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The XR Week Peek (2025.03.18): Niantic sells Pokemon Go, Meta released passthrough APIs, and more!

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Scoperlys parent company is owned by Saudi Arabias Public Investment Fund, meaning that Pokemon Go now belongs to the king of Saudi Arabia. This means that Samsung wont go all-in with hand tracking like Apple did. For this purpose, it created a spin-off called Niantic Spatial which starts with $250M in funds.