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The Niantic Unity SDK, known as the Lightship Augmented Reality Developer Kit (ARDK), offers a range of features for building immersive, real-world augmented reality experiences. Here are some of its key features: 1. **Real-time Mapping and Meshing**: This includes real-time depth estimation, occlusion, and session-persistent meshing for creating AR experiences that interact realistically with the environment. 2. **Multiplayer Capabilities**: Lightship ARDK supports multiplayer AR experiences with features like networking APIs, shared AR sessions for up to 5 users, peer-to-peer messaging, and session authentication. 3. **Semantic Segmentation**: This feature allows developers to identify and mask different elements in the environment, like water, sky, ground, buildings, and foliage, to enhance AR interactions. 4. **Visual Positioning System (VPS)**: VPS provides the ability to localize users and persist AR content with centimeter-level accuracy. 5. **Platform-Agnostic**: The ARDK is designed for both Android and iOS platforms and integrates directly within Unity, allowing developers to create AR applications that work across both platforms without platform-specific code. 6. **Depth Technology**: The ARDK's depth technology works on a wide range of devices and senses depth instantly, including the depth of moving objects, without requiring user movement or LiDAR sensors. 7. **Interactive and Realistic AR Experiences**: The ARDK guides developers in building interactive AR experiences, incorporating features like smart AR content navigation, physics integration, and environmental recognition. 8. **Lightship Maps for Unity**: This feature provides developers with customizable basemaps optimized for AR, supporting various map layers and zoom levels, and integrates with the Lightship ARDK for location-based AR experiences. 9. **Developer Resources and Community**: Niantic offers comprehensive documentation, tutorials, sample projects, and community support including forums and events for developers using the ARDK. 10. **Regular Updates**: Niantic plans to release major updates to the Lightship platform every six weeks and major updates every six months. The Lightship ARDK enables developers to create innovative AR experiences by leveraging Niantic's technology to merge AR content with the physical world [oai_citation:1,Niantic Lightship Developer Documentation | Niantic Lightship](https://lightship.dev/docs/) [oai_citation:2,Niantic Lightship](https://lightship.dev/) [oai_citation:3,Lightship Maps – Niantic Lightship](https://lightship.dev/products/maps) [oai_citation:4,The Basics – Niantic Lightship](https://lightship.dev/guides/lightship-basics/) [oai_citation:5,Lightship ARDK – Niantic Lightship](https://lightship.dev/products/ardk?hl=en). For further details, check out these [search results](https://chat.openai.com/backend-api/bing/redirect?query=Niantic%20Unity%20SDK%20features%20list%202024).