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Google acquires microLED start-up Raxium to boost its AR ambitions

Google acquires microLED start-up Raxium to boost its AR ambitions
Written by Athik Saleh
May 05, 2022, 04:44 pm 2 min read
Google acquires microLED start-up Raxium to boost its AR ambitions
Google is yet to announce how much it paid to acquire Raxium (Photo credit: Fronearena)

Google has acquired Raxium, a five-year-old start-up that develops cost-effective and energy-efficient microLED displays. The move was announced by Rick Osterloh, the company's hardware chief. The acquisition of Raxium is seen as a key step in Google's pursuit of creating a new generation of augmented, virtual, and mixed reality headsets. Raxium will join Google's Devices and Services team.

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Why does this story matter?
  • As the metaverse hype train garners speed and looks unstoppable, tech giants are trying their best to board the train before it's late. Google's acquisition of Raxium is evidence that the company wants to own physical components to make devices such as AR headsets.
  • The fact that Google has been working on headsets with limited success may also have played a part.
About the firm
Raxium is working on monolithic integration of microLED

Raxium is a California-based tech start-up that works on single panel microLED display technology. MicroLED can be used to create energy-efficient AR displays without losing any color. The company is also working on monolithic integration for microLED that will help them use silicon used in processors to build AR displays. This will, in turn, considerably bring down the cost of AR displays.

AR journey
Google's big AR move is seemingly growing closer

The acquisition of Raxium is a sign that Google's big AR move is on the horizon. In 2020, the tech giant bought glass maker North. We later learned that it is hiring engineers to build an AR operating system. The company is also building an AR headset dubbed "Project Iris" under the same administration as the Project Starline.

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'Raxium's team will help build helpful devices and services'

"We're thrilled to have the team at Raxium on board to help further our goal of building helpful devices and services to improve people's daily lives," said Rick Osterloh, Senior VP of Devices and Services at Google. "Raxium's technical expertise in this area will play a key role as we continue to invest in our hardware efforts."

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Apple, Meta, and Snap are also investing heavily in AR

Google's rivals such as Apple, Meta, and Snap are investing heavily in hardware required to make AR headsets, while Microsoft has already delivered an AR device with HoloLens. Apart from Google, Apple, OPPO, and Vuzix are also working on microLED AR.

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Athik Saleh covers auto and tech news at NewsBytes. He had started as an SEO content writer at NewsBytes and has since been elevated after exhibiting his automotive acumen. He has previously worked as a columnist at Law Insider India. He has a Bachelor's degree in Law from the National Law Institute University, Bhopal.
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