# 8th Wall

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/niantic-8thwall/  
**Website:** https://8thwall.org  
**APIs profiled:** 0

8th Wall is a web-based augmented reality (WebAR) platform originally founded in 2016 and acquired by Niantic in March 2022. Following Niantic's 2025 sale of its gaming division to Scopely and the spin-off of Niantic Spatial, Inc. as an independent geospatial AI and XR company, 8th Wall's hosted cloud editor, login, and Niantic Studio services were retired on February 28, 2026 and the platform transitioned to a free, open-source distribution model. Existing published 8th Wall experiences continue to run through February 28, 2027. The 8th Wall stack centers on the XR Engine — a SLAM-based WebAR runtime providing World Tracking, Image Targets, Face Effects, Sky Segmentation, and World Effects — exposed to developers as a TypeScript/JavaScript SDK that integrates with A-Frame, three.js, PlayCanvas, and Babylon.js. The Distributed Engine Binary (released January 2026) ships SLAM under a binary-only license for commercial and noncommercial use, while the surrounding framework, utilities, and example projects are MIT-licensed on the 8thwall GitHub organization. 8th Wall Studio (formerly Niantic Studio) is a real-time visual editor and game engine for authoring 3D and XR experiences that can be deployed to any web host. 8th Wall does not publish a public REST or HTTP API; the developer surface is a client-side JavaScript SDK plus command-line and utility tooling distributed through GitHub.

## Kin Score — 11.4 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 11.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 5.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 28.6 |
| 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).

## Security (1)

- **Niantic 8Thwall Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Tags

Augmented Reality, WebAR, XR, Extended Reality, 3D, SLAM, World Tracking, Image Targets, Face Effects, Sky Segmentation, Niantic, Niantic Spatial, Open-Source, JavaScript SDK, TypeScript, A-Frame, three.js, PlayCanvas, Babylon.js

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/niantic-8thwall/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.