# Niantic Spatial Development Kit (NSDK)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/niantic/niantic-spatial-development-kit-nsdk/  
**Provider:** Niantic — https://apis.io/providers/niantic/  
**Base URL:** https://www.nianticspatial.com  
**Documentation:** https://www.nianticspatial.com/docs/nsdk/

Niantic Spatial Development Kit (NSDK) is published by [Niantic](https://apis.io/providers/niantic/) on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Augmented Reality, Visual Positioning, Geospatial, and SDK. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an API reference, a getting-started guide, and authentication docs.

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).

## Machine-readable artifacts (5)

- **Documentation** — https://www.nianticspatial.com/docs/nsdk/
- **APIReference** — https://www.nianticspatial.com/docs/api/unity/
- **GettingStarted** — https://www.nianticspatial.com/docs/nsdk/setup/
- **Authentication** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/niantic/refs/heads/main/authentication/niantic-authentication.yml
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/niantic/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Tags

Augmented Reality, Visual Positioning, Geospatial, SDK

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