Inside #NianticSpatial’s audacious plan to scan the world
Company behind ‘#PokémonGo’ is now creating an #AI- and #robot-ready 3D model of everything around us.
#Niantic is taking the next step towards building that map: llaunching #Scaniverse, which aims to give companies and individuals tools to capture world with phones, cameras and drones, and fuse that data into a massive 3D map that allows robots to navigate world with cm-level accuracy.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91521312/niantic-pokemon-go-scanning-the-world
https://archive.ph/78cIk

How #PokemonGo is giving #delivery #robots an inch-perfect view of the world
Now #NianticSpatial is using that vast and unparalleled trove of 30B crowdsourced data—images of urban landmarks tagged with super-accurate location markers taken from the phones of hundreds of millions of Pokémon Go players around the world—to build a kind of world model, a buzzy new technology that grounds the smarts of LLMs in real environments.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/10/1134099/how-pokemon-go-is-helping-robots-deliver-pizza-on-time/
https://archive.ph/QLyes

Pokémon GO Players Unknowingly Helped Build a 30 Billion AR Image Map of the World https://petapixel.com/2026/03/16/pokemon-go-players-unknowingly-helped-build-a-30-billion-ar-image-map-of-the-world/ #augmentedreality #nianticspatial #Technology #pokemongo #niantic #pokemon #News #ar

Meow Wolf und Niantic Spatial kündigen bahnbrechende AR-Kollaboration an

Die Kunst- und Erlebnisplattform Meow Wolf und das AR-Technologieunternehmen Niantic Spatial (die Macher von Pokémon GO) haben eine wegweisende Partnerschaft angekündigt. Gemeinsam wollen sie die physische und digitale Welt verschmelzen lassen, um die Meow-Wolf-Universen mit Augmented Reality (AR) in öffentliche Räume zu bringen. Im Fokus steht dabei die Erweiterung der immersiven Erlebniswelten von Meow Wolf über Ausstellungsräume hinaus – dank Niantics Visual Positioning System […]

https://nintendo-connect.de/handheld/smartdevice/meow-wolf-und-niantic-spatial-kuendigen-bahnbrechende-ar-kollaboration-an-144631/