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Pokémon Go Was Never a Game, it Tracked Everything

Pokémon Go players spent eight years catching Pokémon. What they were actually doing was building one of the largest geospatial datasets in history. 30 billion images that now power delivery robots, AR positioning, and a spatial AI model that can locate you to the centimeter. And nobody told them..

In this video, I break down what Niantic actually built, how the data collection worked, who owns it now, and why this matters for every app on your phone

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