Market Reality: Lyft Acquires Blue Vision, Google & Samsung Invest in AR, & Epic Games Scores Massive Funding Round
With would-be unicorns Magic Leap and Niantic among its investments, Google is an active investor in augmented reality technology. This week, the search giant experienced both ends of the investment cycle, with an exit via Lyft's acquisition of Blue Vision Labs, and a funding round for Resolution Games. Meanwhile, Samsung and others have backed a startup founded by former Google employees that emerged from stealth with an AR remote collaboration app this week, and Epic Games achieved a high score with its own funding round. Not all AR business news was good news this week, though, as Leap... more
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