Niantic Peridot, the augmented reality alien dog, is now a talking tour guide.
Imagine you are walking Your dog interacts with the world around you – sniffing some things, relieving himself on others. On a bright sunny day you walk down the Embarcadero in San Francisco and see the Ferry Building in the distance and look out over the bay. Your dog turns to you, looks you in the eye and says, “Did you know this pier has been blocked by docks and a freeway for 100 years?”
Well now imagine your dog looks like an alien and only you can see it. This is the vision for a new feature created for Niantic Labs’ AR experience peridot.
Niantic is also the developer of AR giant worldwide pokemon gohopes to build on his vision of extending the metaverse into the real world by giving people a means to augment the space around them with digital artifacts. peridot is a mobile game that allows users to customize and interact with their own little Dots, dog-sized digital companions that appear on your phone’s screen and can appear through your camera lens to interact with objects in the world. They are so cute and yes, they look a lot like Pokemon. Now they can talk.
peridot It started as a mobile game in 2022, then came with artificial intelligence generator features. The game has since gone to Niantic Spatial, a startup founded in April that aims to turn spatial data into an accessible playground for its AR ambitions. Called now Peridot beyondis enabled in Snap Glasses.
Hume AI, a startup running a large language model that aims to make chatbots more empathetic, is now teaming up with Niantic Spatial to bring voice to Dots on Snap’s Spectacles. The move was first announced back in September, but it’s now ready for the public and will be showcased at this week’s Lens Fest developer event.
