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Niantic acquires New Zealand AR studio NZXR Deal Apr 7th, 2022

Niantic acquires New Zealand AR studio NZXR

Will become "integral part" of design and development teams for location-based augmented reality titles

Google eyes the future for its AR Glasses, acquires microLED firm Deal Mar 24th, 2022

Google eyes the future for its AR Glasses, acquires microLED firm

$1 billion deal puts Alphabet subsidiary in charge of its own augmented reality hardware

AR glasses firm Snap acquires brain-computer interface startup Deal Mar 24th, 2022

AR glasses firm Snap acquires brain-computer interface startup

NextMind tech gives users mind control of digital objects for long-term augmented reality development

Niantic Acquires 8th Wall To Empower AR Metaverse Deal Mar 11th, 2022

Niantic Acquires 8th Wall To Empower AR Metaverse

Expanding the reach of Niantic Lightship tools for Augmented Reality

Nike acquires augmented/mixed reality studio RTFKT Deal Dec 15th, 2021

Nike acquires augmented/mixed reality studio RTFKT

Real-world sports brand furthers its ambitions in the virtual metaverse

People Can Fly snaps up VR specialist Incuvo Deal Dec 15th, 2021

People Can Fly snaps up VR specialist Incuvo

No figure placed on the deal

Meta acquires Supernatural VR fitness game studio, Within News Nov 5th, 2021

Meta acquires Supernatural VR fitness game studio, Within

The company formerly known as Facebook targets the broader virtual reality exercise sector

Niantic acquires developer experience firm Hoss Deal Oct 7th, 2021

Niantic acquires developer experience firm Hoss

Will assist in accelerating development of Lightship ARDK

ByteDance acquires Pico; Chinese VR set for the global stage? Deal Aug 31st, 2021

ByteDance acquires Pico; Chinese VR set for the global stage?

Plans to invest in standalone virtual reality content as competition for Oculus Quest 2

Pokémon GO creator Niantic acquires 3D scanning app Scaniverse Deal Aug 13th, 2021

Pokémon GO creator Niantic acquires 3D scanning app Scaniverse

Scaniverse founder and CEO will join Niantic’s AR engineering team

Vertigo Games acquires VR game development studio Force Field Deal Aug 5th, 2021

Vertigo Games acquires VR game development studio Force Field

AAA game based on a well-known IP announced soon

Epic Games acquires 3D asset marketplace Sketchfab Deal Jul 21st, 2021

Epic Games acquires 3D asset marketplace Sketchfab

AR and VR content to become more accessible, ambitions on the metaverse

Pokemon Go dev Niantic swoops for London machine learning outfit Matrix Mill News Jun 29th, 2018

Pokemon Go dev Niantic swoops for London machine learning outfit Matrix Mill

AI research outfit join the augmented reality giant

Niantic Acquires AR Firm, Escher Reality Deal Feb 2nd, 2018

Niantic Acquires AR Firm, Escher Reality

Pokemon Go developer picks up Augmented Reality tech co for an undisclosed fee.

Apple Acquires Shazam Deal Dec 14th, 2017

Apple Acquires Shazam

Alongside its popular music identifying service, Apple has acquired Shazam’s AR platform for branded content.

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