Niantic Lightship for Magic Leap 2
Lightship is Niantic's toolkit for creating immersive location based experiences and is now available for Magic Leap 2. Lightship offers robust tools for building location-based AR applications, immersive multiplayer experiences, and highly accurate environmental interactions.
Key Features
- Lightship VPS (Visual Positioning System): Lightship ARDK provides a way to persistently anchor content to real world location with centimeter-level accuracy.
- Depth, Occlusion, and Meshing: Regardless of lidar capability, the SDK can occlude the environment at greater distance than lidar-based AR, making virtual elements appear more realistic by hiding or revealing them behind physical objects.
- Semantic Segmentation: Allows segmentation for more than just people. You can use Semantic segmentation for mask generation and scene queries.
- Object Detection: Supports over 200 classes allowing applications to be contextually aware.
Download and Setup
Niantic Lightship ARDK can be downloaded from the official Niantic website. The following setup guide includes specific instructions for setting up Lightship on Magic Leap 2 devices:
- Setup Guide for Magic Leap 2: Niantic Lightship ARDK Setup
Support
For assistance, troubleshooting, or developer queries, Niantic provides a variety of support resources:
- Lightship Community Forum: Niantic Lightship Community
- Discord: Niantic Discord
- Developer Documentation: Lightship ARDK Documentation