{"id":165329,"date":"2023-06-07T13:33:19","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T18:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/apple-acquires-mira-a-lightweight-ar-headset-startup-with-military-contracts"},"modified":"2023-06-07T13:33:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T18:33:19","slug":"apple-acquires-mira-a-lightweight-ar-headset-startup-with-military-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/apple-acquires-mira-a-lightweight-ar-headset-startup-with-military-contracts","title":{"rendered":"Apple acquires Mira, a lightweight AR headset startup with military contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/apple-acquires-mira-a-lightweight-ar-headset-startup-with-military-contracts2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Navy has awarded Mira a $700,000 contract, while another agreement is set in stone with the U.S. Air Force.<\/p>\n<p>Right on the heels of unveiling its Vision Pro mixed reality headset, Apple has now confirmed that it has acquired Mira, a Los Angeles-based maker of light hardware for augmented reality, The Verge.<\/p>\n<p>The Worldwide Developers Conference had unveiled Apple\u2019s plans for its future as it revealed a string of devices powered by \u2018homegrown\u2019 chips and the much-awaited foray into the mixed reality space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Navy has awarded Mira a $700,000 contract, while another agreement is set in stone with the U.S. Air Force. Right on the heels of unveiling its Vision Pro mixed reality headset, Apple has now confirmed that it has acquired Mira, a Los Angeles-based maker of light hardware for augmented reality, The Verge. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,1523,9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-computing","category-military","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}