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End of an era. Niantic Labs is selling Pokémon GO and its other AR games to a company in Saudi Arabia.

End of an era. Niantic Labs is selling Pokémon GO and its other AR games to a company in Saudi Arabia.

https://www.theverge.com/news/615267/niantic-pokemon-go-scopely-acquisition-deal

Nerd!

wow

Ingress, Niantic's test bed before they inked the Pokemon deal, was such a fun way for me to explore Eastern Europe and the Middle East back in the day

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End of an era indeed

https://warpcast.com/eirrann.eth/0xeb1b5473

Yeah

There are areas where I added so many of the in-game locations to Ingress that became part of the Pokemon and other worlds

They sure got some lucrative AI training data out of it for sure.