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IGS 2022 Miami: XR Today Expert Round Table

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Artists previously used very expensive hardware and software to create digital assets, namely with delayed throughput. According to AlMuawad, Midwam’s solutions were key to developing Saudi Arabia as a strategic tech and metaverse incubator. Didimo’s technologies eliminated this by producing avatars “at scale.”

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

The Ghost Howls

Scoperlys parent company is owned by Saudi Arabias Public Investment Fund, meaning that Pokemon Go now belongs to the king of Saudi Arabia. This is something absolutely impossible to have with Unity or Unreal. For this purpose, it created a spin-off called Niantic Spatial which starts with $250M in funds.