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 ...

Pokémon Go players have unknowingly contributed to the creation of an advanced AI navigation system, developed by game ...

Niantic, the company behind popular AR (augmented reality) game “Pokémon GO” and the 8th Wall AR developer platform, has announced the launch of Lightship VPS (visual positioning system), a ...

Snap Inc., the company behind the Snapchat social app and Spectacles AR glasses, has teamed up with Niantic Spatial to bring accurate geospatial capabilities to the Snapchat and Spectacles platforms.

A 30-billion-image dataset built by players over the last decade is now being used to train an AI navigation system ...

Niantic’s spatial AI, built partly from optional scans submitted through its AR games, is now helping delivery robots ...

Overview of the proposed method. While previous methods operate drones according to predefined flight routes, the proposed method integrates VPS and natural feature-based tracking to estimate the ...

Millions of Pokemon Go players may not realise it, but the scans they make while playing the game have helped Niantic build a ...

Niantic today announced the launch of Lightship VPS for Web, making the web an even more powerful place for augmented reality by bringing its visual positioning system (VPS) to the 8th Wall platform.