Pokémon Go players have unknowingly contributed to the creation of an advanced AI navigation system, developed by game ...

A 30-billion-image dataset built by players over the last decade is now being used to train an AI navigation system ...

Snap Inc., the company behind the Snapchat social app and Spectacles AR glasses, has teamed up with Niantic Spatial to bring accurate geospatial capabilities to the Snapchat and Spectacles platforms.

Niantic, the company behind popular AR (augmented reality) game “Pokémon GO” and the 8th Wall AR developer platform, has announced the launch of Lightship VPS (visual positioning system), a ...

Niantic’s spatial AI, built partly from optional scans submitted through its AR games, is now helping delivery robots ...

Pokémon Go players unknowingly trained delivery robots for years after generating over 30 billion scans that Niantic has now ...

Nearly ten years after the launch of Pokémon Go turned everyday streets and parks into digital playgrounds, the massive trove of data generated by its players is being used for something entirely ...

Pokémon Go players are unknowingly contributing to a powerful AI navigation system. This technology, built from real-world ...

Overview of the proposed method. While previous methods operate drones according to predefined flight routes, the proposed method integrates VPS and natural feature-based tracking to estimate the ...

Millions of Pokemon Go players may not realise it, but the scans they make while playing the game have helped Niantic build a ...