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Pokémon Go Player Scanning Data Used to Train Military Drone Navigation: 30 Billion Environmental Data Points Flow to Defense Contractor

Hundreds of millions of Pokémon Go players spent years scanning streets and buildings for in-game rewards, generating roughly 30 billion environmental scans. That data now belongs to Niantic Spatial and has been used to train visual positioning navigation models. U.S. defense contractor Vantor is preparing to integrate the technology into military drones for autonomous navigation in GPS-denied environments.

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