After Niantic's latest AR game Peridot got negative app store reviews and few downloads, a look at the company's metaverse games struggling to find an audience
Just a few years ago, tech evangelists were hailing Niantic Inc., the maker of the hit game Pokémon Go … Tweets: @cecianasta , @345triangle , @harrymccracken , @joonian , and @hermesninja Tweets: Ceci...
Leaked dataset from a location data company with a log of the movements of 12M+ Americans shows how “anonymous” location data can be used to track people
and it's not hard to figure out who you are Whitney Kimball / Gizmodo : Holy Shit, Reportedly Jerry Hildenbrand / Android Central : Your phone tracks your every move and there is nothing you can do ab...
An inside account of Cloudflare's defeat of Blackbird's lawsuit by publishing “prior art” that could help others, and attacking the patent troll business model
Remember 2016? Pokemon Go was all the rage, we lost Prince, and there were surprising election results in both the UK and US.
Hands-on with AR navigation on Google Maps that the company is testing with Local Guides, a group of power users helping Google improve its Maps experience
and wrote about how the way we navigate the world is changing in big ways http://www.wsj.com/... http://twitter.com/... Neil Mehta / @neil_mehta : Using the phone camera to superimpose #AR based walki...
Google's new Maps platform for games gives developers access to real-time Google Maps data, an SDK for Unity, and a new API to use real-world locations in games
buildings — Create games with millions of 3D structures. Mark Wycislik-Wilson / BetaNews : Google opens up Maps API to game developers Joe Maring / Android Central : Google's bringing its Maps APIs ...
Study: in the 148 days after Pokémon Go's release, there were 286 more car crashes in one Indiana county than the period before; 134 happened near PokéStops
POKEMON … SSRN : Abstract — Based on detailed police accident reports … Simon Sharwood / The Register : Pokémon GO caused hundreds of deaths, increased crashes Eric Brackett / Digital Trends : Distr...
Data shows Pokémon Go DAUs, downloads, and engagement on downward trend since July launch
A number of important metrics have Pikachu'd, says Axiom Capital Management. — Pokemon Go is starting to lose the battle for mobile mindshare, according to Axiom Capital Management.