"The urban canyon is the worst place in the world for GPS" ...

The data collected by the AR games now consists of more than 30 billion images captured from different angles, times of day, ...

Niantic’s spatial AI, built partly from optional scans submitted through its AR games, is now helping delivery robots ...

Niantic Spatial, an AI spinout formed in 2025, has turned years of mobile gaming data into what it describes as a ...

Niantic's AI spinout is training a new world model using 30 billion images of urban landmarks crowdsourced from players.

If you played Pokémon Go, there's a chance you helped with the development of training robots and AI.

Most people reading this have no idea this is happening. Not just Pokemon Go. All of it. Everything we do is tracked. Our data is sold a million times over.

Will an association with that game everyone played a little bit in 2016 help keep the bots from getting lost and beat up?

The hit mobile game Pokémon GO has come under scrutiny following claims that images captured within the app may have been ...

Niantic says images and AR scans gathered through Pokémon Go have produced a dataset exceeding 30 billion photographs now ...