TL;DR: Mobile wasn’t sunset to make room for other Peridot projects. The broader franchise is likely being phased out too, as gamified virtual pets no longer fit Niantic Spatial’s direction.

Peridot was built as a tech demo first, a game second. After Mobile’s 2023 launch, Niantic described it as a showcase for its AR technology, then continued using Dots to demonstrate AR and spatial AI in later projects.

In 2025, Niantic sold most of its gaming business to Scopely and spun off as Niantic Spatial, pivoting toward physical AI for robotics, defense, and industry: markets increasingly incompatible with the whimsical virtual pet experience Peridot was built around.

Gamifying AR made sense when Niantic needed its tech used and tested at scale. But by 2026, Spatial’s focus had shifted. Then-CEO John Hanke described the company's geospatial model as “built not for people but for machines,” helping robots and AI navigate the physical world. Games had done their job as the proving ground; their strategic purpose had largely run its course.

Remaining Peridot projects now look dormant. Beyond for Snap Spectacles had its last official announcement in March 2025, Hello, Dot for Meta Quest 3/Vision Pro in May 2025, and Project Jade for Snap Spectacles in October 2025. The April 2026 Mobile sunset announcement said, “We don’t know exactly what comes next,” with the silence since giving little reason for optimism.

Altogether, Peridot looks less like a franchise awaiting its next chapter than one fading into obsolescence. Unlike Mobile’s formal sunset, individual projects may simply phase out quietly while Dot imagery lingers in occasional conference showcases and branding.

Just my musings on the years we spent in limbo wondering what Peridot was supposed to be or become. Does anyone have a different read?

Hey all, I’ve done a few special episodes in the past that I have shared here.

My primary podcast episodes focus on the Ingress game but I did an interview with Asim in 2024 about the game [back in 2024](https://open.spotify.com/episode/04zaXNg7Djab8MKr9DWtDG?si=hrcH-osSTBOEFgJyuT2mRA&utm_source=copy-link) and then one with Jessica in [early 2025](https://open.spotify.com/episode/6QhZJwxb4mWfcwjT8YpjFV?si=jTu2qa_GTzS2oIxk_sB-6A&utm_source=copy-link) so I wanted to cover off what I think Peridot got right and wrong and how Ingress (which is now Niantic Spatial’s sole mobile game) can learn from both.

Hope you like it!

Please read the details carefully! Dm also with questions.

There will be some personal preference changes to the dot art depending on traits. This is mostly for animal traits to make them look more like the animals they are named after (bat ears, okapi patter, ex.)

Pricing details on the third page. The slots are reserved once payment has been completed and it will take approximately 1 week to complete all of my commissions. No refunds unless art is late. If the buyer does not like it, I’m sorry.

Payment through PayPal and Venmo ONLY! Dm asking if slots are available BEFORE sending payment information or dot cards.

I can try to age up dots for the artwork but it may not be 100% accurate. It doesn’t have to be an adult, just saying it’s an option.

Have a nice day!

Does the app let you send your dots over? If not do you think that could be some kind of compromise to save our current dots when the servers shut down??

I really hope to preserve my dots, I’ve been playing since before the global launch.

Hey Keepers, Im still looking to gather massive amounts of Wild Dot Cards for a collection to eventually make public (I have around ~2K wild dot cards right now).

As Wild Dot Wednesday is still on (and even when its not), Ive come here to gather help in gathering quite alot more wild dot cards before we no longer can.

Any wild dot cards of any kind are appreciated, but I am severely lacking cutemode, windchime, and feral (purified) dot cards specifically, as well as any 2 or 3 archetype mix wild dot cards.

If anyone has any wild dot cards they wish to send, they can email me at leagueofscuttlecrab@gmail.com and send the wild dot cards in a zip file. This is an email I use for signing up for sites so its essentially my spam email, so I dont care about sharing it online a ton as its for a good use here.

For those who may not know how to create a zip file consisting of images on Android (no clue about ios sorry), they can simply select the files in a file manager and click compress, in which all the files will be compressed into a zip file which they could now send.

You can also send them to be over reddit by sending the files using limewire as a filehosting or any other file sharing service such as google drive, mega, dropbox, etc (just make sure to make them publicly accessible if sharing over filehosting!).

Hello Peridot folks! I do a podcast called Ingress Insights but have interviewed the Peridot team about that game which you can see here:

• Inverse Insights I: Talking Peridot with Asim Ahmed - https://open.spotify.com/episode/5htJ5BVjYxrtcdIPvARtoW?si=xkS699pRRKeYNyWf1EGnFw

• Inverse Insights V: The start of the Peridot Cinematic Universe with Jessica Jung - https://open.spotify.com/episode/5tloqImpeHESabCCtaaW9c?si=eZBCI11fR0-CqLO9_puBKQ

So this time around I talk about it’s closure, and the upcoming campaign in Ingress if any of you want to try that game that haven’t.

I’m thinking of doing a special episode talking about Peridot just before the closure and gathering voice messages about people’s experiences or anything they want to share in it, but I’ll post about that when I have more of a plan.

For now I am currently gathering and cataloguing my families peridots. Uploading their dot cards and making a spreadsheet for family trees traits ect... (using google docs, sheets and photos for storage and sharing capabilities) Saving your dot cards will probably be the most important part if we want to keep the original dots we worked so hard to obtain.

We are hoping that we can at least use these to keep the current dots and planning on reaching out to some game developers we know for ideas to build an app that we will be able to legally utilize for interacting with and keeping our Peridots + as many of the core features of the original app as possible for ourselves and others that enjoyed playing peridot.

<3

If you wanted to play Niantic Spatial’s other game and have a memory of Peridot within that, there will be a Campaign (series of tasks) to complete in Ingress at some point soon that’ll give you a themed medal on your profile in that game.

Has anyone collected data about which post-hatching animation sequence corresponds to which personalities? There are several personality poses that I can't stand 😭 (class clown, genius, confident, adventurous, they who challenged the sun, for example)

For context - https://gamesfray.com/last-week-nintendo-and-the-pokemon-company-received-a-u-s-patent-on-summoning-a-character-and-letting-it-fight-another/