Niantic Spatial, Inc.

🤖If someone asked ChatGPT what to do in your city—would your destination show up? That’s how travel discovery starts now: not with keywords, but with questions. "What’s a must-see in Kyoto?" "Where should I go in Lisbon with kids?" If you're not visible, you're invisible. 🌍 Kit Gilbert, Head of Strategic Partnerships at Niantic Spatial, spoke at #AlignAI on how AI and geospatial technology are reshaping how people find and experience places—and what DMOs, attractions, hotels, and cultural sites can do to stay relevant. 🧭 In the age of AI-driven travel, visibility matters. So does real-world intelligence. #TravelTech #TourismMarketing #GeospatialAI #SmartDestinations #LLMs #NianticSpatial #DigitalTourism

🏆 Photorealism meets performance. Splats go standard. 3D Gaussian Splats are changing the game in 3D reality capture—enabling lightweight, hyper-realistic renderings of real-world environments. 🚀Now, they’re going mainstream. We are teaming up with Khronos Group®, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), Esri, and Cesium (Bentley) to bring Gaussian Splats to glTF™, the industry’s open standard for 3D assets. 💥 What’s new: — SPZ format: 90% smaller than PLY. Open-source. Built for speed and fidelity. — New glTF extensions: KHR_gaussian_splatting + KHR_gaussian_splatting_compression_spz — More precise: Quaternion rotation upgrade in SPZ v2.0.0 = crisp lines, no artifacts 🔍 Tested on real geospatial datasets—from drones to digital twins. 📡 Ready for maps, modeling, and metaverse-scale spatial computing. 🤝 Want in? Join the Khronos 3D Formats WG, OGC standards discussions, or contribute to SPZ on GitHub. This is how open standards win. Let’s build the future of 3D together. 🔗https://xmrrwallet.com/cmx.phubs.ly/Q03BSc8-0 #GaussianSplats #NianticSpatial #glTF #SPZ #3DStandards #GeospatialAI #RealityCapture #OpenSource3D #SpatialComputing #OGC #Khronos #Cesium #Esri

Our team of 3 built this for a recent hackathon! 🚀 An AI wayfinding companion that helps you explore the world in a new way 🌍 It sees what you see and responds in real time with helpful, context-aware feedback 💬 👓 Glasses are the default for spatial wearables, but we wanted to explore something different. Hands-free, screen-free, and not stuck to your face. A companion that moves with you ✨ GPS is great for cars 🚗 and open roads… but what about crowded cities, indoor spaces, or massive stadiums? 🏙️ That’s where this comes in. Using VPS (Visual Positioning System) for precise localization — and AI for real-world understanding — our prototype can help with: • Finding your way through unfamiliar cities, buildings, or transit hubs 🧭 • Delivering to the right door in a dense neighborhood 📦 • Navigating confidently as someone with visual impairments 🦯 • Asking questions about what’s in front of you — and getting instant answers We’re also exploring how on-device models like OpenAI’s gpt-oss could help keep everything private 🔐 with real-time AI that runs fully on device. Would love to hear what you think — and where this kind of tech could go next 🙌

🚀 Niantic Spatial SDK for Meta Quest 3 We’re excited to announce that Niantic Spatial SDK v3.15 now supports Meta Quest 3, powered by Meta’s new Passthrough Camera API. This marks a major step in bringing immersive, headworn spatial computing to life—enabling developers to build AR training, indoor navigation, field collaboration, and simulation tools with real-time environmental understanding. 💡 New in v3.15: - VPS for centimeter-accurate anchoring - On-device 3D mapping - Live meshing (near + long distance) - Semantic segmentation - Object detection - Improved real-time occlusions 🛠️ Try it now! 1️⃣ Set up the SDK: https://xmrrwallet.com/cmx.plnkd.in/g8d7Pu8R 2️⃣ Explore sample projects: https://xmrrwallet.com/cmx.plnkd.in/gDZxca2G 3️⃣ Give us feedback via support@nianticspatial.com or our developer forum. 📍This is one more step toward a world where machines understand and interact with our environment—seamlessly, across devices. 🔗 https://xmrrwallet.com/cmx.plnkd.in/gDPJnaf9 #SpatialComputing #NianticSpatial #MetaQuest3 #AR #VPS #ComputerVision #DeveloperTools #MixedReality

The next evolution in AI? 🧠 Book Smarts (LLMs) ➡️ 👟 Street Smarts (LGMs) At Niantic Spatial, Inc., our mission is to build this 'street smart' future. Our "Project Jade" demo at AWE offered a powerful glimpse of what happens at the intersection of three key technologies: our Visual Positioning System (VPS), AR glasses like Snap Inc.'s Spectacles, and a world-scale geospatial AI map. This combination is the key to the next era of spatial computing. Below, I explore how this foundational shift from LLMs to spatially-aware AI (LGMs) unlocks the real world. Alicia Berry David Hollin Evie Powell, PhD Anika Benons Nathan Pannell Keiichi Matsuda Lachlan Sleight Terek Judi Carmen Goldstein Maryam Sabour #geospatialAI #LGM #largegeospatialmodel #LLM #AI #artificialintelligence #AR #augmentedreality #VPS #visualpositioningsystem #SpatialComputing #genAI #snap #snapspectacles #spectacles

🚀 Niantic Spatial, in collaboration with Snap Inc., is pushing the boundaries of AI and spatial computing with Project Jade, an exclusive innovative demo unveiled at AWE 2025 in Long Beach, California. 📍 At the core of Project Jade is Dot, a spatially intelligent AI agent powered by Snap Spectacles and Niantic VPS. By layering AI onto the physical world, we’re moving beyond book smarts — we’re giving AI street smarts. 🌎 Dot’s intelligence pulls from our geospatial AI map of the world and location-relevant information, enabling it to serve as a truly powerful AI companion. ✨This isn’t just a proof of concept — it’s a glimpse into a smarter future where AI transforms how we can explore, navigate, and understand the world around us. 👉 Check out the full blog to explore how we brought Project Jade to life — from concept and design to real-world testing and deployment. 🔗 https://xmrrwallet.com/cmx.plnkd.in/gHY-qhSh #NianticSpatial #GeospatialAI #SpatialComputing #VPS #AI #Peridot

🎉 Big news from the Niantic Spatial R&D team! 👏 We’re thrilled to congratulate our Chief Scientist, Dr Victor Adrian Prisacariu, on his promotion to Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Oxford. 🚀 From pioneering real-time 3D reconstruction, to co-founding 6Dai and now building Niantic Spatial's Large Geospatial Model, Victor’s work sits at the very heart of spatial computing. We can’t wait to see what breakthroughs he and his team deliver next. #NianticSpatial #GeospatialAI #SpatialComputing #VPS #3DMapping #LLMtoLGM #AI

🎧In the latest episode of the Voices of VR podcast, Kent Bye speaks with Todd Little and Erik Horn of Fair Worlds about the making of Space‑Time Adventure Tour, a location-based AR experience featured at Tribeca Immersive 2025. 🗽Set in NYC’s Central Park, this self-guided AR tour leads participants through iconic landmarks like the Alice in Wonderland statue and Bethesda Terrace, blending retro-futuristic storytelling with spatial computing in a narrative driven by time crystals and alternate timelines. 📍Powered by Niantic VPS, the experience delivers centimeter-level precision, anchoring virtual overlays and characters directly onto real-world monuments. Curious how immersive storytelling and location-based AR come together? 🗣️Listen now: https://xmrrwallet.com/cmx.phubs.ly/Q03B8_p50 #NianticSpatial #VPS #Augmentedreality #AI #GeospatialAI #AR #VisualPositioningSystem #Tribeca

📍 We're honored to be recognized by S&P Global as a company shaping the future of AR and AI. 🗺️ Niantic Spatial was featured for our work advancing digital mapping with more accurate visual positioning systems. This is part of our mission to give machines the spatial awareness they need to understand and interact with the physical world. 🌎 As we build a Large Geospatial Model for AI agents, smart glasses, AR experiences, and robots, we’re focused on enabling real-world intelligence at global scale. Thanks to S&P Global for spotlighting our work alongside other innovators defining the future of AI. 🔗 Read the article: https://xmrrwallet.com/cmx.phubs.ly/Q03zCQD30 #AI #SpatialAI #PhysicalAI #GeospatialAI #AR #VisualPositioningSystem #VPS #AIInfrastructure #NianticSpatial

🚀 We love to hack! Niantic Spatial just completed its first company-wide hackathon, where more than 40 self-organizing teams worked on everything from visual reconstruction projects to enterprise-grade scanning to soundscapes. 👩🏾💻Many projects had code that was all – or almost all – written by AI. Teams also used the latest generative AI tools to create their presentations. ✨ The future is here. #NianticSpatial #GeospatialAI #SpatialComputing #Hackathon