{"id":28871,"date":"2018-06-28T18:48:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T18:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/320998"},"modified":"2018-06-28T18:48:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T18:48:00","slug":"niantic-acquires-machine-learning-company-matrix-mill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/06\/28\/niantic-acquires-machine-learning-company-matrix-mill\/","title":{"rendered":"Niantic acquires machine learning company Matrix Mill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Newsbrief: <\/strong><em>Pokemon Go<\/em> developer Niantic has acquired the computer vision and machine learning company Matrix Mill for an undisclosed sum.<\/p>\n<p>Niantic boss John Hanke detailed the acquisition and how the company\u2019s technology will be applied to Niantic\u2019s AR games in a <a href=\"https:\/\/nianticlabs.com\/blog\/matrixmill\/\">blog post<\/a>, noting that Niantic is \u201ccommitted to investing aggressively\u201d in R&amp;D both now and in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Matrix Mill now marks the third acquisition Niantic has made in the last half a year, following its earlier acquisitions of <a href=\"https:\/\/gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/314172\/Pokemon_Go_developer_Niantic_scoops_up_AR_API_maker_Escher_Reality.php\">Escher Reality<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/308969\/Niantic_acquires_team_behind_social_video_app_Evertoon.php\">Evertoon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Matrix Mill team has come up with novel ideas that push the boundaries of what machines can process, thinking around occlusions, and seeing the world closer to the way human eyes can,\u201d explained Hanke. \u201cAs a result of this hard work, AR experiences can feel more natural to the eye, which is a goal we have squarely in our sights.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsbrief: Pokemon Go developer Niantic has acquired the computer vision and machine learning company Matrix Mill for an undisclosed sum. Niantic boss John Hanke detailed the acquisition and how the company\u2019s technology will be applied to Niantic\u2019s AR games in a blog post, noting that Niantic is \u201ccommitted to investing aggressively\u201d in R&amp;D both now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}