Niantic’s Peridot, the Augmented Reality Alien Dog, Is Now a Talking Tour Guide

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Imagine you are walking Your dog does it by interacting with the world around you – sniffing some things, relieving himself on others. You walk down the Embarcadero San Francisco On a bright sunny day, and you look out over the bay you can see the ferry building in the distance. Your dog turns to you, looks you in the eye and says, “Did you know that 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. This is a vision of a new ability developed for Niantic Labs AR experiences Peridot.

Niantic, also the developer of the global AR behemoth pokemon goHope to build it A vision of extending the metaverse into the real world By means of augmenting people’s surroundings through digital artifacts. Peridot A mobile game that lets users customize and interact with their own little dots—dog-sized digital companions that appear on your phone’s screen and appear to interact with objects in the world in the view of your camera lens. They are so cute, and yes, they look a lot like Pokemon. Now, they can talk.

Peridot Started as a mobile game in 2022, then merged with it Generative AI features. Since then the game has gone out of hand Niantic SpatialA startup created in April that aims to turn geospatial data into an accessible playground for its AR ambitions. called now Beyond PeridotIt has been activated Snap’s glasses.

Hume AI, a startup running a large language model aimed at building chatbots Seems more sympatheticNow partnering Niantic Spatial To bring a voice to the dots in Snap’s Spectacles. Movement was primitive announcement in September, but now it’s ready for the public and will appear on Snap’s Lens Fest Developer events this week.

Women and VR headsets

Snap’s latest glasses, its augmented reality smart glasses.

Courtesy of Snap

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