ar is more than just pixels
summary
Niantic Labs recounts building location AR through Ingress and Pokémon Go, tying virtual game locations to 6 million player-submitted portals and adding physical IoT props (Raspberry Pi “tech fool ooh” installations and Japanese vending-machine portals). Platform work focuses on maps, live scaling, anti‑spoofing, and events that draw millions — about 3.8 million event participants in 2017 — while cutting ops cost ~50× for Pokémon Go and logging roughly 15 billion kilometers walked by players.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Start
- 2:59Ingress
- 4:22Field Trip Content
- 4:53Sponsored Locations
- 6:31Bio Card
- 8:08Pokemon Go
- 9:34Bottlenecks
- 12:38Building a Platform
- 13:52Plan To Scale Ar
- 15:16Deriving the Machine Maps
- 17:00Key Lesson for Plan of Scale
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