2022-03-11
Join me in welcoming @the8thwall to the @nianticlabs family. This opens the door for more @LightshipAR developers to realize their dreams for the real-world metaverse. https://nianticlabs.com/... - https://www.youtube.com/...
The Verge
Niantic acquires 8th Wall, which helps developers make web-based AR apps, in what the company says is its “largest acquisition to date”
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2021-11-23
Excited by what's ahead - investing in our current games, adding new games and apps, and building out the Real World Metaverse with the Lightship Platform. https://nianticlabs.com/...
Niantic
Niantic, the AR platform company behind Pokémon Go, raises $300M from Coatue at a $9B valuation
Niantic Inc., developer of the world's first and only planet-scale AR platform, announced today that Coatue has made a $300 million investment in the company at a valuation of $9 b...
2021-08-16
I shared some thoughts on the Metaverse with our view that technology should be in service to us, as human beings, and not the other way around. The AR future that we imagine is designed to enhance our connection to the world around us and to one another. https://nianticlabs.com/...
Fast Company
Interview with Niantic CEO John Hanke about the company's vision for the metaverse and how it could become a dystopian nightmare
2021-08-15
I shared some thoughts on the Metaverse with our view that technology should be in service to us, as human beings, and not the other way around. The AR future that we imagine is designed to enhance our connection to the world around us and to one another. https://nianticlabs.com/...
Fast Company
Interview with Niantic CEO John Hanke about Niantic's vision for the metaverse and how the metaverse could become a dystopian nightmare
The metaverse, the concept of an alternative, shared digital world that originated in sci-fi, has bubbled up to the surface of tech chatter during the later days of the pandemic.