Pokémon Go players’ 30 billion scans trained navigation tech now bound for military drones, via Niantic Spatial’s defense partnership with Vantor.

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    3 天前

    I never turned on AR, sounds like a battery waster.

    And I have had the same, “Scan thisnPokestop” task sitting since they launched the feature.

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        You could turn off your camera permissions, it would just prevent you from using AR mode which most people didn’t use anyway because it took way longer to load than the typical catch screen and drained your battery

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        3 天前

        The article is talking about the scan pokestops feature, which is an explocit mechanic where you walk around something holding your camera pointed at it.