In March, Niantic made a bombshell announcement: the developer of Pokemon Go — once the biggest mobile game ever in the U.S. — is abandoning games to go all-in on AI.

Niantic's pivot to spatial mapping has been underway for years. What it means for Pokemon Go's future is unclear, but a deeper blend of AR, AI and your future maps of the world are going to be ...

Niantic says that the issue with today's AI is that it's restricted to understanding "text, code, and images" only. Its geospatial model aims to break that open by creating a new "map" that ...

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Niantic has made 68 people redundant after selling Pokémon Go to the maker of Monopoly Go in a $3.5bn deal. ... Remaining employees now part of slimmed down spin-off focused on AI mapping.

Niantic Spatial has launched its mixed reality pet game Hello, Dot on Quest 3, bringing it out of early access and packing in a heap of new features. Hello, Dot is what the studio calls a “mixed ...

Niantic Spacial laid off 68 employees after the sale of its games business to the Saudi investment company, Scopely, last month.While the layoffs were already announced, the specific number of ...

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