Millions of Pokémon Go players who spent years scanning their surroundings for in-game rewards allegedly unknowingly contributed to a highly detailed navigation system developed by Niantic Spatial, a U.S.-based company spun out of the original Pokémon Go developer, that is now set to be used in military drones and robots, Trouw reports.
The only new thing for me in this article was learning that Niantic started calling themselves game developers in 2025, ending the one thing I could respect them for (self identifying as a data collection company).