Niantic Kickstarts Its AR Metaverse with Release of Lightship SDK and $20M Developer Fund
At a special launch event today, Niantic announced it’s opening up the Lightship AR Development Kit (ARDK) platform, a software development kit with the kinds of tools the company uses to make Pokémon Go’s ‘world-scale’ gameplay possible. And to attract third-party developers to the platform, it’s also announced $20 million fund which it hopes will kickstart AR development. […]

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Niantic broadens access to Niantic Lightship AR dev tools

Niantic is expanding the developer platform to access its next-generation augmented reality tools using its Niantic Lightship platform. AR/VR – VentureBeat & Dean Takahashi