Hardware Supply Chain

Software Value Chain

OS

  • Horizon OS
  • visionOS

SDK

  • ARKit
  • ARCore
  • NVIDIA Omniverse

Store

  • Meta Horizon Store
  • App Store (visionOS)

Open Standards

  • OpenXR
  • WebXR

3D Asset Sources

  • DCC / Traditional
  • AIGC / Generative
  • CAD / Architecture
  • Photos and 360 Capture
  • Photogrammetry, NeRF, and Gaussian Splatting
  • Physical 3D Scanner
  • Volumetric Video Capture

Content Creation

  • Localization / SLAM / Spatial Anchors / 6DoF
  • Vision / Computer Vision / Graphics / Game Engines / AIGC
  • Sound / NLP / Electronic Music Generation

3D UX Design

  • Information Architecture
  • Interaction Design
  • User Interface Design

Application Sectors

2C

Entertainment

Immersive games, film, theater, LARP, and arts combine spatial storytelling with participation.

Growth & Education

Embodied lessons, 3D knowledge graphs, and life-management tools turn spatial experience into learning and personal growth.

Personal Care & Wellbeing

Immersive therapy, digital companions, digital religion, and memory displays support care and reflection.

Social

XR social spaces and immersive personal sites create new forms of presence and personal identity.

Training

Try-Ons & Commerce

2B

Enterprise Training

XR gives people and robots safe, repeatable environments for learning operational tasks.

Collaboration & Meetings

Immersive meetings and shared 3D workspaces let distributed teams collaborate in spatial context.

IoT & Digital Twins

Spatial interfaces connect operational data to digital twins of physical systems.

AEC

Digital twins support collaborative review across architecture, engineering, and construction.

Medical

Spatial visualization and simulation support surgical planning and rehearsal.

Industrials

Brand & Advertising

Immersive Consulting

2G

Culture & Tourism

Public-sector XR brings cultural heritage and destinations into interactive spatial experiences.

Military Training & Deployment

Simulation and spatial systems support military training and deployment preparation.

Government Branding & Public Service

Service Ecosystem

Around the product stack sits the service layer that keeps the industry moving — the connective tissue between builders, buyers, and backers.

  • Solution IntegratorsAgencies and studios building XR for clients
  • Distribution & PublishingStores, venues, and the writing around XR — blogs, articles, and industry media
  • Education & TrainingPrograms growing the spatial workforce
  • Events & CommunitySummits, meetups, and creator networks
  • CapitalVenture funding and grants behind the stack
  • LegalIP, privacy, and compliance counsel for spatial products

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