Inside Ingress, Google’s new augmented-reality game
Google reveals a strange new game from its Niantic Labs project
November 19, 2012
Ingress on Android (credit: Google)
“What is the Niantic Project?” asked a teaser video. Now we know the answer: the Niantic Project is a game called Ingress, CNET reports.
Ingress is a world in which two shadowy sides are vying for dominance: the Enlightened, who are trying to establish portals around the world that will let them control people’s minds, and the Resistance, who are trying to stop them.
The game takes the form of a free mobile app, now available on the Google Play store for Android devices. It is the second product from Niantic Labs, a startup accelerator within Google. …
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Comments (5)
by granddoctor
I dont get invite yet but now im using app that looks bit similar to this one. Its called street quest – run is a game, but you dont need any invite etc. its free on store.
It have lots of events and special goals called achievements for which you get medals and can compere yours progress with friends. One of my personal best apps.
by mauro la spisa (@malaspi)
Wow! Thank Google! So I can to kill in the illusion! Ingress than an auto-Ypcress and personaliity destruction for an very bad and cripto-crime!
by klaatu
I’ve been talking and using the terms “hacking the human brain”
for a long time now on my blog “The Unpossible File”.
Right wing paranoids (da gumment is out to get me & ma gunns)
should go even crazier
than they “normally” do & snap it up.
of support
by anthrobotic
Why does Google do all this stuff outside of their business model?
Maybe it really isn’t?
“Google’s 100,000 Stars & the Paradigmatic Disruption of Large-Scale Innovation Revisited” http://goo.gl/EOh2V
-Reno at Anthrobotic.com
by Chris MacCabe
Just got the invite today!!! Only spent two hours so far, but its fun! Resist those that would change things for the worst! Oh, and good walkthrough at IngressPortal.com