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Google Launches Ingress, a Worldwide Mobile Alternate Reality Game

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Re: Google Launches Ingress, a Worldwide Mobile Alternate Reality Game

#101

[Edit: Looks like I currently have no invites left. As I get more, I'll give them out and update this post.] I think I have a few invites to give out. Let me know if you'd like one. P.S. I'm Resistance using the name drew

ilanco gmail.com, if you've got an invite to spare. Thanks.

Re: Google Launches Ingress, a Worldwide Mobile Alternate Reality Game

#102

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evgenith gmail com

Re: Google Launches Ingress, a Worldwide Mobile Alternate Reality Game

#103

[Edit: Looks like I currently have no invites left. As I get more, I'll give them out and update this post.] I think I have a few invites to give out. Let me know if you'd like one. P.S. I'm Resistance using the name drew

jay at jp hyphen hosting dot net

Thanks anyone! :)

Re: Google Launches Ingress, a Worldwide Mobile Alternate Reality Game

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I find it odd there is no discussion about what Google's motivation/business case is for Ingress. Reddit user Sharper_pmp has a compelling theory that it's an attempt to collect pedestrian route data to compete with Nokia's newly announced turn-by-turn routes for pedestrians. He also brings up instances in the past where Google has created mutually beneficial ways to have people voluntarily build their data sets.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/138res/google_launc...

Re: Google Launches Ingress, a Worldwide Mobile Alternate Reality Game

#105
There's some nice discussion about Google's possible motivations for doing this here: http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/138res/google_launc...

Granted, speculation, but rather convincing.

>TL;DR: Whatever the plot's about, the point of it is to quickly and cheaply build an unrivaled corpus of pedestrian-accessible routes, locations and journey-times for the next generation of foot-enabled Google Maps and Navigation apps

Edit seems that user 'rescripting' somewhere above has already made a reference to that discussion.

Re: Google Launches Ingress, a Worldwide Mobile Alternate Reality Game

#106

I like the underlying customer cause here - Let's get people off their chairs, on to the streets and meeting each other. Let's create interestingness in the mundane. Let's create a world which rewards interaction. A lovely antidote to the trend for us to all walk around with heads down, checking the latest irrelevancy on our smartphones.

It's also about spotting the beautiful in your surroundings; rather than just interestingness in the mundane, Ingress draws attention to art that you may not ever have looked at before despite walking past it every day. I've discovered a number of statues and sculptures while beta testing it that I genuinely had never noticed before.

Re: Google Launches Ingress, a Worldwide Mobile Alternate Reality Game

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post #50

I've been so waiting for something like this. While I'm expecting to be disappointed by this early effort the idea is exciting and something that was inevitable. There was a great anime series that sadly doesn't have distribution in the US called Denno Coil[1] that is required viewing for anyone interested in augmented reality. The series follows a group of kids in a city that grow up with Google Glasses type functio…

Interesting. Decent rank on AniDB too: http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=4345

I'll definitely give it a shot. Thanks!

Re: Google Launches Ingress, a Worldwide Mobile Alternate Reality Game

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post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I wonder if Grey Area is involved with this?

Not the first to, shall we say, draw extensive inspiration from shadow cities: http://qonqr.com/ There is so little shame in the industry anymore, but it is admittedly a very difficult task to be creative in a gaming startup. Competition is a good thing I guess. I'd hate to be competing with Google though. Their fanboi base is suffuse with a devotion that borders on unquestioning faith which plays well in the gaming…

Did World of Fourcraft predate Shadow Cities? http://mashable.com/2011/06/29/world-of-fourcraft/

Re: Google Launches Ingress, a Worldwide Mobile Alternate Reality Game

#110
This looks really interesting to me. Fascinating to see more augmented reality concepts being pushed out. I am interested to see if this will eventually be tied in with glass. Google really seems to be pushing towards ubiquitous computing lately.

Can't wait to try it out if I get an invite from them.

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