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organsnyder 6 hours ago

My son showed me how he does these quests: he points the phone at the floor and just wiggles it back and forth.

abroszka33 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Haha :D Good tip, I will try that too.

deadbabe 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Your son is a bad data point.

organsnyder 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Aww... shucks. I'm such a proud father.

Supermancho 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Bad for some goals, good for others.

FrustratedMonky 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

exactly. that is why i doubt they will get actual navigable information out of it.

pohl 4 hours ago | parent [-]

To maintain that take, wouldn't you need to offer a plausible way that Niantic managed to train their Visual Positioning System using that data if the data was all bad?

FrustratedMonky 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I guess we don't know the terms of the deal, as far as how much they paid? So maybe they didn't pay much, so whatever data they could extract was ok for the cost.

The other point from article. I took this as experimental, so maybe we'll find out later that they really couldn't get much usable data.