John Hanke Archives

Brilliant Labs CEO shows off Frame AI glasses.

Brilliant Labs’s Frame glasses serve as multimodal AI assistant

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 8, 2024
4 min

Brilliant Labs, the developer of AI glasses, has launched Frame, the world’s first glasses featuring an integrated multimodal AI assistant. This leap in wearable...

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Niantic is making NBA All-World as a mobile geoocation game.

Niantic unveils NBA All-World mobile game for ‘real-world metaverse’

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
June 28, 2022
4 min

Niantic revealed a new mobile game dubbed NBA All-World that will let fans compete against other players in their own neighborhoods. The game uses...

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Niantic raises $300M at $9B valuation as it guns for the real-world metaverse

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 23, 2021
2 min

Pokémon Go maker Niantic has raised $30o million from investor Coatue at a $9 billion valuation as it aims to build the real-world metaverse....

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Mark Zuckerberg's vision for the metaverse.

GamesBeat Summit Next’s agenda is full of ways to level up gaming

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 1, 2021
16 min

We packed a lot of inspiring speakers and sessions into our GamesBeat Summit Next event coming on November 9-10. This post gives you a...

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16 min

Take-Two Interactive chief executive Strauss Zelnick.

GamesBeat Summit Next: Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick, Niantic’s John Hanke, Xbox’s Sarah Bond

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 15, 2021
5 min

Sometimes you need people to inspire you to greater heights and to believe that some amazing technology is just around the corner. That’s what...

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Niantic acquires Mayhem to boost social gaming communities

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 5, 2021
2 min

Pokémon Go creator Niantic has acquired social gaming community platform Mayhem. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the acquisition is Niantic’s seventh....