 and a nice watch.
Next Reality AR
OCTOBER 31, 2019
Speaking at the Future Investment Initiative conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Thursday, Magic Leap's chief product officer, Omar Khan, revealed that the Magicverse SDK 1.0 After talking up the Magicverse for the past year and adding new capabilities to Lumin OS to accommodate it, Magic Leap appears to be inching ever closer to actually launching its cross-platform flavor of the AR cloud while introducing a new tool for its development community.
Next Reality AR
APRIL 3, 2018
It turns out that the government of Saudi Arabia has managed to do something last month's Game Developers Conference couldn't — give us a few new glimpses of the Magic Leap One being worn by someone other than Shaq. Last month, Magic Leap used GDC to launch its SDK, hold a number of private parties at a special "Magic Leap House," and even give a few select attendees private, apparently NDA-locked demos.
Road to VR
JULY 12, 2022
On September 30th Magic Leap 2 will release first in the US, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and Saudi Arabia. Magic Leap today announced pricing and release date details for the company’s latest AR headset, Magic Leap 2. Magic Leap 2 Release Date and Price.
GizModo VR
JUNE 3, 2021
Oil-producing heavyweights like Russia and Saudi Arabia will not go quietly into the night.
Road to VR
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
It’s not clear how many regions this is available in, but beyond the US we’ve also spotted the deal on Amazon in Australia, Mexico, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates.
Road to VR
AUGUST 29, 2022
Trademark applications were filed earlier this month in the US, EU, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Costa Rica and Uruguay for three names: Reality One, Reality Pro, and Reality Processor, Bloomberg reports.
Road to VR
FEBRUARY 1, 2021
Magic Leap CEO Peggy Johnson took the stage at the Future Investment Initiative (FII) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia this past week to talk a bit about her time as the company’s new leader.
Road to VR
JULY 7, 2020
A recent $350 million funding round has ensured the company more runway as it no doubt strives to justify its already massive $3 billion funding, which has arrived from sources including Google, Alibaba, Qualcomm, AT&T, Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, and Axel Springer.
ARPost
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
Live Garment Transfer” Lenses also allow AR try-ons of the official team kit for five teams – USMNT, France, Saudi Arabia, Belgium, and Qatar. Rakuten Viber and Snap both have packages of AR lenses and interactive experiences to celebrate the FIFA World Cup.
EON Reality
MAY 25, 2020
Saudi Students have developed this Virtual and Augmented Reality Homework consisting of The Hajj, the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the holiest city for Muslims. Is Virtual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca a solution during Pandemic time?
Mashable VR
JUNE 29, 2022
Snapchat Plus is rolling out next week in the following markets: United States, Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates
VRScout
AUGUST 27, 2019
14 new landmarks and 6 AR templates make their way to the desktop app. This week Snapchat further deepened its commitment to AR technology with the release of a new update for Lens Studio, the companies official desktop app for the creation of AR ‘Lenses,’ which adds fourteen new “Landmarks,” as well as six additional Lense templates. Debuted back in April, Snapchat’s “Landmarkers” Lenses bring famous locations all around the world to life in AR.
Road to VR
MAY 2, 2019
The company’s penultimate investment round netted the AR startup $461 million in March 2018, led by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign investment arm. Magic Leap, one of the most well-funded startups in history, just took on a $280 million investment from Japan-based mobile phone operator NTT DOCOMO. As Japan’s largest mobile operator, Docomo is slated to be Magic Leap’s exclusive telecommunications partner in Japan.
Road to VR
MAY 31, 2018
The VR app is said hit the respective app stores closer to the first match, which starts on June 14th with the Russia vs. Saudi Arabia match to kick it off. The BBC is bringing live coverage of all 33 of its licensed World Cup 2018 matches from Russia to a new dedicated app, dubbed BBC Sport VR – FIFA World Cup Russia 2018.
Mashable VR
APRIL 5, 2022
But what about Saudi Arabia ? As Russia's war in Ukraine enters its 40th day, social media platforms are still working to update their policies to reflect the ongoing situation.
Road to VR
MAY 29, 2020
Since its founding in 2011, Magic Leap has amassed over $3 billion in capital from investors such as Google, Saudi Arabia’s Venture Capital Fund, Alibaba, and Axel Springer, making it one of the most well-funded startups in tech history.
Steki Amusement
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
As we all know, The world’s largest retail event, double 11 sales, which is equivalent to Black Friday, is the biggest online shopping festival in the world, customers can purchase their favorite stuff at their budget price tag!
AR Insider
JULY 19, 2021
France and Saudi Arabia. A R’s role in marketing and commerce continues to ratchet up as brands see that it’s working. This plays out through performance and ROI in ad campaigns, as well as signals that AR is gaining traction among consumers as a shopping utility.
EonReality
NOVEMBER 19, 2021
The XR Center and existing collaboration with NEST will now see EON Reality’s Kuwait location serve as the global company’s base of operations for the GCC — an area which also includes Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
EON Reality
OCTOBER 29, 2018
At the 2018 edition of the Nordic VR Forum, EON Reality Norway didn’t just attend Hamar’s distinguished virtual reality conference but also presented the “ Jesper on Wheels ” project to an eager crowd. With hundreds of attendees from 10 different nations and even more viewers following along with the event’s livestreams online, the annual event proved successful in every way.
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