Niantic has announced that it’s building a new “Large Geospatial Model” (LGM) that combines millions of scans taken from the smartphones of players of Pokémon Go and other Niantic products.

Niantic Spatial states it will seek to bridge the gap between the "physical and digital worlds" through this geospatial fusion. If all goes well, Niantic states its new model will facilitate ...

In a blog post, gaming company Niantic said it's training a new AI on millions of real-world images collected by Pokémon Go players and in its Scaniverse app. Inspired by the large language models ...

Niantic's geospatial model is using geolocation data from scans players submit of real-world locations while playing the company's mobile games. $3,500 iPhone possible?

Snap Inc., the company behind the Snapchat social app and Spectacles AR glasses, has teamed up with Niantic Spatial to bring ...

Whatever the case, Niantic says it’s been developing this geospatial model since 2019, though this post seems to be the first time the company was transparent about how it uses location data.

Apparently, players have also been helping Niantic create a 3D model of the world, which is being expanded via AI into a Large Geospatial Model. As reported by 404 Media , Niantic made the largely ...

What is the point of a geospatial model? Niantic explains that current AI research efforts are focused on ‘modeling the 3D appearance of objects’, called 3D Vision Models.

A claim that the developer behind the popular mobile video game "Pokémon GO," Niantic Labs, used geolocation data collected from players to build a new artificial intelligence (AI) navigation ...

Pokémon GO developer Niantic is developing an AI model capable of predicting and recreating real-world locations, and using player location data to train it. In an official post published by Niantic ...

Image: Niantic. In a recent blog post from Pokémon GO developer Niantic, the company has laid out its plans for what it calls a 'Large Geospatial Model', an AI that fills in the blanks for ...