Summit had loads of people talking about AR maps and visual positioning systems.
May 25, 2022
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Author: Niantic Labs
May 25, 2022
Yesterday in San Francisco, Niantic hosted day one of the first-ever Lightship Summit, a two day conference for their global community of AR developers. Announcements included:
Lightship Visual Positioning System (VPS) enables developers to determine the position and orientation of their users and anchor AR content with centimeter-level precision for real world immersive AR on a global scale
Developers can now add locations to Niantic’s AR map of the world to build their own location-based AR reality channel apps and experiences
More than 30,000 VPS-activated public locations available, with density in San Francisco, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York City and Seattle
Lightship VPS demo partners include JR Reality by Superblue, AREALM by FoundrySix, PIXELYNX, Shueisha XR, Rhizomatiks, Liquid City and TRIPP
Niantic also annonces Campfire, a social application for the real-world metaverse that weaves together our games and helps players discover new people, places and experiences
8th Wall debuts new pricing tiers along with powerful monetization and distribution features to equip independent developers with everything they need to build a business with WebAR, plus a sneak peek on bringing Lightship VPS to the web
Niantic Ventures unveils first two investments in TRIPP and PIXELYNX
SpotX Games joins the Niantic family, a Miami-based Startup Creating Fun AR Games Using Web3 Technology
Introducing the Lightship Visual Positioning System and Niantic AR Map
At the Summit, Niantic opened the Lightship Visual Positioning System (VPS) to developers everywhere, with more than 30,000 VPS-activated public locations immediately available and a new app for developers to quickly add their own locations to our dynamic AR map of the world. To bring VPS to life, Niantic gave attendees hands-on experience with VPS-enabled apps from partners who have participated in the private beta ahead of today’s launch.
Niantic also previewed Campfire, a social application for the real-world metaverse that weaves together our games and helps players discover new people, places and experiences. 8th Wall, the world’s leading WebAR development platform, announced a new pricing tier specially for creators, and Niantic Ventures announced its first two investments in TRIPP and PIXELYNX.
The Lightship Summit marked an important step as Niantic build the future of spatial computing together as a community. Learn more about each of Niantic’s Summit announcements below, and stay tuned for Day Two!
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Niantic Welcomes SpotX Games, A Miami-based Startup Creating Fun AR Games Using Web3 Technology
Yesterday at the Lightship Summit, Niantic was excited to announce the team from SpotX Games, a Miami-based augmented reality gaming startup that makes Web3 and NFTs accessible to all, is now part of the Niantic family. SpotX Games has built a following in the Web3 community, and are aligned with Niantic’s mission to deliver fun, real-world gameplay adventures using augmented reality and encouraging community participation.
SpotX Games was founded in January 2022 when the small and mighty team of five – Galina Fendikevich, Traci Levine, Jackson Harris, Chris Daniels, and David Woodward – met at Miami Hack Week. Chris, a Miami Tech original and founder of The Shrimp Society, an organization that helps early stage founders, sponsored a “hack” house that brought together coders and creatives from a variety of backgrounds. In a brainstorming session, a shared vision came together: to create a scavenger hunt across the different “hack” houses where players were tasked with finding hidden QR codes that held NFTs and collecting as many as they could. Shrimp Games, as it was dubbed, was the talk of Hack Week and motivated the team to stay together and start work on what is now SpotX Games.
Attendees at the Lightship Summit got to experience SpotX’s new game MYNE, a cryptic outdoor scavenger hunt where players are on the hunt for NFTs that are minted as a seed phase and used as ciphers to help solve the final puzzle. With the puzzle completed, players earn a special piece of swag and get to keep the final NFT as a memento of their unique experience.
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