Resources Hub

Discover the latest events, news, products, and research from the Niantic Spatial Platform Team.

Access The Spatial Signal

Knowledge and Support

Niantic Spatial Platform Developer Community

Access resources, report bugs, and participate in discussions to enhance your development experience.

Join our Community

Niantic SDK Developer Documentation

Access comprehensive guides, API references, and sample projects to integrate Niantic's advanced AR features into your projects.

Access Documentation

Technical Support

Need help with Niantic Spatial Platform? Contact anyone from our technical support team for assistance with the Niantic SDK, AR development, and troubleshooting.

Contact Support

Upcoming Events

View All

Latest Blog Posts

View All
undefined
Dec 16, 2025

Niantic Spatial and Vantor Partner to Deliver Unified Air-to-Ground Positioning in GPS-Denied Areas

Niantic Spatial, the pioneer in geospatial AI, and Vantor, the leading provider of unified spatial intelligence, today announced a partnership to deliver a comprehensive positioning solution that will enable air and ground platforms to navigate and coordinate precisely in GPS-denied environments.
Read Moreon Niantic Spatial and Vantor Partner to Deliver Unified Air-to-Ground Positioning in GPS-Denied Areas
undefined
Dec 16, 2025

Ground Truth: Why Visual Positioning Systems Are the Solution When GPS Fails

Niantic Spatial’s new Visual Positioning System (VPS) is a robust, multi-sensor solution designed to deliver precise location and orientation in environments where GPS fails—from dense urban centers and indoor facilities to rugged or contested terrain. Powered by a deep learning architecture and Niantic’s Large Geospatial Model, VPS fuses global basemap data with enhanced ground and aerial scans plus real-time on-device sensors to provide reliable 3DOF and 6DOF localization for AI agents, robots, and mixed reality devices.

Read Moreon Ground Truth: Why Visual Positioning Systems Are the Solution When GPS Fails
undefined
Dec 09, 2025

Niantic Spatial’s VPS Powers Ubisoft and Sugar Creative’s Landmark XR Experiences for America’s 250th Anniversary

Read Moreon Niantic Spatial’s VPS Powers Ubisoft and Sugar Creative’s Landmark XR Experiences for America’s 250th Anniversary

Publications

Virtual Occlusions Through Implicit Depth

CVPR 2023

Jamie Watson, Mohamed Sayed, Zawar Qureshi, Gabriel Brostow, Sara Vicente, Oisin Mac Aodha, Michael Firman

SimpleRecon: 3D Reconstruction without 3D Convolutions

ECCV 2022

Mohamed Sayed, John Gibson, Jamie Watson, Victor Adrian Prisacariu, Michael Firman, Clément Godard

Removing Objects From Neural Radiance Fields

CVPR 2023

Silvan Weder, Guillermo Garcia-Hernando, Áron Monszpart, Marc Pollefeys, Gabriel Brostow, Michael Firman, Sara Vicente1

Footprints and Free Space from a Single Color Image

CVPR 2020

Jamie Watson, Michael Firman, Aron Monszpart, Gabriel J. Brostow

Depth Hints are complementary depth suggestions which improve monocular depth estimation algorithms trained from stereo pairs

ICCV 2019

Jamie Watson, Michael Firman, Gabriel J. Brostow and Daniyar Turmukhambetov

Visual Camera Re-Localization Using Graph Neural Networks and Relative Pose Supervision

3DV 2021

Mehmet Özgür Türkoǧlu, Eric Brachmann, Konrad Schindler, Gabriel J. Brostow, Áron Monszpart
View all Publications

Stay ahead with your source for spatial trends and technology

Access The Spatial Signal