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Niantic, Inc. is an American software development company and video game developer based in San Francisco. Niantic is best known for developing the augmented reality mobile games Ingress and Pokémon Go, the latter of which became a global cultural phenomenon upon its release in 2016, surpassing 1 billion downloads and significantly increasing public awareness of augmented reality technology. The company was formed as Niantic Labs in 2010 as an internal startup within Google, founded by John Hank

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developer of Pokemon GO
developer of Monster Hunter Now
developer of Pikmin Bloom
developer of Pokémon Go
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