However, beneath its playful exterior, Pokémon Go was also laying the groundwork for something much bigger—a vast, AI-driven ...

The model uses geolocation information from scans players submit of real-world locations while ... week it is building an AI model to map the physical world. This "large geospatial model" would ...

For the past eight years, Pokemon Go players have ... that feature from around the world, and 1 million new scans arrive every week. According to the map of the model on Niantic's site, the ...

Pokémon Go developer Niantic is hard at work building and training an AI to essentially be able to auto-complete real-world locations ... of a location on a 3D map. The technology is supposed ...

Niantic was still raking in hundreds of millions a year from the beloved mobile game when CEO John Hanke decided to sell its ...

Niantic has had functionality like this for a long time, which is how it’s built out its massive visual positioning system (VPS), which pinpoints a user’s location to a real-world map with ...

Pokéstops are typically landmarks or interesting locations in the real world, marked by a blue cube on the map in the game. When players are near a Pokéstop, they can receive items such as ...

A Pokemon GO player discovered a large maze on their in-game map while stopped in traffic ... Pokemon GO promotes exploration in real-world locations, and players will surely be encouraged to ...