Niantic has released its Lightship Visual Positioning System (VPS) for the Web, providing developers access to its augmented reality (AR) tools designed by 8th Wall, it announced on Thursday.
The new platform anchors webAR and virtual content across physical locations by adding depth and realism to immersive experiences anywhere in the world using its AR map, allowing precise, centimetre-level accuracy across global locations, with just a mobile browser and no app required.
It also provides access to 3D meshes of over 100,000 locations for developers to implement in AR scenes, enabling them to build webAR experiences with occlusion and physics for enhanced interactions between the virtual and physical world, the company explained. ...