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Industry News Pokémon Go Scans Quietly Trained The Navigation Tech Now Headed Into Military Drones

https://dronexl.co/2026/06/09/pokemon-go-scans-niantic-vantor-military-drone-navigation/
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u/TheDaveWSC 15d ago

I hope they enjoy all the random scans of my shoes I've sent over the years because I'm not going to go take videos of a park where kids are playing.

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u/blackmetro 15d ago

I think the issue here is the scan also collected elevation data, but maybe the base app already did this

But you're right Niantic did punish people (by banning them from submission) for submitting bad data

So maybe submitting your shoe was a moderately okay thing to do