Great AR design could be that which uses topographical features as a stage for personal experiences which celebrate the universal grandeur of ordinary life. Read the full article…
Pokémon Go creator Niantic has closed a $190 million round of funding, according to a document filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Read the full article…
Niantic’s designers went for a much more modern approach with cool augmented reality to remake its first location game into the Ingress Prime reboot. Read the full article…
Niantic CEO John Hanke summoned up the ghost of Arthur C. Clarke when discussing augmented reality with the famous quote, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” But to get technology to that point, experimentation is necessary — and games are the perfect proving ground. “One of the great things abo… Read the full article…
Our latest speaker for GamesBeat Summit 2018 event is Eliot Peper, science fiction writer and author of the upcoming novel Bandwidth. The event will take place at the beautiful Claremont Resort in Berkeley, California, on April 9 and April 10. Our conference is all about making games better and improving the business, and our latest speakers should… Read the full article…
Niantic Labs announced today that it has acquired Escher Reality, an augmented reality and computer vision startup that’s building technology for persistent, cross-platform, multiuser augmented reality experiences. Escher is exploring the intersection of digital and physical worlds through AR and computer vision. Niantic has generated huge audiences and more than $1 billion in revenues for its Pokémon Go… Read the full article…