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Lightship

Niantic Spatial Platform, powered by Lightship, is a robust SDK designed for Unity developers to create immersive augmented reality (AR) experiences that interact with…

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Who it's for

Build real-world augmented reality experiences with a comprehensive spatial development platform.

Who should look elsewhere

The platform is undergoing migration to a new domain, which may require project updates.

Pros

  • +Enables highly accurate real-world content placement.
  • +Provides advanced AR effects that work on various devices, not just LiDAR-equipped ones.
  • +Offers tools for real-time understanding and interaction with the physical environment.
  • +Seamlessly integrates with AR Foundation projects.

Cons

  • −The platform is undergoing migration to a new domain, which may require project updates.
  • −Lightship.dev will be decommissioned, necessitating a move to scaniverse.nianticspatial.com.

Key features

  • ✓Visual Positioning System (VPS) for centimeter-level accuracy
  • ✓World Pose System (WPS) for 3D geographic positioning
  • ✓Real-time depth sensing for AR content
  • ✓Occlusion for realistic content grounding
  • ✓Meshing for understanding physical world geometry
  • ✓Scene Segmentation to recognize physical environments
  • ✓Object Detection to identify real-world objects

Pricing

No public pricing plans recorded.

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