Qualcomm Acquires Clay AIR
November 23, 2021
Qualcomm has acquired Clay AIR, an AI-powered hand-tracking and gesture-recognition technology company, to strengthen its XR (extended reality) technology stack. The acquisition adds Clay AIR's hardware-agnostic tracking technology and team of computer vision and machine-learning experts to Qualcomm's XR capabilities.
- Buyers
- Qualcomm
- Targets
- Clay AIR
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- France
- Transaction Type
- Buyout
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