Niantic Inc., the developer of the popular augmented reality game “Pokemon Go” and the Lightship AR platform, today released the Lightship Visual Positioning System for developers, with more than ...

Researchers have developed an innovative positioning system that enhances the versatility and accuracy of drone-viewpoint mixed reality (MR) applications by aligning real and virtual world coordinates ...

Niantic today announced the launch of Lightship VPS for Web, making the web an even more powerful place for augmented reality by bringing its visual positioning system (VPS) to the 8th Wall platform.

Niantic spin-off Niantic Spatial has been using Pokémon Go data to develop Visual Positioning Systems. Niantic Spatial has a collaboration with Vantor, a software firm with government connections. A ...

The maker of Pokémon Go is releasing its AR map for other apps and a location-based social network called Campfire The maker of Pokémon Go is releasing its AR map for other apps and a location-based ...

Overview of the proposed method. While previous methods operate drones according to predefined flight routes, the proposed method integrates VPS and natural feature-based tracking to estimate the ...