{"id":70873,"date":"2014-10-14T08:47:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T06:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=70873"},"modified":"2014-10-14T08:47:20","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T06:47:20","slug":"google-investing-in-cinematic-reality-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/software\/70873\/google-investing-in-cinematic-reality-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Google investing in &#8220;cinematic reality&#8221;: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google Inc and other investors are planning to invest about $500 million in hardware and software developer Magic Leap Inc to deliver &#8220;cinematic reality&#8221;, technology website Re\/Code said, citing sources.<\/p>\n<p>Google is leading the funding round for the company, the website cited sources as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz may be one of the other investors in the consortium, Re\/Code said.<\/p>\n<p>Google, Andreessen Horowitz and Magic Leap could not be reached for a comment outside of business hours.<\/p>\n<p>Magic Leap said in February it had raised more than $50 million to develop its proprietary technology platform.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Google<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Google to launch new mobile messaging app?\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/70149\/google-to-launch-new-mobile-messaging-app\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google to launch new mobile messaging app?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Google under pressure from privacy watchdog\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/69897\/google-under-pressure-from-privacy-watchdog\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google under pressure from privacy watchdog<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Google balloons take flight over South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/68358\/google-balloons-take-flight-over-south-africa\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google balloons take flight over South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Google Play gift cards now in SA\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/68973\/google-play-gift-cards-now-in-sa\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google Play gift cards now in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Inc and other investors are planning to invest about $500 million in hardware and software developer Magic Leap Inc to deliver &#8220;cinematic reality&#8221;, technology website Re\/Code said, citing sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":37990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25,53,8957],"class_list":["post-70873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-google","tag-magic-leap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70883,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70873\/revisions\/70883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}