# Escher Reality

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/escher-reality/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Escher Reality was an augmented reality and computer vision startup founded in 2016 by Ross Finman (CEO) and Diana Hu (CTO), with roots in the MIT Sandbox program. It built cloud backend services for cross-platform, persistent, multi-user mobile AR — shared experiences that neither Apple ARKit nor Google ARCore offered at the time — letting multiple users interact with the same virtual objects anchored to the real world. The company raised roughly $3 million and was based in Sunnyvale, California. In February 2018 Escher Reality was acquired by Niantic (creator of Pokemon GO); its team and technology were folded into the Niantic Real World Platform (now Lightship), and the standalone company and its developer/SDK offering were discontinued. This API Evangelist profile is retained as a historical record; there is no independent, active API or developer surface to enrich.

## Kin Score — 5.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Tags

Company, Augmented Reality, Computer-Vision, Mobile, Gaming, SDK, Acquired, Defunct

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/escher-reality/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.