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AR Business, Investments & Executive Moves

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Mar 28, 2018

Google's AI investment arm, Gradient Ventures, has joined a $10.5 million round of funding for Ubiquity6 and its platform for shared augmented reality experiences, just weeks after Google's GV fund ba ...

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Mar 19, 2018

Augmented reality hardware maker Avegant has reportedly laid off between 20 and 30 employees, with founder Edward Tang returning to the CEO role at the company.Citing unnamed sources, The Verge report ...

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Mar 16, 2018

The cosmetics industry faced a rude awakening on Friday as beauty behemoth L'Oréal gobbled up ModiFace, one of the leading providers of augmented reality technology to the cosmetics industry (price de ...

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Mar 16, 2018

The legal travails of Magic Leap appear to have no end in sight, as a lawsuit filed by an ex-employee further threatens to dampen the startup's 2018 launch.A new legal complaint has been filed by form ...

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Mar 15, 2018

The augmented reality cloud and multi-user experiences are shaping up to be one of the hotter areas of augmented reality, and now Google is the latest entity to back these emerging branches of AR.GV ( ...

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Mar 7, 2018

Enterprise augmented reality software provider Upskill has raised $17.2 million in its latest round of funding, led by new investors Cisco and Accenture.Last year, the company closed a Series B round ...

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Mar 5, 2018

It turns out that coming up groundbreaking technology and raising billions may actually be the easy part for Magic Leap, as a new report has revealed yet another legal entanglement at the Florida-base ...

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Feb 27, 2018

In hopes of strengthening its growing augmented reality team, Apple has reportedly hired Michael Abbott, an engineering and investment veteran with past ties to Twitter, Microsoft, Palm, and others.Th ...

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Feb 6, 2018

Augmented reality software maker 8th Wall has closed a Series A funding round of $8 million in capital to feed the growth of its development platform.Founded by former Google and Facebook engineers, 8 ...

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Feb 1, 2018

Soon, Pokémon GO allies attacking a raid boss at a gym will be able to do so together in augmented reality.The game's developer, Niantic Labs, announced on Thursday via a blog post that it has acqui-h ...