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Podcast: Software Engineering Daily
Episode: Niantic Real World with Paul Franceus (Repeat)
Description: Originally published June 21, 2019Niantic is the company behind Pokemon Go, an augmented reality game where users walk around in the real world and catch Pokemon which appear on their screen.The idea for augmented reality has existed for a long time. But the technology to bring augmented reality to the mass market has appeared only recently. Improved mobile technology makes it possible for a smartphone to display rendered 3-D images over a video stream without running out of battery.Ingress was the first game to come out of Niantic, followed by Pokemon Go...