The authors of Pokémon GO have acquired a startup 6D.ai for an undisclosed amount. The company bought by Niantic works in the field of augmented reality. She develops a dynamic 3D map of the world using only mobile phone cameras.

During the total quarantine, Niantic made changes to Rockemop GO. Pokemon began to appear more often at the player’s home, and baits for them fell by 99%. After that, sales of the game jumped noticeably. In total, from March 16 to 22, she earned $23 million — 66.7% more than a week earlier.

Niantic‘s substantial income comes from real-world competitions among Pokémon GO players. In 2019, the studio earned $249 million from such events.

Qualcomm Tech Summit ended last week. Within its framework, Qualcomm announced cooperation with Niantic and PUBG Corp. The company works with each of them separately on projects in the gaming field.

In August, Pokémon GO earned $110 million. It was the most profitable month for the title in the last three years.

Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is a month old. During this time, players downloaded the geolocation game from Niantic 15 million times and spent $12 million in it. Within the genre, this launch in its release month is second only to Pokémon GO.

On June 21, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite was released — a free-to-play novelty from Niantic. In three days, she earned $534 thousand in the App Store and Google Play.

Niantic has acquired London-based startup Sensible Object. His team specializes in creating AR titles and linking them to physical objects.

The version of Pokémon GO for Apple Watch will soon cease to exist. On July 1, Niantic will stop supporting software for smartwatches.

Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery took less than a year to earn $110 million. Now this mobile RPG is the most earning Jam City title.

The best days of the title are still ahead — analysts of Sensor Tower are sure.

As a result, the company’s value has grown to almost $4 billion.

It is from this amount that potential Niantic investors are repelled.

According to the analytical company SuperData, the segment of augmented reality applications in the second quarter of 2018 developed slowly, users and developers began to lose interest in it. However, analysts are confident that this drop is temporary, and the situation will change before the end of the year.

Mobile hit Pokémon GO studio Niantic has passed the milestone of 800 million downloads. This was announced by the head of The Pokémon Company publishing house Tsunekazu Ishihara at a press conference in Tokyo.

Niantic Studio is ready to breathe new life into Ingress — its first geolocation-based game. Ingress’ experience formed the basis for the incredible success of Pokémon GO, which Niantic released a few years later.

Niantic Studio, in partnership with the media company Warner Brothers, is developing a mobile augmented reality game Harry Potter: Wizards Unite based on the “Harry Potter” franchise.

The author of the mobile hit Pokémon Go, Niantic acquired the startup Evertoon, which developed the iOS app Evertoon App. It generates three-dimensional models based on photos, shoot short videos with their participation and share videos on social networks.

The revenue of the Pokémon GO mobile game reached $1.2 billion a year after its release. The game itself has been downloaded 752 million times during this time.