Карманов без Китая on pretty basic stuff, actually: > The company Niantic reported that the photos and augmented reality data collected in the game Pokémon Go have allowed the creation of a dataset containing more than 30 billion real-world image...
...s. Now, the company is using this data to develop an artificial intelligence-based visual navigation system for delivery robots. > Players didn't just walk around with their phones. They scanned landmarks, shop windows, parks, and sidewalks from all angles, at any time of day, in various lighting and weather conditions that staged photography could never capture. They documented the physical world on a scale that no mapping company with a fleet of vehicles could replicate in the same timef...
...rame or with the same budget. > The company Niantic systematically collected this data, point by point, over eight years, while users believed that the only thing at stake was catching a rare Pokémon. When in Hong Kong, they all flocked in droves to strange places, such as pedestrian bridges and closed facilities (like near an explosives warehouse on Lantau), because a rare Pokémon had been randomly spawned there. I explained to the players that nothing was randomly spawned there, and it w...
...as clearly someone collecting a database of locations and photos. There were many cries and whines, but now there's official information from the company.