Niantic is Bringing Its Large-scale AR Positioning System to WebAR Too
This week Niantic announced Lightship VPS, a system designed to make possible accurate localization of AR devices at a large scale to enable location-based AR content that can also be persistent and multi-user. While the first implementation of the system will need to be baked into individual apps, the company says it’s bringing the tech […]

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8th Wall is offering AR/VR developers new features and tools

8th Wall is offering a host of new features to AR and VR developers in what feels like a huge push towards making the Metaverse workable. AR/VR – VentureBeat & Erron Kelly

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Niantic Launches City-scale Visual Positioning System for Location-based, Multi-user AR
Niantic today launched its Lightship Visual Positioning System at its first developer summit. The system aims to form an underlying 3D map of the world so that AR devices can share the same frame of reference even on massive scales. Update (May 24th, 2022): Today during the company’s Lightship Summit event, Niantic launched its Lightship […]

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‘Pokémon Go’ Studio’s New Game, ‘Peridot’, Leans Further into AR Gameplay
‘Pokémon Go’ studio Niantic announced Peridot today, its latest game which the company says leans further into AR than prior projects. When developer Niantic launched Pokémon Go back in 2016, many heralded it as ‘the first major augmented reality game’. But as I argued at the time, it really wasn’t ‘augmented reality’ at all… but merely […]

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Niantic announces Peridot, a new AR pet sim game

Niantic has announced its latest AR mobile game, Peridot, a pet sim all about caring for the titular creatures. AR/VR – VentureBeat & Rachel Kaser

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Pokémon Go-Nachfolger Peridot: Tamagotchi trifft Pokémon

Pokémon Go scheffelt Geld, Harry Potter hat versagt: Niantic geht mit dem AR-Spiel Peridot zurück zu seinen Wurzeln. Was kann das neue Spiel?
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Pokémon Go developer Niantic acquires AR focused studio NZXR

Pokemon Go developer Niantic has acquired the New Zealand based, XR focused developer NZXR to push the limits of future AR games. AR/VR – VentureBeat & Erron Kelly

‘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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Fürs AR-Metaverse: Pokémon-Go-Studio tätigt bislang größten Firmenkauf

Das Pokémon-Go-Studio Niantic kauft das Start-up 8th Wall und expandiert damit in den Browser.
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MIXED & Tomislav Bezmalinovic

Pokémon Go: Spieltrick soll das „Echtwelt-Metaverse“ voranbringen

Pokémon Go verdient Milliarden, doch das Entwicklungsstudio Niantic greift nach den Sternen – und spannt dafür die Spieler:innen ein.

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MIXED & Matthias Bastian