Listen up — you and I just helped build one of the most valuable real-world datasets on the planet.
While we were out catching Pokémon or pulling up Street View, two quiet crowdsourcing machines were busy creating the foundation for the next trillion-dollar spatial AI https://t.co/bOsOuE88Ky Street View
Billions of high-resolution images captured from cars (and user uploads) across more than 100 countries. That raw footage was turned into precise 3D models, Immersive View, and the most accurate digital twin of global roadways ever built. Smart money knew early: mobility data at scale is pure gold.
Niantic’s Pokémon GO
Since launch, hundreds of millions of players have walked billions of real-world miles and contributed over 30 billion ground-level photos and videos through the AR Mapping feature. Niantic — the Google spin-off that kept the data rights — turned that pedestrian dataset into their Large Geospatial Model and Visual Positioning System (VPS). Centimeter-level accuracy, anywhere. No GPS required.That same technology is now being licensed to autonomous delivery robots, last-mile logistics, and any company that needs to navigate the messy real world where satellites fail.
Two complementary plays, one massive outcome: Google owns the car-level arteries.
Pokémon GO owns the sidewalks and everything in between.
Together they’ve created a living, constantly refreshed map of the physical planet — the kind of proprietary data moat most AI companies can only dream about.We didn’t just play a game or check directions.
We unknowingly became the largest unpaid training crew for the next generation of spatial intelligence.The real lesson? The smartest businesses aren’t always the ones building the tech — they’re the ones who get millions of people to build it for them.
Respect to the operators who saw this coming. Who else realizes they helped fund the future without writing a single check? Drop a comment if you’ve been scanning PokéStops “just for the game.” #SpatialAI #DataEconomy #Niantic #Google #RealWorldAI
🚨 DISGUSTING: TIM WALZ & MINNESOTA PARDON ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CONVICTED OF REPEATEDLY RAPING A 10-YEAR-OLD GIRL
A convicted child sex offender, illegal immigrant who admitted to abusing a 10-year-old for years, gets a pardon from Walz’s board just as he’s about to be deported.
DHS calls it “disgusting.” The victim’s trauma ignored while they wipe his record to let him stay.
This is what sanctuary state insanity looks like, prioritizing criminals over American children. Walz and the board owe answers.
Zero tolerance for this. Deport criminal illegals. Protect our kids.
New Yorkers are getting st@bbed in the streets while socialist Mayor Mamdani SCRAPS 580 new cops and blows $6.45 MILLION on “trans equity” nonsense.
This is what happens when you let radicals run the city! Criminals win, cops get screwed, and taxpayers foot the bill for insanity.
Karoline Leavitt: "This is not your granddaddy's Democrat Party. This is not the Democrat Party of JFK. This is a full-blown Communist revolution that is taking over Capitol Hill right here in Washington, D.C."
🚨 ICE AGENTS HAD ENOUGH, CHAOS ERUPTS IN NEWARK!
Newark, NJ (June 27) Antifa radicals spent the night pushing, taunting, and provoking federal officers outside Delaney Hall detention center.
Somalians in Minnesota announces they are celebrating Somali Independence Day all week
The actual holiday was July 1st, but they are going to celebrate Somali Independence Day all week which will overshadow America’s 4th of July celebration
What are we even doing in America…. Why are we allowing anything of this. Just send everyone back, we are all so sick of this
Our national pride is gone and replaced with a bunch of foreigners who only care about their own countries and replacing ours
She then switches to a foreign language in the video
@RadioGenoa He shouldn't have hit her like that, no impulse control. BUT im sick of these old white Karens thinkin they can just do whatever with no consequences.