checks https://nianticlabs.com/en/about/
Keyhole made what got renamed Google Earth when Google ate them, ten years later the core of that team started Niantic Labs inside Google, made Ingress, a few years later Niantic left Google (with funding from Google, Nintendo, and Pokemon) and made Pokemon Go. Niantic has acquihired a few companies working in related spaces.
Oh, I didn't know that. That's even worse. Niantic is positioning itself to be a competitor to Apple in the global spatial map game.
Explains why Go released on Android first, though. Neat. I hope that doesn't change now that they're running with 6d.ai.
I guess SceneForm was the best that they could manage to come closer to Metal Frameworks, and they just killed.