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Niantic made a name for itself in the mobile gaming industry through the enduring success of Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/em><\/a>. Now the company is hoping to become something else: a platform for other developers to build location-aware AR apps on top of. <\/p>\n

This plan has been in the works since at least 2018<\/a>, but it\u2019s taking a big leap forward this week with the long-awaited release of Niantic\u2019s location mapping software for AR, which it calls the Visual Positioning System, or VPS in a nod to GPS. The technology makes it so that AR experiences can be grounded to a physical location, like the front of a building or a park monument, rather than just floating aimlessly through a phone\u2019s camera view. <\/p>\n

Developers can now use VPS as the tentpole feature of Niantic\u2019s broader Lightship SDK<\/a>, which also lets multiple devices access a shared AR experience \u2014 like a 3D multiplayer game \u2014 at the same time. VPS will be free during an initial public beta period and then switch later this year to a tiered billing system that\u2019s based on an app\u2019s number of monthly users, according to Niantic spokesman Jonny Thaw.<\/p>\n

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In addition to VPS, Niantic is this week also releasing Campfire, a location-based social network that integrates with its games and future apps that use Lightship. Campfire taps your Niantic account\u2019s list of friends to show their locations on a map if they opt in, along with nearby in-game experiences. You can organize and RSVP to real-life meetups for these experiences, such as a Pok\u00e9mon<\/em> raid, and chat with other players in a group. The goal is for Campfire to not only make Niantic\u2019s games more social but provide a way for other developers to have their Lightship-powered apps be discovered by the company\u2019s millions of users.<\/p>\n

To power VPS, Niantic has crowdsourced millions of phone camera scans of real-world locations by both Ingress<\/em> and Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/em> players. It claims to have more than 20,000 VPS-activated locations around the world, along with centimeter-level precise maps for large parts of San Francisco, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York City, and Seattle. <\/p>\n

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With this location layer, Niantic hopes to offer a critical piece of infrastructure for AR apps, whether they\u2019re on phones or, eventually, smart glasses. The company charges developers with large user bases to access the server-side aspects of Lightship, including VPS and multiplayer functionality. That gives Niantic a potential revenue stream beyond the significant amount of money it already makes from Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/em>, though CEO John Hanke doesn\u2019t expect Lightship to be a meaningful revenue driver in the near term.<\/p>\n

A couple of months ago, Niantic bought 8th Wall<\/a>, a startup that sells AR development tools for the web rather than for native apps on iOS or Android. Niantic plans to keep 8th Wall running and integrate Lightship, letting browser-based AR experiences access its mapping tech. While bigger companies like Meta and Snap prioritize AR developer tools for their own platforms, Hanke sees an opportunity to offer a toolkit that works anywhere through a web browser.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur goal is to create tools for people that want to build apps they can run cross-platform and that they own and control,\u201d he tells The Verge<\/em>. \u201cAnd they\u2019re not just features on somebody else\u2019s service, but they\u2019re actually applications that can exist on their own and that whole companies can be built around.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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