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Saudi Arabia Wants to Build This Bizarre City Dubbed 'The Line'

GizModo VR

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. And while the promotional videos released Monday are likely an attempt to give the development a utopian feel that recalls so… Read more.

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Saudi Police Arrest TikToker for ‘Sexually Suggestive’ Video With Another Woman

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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. Read more.

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RealWear Partners with ‘Video Enhancement Software’ Firm

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RealWear has strengthened a partnership with a video enhancement software firm to create new video solutions for frontline workers. Founded in 2007, Sweden-based Vidhance specialises in software that improves video quality in devices, including smartphones, AR wearables and small sensors.

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Apple Vision Pro Competitor Gains Half a Billion in Funding

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

This week, AR headset vendor Magic Leap secured roughly $590 million via Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, following the region becoming the firm’s majority owner in 2022. The Saudi Arabia funding has launched Magic Leap’s valuation to more than $4.5

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Magic Leap 2 Starting Price Positioned Slightly Less Than HoloLens 2, Release Date Set for September

Road to VR

On September 30th Magic Leap 2 will release first in the US, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and Saudi Arabia. 4k at 30fps or 1,920 x 1,080 at 60fps video. The company expects the headset to launch in Japan and Singapore by the end of the year. Magic Leap 2 Specs. Image courtesy Magic Leap. 70 degrees.

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Snap and Rakuten Viber Go to FIFA World Cup 2022

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Rakuten Viber has also created a series of gamified lenses, allowing users to score goals with a virtual ball, cheer on their favorite team, or make short videos of themselves with soccer balls flying around their heads. Users can also augment photographs with a World Cup sticker pack in English as well as eighteen other languages.

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Snapchat’s Latest Lens Studio Update Is A Game Changer For AR Creators

VRScout

Face In Video : Track that pretty face onto a video! With Lens Studios 2.1, So far, creators have used Landmarkers to cover NYC’s Flatiron Building in an enormous pepperoni pizza, turn LA’s Chinese Theater into a junk food paradise, and bring Paris’ Eiffel Tower to life as a wiggling cartoon character who vomits rainbows.