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It’s always better to experience Peridot with friends. The latest update to Peridot Beyond from Niantic, Inc. lets you care, play and explore the outdoors with your friends – and your Dots, too.

Ever dreamed of transforming real-world scenes into stylized 3D environments where both structure and aesthetics can be manipulated separately? The challenge of simultaneously altering geometry and appearance has been a significant hurdle in 3D design until now. Introducing Morpheus: - Separate Geometry & Appearance Control: Manipulate shape and color independently, unleashing unprecedented creative possibilities - Consistency Across Perspectives: Leveraging depth-guided cross-attention and WarpControlNet technology to maintain stylistic coherence from all angles - Sequential Frame Stylization: The autoregressive RGBD diffusion model ensures each new frame builds upon previously edited views for a cohesive experience - Superior Performance: Surpasses current leading methods in both visual quality and prompt fidelity, confirmed through comprehensive user testing Imagine transforming your local street into a vibrant cyberpunk metropolis 🌃, converting your home into a rustic winter cabin ❄️, or reimagining your garden as a blocky Minecraft landscape 🧱—all through simple text instructions! Morpheus represents more than just visual enhancement—it's about the revolutionary ability to independently reshape both structure and appearance, creating boundless opportunities for immersive digital experiences. More information in the comments section.

Peridot is a critical immersive experience to our company Niantic Spatial, as we continue building spatial intelligence from real-world understanding.

We’re thrilled to see how our partnership with Sphere is transforming spatial collaboration for enterprises! 🚀 With Niantic's 3D scanning and localization technology, teams can: ✅ Instantly bring real-world objects into Sphere’s MR environment ✅ Skip the QR codes and manual setup—automatic positioning makes collaboration seamless 🔗 Read the blog to learn how businesses are using our tech in their workflows! https://lnkd.in/e9hBt9yD #SpatialComputing #NianticSpatial #MixedReality #RemoteCollaboration

Often, the scenes we discover on the INTO THE SCANIVERSE map hold a deeper story. This 3D scan, in particular, captures the lush haven of Elizabeth Street Garden—along with the passionate call to preserve it. (Captured by Michael Rubloff at Radiance Fields.) Check out Rubloff’s article and join Scaniverse Discord for updates in the comments below.

“Our goal is really to get a large collection of high-quality scans that folks can visit around the world,” says Brian McClendon, senior vice president of engineering at Niantic, Inc. “You can walk up to it and look up at it, and you get a sense of scale of these objects that sometimes photos don’t do justice.” The article via Fast Company continues: 'Making the scans, created using a mathematical modeling technique called the Gaussian splat, available through virtual reality will hopefully also incentivize more users to go out and scan and share the world around them, similar to how the rise of Instagram motivated people to take and share photos, he says. The scanning process generally takes only a few minutes, and users can view their own scans on their phones or Quest headsets before deciding whether to share them to the public map.' https://lnkd.in/gGZZTRNB #3DGS #3DGaussianSplatting #3DGaussianSplats #3DGaussianSplat #Splat #IntoTheScaniverse

Scaniverse and Into the Scaniverse are now on Discord! Meet your fellow scanners, chat with the devs, and share the amazing scans you’ve captured. Everyone who joins in March will get a special badge in early April! We can’t wait to share what you’ve done with the world. Join us through the link in our comments!

Today marks the closing of one chapter and the opening of a new one for Niantic. We just announced that Scopely will be acquiring our games business, including Pokémon GO, Pikmin Bloom, and Monster Hunter Now. And we’re spinning out a new geospatial AI company, Niantic Spatial Inc. We founded Niantic 10 years ago to inspire people to explore the world, together, by overlaying it with digital experiences. I’m grateful to everyone who joined us on this journey, and I’m proud that players have explored 30+ billion miles and made over a billion friend connections in our games. Every week we hear inspiring stories of people finding lifelong partners, making exercise more fun, or discovering a new sense of belonging. I’m confident our games will thrive with Scopely. I've often talked about building “forever games,” and I believe they will continue to be just that. To our players: thank you. I’m also incredibly excited about what’s next with Niantic Spatial. Why? Because we’re in the midst of seismic changes in technology, with AI evolving rapidly. Existing maps were built for people to read and navigate but now there is a need for a new kind of map that makes the world intelligible for machines, for everything from smart glasses to humanoid robots, so they can understand and navigate the physical world. Today's LLMs represent the first step towards a future where a variety of expert models collaborate to reason and understand complex problems, and many of those problems will require deep and accurate knowledge of the physical world. Niantic is building the models that will help AI move beyond the screen and into the real world. With $250M in funding, some of the world's best geospatial AI talent, access to proprietary data, a strong customer pipeline, and a rapid product cycle, I believe Niantic Spatial is poised to succeed and, like the games that gave birth to it, to make its own positive impact on the world. Stay tuned for more info. jh

Today, we’re announcing changes at Niantic that will set us on a bold new course. First, for Niantic Inc., we have reached an agreement for Scopely, a world leader in mobile games, to acquire Pokémon GO, Pikmin Bloom and Monster Hunter Now, and the incredible teams working on these experiences. Second, we are spinning off our pioneering geospatial AI business into a new company, Niantic Spatial Inc., enabling it to accelerate and scale even more rapidly. Led by John Hanke, Niantic Spatial will be funded with $250 million of capital. Niantic Spatial’s goal is to lead the future of geospatial AI by building spatial intelligence that helps people better understand, navigate, and engage with the physical world. Last year, we launched the Niantic Spatial Platform, designed for a diverse range of industry applications. And we’re now developing a Large Geospatial Model – a world model powered by large-scale machine learning that enables people and machines to understand and navigate the physical world. Niantic Spatial will also continue to own and operate our other real-world AR games, Ingress Prime and Peridot, as best-in-class reference applications of the geospatial platform. You can read more about today’s news in our blog post: https://lnkd.in/g9AXueyS