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Google apologizes for augmented reality game Nazi concentration camps

07/06/201507/04/2015 Julie Campbell

The tech giant has apologized for featuring the locations as a part of its Ingress mobile app. Niantic Labs, the in-house startup at Google has now released an apology after it featured Nazi concentration camps as a part of the augmented reality game for which it is best known, Ingress. The AR tech based game allows players to decide to join either the Enlightened or the Resistance teams. From there, the players of the augmented reality game can use their smartphones to be able to track down “exotic matter” that…

Augmented reality mobile app from Google boosts user capabilities

10/02/201409/29/2014 Jennifer Goula

The Ingress game is now giving its players the opportunity to create custom missions. The Google augmented reality game app called Ingress, that has achieved considerable attention in certain specific geographical areas is now expanding its possibilities and is enhancing its experience for users through the addition of more features. The Ingress game causes its players to have to choose from between two factions and capture portals. The augmented reality component of the game places these virtual portals in actual places in real life in many different cities. The two…

Augmented reality game from Google launched for iOS

07/16/201407/14/2014 Jesse Collins

The popular Ingress game for Android devices has now quietly been released for Apple smartphones and tablets. Google has now quietly released that its augmented reality game called Ingress will now finally be available to owners of iPhones and iPads, as it has now been launched in an iOS compatible game app. The Android version of the mobile game has been openly available since December. Though that release of the augmented reality game had come with an official announcement and quite a bit of excitement – after its invitation only…