Archives - January 2015

23
Jan

The Day That Changed Augmented Reality

  Today in Ingress History:  Game Changer!  On the same day that a mysterious coded map appeared on the Internet on January 23, 2013, Ingress agents in Seattle decoded it. Then Resistance leader Kira Kroger shattered the boundaries of augmented reality itself by crashing the physical offices of @lantis Media.  The decrypted printout she presented at reception was then brought upstairs to the …

23
Jan

Ingress Island Map

  Today in Ingress History:  Ingress Island.  On January 23, 2013, a coded map was released to the world ahead of the introduction of new hero Hank Johnson and his first Ingress adventure with Conrad “Raising Atlantis” Yeats in the forthcoming novella The Alignment Ingress.     Resistance Forces Free Secret Map of “Ingress Island” from @lantis Media …

15
Jan

10M Downloads Later

In April of 2013 Google’s Niantic Labs published it’s first-ever fiction with the No. 1 ebook novella The Alignment Ingress by New York Times bestselling author Thomas Greanias.  Since then its associated augmented reality game Ingress has been downloaded by more than 10 million people. Now the award-winning followup novella, The Niantic Project by the fictional Felicia Hajra-Lee, …