Today, we’re excited to announce Niantic Studio, a new visual editor and web gaming engine for Niantic 8th Wall developers that offers an entirely new way to build immersive 3D and XR experiences. 

Traditionally, building web-based XR and 3D experiences has been a code-intensive process with little visual feedback of what you’re building. But with Niantic Studio, now in public beta, developers have a visual interface that makes everything you create accessible and visible in real time. With this new release, developers and creators of all skill levels can now start building with Niantic 8th Wall.  

Revolutionize 3D and XR creation with Niantic Studio

Studio is a completely new approach to building immersive XR and 3D experiences with Niantic 8th Wall. With Studio, we’ve completely overhauled the development environment, moving from a code-only interface to an intuitive visual editor that combines the speed and power of the web with the robust tools needed to create more realistic 3D web games and XR experiences. 

Studio offers solutions for both seasoned web developers and designers, enabling progressive complexity depending on what you want to build. Use Studio to create everything from AR scenes that use Face Effects or World Tracking to more complex 3D web games and immersive XR experiences.  

With Studio, developers can build with: 

An intuitive real-time visual interface: Studio is a true “what-you-see-is-what-you-get” experience that eliminates the gap between ideation and visualization, streamlining the traditional development cycle of code compilation, deployment, and iteration into a single, fluid motion. Each action you take—from adding or adjusting assets in a 3D space to real-time scene manipulation—is reflected instantly. Every tool and feature within Studio is just a click away. 

Easy-to-add interactivity: Quickly bring experiences to life with built-in tools for powerful graphic elements like physics, cameras, lighting, animation, particles, audio, game triggers, and more in just a few clicks. This seamless integration allows you to quickly bring a new level of depth and engagement to your XR scene or experiences.

An all-new web gaming engine: Built on a familiar Entity Component System (ECS) gaming structure, Studio also includes a powerful new web gaming engine designed to simplify complex development tasks. The intuitive framework helps you quickly build more interaction and gameplay into your XR or 3D projects. 


Editable live play and simulation: Build, edit, and preview 3D scenes in real time. Play Mode allows you to preview your experience and even make changes while your project plays that save automatically to ensure rapid iteration.

Advanced XR capabilities and cross-platform deployment: Access powerful web-based XR functionalities like Face Effects, World Tracking, and distribute through cross-platform deployment. But this is just the beginning. Throughout the beta, we’ll add more of our cutting-edge XR features to Studio. 

Tools to create and collaborate at the speed of the web: As a web-based tool, Niantic 8th Wall has always made it easy to build, publish, and distribute with no app required and no restrictions. Now, with Studio's intuitive visual editor, it's even easier for teams with a wide range of technical knowledge to collaborate and iterate on experiences.