Niantic is a tech company developing tools and games for the day when augmented reality will be widely adopted. Niantic’s founder and CEO John Hanke has strong opinions about the very different worlds of augmented reality and virtual reality, saying that the metaverse would be a “dystopian nightmare” if it is built in virtual reality. When augmented reality begins to penetrate the consumer market in a few years, Hanke might look like a visionary and Niantic might become a household name, in which case you heard it here first. Of course it’s also possible that AR will never get past its...