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
Nintendo Partners With Niantic for Multiple New AR Games, Starting This Year with ‘Pikmin’
Nintendo and Niantic have announced a partnership to jointly develop new AR games based on Nintendo franchises. The first game will be based on the Pikmin series, and be “built on Niantic’s real-world AR technology,” which has most famously been used for Pokémon Go. Niantic is the studio behind the well known Pokémon Go, a mobile game that leverages […]

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Road to VR & Ben Lang

23. März 2021