Join pick a side and join the battle for control of previous Exotic Matter in this modern revival of the 2013 location-based AR game.
In 2013, San Francisco-based software company Niantic launched Ingress, a cutting-edge location-based AR mobile game that had players choose one of two factions and battle others in a geocaching game of capture the flag. Using OpenStreetMap alongside Google Maps, the app revealed a secret digital battlefield that existed over the real-world, allowing a small, but dedicated community of players to duke it out in digital turf wars.
Ingress, at the time was considered merely a ‘proof of concept’, quietly fell