Niantic announces major updates to its augmented reality platforms for developers
... ARDK allows developers to build immersive and imaginative AR applications that use cameras on mobile devices and headsets to change what users can see. Augmented reality blends what’s visible, through the camera, with additional added computer graphics overlaid on it that tracks and follows the movement of the user as if it’s part of the world and can interact with the user’s gestures and actions.
With Lightship ARDK 3.0, Unity developers will be able to add Niantic’s AR features onto Unity’s own AR Foundation extended reality developer library. AR Foundation is an AR engine that includes core features from across the augmented reality ecosystem such as device tracking, plane tracking, point clouds, anchors and similar. With the addition of ARDK’s capabilities, Lightship developers will be able to add Niantic’s own semantic segmentation, occlusion, meshing, mapping and other features. ...
To celebrate this, Niantic released its first mixed reality experience powered by 8th Wall recently called “Wol,” an artificial intelligence-enabled owl that transforms a space into a redwood forest and will then talk to the user. ...
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