{"id":81868,"date":"2018-08-18T20:14:14","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T03:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/niantic-will-offer-ar-platform-to-third-parties-including-ai-object-recognition-2"},"modified":"2018-08-18T20:14:14","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T03:14:14","slug":"niantic-will-offer-ar-platform-to-third-parties-including-ai-object-recognition-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/niantic-will-offer-ar-platform-to-third-parties-including-ai-object-recognition-2","title":{"rendered":"Niantic will offer AR platform to third parties, including AI object recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7ZrmPTPgY3I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Apple\u2019s ARKit and Google\u2019s ARCore may have multi-million-user installed bases, but so does <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2018\/06\/26\/pokemon-go-has-its-most-players-since-summer-2016\/\">Niantic\u2019s Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/a>, the first hit augmented reality game. Now Niantic plans to offer its custom AR software to other developers as the <a href=\"https:\/\/nianticlabs.com\/blog\/nianticrealworldplatform\/\">Real World Platform<\/a>, and is teasing advanced features that go beyond the capabilities of Apple\u2019s and Google\u2019s development kits.<\/p>\n<p>Already used in Pok\u00e9mon GO, Ingress, and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, the Real World Platform is an evolving software engine that adds digital characters and shared social experiences to real-world map data. Niantic has recently bolstered the AR platform\u2019s development team by acquiring computer vision specialist companies Escher Reality and Matrix Mill (which also has machine learning expertise).<\/p>\n<p>Matrix Mill\u2019s machine learning will power one of the Real World Platform\u2019s upcoming tricks \u2014 a realtime AR occlusion engine. As demonstrated, the feature enables 3D versions of Pikachu and Eevee to disappear behind real world objects and people, even as both the camera and people move. Niantic is using a machine-trained neural network to determine which objects should be considered \u201cforeground\u201d or \u201cbackground\u201d versus the AR characters.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2018\/06\/28\/niantic-will-offer-ar-platform-to-third-parties-including-ai-object-recognition\/\">https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2018\/06\/28\/niantic-will-offer-ar-pla...cognition\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple\u2019s ARKit and Google\u2019s ARCore may have multi-million-user installed bases, but so does Niantic\u2019s Pok\u00e9mon Go, the first hit augmented reality game. Now Niantic plans to offer its custom AR software to other developers as the Real World Platform, and is teasing advanced features that go beyond the capabilities of Apple\u2019s and Google\u2019s development kits. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}