Tom Glover

Handsome fella at #Copenhagen zoo today #polarbear

Since 1898, the San Francisco Ferry Building along the Embarcadero has been a gateway to the city, once bustling with ferry commuters as a primary travel hub. Today, it’s a lively marketplace where local artisans, food vendors, and a popular farmers market bring history and community to life. Using Scaniverse, Niantic Spatial captured the Ferry Building and surroundings in 3D with Gaussian splats—turning a mobile scan into an immersive, navigable digital twin. This opens up new possibilities: 🌍 urban planning, 🎟️ cultural storytelling, 🤖 robotics, and 🛍️ interactive retail & events. Learn more: hubs.ly/Q0487BN70 #NianticSpatial #Scaniverse #3D #Gaussiansplat #Digitaltwins

Inbox: Former IBM executive Inhi Cho Suh is taking over from @johnhanke as CEO of @NianticSpatial, with Hanke shifting to executive chairman.

@RugbyInsideLine That said his defence has leaked almost 100 points in 2 games.

Dear Mr Sweeney, This Englishman has won four titles with Wales and three with France. It’s time he stopped helping our rivals. It’s time to bring him home. Kind regards, English rugby fans

How Pokémon Go is helping robots deliver pizza on time trib.al/d2SPaHF

Niantic Spatial is thrilled to announce a strategic partnership with Coco Robotics. Niantic Spatial will be a core infrastructure partner for Coco, deploying spatial AI and its Visual Positioning System (VPS) to further enhance the company’s advanced robot delivery fleet. Read the full announcement blog here: hubs.ly/Q046bByc0

4th in the @ISAsportUK Cup 👏🏼 incredibly proud of this group who were winners of their group. They competed hard until the end but couldn’t quite secure the bronze medal.

We built maps for people. Now, we’re building a new kind of map for robotics and AI. 🤖📍 Niantic Spatial CEO @JohnHanke shares why this foundation will be as essential to the future of AI as digital maps were for the web. 80% of the global economy operates in the physical world. For AI to truly scale, it must move beyond chatbots and synthetic worlds. It needs to navigate, understand, and safely interact with our reality. Read more: hubs.ly/Q0447MBx0 #PhysicalAI #SpatialIntelligence #NianticSpatial

With Scaniverse, every space can be captured, digitized, and transformed into a living, machine-readable twin. At Super Bowl LX Innovation Summit, we turned the venue into a live digital twin in minutes. Powered by Visual Positioning System, robots and phones shared the same spatial understanding — unlocking a true shared reality. Read more: hubs.ly/Q042V_6S0 #NianticSpatial #SuperBowl #Scaniverse #DigitalTwin #GaussianSplat #VPS #AI

@willgkelleher @William_Collier @TimesSport It’s a weird message about the value of the scrum. Like saying it’s dead time and just a break in play. Feeling less positive about ITV taking all the international games, but I suppose this is how you pay for it…

Wow. "the adverts would be timed for when there is a break in play just before a scrum". Understand financial necessities but *absolutely* hate this. Some people like scrums. Thankfully, we have a column on every #SixNations team's scrums by @William_Collier @TimesSport soon!

Well there’s enough horrid stuff going on in the world so here’s Vic & Bob inviting Mark Lamarr to do the Mammalathon Challenge.

The cast and crew of ‘HAMNET’ dancing to Rihanna’s “We Found Love” on set

📍GPS is fragile in real-world conditions. Signals bounce off buildings, vanish indoors, or get jammed. 🌐 Learn how Niantic Spatial VPS adds a deep-learning, visual positioning layer for reliable localization when satellites fail. 🔗 hubs.ly/Q03YqZR30

from @calvinb21: Niantic Spatial, Vantor Offering Air And Ground Navigation Solution In GPS-Denied Areas - Defense Daily defensedaily.com/niantic-spatia…

very excited for our continued partnership with @paramountmovies to celebrate the digital launch of @runningmanmovie. @nianticspatial @ingress agents will be able to participate in a global-scale quest inspired by the movie, collect a passcode with valuable items, & more!

We're thrilled to announce our partnership with @vantortech to deliver unified air-to-ground positioning in GPS-denied environments. By integrating Niantic Spatial’s ground-based Visual Positioning System (VPS) with Vantor’s Raptor aerial localization software, we’re creating a shared coordinate system that enables drones, vehicles, AR devices, and teams to operate with confidence — even when GPS is compromised. Read more: nianticspatial.com/blog/vantor #NianticSpatial, #GeospatialAI, #VPS, #AI

Alistair Carmichael lists all the majority-Labour select committees against the family farms tax: "Why do you not listen to your own party colleagues?" Starmer: "I do listen to party colleagues all the time." Carmichael: "And then do what you're going to do anyway."

Whoo! Excited to get on stage with Amy Jenkins-Le Guerroué (@Ubisoft ) & Will Humphrey (@sugarcreative) this week at UnitedXR EU to discuss the intersection of storytelling, play based learning, city scale AR, and the tech behind the scenes 🤩 Hmu if you’ll be there too!

Shocked and appalled by the amount of comments labeling farmers as 'tax dodgers', and that they should 'sell up' for the UK to import all of its food. UK farmers pay Tax similarly to other businesses and individuals, covering income Tax, National insurance, Corporation Tax (if operating as a company), Capital Gains Tax, and VAT (if applicable). The main distinctions are in targeted reliefs, especially for Inheritance Tax (IHT), which helps to support the agricultural sector as a whole by allowing the transfer of farms for the next generation to work. If a farm is sold, Capital Gains Tax has to be paid on any realised profits. In 2024 the Agricultural industry contributed £14.5 billion to the economy and employed 452,900 tax paying workers. So farmers absolutely do pay taxes (and have done for hundreds of years), while currently providing 62% of all food consumed in the UK. What an honourable vocation. Thank you, Farmers. 🇬🇧

@VictoriaAtkins @EmmaforWycombe Why can’t we make a breakthrough here when it’s so clearly damaging to the sector and our food security? I just can’t understand it.

Today, I expressed the seriousness of this food and farming emergency in Parliament with some truly harrowing stories of the devastating impacts of the Family Farm and Family Business Taxes. Why does the current Secretary of State @EmmaforWycombe support this?

We hosted an invite-only @TEDAISF event that brought together leaders in AI, robotics, and spatial computing. Thank you to our speakers, moderators, and guests for advancing the conversation on how AI is shaping our physical world.