“It’s time to go outside and explore, and reconnect with one another and show the world your face again. “Have you ever passed somebody on the street and wondered what their story is?” JR wrote in a statement. Niantic’s technology allows users to add their own JR-style portraits or voice messages to specific public locations, adding to those of everyone else who have made the same pilgrimage. JR is known for pasting giant photos of people in public places. One of the first projects created with the new map’s technology is a collaboration with the artist JR and the art company Superblue called JR Reality. There they might create virtual animals that hide behind park benches plaques for public statues delving into forgotten histories or mobile characters “painted on the ground showing the path to your destination,” says Hanke.
Independent AR developers will now have access to the technology-starting free in beta-on a platform called Lightship. The most developed parts of the map are in dense city centers where they’ve collected the most data, including San Francisco, London, Tokyo, and New York City. The map was created by culling more than a hundred million video snippets from Niantic players (who opted into sharing their screens), developers and surveyors.
We can start putting virtual things into the world that are attached to the right parts of that physical world,” he said in an interview. His company’s new 3D map will allow developers to see exactly how their users move through the world and view their surroundings, which Hanke says is a key step towards “opening this science fiction reality we dream about. For example, in the future, you might be able to see directions to your destination overlaid on the streets as you walk them, via smart glasses or you could look at a building site and see its history and past architectural incarnations. Niantic CEO John Hanke believes that AR will continue to be incorporated into everyday life in increasingly sophisticated ways. Instagram and Snapchat filters, for example, allow you to alter your appearance, voice, or the surrounding scenery. All Rights Reserved.AR consists of digital elements that appear within real-world environments, which can be seen either through one’s phone or smart glasses (like the defunct Google Glass). All content of the Dow Jones branded indices © S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC 2019 and/or its affiliates. Standard & Poor's and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Chicago Mercantile Association: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. Factset: FactSet Research Systems Inc.2019. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes.
"Whatever the next application that has a lot of users you're going to have a lot of people trying to figure out how to take advantage." "Part of their growing pains will be to experience this kind of thing," he said.
It turned down a reported $3 billion dollar buyout offer from Facebook ( FB).Īpps like Snapchat that quickly grow in popularity are often in a rush to gain market share without having proper security in place, Haley says. Last year, security researchers also found ways for hackers to recover supposedly deleted photos.īut Snapchat usage has exploded. The app has come under fire for a security flaw that exposed usernames and phone numbers. The spam problem is just the latest on a long list of Snapchat's growing pains.
"The shady people get a commission for each install they generate, and they turn to spam to do it," he said. Though some are aware of the tactics, many app makers don't even know they're partnering with spammers. It's a common tactic, according to Tom Ritter, a researcher at security company iSEC. in essence they fool users or trick them into downloading this application and now the mobile application vendor has a lot of new users." "The vendor of the application doesn't really care how they do it, so they can come up with some creative ways.
"They're getting paid to get users to download this application," Haley speculates. Instead, the perpetrators are the firms the app makers hire to help increase downloads. Haley says the mobile app developers aren't likely behind the scam.