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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.

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.

EA Acquires Titanfall Developers For $455 Million Deal Nov 13th, 2017

EA Acquires Titanfall Developers For $455 Million

The world’s biggest games publisher acquires high profile studio that recently announced its first VR project. So long Respawn, we hardly knew you...

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.

AltspaceVR Saved From Closure By Microsoft Deal Oct 4th, 2017

AltspaceVR Saved From Closure By Microsoft

Social VR start-up to join the Windows Mixed Reality ecosystem, service to continue unaffected.

Starbreeze Acquires LBE VR Start-up For $2.3m Deal Jun 19th, 2017

Starbreeze Acquires LBE VR Start-up For $2.3m

Enterspace to open a series of public VR facilities utilising StarVR hardware.

Google Acquires Owlchemy Labs Deal May 12th, 2017

Google Acquires Owlchemy Labs

Job Simulator developer now part of the Google empire, pledges to continue creating high quality multiplatform VR.

AMD Acquires Wireless VR IP Deal Apr 11th, 2017

AMD Acquires Wireless VR IP

Californian semiconductor company acquires Texan innovators, Nitero; aims to eliminate VR hardware tethers.

Intel Acquires VR Startup Voke Deal Nov 9th, 2016

Intel Acquires VR Startup Voke

Voke becomes part of Intel Sports Group to accelerate efforts in sports VR.

Intel Acquires Computer Vision Processing Company Deal Sep 22nd, 2016

Intel Acquires Computer Vision Processing Company

Deal to buy Movidius for an undisclosed sum is announced.

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