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So, there’s this wild team-up happening between Snap Inc.—you know, the folks behind Snapchat (yep, those puppy face filters) and the Spectacles glasses—and Niantic Spatial. It’s like when you find out peanut butter and jelly are best friends. The goal? Super accurate geospatial magic for their platforms. Imagine Snap getting city-wide map powers, and Niantic getting flooded with data it craves. It’s a win-win, or like… a quirky dance of tech romance.
AR gadgets these days? Oh, they’re clever. They’ll figure out where they are in a room by just staring around like some nosy neighbor. But what happens when two devices need to be in sync in a universal spot? Picture them both whispering secrets from the same diary or, rather, scribbling on the same map. Niantic’s been obsessively working on this idea—a shared reality map. GPS? Nah, too clumsy for this. Niantic’s Visual Positioning System (VPS)? It’s on a whole other level, letting devices nod along to the same tune in shared spaces.
So now, Snap and Niantic are shaking hands for Snapchat and those fancy Spectacles, tossing VPS into their virtual playground. They even dropped a concept vid, like a movie trailer, teasing us with mind-blowing city-scale adventures. Think about AR Lenses pegging themselves to locations with the precision of a dart hitting bullseye. Concert in the town square? Sure. Portal by the park bench? Why not—if you’ve got VPS, it’s like magic napping in a park, inviting everyone over for an AR picnic.
Their epic announcement called this the dawn of a “strategic multi-year partnership.” No idea what the cash flow is like between them—everyone’s mum on that one. But the benefits, oh boy. Snap gets the poshest AR map tools, and Niantic… well, it gets boatloads of juicy data.
Niantic’s banking on all these scans from users to not just spread its VPS powers far and wide, but to keep everything as fresh as a daisy. With VPS hugging Snapchat or Spectacles apps, users might be nudged to share scans to unlock special lenses. It’s like a treasure hunt—only involving scans and fancy tech. Niantic’s been ahead of the game in this realm. They’ve danced around with user data since their early gaming days. Remember Ingress? And then Pokémon Go? Yeah, they’ve got their GPS shoes on tight, chasing after all things spatial.
And as for Snap’s Spectacles? They’re still kinda like a newborn, but given Snapchat’s gazillion users, this duo could lead the race for the most immense geospatial AR magic show ever.
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Hope it captures that delightfully chaotic, human touch!
