Interested in how to bring AI into the real world to solve fundamental human challenges.
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John Hanke retweeted
Awesome!
Hyper Reality の Keiichi Matsuda @keiichiban がひきいるLiquid Cityと、コジマプロダクション、Niantic Spatialで何が生まれるのか、もう少しお待ち下さい…！
John Hanke retweeted
日本のIngressアップデート、第26～30チェックポイント。現在スコア：ENL 7,126,613、RES 6,775,156。残り24時間。
okonomi0421 🔵は滝本地区集会所を軸に、この区間最大の82,055 MUを展開。78,176 MU、75,258 MU、75,040 MU、74,184 MUも重ね、上位五層で計384,713 MUを構築し、すべてをチェックポイント検証まで維持した。
ダンゴムシ周辺では、miyomiyoy 🔵が3,875 MU、2,444 MU、1,799 MUの三層を相次いで構築。これに対しgocham 🟢が全層を検証前に切断し、合計8,118 MUのスコア加算を封じる集中対抗作戦を完遂した。
DATESHI 🔵は別の高密度な現地活動として計1,536件を記録し、その内訳には破壊行動809件、リンク構築358件、コントロールフィールド構築188件が含まれた。二つの主要作戦とは異なる、一人のエージェントによる継続的な行動として際立っている。 #ingress #ingressJP
John Hanke retweeted
台灣 Ingress 更新，第 26–30 檢查點。目前分數：ENL 73,854；RES 672,544。距週期結束尚餘 24 小時。
ARED05 🔵以「普照寺」為支點建立 +127,524 MU 控制場並守至檢查點，隨後再於「狗狗石頭」投出 +43,503 MU 並成功留存；兩面合計 171,027 MU，成為反抗軍（RES）🔵本窗口最醒目的計分成果。
Oyomom 🔵在「鐵盾之門」建立的 +26,951 MU 控制場順利通過檢查點；KingsleyW 🔵則於「風力發電機」與「造景」分別投出 +25,530、+25,083 MU，合計 50,613 MU 全數留存，持續推升週期平均 MU。此報告僅涵蓋第 26 至第 30 檢查點，仍屬部分觀測。
Black0203 🔵另以高密度地面行動記錄共 407 次可觀測行動，其中包括連線173件、控制場建立131件、傳送門佔領75件；這段持續投入不同於前兩項主要行動，呈現另一位探員獨立而明確的現場貢獻。 #ingress
John Hanke retweeted
Ingress update for the Bay Area for checkpoints 26–30. Current score: ENL 2,365,874; RES 209,338. 24 hours remaining.
d0gboy 🟢 delivered the defining operation, anchoring five Enlightened layers through CT’s Fire Pit and First Street Center. The fields—four at CT’s Fire Pit and one at First Street Center—totaled 639,023 MU, and all survived checkpoint verification to enter the Septicycle average.
At Little Free Library, dreamsfish 🔵 completed a valid 48 MU field, but Eyot808 🟢 destroyed it before the checkpoint, keeping those Resistance MU outside the score. Regionwide, agents generated 13,032 events across 1,268 distinct portals; pokemountainh2 🔵 led the operational pace with 610 actions.
Iorad 🟢 supplied a separate high-tempo run with 531 observed actions, including 424 teardowns, 105 portal captures and 2 deployments, adding a distinct agent-level effort beyond the two headline operations. #ingress
John Hanke retweeted
Global Ingress update for checkpoints 26–30. Current score: ENL 32,911,541; RES 34,052,402. 24 hours remaining.
Agent SeiLaMiaLuce 🔵 delivered the window’s defining operation at 寿石, anchoring a 714,102 MU field and keeping it standing through checkpoint verification. It was the largest listed scoring field across checkpoints 26–30, placing all 714,102 MU into the septicycle average.
The sharpest opposing-faction denial came at Space Invader: Agent Morka 🟢 threw a 15,341 MU field, but Agent mandi59 🔵 destroyed it before verification, keeping those MU out of the checkpoint average. Elsewhere, Agent C1T2M3 🟢 cleared three fields by Agent JWMarriott 🔵 at Tượng Đức Mẹ Maria before their checkpoint moments, denying a combined 30,532 MU.
weakji 🔵 supplied a separate high-tempo run with 2,042 observed actions, including 1060 teardowns, 488 links and 327 portal captures, adding a distinct agent-level effort beyond the two headline operations. #ingress
John Hanke retweeted
A fly that is a fly, its own connectome brain, perceiving the real room through its own senses with power of AR now have digital 🪰
Flow:
Spectacles(retina + rays + hands) → (room inventory) → sense channels → MaleCNS brain → DNs + motor pools → Specstacles → wings, legs, head
@specsfordevs #fly
John Hanke retweeted
Gaussian splats look impressive—but robotics needs more than photorealism.
Niantic Spatial generates an aligned collision mesh alongside every Gaussian splat, creating machine-readable digital twins with accurate geometry, depth, and collision awareness.
Built for Spatial AI, Physical AI, and simulation in @NVIDIARobotics Isaac Sim.
Learn more: hubs.ly/Q04sPvBf0
#GaussianSplats #SpatialAI #PhysicalAI #3DGS #3DReconstruction #AI #ComputerVision
John Hanke retweeted
🤖 Closing the sim-to-real gap for humanoid robotics.
Join @NianticSpatial, @FlexionAI, and @NVIDIARobotics live on Aug 12 (11am PST/ 7pm BST): turn real-world captures into photorealistic 3D Gaussian environments, then train humanoids with RL in Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab.
🗓️ Register: hubs.ly/Q04sspk70
#Robotics #PhysicalAI #3DGS
John Hanke retweeted
Rick Rubin’s House on the Mountain test:
Create according to your own taste, not for applause, critics, algorithms, or market demand.
“Imagine going to live on a mountaintop by yourself, forever. You build a home that no one will ever visit. Still, you invest the time and effort to shape the space in which you’ll spend your days. The wood, the plates, the pillows—all magnificent. Curated to your taste.”
“This is the essence of great art. We create our art so we may inhabit it ourselves.”
“I'm willing to go to extremes to make the thing that I want to inhabit and it's not for anyone else. it's just for me.”
John Hanke retweeted
In 2016, Cyan Banister (@cyantist) went around telling anyone who would listen that everyone was about to be catching invisible Pokémon in the street.
The response was unanimous: she was insane.
She had arrived at the conviction through observation. Her friends were playing an obscure geolocation game called Ingress and the obsession was unmistakable.
When Google spun out Niantic, she moved immediately. What followed was, in her words, the closest humanity has come to world peace: strangers converging in parks, crossing boundaries, catching the same invisible things.
The lesson she draws is simple: human obsession is a signal; most investors never notice it.
Investor Cyan Banister (@cyantist) has backed SpaceX, Uber, Niantic, and Flock Safety. A majority of those investments did not emerge from a formal meeting.
Uber traced back to a conviction that the taxi medallion system was a racket. Niantic grew out of watching friends charter helicopters for an obscure geolocation game. Flock Safety materialized from reading the public WiFi list at a Four Seasons cafe.
Her method is not a framework. It is attention: a lifelong habit of noticing bottlenecks, tracking human obsessions, and poking at reality until it reveals something others missed.
In this conversation, she covers:
• Why the taxi medallion system was the real Uber insight
•How she found a $7 billion company on a public wifi list
• The Biz, Tizz, and Rizz framework for identifying legendary founders
• Why the age of the polymath is arriving faster than most people expect
• How brain-computer interfaces are surfacing thoughts from two weeks prior
• Why she believes vibe manufacturing will mint the largest wave of new millionaires in a generation
The signals she is reading now are worth understanding.
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(00:00) Intro
(03:51) Never playing the game you appear to be playing
(07:18) Practicing childlike wonder as a daily discipline
(10:08) Questioning belief after her stroke
(13:30) Cyan’s metaphysical experiments
(23:24) Non-local consciousness and creativity
(27:22) Investing with extreme openness to signals
(29:05) The importance of timing in investing
(32:26) Meeting Travis Kalanick
(34:19) Finding Flock Safety through a chance encounter
(38:23) The summer of Pokémon Go (what worked and what didn’t)
(39:55) Human nature and what makes something "stick"
(42:15) Brain-computer interfaces and AI’s accelerating effect
(52:53) “Biz, Tiz, Riz:” her framework for evaluating founders
(59:20) Why Cyan lives in a retirement community part-time
(1:03:50) A unique way of finding books that speak to you
(1:08:44) Final meditations
Enjoyed discussed around the intersection of world models, large geo models, and spatial-temporal models with @mbaierlentz and @PimDeWitte and the different (and I think complementary) approaches being taken by @NianticSpatial and @gen_intuition.
John Hanke retweeted
Last week at @TEDAISF, we brought together leaders in AI, robotics, and spatial technologies to explore how real-world AI is taking shape—connecting humans and machines in the world we share.
⭐ Watch panel recordings: hubs.ly/Q03SSsmY0
John Hanke retweeted
Snap Inc. & Niantic's New Partnership Could be a Big Moment for City-scale AR Positioning and Experiences
Read the report 👇 roadtovr.com/snapchat-nianti… @Snapchat @NianticSpatial
Fun discussion on the future of geospatial AI, robotics and humanity's connection to the real world: youtube.com/watch?v=VTeKbJ2o…
John Hanke retweeted
🌍 Step Into the Scaniverse through your Meta Quest browser and explore real places in stunning 3D.
👉 Built in Niantic Studio - see how we did it: bit.ly/49CgEhx
John Hanke retweeted
Sabe quando bate uma nostalgia? Os dias de City Safari em São Paulo foram incríveis. Se desse para voltar no tempo... O tempo não volta, mas sabe o que volta?
A vontade de participar de muitos eventos! Não percam o GO Tour: Unova - Global, em Fortaleza nos dias 01 e 02 de março!
