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Niantic turns Pokémon Go data into AI navigation system to rival Google Maps
Niantic, the company behind the wildly popular Pokémon Go, revolutionized the gaming world when it launched ... Niantic ...
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What Augmented Reality Can Teach Our Kids
They were using an augmented reality (AR) app, which layers computer-generated images over a user’s surroundings, to turn the real world into a Pokémon Go safari. Its ability to engage kids has ...
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Niantic is quietly using your Pokémon Go data to train large-scale geospatial AI models
Niantic quietly announced its AI plans in a corporate blog post and said its model will help position augmented reality (AR) as “the ... kind it gathers from Pokemon Go users to create scenarios ...
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Pokémon Go developer uses its unwitting players’ data to train its latest AI
However, as per the Pokemon Go privacy policy, the app collected location and AR data whether you opt in to this or not. This is a lot of technobabble, but what it essentially means is that ...
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Pokémon Go and the future of mixed reality
Pokémon Go predecessors are also getting in on the action, riding on the popularity of the former. Ingress, a mobile AR game released by Niantic in 2013, for instance, saw a drastic increase in ...