{"id":256007,"date":"2021-05-21T21:09:36","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T18:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/snap-to-buy-ar-company-waveoptics-for-over-500m\/"},"modified":"2021-05-21T21:09:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T18:09:36","slug":"snap-to-buy-ar-company-waveoptics-for-over-500m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/snap-to-buy-ar-company-waveoptics-for-over-500m\/","title":{"rendered":"#Snap to buy AR company WaveOptics for over $500M"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Snap to buy AR company WaveOptics for over $500M<\/strong>”
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\u00a0Snap\u00a0Inc said Friday it will acquire WaveOptics, a British\u00a0augmented\u00a0reality technology<\/a> company, for over $500 million.<\/p>\n

The deal, first reported by The Verge and confirmed by a\u00a0Snap\u00a0spokesman, will help the owner of photo messaging app<\/a>\u00a0Snapchat push its way into a future where AR eyewear could be ubiquitous.<\/p>\n

Snap, along with other tech giants like Facebook<\/a> and Apple, are racing to build AR devices as the next technological frontier after the smartphone.<\/p>\n

The vision behind AR eyewear is that it could allow a user to virtually see route directions in front of them, or see information about a landmark in their surroundings, for example.<\/p>\n

Snap\u00a0said it will pay half the $500 million for WaveOptics in stock at closing, and the other half will be paid in either cash or stock in two years.\u00a0Snap\u00a0is based in Santa Monica, California, while WaveOptics is headquartered in Oxford, England.<\/p>\n

On Thursday,\u00a0Snap\u00a0unveiled a new version of its Spectacles glasses, the first to incorporate AR with two built-in cameras, two speakers and four microphones.<\/p>\n

The new Spectacles won\u2019t be sold to the public, and will only be available to AR developers who apply to use the glasses.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Snap to buy AR company WaveOptics for over $500M” \u00a0Snap\u00a0Inc said Friday it will acquire WaveOptics, a British\u00a0augmented\u00a0reality technology company, for over $500 million. The deal, first reported by The Verge and confirmed by a\u00a0Snap\u00a0spokesman, will help the owner of photo messaging app\u00a0Snapchat push its way into a future where AR eyewear could be ubiquitous….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":256008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/snap-buying-ar-firm.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[106675,59198,70584,76705,71741],"class_list":["post-256007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-5-21-21","tag-augmented-reality","tag-mergers-acquisitions","tag-snap-inc","tag-snapchat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}