This is the second major acquisition Niantic has made over the last few months. Previously, Niantic purchased Evertoon to help develop a social mechanic for their various products. That led Pokemon Go players to speculate that some sort of in-game chat would eventually be added to Pokemon Go, but that is also mere speculation.Pokemon Go developer Niantic has confirmed a brand new acquisition that’s bound to benefit the game in the long term.Posting the news on their official site, the AR specialists revealed that they had acquired Escher Reality.
The firm is known to specialize in shared augmented experiences, which could mean big Pokemon news in the future.A recent demo shared by Escher shows two people playing an AR game together on two different devices.
This could open the door to players perhaps being able to interact in each other’s games, or perhaps something altogether more ambitious.“Escher’s innovations focus on exploring the intersection of digital and physical worlds, augmented reality (AR), and computer vision,” a message from Niantic explains.
“Escher’s technology helps to build persistent, cross-platform, multi-user experiences.The addition of the Escher AR technology is incredibly exciting to us at Niantic as it significantly accelerates our work on persistent, shared AR as part of the Niantic real-world application platform. “It’s our intention to make our cross-platform AR technology available more widely to developers later this year. Stay tuned for information on developer availability.”
“At Niantic, we are committed to using technology to enhance our users’ interactions with the physical world, and we are excited to embrace the Escher team as we continue to evolve and grow our platform to support planet-scale AR.”
New Niantic Loading ScreenEscher has also commented that their longterm goal is to help to bring shared and persistent AR experiences to millions of people around the world and further realize AR’s impact going forward.
by hungarry1Fans will have to wait and see what the full impact of this news is, with new features bound to be in the planning stages already for this new tech.Escher is well known for its Multiplayer AR Video and its ability of cross-platform function without losing its quality.
Escher Reality updated their website saying few words about their partnership and future of AR tech.
We are thrilled to announce that we are joining the wonderful team at Niantic! We’re really looking forward to integrating our work on mapping and computer vision technology into Niantic’s amazing content and AR platform. The long term vision is to help to bring shared and persistent AR experiences to millions of people around the world, and further realize AR’s impact going forward. Ultimately, we share Niantic’s goal of enriching people’s experiences by blending the physical and the digital worlds.
Escher Reality has been fortunate to work with some of the top AR studios as part of our beta, and we are grateful for their feedback. We thank the thousands of developers who signed up for our waiting list—such overwhelming response is the dream of any start-up.
Our path has only just begun, but we would not have gotten this far without our strong and experienced team who have tackled some of the hardest problems in AR in stride. We are thankful for the support of our investors at Uncork Capital, Founders Fund, Y Combinator, Liquid 2 Ventures, Webb Investment Network, iRobot Ventures, Presence Capital, Into Ventures, and our angel investors. We started as an idea in the MIT Sandbox two years ago and grew with the invaluable support from MassChallenge, Autodesk BUILD, and MassDigi—each being pivotal to our early success.
We are excited to develop the next wave of spatial computing in Augmented Reality at Niantic. Bringing technology we developed at Escher to the core of Niantic’s AR Platform, we can enable the next generation of experiences together and realize our collective vision sooner and better.
Ross Finman, CEO & Diana Hu, CTO
Niantic is expanding its growth in AR world with help of acquisition of companies who work improving AR world.Maybe Niantic is planning all this for its new AR game “Harry Potter Wizard Unite” or maybe Niantic may truly add PVP battles and trading.Possibilities are unknown, but we can surely say Niantic is expanding and has so much more possibilities hidden inside in AR world.What do you think?Lemme hear all your thoughts in comments or you can get connected with me on Snapchat-Vibsz16 and Instagram. Stay tuned.
Pokemon Go Newest Secret Coming Soon
Data-miners of Pokemon Go town reported something very new and very dazzling.Data-miners noticed that Pokemon Go’s servers were now sending text bundles related to Deoxys and Castform, two of the unreleased “Gen 3” Pokemon. Both Pokemon have multiple forms and the new text bundles include lines of code for all of them.
Pokemon Go was planning to include all of Deoxys’s and Castform’s forms for a while as they were the first Generation 3 to be added, but the text bundles could hint that they could be coming in the very near future. That would be a bit of a surprise in Deoxys’s case, considering that players are expecting Rayquaza to be the next Legendary Pokemon added to the game.
Castform is expected to shift forms based on the dynamic weather system which was the biggest addition. Castform has four different forms that are weather dependent and changes both its types and attacks based on the weather.
“form_normal” “Normal”
“form_sun” “Sunny”
“form_rain” “Rainy”
“form_snow” “Snowy”
In the main series games, Deoxys has the ability to shift forms as well, but we aren’t sure whether Pokemon Go will implement that right now or not. Each of Deoxys’s form emphasizes a different stat – its Attack Form would have the highest attack stat in Pokemon Go but would….
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