Tom Glover
@tomglover.bsky.social
Global Communications at Niantic Spatial.
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Tom Glover
@tomglover.bsky.social
· Dec 24
Here’s a starter pack for Niantic and some of the teams building for the future of #AR. go.bsky.app/2PHJyRn
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We're talking trend fatigue! 💤 Trend-hopping gets clicks, but at what cost to authenticity? Final takeaway: use trends with purpose.
Niantic Spatial’s @tomglover.bsky.social put it best when he said “It’s better to lean into strategic story-telling than just the meme.” ✨
#YAS2026 #Battenhall
Niantic Spatial’s @tomglover.bsky.social put it best when he said “It’s better to lean into strategic story-telling than just the meme.” ✨
#YAS2026 #Battenhall
November 5, 2025 at 10:44 AM
We're talking trend fatigue! 💤 Trend-hopping gets clicks, but at what cost to authenticity? Final takeaway: use trends with purpose.
Niantic Spatial’s @tomglover.bsky.social put it best when he said “It’s better to lean into strategic story-telling than just the meme.” ✨
#YAS2026 #Battenhall
Niantic Spatial’s @tomglover.bsky.social put it best when he said “It’s better to lean into strategic story-telling than just the meme.” ✨
#YAS2026 #Battenhall
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Mapping the future of cities starts here. 🌍
SF Mayor Daniel Lurie visited the Niantic Spatial office, then joined CEO John Hanke for a walk through Fisherman’s Wharf to see how geospatial AI and Niantic VPS help robots & AR glasses understand the real world.
SF Mayor Daniel Lurie visited the Niantic Spatial office, then joined CEO John Hanke for a walk through Fisherman’s Wharf to see how geospatial AI and Niantic VPS help robots & AR glasses understand the real world.
October 9, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Mapping the future of cities starts here. 🌍
SF Mayor Daniel Lurie visited the Niantic Spatial office, then joined CEO John Hanke for a walk through Fisherman’s Wharf to see how geospatial AI and Niantic VPS help robots & AR glasses understand the real world.
SF Mayor Daniel Lurie visited the Niantic Spatial office, then joined CEO John Hanke for a walk through Fisherman’s Wharf to see how geospatial AI and Niantic VPS help robots & AR glasses understand the real world.
This week @nianticspatial.bsky.social announced an exciting new technology partnership with KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS to bring the work of @hideokojimaen.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp into the real world. youtu.be/oKyj6CDUH64?...
KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS and Niantic Spatial: A New Dawn
YouTube video by Niantic Spatial
youtu.be
September 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
This week @nianticspatial.bsky.social announced an exciting new technology partnership with KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS to bring the work of @hideokojimaen.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp into the real world. youtu.be/oKyj6CDUH64?...
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Meet Dot, a cute local guide that helps you discover your surroundings. We partnered with Niantic Spatial and Snap, and developed the concept, UX and the AI brain that drives the experience.
#creative #technology #AR #AI #context #peridot #hyperlocal
August 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Meet Dot, a cute local guide that helps you discover your surroundings. We partnered with Niantic Spatial and Snap, and developed the concept, UX and the AI brain that drives the experience.
#creative #technology #AR #AI #context #peridot #hyperlocal
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Niantic Spatial SDK brings centimeter-accurate outdoor VPS, live scene meshing, and semantic segmentation to Quest 3 & Quest 3S.
Details here: www.uploadvr.com/niantic-spat...
Details here: www.uploadvr.com/niantic-spat...
August 11, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Niantic Spatial SDK brings centimeter-accurate outdoor VPS, live scene meshing, and semantic segmentation to Quest 3 & Quest 3S.
Details here: www.uploadvr.com/niantic-spat...
Details here: www.uploadvr.com/niantic-spat...
More news today from @NianticSpatial at #AWE - we’re teaming up with the imaginative minds at @MeowWolf to expand their universe beyond physical walls and into the world of #AR www.cnet.com/tech/computi...
Meow Wolf's Weird Physical Universe Is Planning to Extend Into Augmented Reality
Exclusive: The creators of Pokemon Go and the artists behind a series of hallucinatory installation exhibits are combining to create an augmented-reality portal universe. They talked to me about what'...
www.cnet.com
June 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
More news today from @NianticSpatial at #AWE - we’re teaming up with the imaginative minds at @MeowWolf to expand their universe beyond physical walls and into the world of #AR www.cnet.com/tech/computi...
More exciting news from @nianticspatial.bsky.social today. We've announced a partnership with Snap Inc. to build a next generation #AI map that will serve as the foundation for #AR glasses and AI agents to understand, navigate and interact with the real world.
June 11, 2025 at 7:08 AM
More exciting news from @nianticspatial.bsky.social today. We've announced a partnership with Snap Inc. to build a next generation #AI map that will serve as the foundation for #AR glasses and AI agents to understand, navigate and interact with the real world.
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New: I chatted with Niantic CEO John Hanke and other company brass about the bombshell decision to sell off Pokemon Go and the rest of the games business and pivot to enterprise AI. “It was like two bodies running a three-legged race,” one investor said.
www.forbes.com/sites/richar...
www.forbes.com/sites/richar...
Pokemon Go Made Niantic Billions. Now It’s Ditching Gaming For AI.
Niantic was still raking in hundreds of millions a year from the beloved mobile game when CEO John Hanke decided to sell its games business and pivot to enterprise AI. Why blow it all up now?
www.forbes.com
May 22, 2025 at 1:57 PM
New: I chatted with Niantic CEO John Hanke and other company brass about the bombshell decision to sell off Pokemon Go and the rest of the games business and pivot to enterprise AI. “It was like two bodies running a three-legged race,” one investor said.
www.forbes.com/sites/richar...
www.forbes.com/sites/richar...
It’s a big day for @niantic-labs.bsky.social! We’ve reached an agreement for Scopely to acquire our games business and we’re spinning off our pioneering geospatial AI business into a new company, Niantic Spacial Inc.
March 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM
It’s a big day for @niantic-labs.bsky.social! We’ve reached an agreement for Scopely to acquire our games business and we’re spinning off our pioneering geospatial AI business into a new company, Niantic Spacial Inc.
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Monster Hunter Wilds is relentlessly awesome. I used to play this game with my hands clawed around a PSP, fighting dragons on a tiny screen. It's so huge & beautiful now that it takes my breath away. Veterans be aware: the challenge starts AFTER the story's over
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/f...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/f...
Monster Hunter Wilds review – prepare for the most epic fight of your life
Supercharged by modern gaming technology, this venerable action series has never been more fun
www.theguardian.com
February 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Monster Hunter Wilds is relentlessly awesome. I used to play this game with my hands clawed around a PSP, fighting dragons on a tiny screen. It's so huge & beautiful now that it takes my breath away. Veterans be aware: the challenge starts AFTER the story's over
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/f...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/f...
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Good to see that Peter Mandelson used, um, diplomatic language when @georgewparker.bsky.social asked him about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein
on.ft.com/4hmbvNG
on.ft.com/4hmbvNG
February 6, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Good to see that Peter Mandelson used, um, diplomatic language when @georgewparker.bsky.social asked him about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein
on.ft.com/4hmbvNG
on.ft.com/4hmbvNG
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Meta sinks more than $100bn into virtual reality and smart glasses bet
https://www.ft.com/content/c513949e-3fc1-43a2-9358-363dff823bc1
https://www.ft.com/content/c513949e-3fc1-43a2-9358-363dff823bc1
Meta sinks more than $100bn into virtual reality and smart glasses bet
Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has declared 2025 will be a ‘defining year’ after more than a decade of heavy losses
www.ft.com
February 3, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Meta sinks more than $100bn into virtual reality and smart glasses bet
https://www.ft.com/content/c513949e-3fc1-43a2-9358-363dff823bc1
https://www.ft.com/content/c513949e-3fc1-43a2-9358-363dff823bc1
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We've been chatting with some friends of Safe In Our World! Starting with @cherebi.bsky.social 💚
We asked Amber for her thoughts on loneliness and how video games can help us build friendships and a sense of self.
Here's what she said about her own experience.
We asked Amber for her thoughts on loneliness and how video games can help us build friendships and a sense of self.
Here's what she said about her own experience.
January 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
We've been chatting with some friends of Safe In Our World! Starting with @cherebi.bsky.social 💚
We asked Amber for her thoughts on loneliness and how video games can help us build friendships and a sense of self.
Here's what she said about her own experience.
We asked Amber for her thoughts on loneliness and how video games can help us build friendships and a sense of self.
Here's what she said about her own experience.
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DeepSeek challenges the "bigger is better" narrative underpinning the AI arms race in recent years and suggests we may see more investment into smaller startups (Kevin Roose/New York Times)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
January 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM
DeepSeek challenges the "bigger is better" narrative underpinning the AI arms race in recent years and suggests we may see more investment into smaller startups (Kevin Roose/New York Times)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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oh my god the fuckers are trying to destroy the best thing about Leicester Square so they can make a horrible windowless coffin hotel
#SaveThePCC
Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.
For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;
you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...
Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.
For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;
you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...
Save The Prince Charles Cinema
The iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End future is under serious threat!
We are beyond disappointed that our landlords Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion Capital...
you.38degrees.org.uk
January 28, 2025 at 10:58 AM
oh my god the fuckers are trying to destroy the best thing about Leicester Square so they can make a horrible windowless coffin hotel
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As well as Pokémon Go's first battle pass ahead of Unova Go Tour Global, we're also getting shiny Meloetta Masterwork research, a Pokédex update, and what sounds like an increase in wild spawns in both "number" and area 👀 A big week!
Get ready for Pokémon GO Tour: Unova with the Road to Unova event!
pokemongolive.com
January 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
As well as Pokémon Go's first battle pass ahead of Unova Go Tour Global, we're also getting shiny Meloetta Masterwork research, a Pokédex update, and what sounds like an increase in wild spawns in both "number" and area 👀 A big week!
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Between February 1st and March 31st, playing Monster Hunter Now will grant you rewards for Monster Hunter Wilds:
Go wild with MH Wilds Collab Event I, coming soon! – Monster Hunter Now
monsterhunternow.com
January 13, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Between February 1st and March 31st, playing Monster Hunter Now will grant you rewards for Monster Hunter Wilds:
Amazing ❤️
Our local newspaper wrote about our first Food Bank collection at our Pokemon Go group: www.yourharlow.com/2025/01/11/p...
Pokemon Go brave the cold to fundraise for Harlow Foodbank - Your Harlow
DESPITE the cold weather, Pokemon Go Harlow is still meeting up weekly throughout the new year! They plan on continuing their monthly donations to the Harlow Food Bank, giving members […]
www.yourharlow.com
January 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Amazing ❤️
Beautiful if frosty morning in Stratford for a day of swimming 🏊♀️
January 12, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Beautiful if frosty morning in Stratford for a day of swimming 🏊♀️
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I cannot recommend enough that you read this op-ed written by Peter Thiel in the FT today (free to read!) for a direct look inside the mind and grievances of the libertarian tech billionaires who have helped Trump to power - and what they want next
www.ft.com/content/a46c...
www.ft.com/content/a46c...
A time for truth and reconciliation
Trump’s return to the White House augurs the ‘apokálypsis’ of the ancien regime’s secrets
www.ft.com
January 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I cannot recommend enough that you read this op-ed written by Peter Thiel in the FT today (free to read!) for a direct look inside the mind and grievances of the libertarian tech billionaires who have helped Trump to power - and what they want next
www.ft.com/content/a46c...
www.ft.com/content/a46c...
The Silo is one of the best things on TV. Such a great end of work Friday bonus.
a man and a woman are sitting next to each other with the woman saying wondered the same thing
ALT: a man and a woman are sitting next to each other with the woman saying wondered the same thing
media.tenor.com
January 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
The Silo is one of the best things on TV. Such a great end of work Friday bonus.
Scott Stein wraps up the smart glasses news from CES www.cnet.com/tech/computi...
www.cnet.com
January 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Scott Stein wraps up the smart glasses news from CES www.cnet.com/tech/computi...
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VG247 budget is committed to existing contracts in the short term, but over the next few months I'm anticipating some changes - freelancers, especially those with good interview and feature experience, make yourselves known.
January 6, 2025 at 12:52 PM
VG247 budget is committed to existing contracts in the short term, but over the next few months I'm anticipating some changes - freelancers, especially those with good interview and feature experience, make yourselves known.