{"id":505060,"date":"2025-10-16T20:47:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T20:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/505060\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T20:47:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T20:47:13","slug":"niantics-peridot-the-augmented-reality-alien-dog-is-now-a-talking-tour-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/505060\/","title":{"rendered":"Niantic\u2019s Peridot, the Augmented Reality Alien Dog, Is Now a Talking Tour Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Imagine you\u2019re walking your dog. It interacts with the world around you\u2014sniffing some things, relieving itself on others. You walk down the Embarcadero in San Francisco<\/a> on a bright sunny day, and you see the Ferry Building in the distance as you look out into the bay. Your dog turns to you, looks you in the eye, and says, \u201cDid you know this waterfront was blocked by piers and a freeway for 100 years?\u201d<\/p>\n

OK now imagine your dog looks like an alien and only you can see it. That\u2019s the vision for a new capability created for the Niantic Labs AR experience Peridot<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Niantic, also the developer of the worldwide AR behemoth Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/a>, hopes to build out its vision of extending the metaverse into the real world<\/a> by giving people the means to augment the space around them with digital artifacts. Peridot is a mobile game that lets users customize and interact with their own little Dots\u2014dog-sized digital companions that appear on your phone\u2019s screen and can look like they\u2019re interacting with the world objects in the view of your camera lens. They\u2019re very cute, and yes, they look a lot like Pok\u00e9mon. Now, they can talk.<\/p>\n

Peridot started as a mobile game in 2022, then got infused with generative AI features<\/a>. The game has since moved into the hands of Niantic Spatial<\/a>, a startup created in April that aims to turn geospatial data into an accessible playground for its AR ambitions. Now called Peridot Beyond, it has been enabled in Snap\u2019s Spectacles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hume AI, a startup running a large language model that aims to make chatbots seem more empathetic<\/a>, is now partnering with Niantic Spatial<\/a> to bring a voice to the Dots on Snap\u2019s Spectacles. The move was initially announced<\/a> in September, but now it\u2019s ready for the public and will be demonstrated at Snap\u2019s Lens Fest<\/a> developer event this week.<\/p>\n

\"Woman<\/p>\n

Snap’s latest Spectacles, its augmented reality smart glasses.<\/p>\n

Courtesy of Snap<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Imagine you\u2019re walking your dog. It interacts with the world around you\u2014sniffing some things, relieving itself on others.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3162],"tags":[44689,1942,27113,80559,67720,53,16,15,3243,3244],"class_list":{"0":"post-505060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-virtual-reality","8":"tag-ar","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-augmented-reality","11":"tag-smart-glasses","12":"tag-snap","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-virtual-reality","17":"tag-vr"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115385811256438798","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}