Niantic buys Escher to power shared world AR experiences

Escher has been working on AR for a long time, before Pokémon Go was a bona fide hit. “Everyone thought we were crazy at that time,” Escher’s CEO Ross Finman told TechCrunch. But Escher has been committed to creating a toolkit for AR developers working on mobile. While Apple’s ARKit and Google’s ARCore offer toolkits …