At a special launch event today, Niantic announced it’s opening up the Lightship AR Development Kit (ARDK) platform, a software development kit with the kinds of tools the company uses to make Pokémon Go's ‘world-scale' gameplay possible. And to attract third-party developers to the platform, it’s also announced $20 million fund which it hopes will kickstart AR development. […] The post Niantic Kickstarts Its AR Metaverse with Release of Lightship SDK and $20M Developer Fund appeared first on Road to VR.