I played Ingress a little bit before Pokemon Go came out, enough to recognize all the same physical locations were being re-used. I found it kind of uncanny for some reason.
What? Why wouldn’t they use the data they already have? The only way you would find that uncanny is if you assumed that data submitted to a company in one context is never re-used outside that context. No such promise was ever made; On the contrary, I seem to recall that we were told from the start that model building was the goal.
Niantic has pulled sheisty moves, but this isn’t one of them.
Oh yeah, I know that. It was more just a weird feeling that I find it hard to describe. Like, it felt like I was existing within multiple different realities at the same time for a brief moment. Just my imagination getting carried away, like how familiar objects can look like monsters in the dark, even though we know perfectly well what they really are.
I played Ingress a little bit before Pokemon Go came out, enough to recognize all the same physical locations were being re-used. I found it kind of uncanny for some reason.
What? Why wouldn’t they use the data they already have? The only way you would find that uncanny is if you assumed that data submitted to a company in one context is never re-used outside that context. No such promise was ever made; On the contrary, I seem to recall that we were told from the start that model building was the goal.
Niantic has pulled sheisty moves, but this isn’t one of them.
Oh yeah, I know that. It was more just a weird feeling that I find it hard to describe. Like, it felt like I was existing within multiple different realities at the same time for a brief moment. Just my imagination getting carried away, like how familiar objects can look like monsters in the dark, even though we know perfectly well what they really are.