Niantic's geospatial model is using geolocation data from scans players submit of real-world locations while playing the company's mobile games.

Pokemon Go developer Niantic reveals its long-term use of player data in the creation of a new large geospatial AI model.

The blog post explains that “Over the past five years, Niantic has focused on building our Visual Positioning System (VPS), which uses a single image from a phone to determine its position and orientation using a 3D map built from people scanning interesting locations in our games and Scaniverse,

The development of LGM builds upon Niantic’s existing Lightship Visual Positioning System (VPS), which has already mapped 10 million locations globally. These scans are uniquely valuable as they capture environments from a pedestrian perspective,

Niantic is making geospatial AI models to help computers navigate real spaces, and it’s using your Pokémon Go data to help

Data captured from Pokémon Go and other games are being used to create large AI models that can predict what buildings and other objects look like.

Niantic, the company behind Pokémon Go, has been scraping users’ scans of the world to build a model that will help robots navigate physical space. Some experts are worried about the potential applications.

Pokemon Go” developer Niantic announced its new AI model on Nov. 12, created using data players have sent over the years. The large geospatial model (LGM), built using the San Francisco-based studio’s visual positioning system (VPS),

Making us genuinely nostalgic for those days when all that Pokémon Go users were doing was finding corpses and committing crimes, today it turns out that they’ve also been training robots how to, like,

Pokemon GO developer Niantic has revealed that they used player data from the popular mobile game to help build their large geospatial model. Released in 2016 and taking the world by storm, Pokemon GO is a popular mobile version of the iconic Pokemon series.

For better or worse, it’s an AI world, and we’re all just living in it. Yes, even if that world is the world of Pokémon GO. Via the folks at IGN, we’ve learned that Pokémon GO developer Niantic is currently creating an AI designed to auto-complete real-world locations.