Niantic launches platform to build 'real-world metaverse' apps
Niantic is releasing a platform for building what it calls "real-world metaverse" apps. Called Lightship, the platform is "built around the parts necessary to stitch together the digital and the real world," CEO John Hanke tells me.
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