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Defense TechConnect Innovation Summit and Expo

November 17-20, 2025 • Washington D.C.

We’re attending the Defense TechConnect Innovation Summit & Expo 2025, where the brightest minds in defense, security, and emerging technologies come together. Let’s connect and explore the future of innovation in national security and beyond.

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IAPPA Expo 2025

November 18-21, 2025 • Orlando, Florida

We’re attending IAAPA Expo 2025, the premier event for the attractions industry! Join us as we explore the future of immersive entertainment and how spatial computing is revolutionizing theme parks and interactive experiences.

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Aug 06, 2025

Niantic Spatial SDK Brings Immersive Reality to Meta Quest 3 with the Passthrough Camera API

Niantic Spatial SDK v3.15 now supports Meta Quest 3 with immersive mixed reality features powered by Meta’s Passthrough Camera API—including VPS, meshing, semantics, and object detection.
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Aug 05, 2025

Inside Niantic Spatial’s AI location-aware companion

What happens when AI gets a real-world point of view? In this Ground Truth post, we go inside Project Jade, our AWE demo of an AI companion that has natural, helpful conversations about its surroundings through AR glasses. Learn about the technology and the key lessons that make this new kind of human-AI interaction possible.
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Jul 23, 2025

Niantic Spatial Joins Khronos Group to Advance Geospatial AI and 3D Standards

Niantic Spatial joins Khronos Group to help shape open standards for 3D content and geospatial AI, with a focus on Gaussian Splatting innovation.
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Publications

Virtual Occlusions Through Implicit Depth

CVPR 2023

Jamie Watson, Mohamed Sayed, Zawar Qureshi, Gabriel Brostow, Sara Vicente, Oisin Mac Aodha, Michael Firman

SimpleRecon: 3D Reconstruction without 3D Convolutions

ECCV 2022

Mohamed Sayed, John Gibson, Jamie Watson, Victor Adrian Prisacariu, Michael Firman, Clément Godard

Removing Objects From Neural Radiance Fields

CVPR 2023

Silvan Weder, Guillermo Garcia-Hernando, Áron Monszpart, Marc Pollefeys, Gabriel Brostow, Michael Firman, Sara Vicente1

Footprints and Free Space from a Single Color Image

CVPR 2020

Jamie Watson, Michael Firman, Aron Monszpart, Gabriel J. Brostow

Depth Hints are complementary depth suggestions which improve monocular depth estimation algorithms trained from stereo pairs

ICCV 2019

Jamie Watson, Michael Firman, Gabriel J. Brostow and Daniyar Turmukhambetov

Visual Camera Re-Localization Using Graph Neural Networks and Relative Pose Supervision

3DV 2021

Mehmet Özgür Türkoǧlu, Eric Brachmann, Konrad Schindler, Gabriel J. Brostow, Áron Monszpart
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