How did Niantic’s 2021 go? The development company publishes its year’s recap, including AR technology, Pokémon GO, Pikmin Bloom, and Ingress.
Niantic: Pokémon Go AR technology development company 2021
Niantic, a software development company that created the gaming-apps based on the Pokémon GO AR technology, Pikmin Bloom and Ingress, publishes the recap of the 2021 activities, the year in which players continued to explore the world together and which ends with some interesting data, such as those listed below.
These are the results of Niantic from 2021:
- Almost 7 billion km traveled all over the world
- 3.8M of new wayspots (or points of interest) added
- There are also five acquisitions, two new games and the launch of the Lightship developer platform
Regarding Ingress:
- 872 million resonators distributed
- 2.9 million kinetic capsule programs completed
- 354 billion XMs reloaded to Portal Jumpers
- 43 million flights with drones
- New features and events including: CORE, NL-1331X US Summer Tour, Dronenet Layer, Niantic Social
These are all the numbers of Pokémon GO:
- 12 billion gifts sent
- 3.9 billion eggs hatched
- Defeated 4.8 billion Team GO Rocket recruits
- New Features and Events including: Collection Challenges, GO Tour: Kanto, Remote Raids, 5th Anniversary, Postcard Collection
Finally these are the numbers of Pikmin Bloom in the first two months of launch:
- 113.9 million Pikmin grown
- 63.8 million flowers planted
- 338 billion steps covered
