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Niantic acquires developer experience firm Hoss Deal Oct 7th, 2021

Niantic acquires developer experience firm Hoss

Will assist in accelerating development of Lightship ARDK

AR glasses firm Nreal raises $100 million investment Deal Sep 28th, 2021

AR glasses firm Nreal raises $100 million investment

Chinese company to expand into global territories including the USA

XR Games secures $2 million in funding to open 20 new jobs in Leeds Deal Aug 16th, 2021

XR Games secures $2 million in funding to open 20 new jobs in Leeds

"Immersive technology has huge potential in this industry…"

Augmented reality for any pair of glasses Deal Aug 10th, 2021

Augmented reality for any pair of glasses

Consumer AR gets a hurry-up with this German-Austrian partnership between Infineon Technologies and TriLite Technologies

VR Social Network vTime Closes £5.4 Million Series A Funding Round Deal Apr 13th, 2018

VR Social Network vTime Closes £5.4 Million Series A Funding Round

UK-based virtual reality sociable network preparing for AR launch this year

Enterprise AR Leader Upskill Secures $17.2M Investment Deal Mar 14th, 2018

Enterprise AR Leader Upskill Secures $17.2M Investment

Customer growth, rapid user adoption and technology advancements fuel new financing round.

Magic Leap Scores Another $461 Million Investment Deal Mar 7th, 2018

Magic Leap Scores Another $461 Million Investment

Florida start-up raises further funding, this time from Saudi Arabia.

Cross-Platform AR Start-up Gets $8M Investment Deal Feb 12th, 2018

Cross-Platform AR Start-up Gets $8M Investment

Californian Augmented Reality tech co, 8th Wall, to further develop platform agnostic AR solutions for ARKit and ARCore.

Niantic Acquires AR Firm, Escher Reality Deal Feb 2nd, 2018

Niantic Acquires AR Firm, Escher Reality

Pokemon Go developer picks up Augmented Reality tech co for an undisclosed fee.

Apple Acquires Shazam Deal Dec 14th, 2017

Apple Acquires Shazam

Alongside its popular music identifying service, Apple has acquired Shazam’s AR platform for branded content.

US Retailer Buys AR Firm For $112m Deal Dec 1st, 2017

US Retailer Buys AR Firm For $112m

Williams-Sonoma acquires 3D imaging and Augmented Reality company, Outward, to make shopping experiences at chains such as Pottery Barn more interactive.

Niantic Raises $200m Investment Deal Nov 27th, 2017

Niantic Raises $200m Investment

Pokemon GO developers announce series B investment ahead of Harry Potter AR game.

Apple Acquires AR Start-Up For $30 Million Deal Nov 23rd, 2017

Apple Acquires AR Start-Up For $30 Million

Apple advances towards ambitious plans to release Augmented Reality headset set by 2020 with hardware company acquisition.

Start-up Raises $2 Million For Cloud-Powered VR / AR Deal Nov 21st, 2017

Start-up Raises $2 Million For Cloud-Powered VR / AR

GridRaster plans to use venture capital investment to optimise its low latency cloud computing solution for XR.

Tencent Acquires 12% Of Snap Inc Deal Nov 8th, 2017

Tencent Acquires 12% Of Snap Inc

China's mobile gaming giant invests further in Los Angeles social company, including its AR Spectacles.

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