Create persistent and realistic experiences. ARDK’s meshing feature translates the colors produced by the user’s camera, runs them through a neural network, and builds a mesh of tessellated triangles that create a machine-readable representation of the physical world. With this feature, your app will have a persistent and real-time map to create realistic AR interactions. For example, you can enable “physics” where a user can throw a ball and have it bounce off a wall and roll off of a table.
Unlock a world of powerful, social use cases for your app. From gaming to treasure hunts, multiplayer lets AR experiences shift from single user play to multi-user, social sessions. Peer-to-peer messaging with a provided server and back-end as well as some other handy server-side features are built in (e.g., synchronized clock and a session-persistent, last-write wins database).
Create AR experiences without having to be a computer vision or distributed systems expert. Lightship classifies outdoor natural objects that a user scans (like the ground and sky), enabling AR content interactions on or with specific surfaces. For example, using ‘sky’ segmentation you can create an experience where large AR objects are displayed on the horizon, properly occluded by buildings, trees, and other ground objects.
Discover the upcoming additions to the Niantic Lightship ARDK - including new features, services, and improvements, along with enhanced developer experiences.
We developed the Lightship ARDK platform pricing to be as simple as possible so you can start creating compelling AR experiences right from the start.
New to the ARDK? We have created resources to help you learn about the ARDK, set up your development environment, walk through a quick getting started example, and review sample code.
