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Pokemon Go fans are counting down to the Sinnoh Global Tour event, which takes place this weekend. The free in-game event sees players explore the Sinnoh region, collect Pokemon and take part in an adventure through space and time. The Pokemon Go Tour Sinnoh event takes place between 10am and 6pm local time on February 24 and February 25. While there are a couple of paid research missions available from the in-game store, the bulk of the event is completely free of charge for Trainers.Pokemon Go developer Niantic explains…

Pokémon Go creator Niantic is to the Apple Vision Pro mixed-reality headset. The company another player in the AR gaming space, to create Rodney Mullen’s SKATRIX. For the uninitiated, Mullen is a professional skateboarder who is credited with creating a number of iconic tricks, including the ollie and the kickflip.This is the first augmented-reality skateboard game ever, unless you count using an actual skateboard to speed around town catching pocket monsters in Pokémon Go. Niantic says the gameplay will involve players…

Here’s how it works. Starting with today’s update, Niantic’s algorithm will analyze real-world objects captured in game with your phone’s camera and then convert those objects into words to be parsed by a large language model (LLM) — in this case, a customized version of Meta’s Llama 2 program.Additionally, each pet, called Dots, will have their personality profile — which is similar to the different natures of pokémon — also fed to the LLM. Peridot will then ask the LLM how a dot with its specific personality type would…

Worried you’re going to be woefully ill-preparedfor an inevitable attack by invaders from outer space one day? Google and Taito—the company who released the original version of Space Invaders back in 1978—have a new version of the game that brings the invaders into the real world using augmented reality tricks through your mobile device, and it will finally be available for download starting tonight.Google’s Antitrust Case Is the Best Thing That Ever Happened to AIAugmented reality is a technology that has been hyped for…

Niantic’s Pokemon Go is a popular AR-based mobile game with a huge community of players. The game’s community members have reported a new problem. Pokemon Go players have expressed their discontent about two issues within the game. One of them is limited daily gifts. The players have already complained about it over the years. The other one is related to the latest event that was recently introduced in the game. Gift issues faced by Pokemon Go playersAccording to a report by DotEsports, a Reddit user started a thread that…

Things get frantic at Niantic Recent years have seen gaming studios face increasing scrutiny for how they foster their workplace environments. The latest studio to find itself under the microscope is Niantic which is responsible for the mobile AR game and runaway hit, Pokemon Go.  A lawsuit has been filed against Niantic by a former employee, and it claims that the studio has been systematically underpaying and undervaluing female employees, turning the workplace into a “Boys Club”. Image via Niantic Labs What does the…

A former Niantic employee filed a lawsuit against the AR gaming company on Friday, alleging that it devalued the work of female employees and women of color, denied equal pay to women employees and women of color. The lawsuit, which is seeking class-action status, accuses Niantic of creating a “boys club.” The employee was laid off as part of last week’s job cuts at the company, which affected about 230 staffers.The employee, who is an anonymous Jane Doe but is described in the complaint as an Asian female, started work…

Pokemon Go maker Niantic Inc. is closing its Los Angeles game studio and canceling NBA and Marvel titles in a restructuring aimed at stabilizing the company's finances.“We have allowed our expenses to grow faster than revenue,” Chief Executive Officer John Hanke wrote in an email to employees. “New projects in games and platform have not delivered revenues commensurate with those investments.” The closely held San Francisco-based metaverse darling said it will shut down its NBA All-World game and halt work on the…

The Pokémon Go studio is shuttering its Los Angeles office Niantic, the mobile developer known for games like Pokémon Go and Pikmin Bloom, is making some big cuts. The company is shuttering its Los Angeles office, closing down NBA All-World, cancelling an upcoming Marvel project, and laying off roughly 230 employees. In an email to employees, as first reported by Kotaku, Niantic CEO John Hanke says he has made the decision to narrow the company’s focus for mobile game investments. “The mobile gaming market is very mature…

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