Released in 2016, Pokemon Go quickly became a worldwide phenomenon. Even folks who weren’t traditionally interested in the monster-taming franchise were wandering around with their smartphones out, on ...

Delivery Robots Hit Streets Backed by Niantic’s Pokémon GO-Era Mapping Your email has been sent Coco Robotics’ new Coco 2 delivery bot can leave the sidewalk for streets and bike lanes, using Niantic ...

Pokémon Go players have unknowingly contributed to the creation of an advanced AI navigation system, developed by game ...

Millions of Pokemon Go players may not realise it, but the scans they make while playing the game have helped Niantic build a ...

The visual positioning system mapped hundreds of thousands of landscape features on survey flights over two test routes. Credit: Daedalean Leonardo Helicopters has tested the performance of ...

Researchers have developed an innovative positioning system that enhances the versatility and accuracy of drone-viewpoint mixed reality (MR) applications by aligning real and virtual world coordinates ...

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