Niantic Lightship

Lightship provides real-world mapping, Visual Positioning System, and shared AR infrastructure built on the same technology behind Pokémon GO, letting developers anchor digital objects precisely to real-world locations that persist across sessions for multiple users. Niantic sold its games division — Pokémon GO included — to Scopely in 2025 for roughly $3.5 billion, spinning off its geospatial AI and mapping business as Niantic Spatial, which continues developing Lightship as a standalone AR and spatial computing platform.