How do AVs understand the world? I was delighted to chat with geospatial legend Brian McClendon, CTO of @NianticSpatial, about the future of location intelligence.
a scene that looks good is the easy bar. state-of-the-art geometry a policy can train against is the hard one.
warehouse from our places library: high-fidelity 3d gaussian splat + aligned mesh, collider-ready for robot simulation.
powered by @nianticspatial
Photorealism is not geometry. A splat can look perfect from the camera and still be warped underneath.
State-of-the-art geometry means surfaces stay where they belong, from a sparse phone capture up to a full facility.Β
Learn how we got there: hubs.ly/Q04BdX2M0
β #AES2026 Day 1 is a wrap!
Thank you to everyone who attended our opening keynote where CEO Inhi Cho Suh shared our vision for Enterprise AI in the real world.
Come visit us at Booth #120, to experience our Intelligent Field Operations demo and learn how our 3D reconstruction technology supports applications ranging from city-scale digital twin simulations to policy training for embodied AI.
Connect with our team and book a meeting at AES: hubs.ly/Q04B8sGy0#PhysicalAI#SpatialAI#EnterpriseAI
Are you a student or recent grad interested in Spatial AI and XR?
Niantic Spatial is proud to sponsor MOLTEN, a one-day hackathon for prototyping the tools of spatial creation during #LATechWeek.
Participants get one month of Scaniverse Pro to capture real-world spaces and turn them into 3D assets for XR prototypes.
Ready to build? RSVP: hubs.ly/Q04zRQ4g0#LATechWeek#SpatialAI#PhysicalAI#AI#3DReconstruction#XR
AI needs more than intelligence to operate in the physical world. It needs ground truth.
Niantic Spatialβs Inhi Cho Suh and Eugene Chong join the season finale of Zero-Shot Learning to discuss spatial data, safer AI behavior and real-to-sim training.
Watch: hubs.ly/Q04zRR9f0#SpatialAI#PhysicalAI#AI#WorldModels#Robotics#EmbodiedAI
For SF @Techweek_, we brought builders, robots, and real-to-sim demos together with @RLWRLD_ai at our office.
Weβre building toward a future where robots can see, understand, and interact with the world.
Thanks for helping us push whatβs possible.
Discover more about our Embodied AI capabilities: hubs.ly/Q04zJhts0#PhysicalAI#Robotics#EmbodiedAI#SFTechWeek
Atlanta, weβre coming back to #AES2026 bigger than ever.
Meet us at Booth #120 for live demos, fresh swag, big ideas, and a look at how AI can move beyond the screen to understand and operate in the physical world.
π Book a meeting with our team: hubs.ly/Q04zvnkN0
πExplore our full AES activation: hubs.ly/Q04zvn2h0#PhysicalAI#SpatialAI#EnterpriseAI#AI
Simulation is only as useful as its resemblance to reality.
1. Explore the Places Library, a collection of 100 real-world reconstructions
2. Bring them into NVIDIA Isaac Sim or Isaac Lab
3. Relight each environment to train policies across changing conditions.
The goal: zero-shot transfer from simulation to the physical world.
Explore Niantic Spatial for Embodied AI: hubs.ly/Q04zlkgN0#EmbodiedAI#PhysicalAI#SpatialAI#AI#Robotics
Register for October 7: Physical AI in the Real World π€
Niantic Spatial and @RLWRLD_ai are opening the doors for one afternoon during #SFTechWeek to show what spatial intelligence and dexterous robotics can do together.
π Wednesday, October 7 | 2:30β5:30 p.m. PT
RSVP: hubs.ly/Q04z6B4g0#PhysicalAI#EmbodiedAI#Robotics#AI
The Antigravity A1 360 drone, Niantic Spatialβs Scaniverse, and Apple Vision Pro are such an awesome combo for creating and experiencing Gaussian splats.
This one has more than 5 million splats. Still kind of blows my mind.
Headed to #AES2026 in Atlanta?
Join us for the opening keynote, βLetβs Get Physical: Enterprise AI in the Real World,β featuring Niantic Spatial CEO Inhi Cho Suh.
Explore our full AES activation, including an exclusive demo party co-hosted by Spexi: hubs.ly/Q04yGsrY0#PhysicalAI#SpatialAI#AI
reality. computable.
a short film i built inside a high-fidelity real-world gaussian splat with astra in a couple hours, showcasing the work we're doing @nianticspatial to make the physical world computable for machines.
π: leake street arches, london.
Join Niantic Spatial and @RLWRLD_ai during SF Tech Week for Physical AI in the Real World.
See live demos of five-finger dexterous robotic manipulation + real-world understanding.
Oct 7 | 2:30β5:30 PM PT
Space is limited! RSVP here: hubs.ly/Q04ywDKV0#EmbodiedAI#PhysicalAI#AI#RoboticsΒ #SFTechWeek