‘Pokémon GO’ Developer Niantic Acquires WebAR Company 8th Wall
Niantic, the company behind Pokémon GO, the Lightship AR SDK, and more, announced this week that it has acquired 8th Wall, creators of AR development tools designed to run through web browsers with wide reach across devices. In what the company calls its “largest acquisition to date,” Niantic this week announced that is has acquired 8th Wall, […]

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Road to VR & Ben Lang

11. März 2022
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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Road to VR & Scott Hayden

8. November 2021