"The Creators Of Pokémon Go Mapped The World. Now" Topic
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Tango01 | 17 Oct 2019 9:26 p.m. PST |
…They're Mapping You "arry Potter: Wizards Unite, the latest game from the company behind Pokémon Go, lets players harness the magic of their childhood to combat monsters and collect shimmering digital artifacts across their local neighborhoods. Niantic's apps certainly encourage gamers to get outdoors and get active, but behind the scenes, Wizards Unite is quietly casting another spell: collecting a surprising amount of data about where you go. Wizards Unite is an augmented reality mobile game developed by Niantic in partnership with Warner Brothers. Millions of people play the game—not nearly as many as Pokémon Go's impressive 150 million active users in 2018, two years after launch, but on release, it rocketed to the top of the app store with hundreds of thousands of downloads. Niantic's apps regularly dominate app stores, just as the company itself dominates the world of augmented reality gaming. They're the latest products from a cell of technologists that's been in operation since 2001, being acquired by and then spun off from Google, while never losing sight of its ultimate goal: to map the entire world digitally and capitalize on that data…" Main page link Amicalement Armand |
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