Niantic Labs recently announced that their revolutionary Lightship Visual Positioning System (VPS)will become compatible with Qualcomm’s XR developer platform, Snapdragon Spaces, in 2023.

Apple is one of the biggest names and innovators in wearable tech, so it’s not surprising that they started developing augmented, virtual, and mixed reality headsets.

Described as ‘the analytics platform purpose-built for the Metaverse’, Metalitix™ is a suite of data collection and visualization tools for XR and 3D experiences, packaged up into one of the most advanced Spatial Analytics tools ever built.

Using AR Shopping, retailers can upload their products on Snapchat as Lenses for users to “try on” - virtually, of course - before they buy them. The new feature has already found enormous success.

On October 24th, 2022, fans watching Monday Night Football were treated to an augmented reality event promoting a product, the first of its kind.

Niantic announces their Lightship Maps for Web integration with 8th Wall. The new service from Niantic integrated into the 8th Wall platform allows developers to easily add customizable maps to their projects.

In major Web-based XR news, Niantic has brought its visual positioning system (VPS) to the 8th Wall platform with Lightship VPS for Web.

Aircards creates the NICEverse, a highly innovative WebXR gaming platform for NICE, a leading global software company. Created as an employee engagement platform, the NICEverse enabled NICE employees to login securely and compete in a variety of Web-based Mixed Reality mini-game experiences, competing to win an amazing family trip to Disneyland.