It turns out that you are the robot’s worker! “Pokémon GO” players have scanned data for many years and were actually used to is gaining traction fast, and early community reaction suggests this one has real momentum.
As with major stories across retro and modern gaming, the key details are in how players are responding, how the platform owners move next, and whether this remains a short spike or a longer trend.
According to MIT Technology Review, Niantic has been using“Pokémon GO (Pokémon GO/Pokémon GO)”Players have accumulated more than 30 billion geographical image data when scanning real-life landmarks to train their visual positioning system. These data were originally playersTo complete tasks and get rewards, scan PokeStop, gyms and various real-life landmarks, but now their use has long been beyond the game, and has extended all the way to robot navigation in the real world.
It even collects position, angle, time and movement trajectory.
This thing is surprising not only because of the large number, but because each scan actually records more than the image itself. Reports indicate that the information also contains accurate GPS coordinates, shooting angle, time, weather, and even path information when the player moves. Niantic relies on this massive amount of content to train its visual positioning system so that it can more accurately identify buildings, street signs and street environments. To put it bluntly, many players originally just wanted to help the Pokémon in the game interact with landmarks more realistically, but in the end they ended up silently helping robots in the real world to create street scene textbooks.
Pikachu’s technology finally went to help the food delivery robot find its way
This visual positioning system has now been used in Coco Robotics’ automatic food delivery robots, allowing these pink cars to deliver food with near-centimeter accuracy in cities in the United States and Europe. Niantic Spatial CEO John Hanke even said directly, letLetting Pikachu move naturally in the virtual world and letting the robot navigate safely in the real world are essentially solving the same problem.. This sentence sounds a bit ridiculous, but it is not accurate. After all, many technologies are really used as entertainment first, and then they are turned to more practical commercial uses when the technology is mature.
Players found it interesting and began to doubt
As soon as the news came out, the “Pokémon GO (Pokémon GO/Pokémon GO)” community’s reaction was quickly divided into two sides. Some people found it funny, and even joked that it was Pikachu who was helping the robot teach lessons; but others began to question the use of data and privacy issues. Because judging from the terms, Niantic does have the right to use content generated by players, but the problem is that most people usually don’t read the terms of service carefully, and they are less likely to expect that scanning a supply station will eventually become material for training commercial robots. For companies, this may be called legal use, but for players, it can easily become a It turns out that I have been doing things for others for a long time, but I didn’t know it myself of subtlety.