2022: A year for the books! As we look back at the past year, it’s truly incredible how explorers around the world showed up. Billions of kilometers explored, hundreds of millions of friendships formed, and countless Wayspots added to the map. None of this would be possible without our community, developers, partners, and Niantics for embracing the journey. Thank you!
Planted 301,000 trees with our partners at Ecosia as part of our mission of making the world a better place.
Invested in the future of AR by welcoming webAR leader, 8thWall, to the Niantic family.
Announced new game titles for 2023, including NBA All-World, Peridot, and Marvel World of Heroes.
Partnered with Qualcomm as it builds its first-ever reference design for an AR headset.
We celebrated the one-year anniversary of our Lightship platform, including updates to our ARDK and the rollout of Lightship VPS and VPS for web.
We also celebrated the one-year anniversary of Pikmin Bloom, as millions of explorers continued to plant flowers and battle mushrooms.
Speaking of anniversaries, the OG, Ingress, turned 10!
Live events were back in a big way! Pokémon GO Fest returned, with events held in Berlin, Seattle and Sapporo, contributing over $300M to local city economies.
Introduced our first-ever social experience, Campfire – helping explorers discover new people, places, and experiences around them. We also announced Truffel – an update to Field Trip, Truffel lets you show off your community like never before.
We chatted with experts in the field of psychology for World Mental Health Day
- We celebrated the sixth birthday of Pokémon GO
And if you thought 2022 was a big year, just wait to see what we have in store for 2023. Grab a friend and maybe a new pair of walking shoes – there’s a big world out there to explore and we’re just getting started.
Happy New Year!