"Imagine you're walking your dog. It interacts with the world around you-sniffing some things, relieving itself on others. You walk down the Embarcadero in San Francisco on a bright sunny day, and you see the Ferry Building in the distance as you look out into the bay. Your dog turns to you, looks you in the eye, and says, "Did you know this waterfront was blocked by piers and a freeway for 100 years?""
"OK now imagine your dog looks like an alien and only you can see it. That's the vision for a new capability created for the Niantic Labs AR experience . Niantic, also the developer of the worldwide AR behemoth , hopes to build out its vision of extending the metaverse into the real world by giving people the means to augment the space around them with digital artifacts."
An AR feature gives small generative-AI companions called Dots a voice and situational awareness tied to real-world locations. Peridot, a mobile game that began in 2022, lets users customize Dots that appear on phone screens and interact with camera-viewed world objects. The game moved to Niantic Spatial, founded in April to convert geospatial data into an AR playground, and was rebranded Peridot Beyond. Hume AI provides a large language model aimed at empathetic chat, partnering with Niantic Spatial to voice the Dots on Snap's Spectacles. The voice-enabled Peridot Beyond experience is now public-ready and will be shown at Snap's Lens Fest.
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