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Niantic announces “Large Geospatial Model” trained on Pokémon Go player data

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383 points bookstore-romeo | 1 comments | 19 Nov 24 20:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source
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mxfh ◴[20 Nov 24 22:33 UTC] No.42198840[source]▶
Somehow I always thought something like that would have been the ultimate use case for Microsoft Photosynth (developed from Photo Tourism research project), ideally with a time dimension, like browsing photos in a geo spatio-temporal context.

I expect that was also some reason behind their flickr bid back then.

https://medium.com/@dddexperiments/why-i-preserved-photosynt...

https://phototour.cs.washington.edu

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynth

at least any patents regarding this will also expire about 2026.

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1. josh_cutler ◴[20 Nov 24 22:46 UTC] No.42198930[source]▶
I worked on this and yes it was 100% related to the interest in Flickr. At the time Google Street had just become a thing and there was interest in effectively crowdsourcing the photography via Flickr and some of the technology behind Photosynth.