A brand new combined actuality expertise has been formally revealed by Pokémon Go developer Niantic, entitled Titled Wol. The sport is about in a redwood forest and sees gamers following an AI-enabled owl – the titular Wol – as a information.
The redwood forest could be entered by an augmented actuality portal, with the Northern Noticed-whet owl additionally describing this setting to these within the expertise.
Wol is powered by eighth Wall, who has helped Niantic to create its first combined actuality expertise. A restricted launch, Wol has been developed for Android, iOS and Meta Quest Professional in an illustration of eighth Wall’s Metaversal Deployment; this allows the event of WebAR tasks that may be deployed on a number of programs. In truth, Wol could be accessed on the aforementioned platforms with none app installs required.
“The net is a strong place for augmented actuality and we’re excited to focus on how the eighth Wall platform can be utilized to create browser-based content material that works throughout units together with smartphones and combined actuality headsets,” mentioned Niantic director of product administration Tom Emrich.
Bringing new instruments
Niantic has additionally introduced its rollout of a variety of new instruments for the Lightship ARDK and eighth Wall.
Lightship ARDK 3.0 will permit integration with Unity’s AR Basis in a public beta anticipated this month, and for the primary time since Lightship ARDK’s launch, Niantic’s options will be capable of be utilized in tandem with current AR Basis libraries.
Lightship Maps are additionally being dropped at Unity, making it a neater course of for builders to combine maps into augmented actuality apps.
“Niantic focuses on maps on the scale of people, maps that work at eye stage, inside the context of actual areas,” mentioned Niantic SVP of engineering Brian “Bam” McClendon. “We’re capable of place realistically due to our scanning frameworks and maps APIs. At Niantic we imagine in AR in all places, suddenly, for everybody.”
Final month, Niantic’s 3D pet-taming AR recreation Peridot formally launched a couple of 12 months on from its announcement.
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