Video: A little more about Pokemon Go
2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55
Want to tell you something interesting about Pokemon Go?
I gave interviews on this topic three times, so I had to delve into the English-language primary sources.
- Game developer: Niantic Labs. Internal Google start-up. Google Big Brother connections - google (lol!) Yourself, I'll go a little deeper.
- Niantic was founded by John Hanke, who also founded Keyhole, Inc ("Keyhole") - a project for mapping the surface, bought by the same Google and created on its basis Google Maps, Google Earth, Google Streets.
- Now attention, watch your hands! Keyhole, Inc was sponsored by the In-Q-Tel venture capital fund. This is the CIA foundation, quite officially established in 1999.
Through the above applications, important tasks were solved:
- Updated mapping of the planet's surface, including roads, bases, etc. But once, kilometer maps were considered strategic and secret. Inaccuracies were even specially introduced into civil maps.
- Robot cars from Google Streets have looked into all the alleys, mapping our cities, cars, faces …
There was one problem. How to look into our houses, basements, shady alleys, barracks, state institutions and so on, according to the list?
And what do you think? The same office, Niantic Labs, is releasing an ingenious viral toy, a newfangled augmented reality technology.
As soon as you download the application, and give it the appropriate rights (access to the camera, microphone, gyroscope, GPS, connected devices, including USB storage devices, etc.), your phone will immediately vibrate, informing you that the first three Pokemon have been found! (The first three always appear immediately and nearby).
The game will require you to shoot them from all angles, happily rewarding you with your first success. And at the same time, having received a photo of the room where you are, including the coordinates and angle of the phone.
Congratulations! You just filmed your apartment! Explain further?
By the way, by installing the game, you accept the terms of the offer. And she is not simple. Niantic officially warns you: “We work with government agencies and private companies. We can disclose to them any information about you or your child … . But who is reading this?
And there is also point 6: "our program is not able to fulfill the request of your browser" Do not track "-" Do not follow me. " In other words, they followed and will follow.
So, in addition to voluntarily and joyfully mapping everything and everyone, there are also fun opportunities.
For example, if you want to know for yourself what is being done in the building of, say, the State Duma? And dozens of deputies, cleaners, journalists - phones vibrate: "Pikachu is near !!!". And happy citizens will take out their smartphones, activating cameras, microphones, GPS, gyroscopes … And spinning in place, looking at the screen and loading the communication channels with terabytes of video stream …
Bingo! The world has changed again, the world has become different. Welcome to a new era.
In the photo: an American soldier caught a Pokemon in Mosul, Iraq
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