Niantic Spatial

Niantic Spatial, Inc. is a U.S. technology company specializing in spatial artificial intelligence and geospatial models for augmented reality and physical AI.

The company was spun off on 29 May 2025 as a separate entity continuing the geospatial business of Niantic, Inc., after the games business (including Pokémon Go) was sold to Scopely for USD 3.5 billion.

Its headquarters are in San Francisco, California.

John Hanke is the founder and Executive Chairman, Inhi Cho Suh is the Chief Executive Officer, Brian McClendon is the Chief Technology Officer, and Dave Citron is the Chief Product Officer.

The company’s flagship project is the Large Geospatial Model (LGM) — a spatial foundation model trained on real-world data for the reconstruction, localization and understanding of places.

Its portfolio also includes the Lightship developer platform, the Visual Positioning System (VPS) for precise localization, and the Scaniverse app for 3D scanning and reconstruction.

The offering targets developers and enterprise customers, including in robotics, autonomous systems, the public sector and defense.

The company builds models operating at metric scale and with georeferencing so that people and machines can act safely in the physical world.