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Pokémon Go Plot to Use Your Data to Fast Track an AI-Slop Google Maps Competitor
Niantic is using scans of the real world from the game to create an AI-based navigation system
“Over the past five years, Niantic has focused on building our Visual Positioning System, which uses a single image from a phone to determine its position and orientation using a 3D map built from people scanning interesting locations in our games and Scaniverse.” Niantic suggests that the tech could continue to improve augmented reality products, autonomous systems, and navigation. The app has been used in the past to learn the habits of its users and discern optimal walking paths between two locations, so this just takes things to a new level.
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