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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 game from Google to leave beta soon

11/07/201311/04/2013 Julie Campbell

Ingress has already become very popular and it will experience its official launch on December 14. The augmented reality game called Ingress, from Niantic Labs at Google has been available to mobile gamers in the beta form for just over a year, during which time it has become quite popular. Last Friday, the game eliminated its requirement for invitations in order to add players. Now, Niantic has revealed that this augmented reality game will lose its beta status and move on as a full scale experience on December 14, 2013.…

Augmented reality game from Google, Ingress, headed to iOS

10/16/201310/14/2013 Julie Campbell

Next year, the highly popular mobile gaming experience will be available to iPhone users. An augmented reality game from Google, called Ingress, will no longer be exclusive to Android device users, next year, say the latest reports, as a new version of the game will be released for iOS users. The game allows people from two teams try to capture various “portals” (physical locations). The purpose is to be able to capture this territory in the real world in order to be able to enclose the various areas and claim…