Escher Reality
Escher Reality was an augmented reality and computer vision startup founded in 2016 by Ross Finman (CEO) and Diana Hu (CTO), with roots in the MIT Sandbox program. It built cloud backend services for cross-platform, persistent, multi-user mobile AR — shared experiences that neither Apple ARKit nor Google ARCore offered at the time — letting multiple users interact with the same virtual objects anchored to the real world. The company raised roughly $3 million and was based in Sunnyvale, California. In February 2018 Escher Reality was acquired by Niantic (creator of Pokemon GO); its team and technology were folded into the Niantic Real World Platform (now Lightship), and the standalone company and its developer/SDK offering were discontinued. This API Evangelist profile is retained as a historical record; there is no independent, active API or developer surface to enrich.
Index entry only — little beyond a description and a link, and nothing machine-readable enough for an agent to act on without a human reading the site first.
Escher Reality is tracked in the API Evangelist network. This page is the human-readable profile that sits on top of the machine-readable index we maintain at apis.io.
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Kin Score
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Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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