Richard is a writer and game designer living in New York City. Niantic is building a geospatial AI model using data from popular AR games like Pokemon GO. The model, called the Large Geospatial Model, ...
Pokémon Go developer Niantic is hard at work building and training an AI to essentially be able to auto-complete real-world locations with only a limited amount of information. And it's using data ...
When Pokémon Go first launched in 2016, it felt like pure magic. The game sent players outside, into parks and city streets, transforming neighborhoods into digital battlefields and PokeStops. It wasn ...
The Large Geospatial Model aims to connect the digital world to the physical world more seamlessly. Pokémon GO developer Niantic is developing an AI model capable of predicting and recreating ...
Pokémon Go is helping to fill in parts of the world that lack mapping data. Millions of Pokémon Go players who thought they were just playing a fun game might actually be helping to train AI models ...
Niantic, the company behind Pokémon Go, has been scraping users’ scans of the world to build a model that will help robots navigate physical space. Some experts are worried about the potential ...
GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. For the past eight years, Pokemon Go players have helped make Niantic's game one of the top titles in mobile gaming. Apparently, players have also ...
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