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Niantic Spatial Development Kit (NSDK)

NSDK 4.x is Niantic Spatial's unified, SDK-first developer platform for Unity, Swift, Android, and ROS 2, exposing VPS 2.0 visual positioning (centimeter-level 6DoF localization), semantic understanding, meshing/depth, and the VPS Coverage API. Formerly the Lightship Augmented Reality Developer Kit (ARDK). Access is authenticated with a Niantic Spatial token (NSDK 4.0+; legacy Lightship API key for ARDK 3.x).

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Documentation

https://www.nianticspatial.com/docs/nsdk/

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APIReference

https://www.nianticspatial.com/docs/api/unity/

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GettingStarted

https://www.nianticspatial.com/docs/nsdk/setup/

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Authentication

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/niantic/refs/heads/main/authentication/niantic-authentication.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

name: Niantic Spatial Development Kit (NSDK)
description: NSDK 4.x is Niantic Spatial's unified, SDK-first developer platform for Unity, Swift, Android,
  and ROS 2, exposing VPS 2.0 visual positioning (centimeter-level 6DoF localization), semantic understanding,
  meshing/depth, and the VPS Coverage API. Formerly the Lightship Augmented Reality Developer Kit (ARDK).
  Access is authenticated with a Niantic Spatial token (NSDK 4.0+; legacy Lightship API key for ARDK 3.x).
humanURL: https://www.nianticspatial.com/docs/nsdk/
baseURL: https://www.nianticspatial.com
tags:
- Augmented Reality
- Visual Positioning
- Geospatial
- SDK
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.nianticspatial.com/docs/nsdk/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://www.nianticspatial.com/docs/api/unity/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://www.nianticspatial.com/docs/nsdk/setup/
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/niantic-authentication.yml