Capture a place or object as a 3D scene with a phone and share or export it.
Niantic Funding History
Niantic is an augmented reality and spatial computing company. Its Niantic Spatial division operates the Scaniverse 3D scanning app.
Company Overview
Niantic Funding Timeline
Series D
US$300 million
Niantic said the investment would support Lightship, its toolkit for developers building augmented-reality apps.
Led by Coatue.
Source · techcrunch.com ↗Series C
US$245 million
Niantic planned to expand its mobile augmented-reality platform for outside developers. The company put its post-round valuation at nearly $4 billion.
Led by IVP. Participation included Battery Ventures, CRV, Samsung Venture Investment.
Source · axiomaticgaming.com ↗
Niantic Founding Team
Niantic began as a project inside Google. Its founding team included John Hanke and Phil Keslin, who led technology as CTO. The team used location and mapping technology to build experiences played in the physical world.
Niantic Products
Niantic Company Development
Scaniverse Brings Phone-Based 3D Capture to Spatial Mapping
Niantic’s real-world computing work extended from location-based experiences into capturing places in three dimensions. Scaniverse turns a phone into a scene-capture tool and can export a scan or contribute it to a shared map.
Niantic Competitive Landscape
The Map Behind the AR Experience
Niantic Spatial’s visual positioning can align content to a mapped site. Google’s ARCore Geospatial API uses Street View coverage to anchor experiences to geographic locations. For a developer choosing a positioning service, the difference is where the required map already exists and whether the experience needs precise alignment within a particular site.
