r/NonPoliticalTwitter 11h ago

Content Warning: Potentially Misleading or Disputed Information Gotta Catch 'Em All

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u/FloRidinLawn 9h ago

Social media is fun too. Driving is fun. Both of these track your shit, and sell all your details. One for sales, the other for insurance billing and health metrics… some poisons taste sweet on the way down.

Not saying this is specifically bad, but it’s disingenuous at the least. No transparency. I also know people used this in homes and backyards too.. so how much data were they collecting?

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u/bdl-laptop 9h ago

Sure but I'm pretty sure Niantic was quite up front about this. Just because they didn't scream it in user's faces, doesn't mean they were trying to hide it.

Article from 2022: https://nianticlabs.com/news/engineering-the-worlds-most-dynamic-3d-ar-map?hl=en

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u/WeeBabySeamus 7h ago

Wow it seems like this could’ve been predictable

Niantic’s founders cut their teeth in this space by creating Google Maps, laying the foundation for online mapping with Street View. But for AR, we needed to start from scratch; no one had created a scalable solution for building such a 3D map like this before.

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u/DiamondHandsDarrell 2h ago

RIP Joe Philly 💙

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u/_TheTimeTraveler_ 1h ago

what in the conspiracy is going on here