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Pokemon GO developers used players' cameras to train neural networks – UNIAN
Over a billion user devices were used for this development.
Niantic, which released the incredibly viral mobile game Pokemon GO in 2016, used data from players' cameras to train artificial intelligence models, creating the most detailed 3D map of almost every corner of the Earth.
According to information on the company's blog, Niantic is developing Visual Positioning System (VPS) technology, unlike the Global Positioning System (GPS), the user's location is determined not from satellites, but from the ground. Artificial intelligence analyzes surrounding objects and compares them with its data, making an assumption about where the user might be now. Such a map is called geospatial.
To create its Large Geospatial Model (LGM), Niantic teaches…
