On June 19th, Niantic, the game developer of Pokémon GO, recently launched an online editor called Niantic Studio. This allows developers to create AR scenes directly in web pages. Niantic officially describes this editor as ‘a real-time online mixed reality development tool’. It is claimed to provide developers with a highly visual dynamic interface, allowing them to customize models, lighting, animations, and cameras, and then create ‘immersive 3D mixed reality experiences suitable for mobile phones or VR’.
The overall experience is somewhat similar to the online model rendering tool provided by the model platform Sketchfab, or can be regarded as the ‘web version’ of renderers such as Cinema4D/Blender. In addition to providing scene rendering, Niantic Studio also claims to have a ‘powerful web game engine’ built in, allowing developers to add various scripts to AR scenes to achieve a gamified experience. The official mentioned that Niantic Studio also supports’real-time editing and playback mode’. Developers can preview in real time while editing scenes, and the system will automatically save progress, thus achieving ‘cross-platform support’ and ‘model assets always online’. This enables developers to obtain a consistent experience on platforms such as computers, mobile devices, and VR with just one build. The disadvantage is that real-time networking is required. Niantic also updated its 3D scanning tool Scaniverse at the same time, adding a new technology called ‘Gaussian Splatting’. It is claimed that this can make the 3D scanning experience of mobile devices faster. Currently, the updated version of related applications has been launched on iOS and Android platforms. Here is the download address for the US region of the App Store: click here to visit. Advertising statement: External jump links (including but not limited to hyperlinks, QR codes, passwords, etc.) contained in the article are used to transmit more information and save selection time. The results are for reference only. All articles contain this statement.
