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An Augmented Reality Game Escalated into Real-World Spy Warfare

by jcurbo on 10/5/19, 8:27 PM with 5 comments

• by ccvannorman on 10/6/19, 1:17 PM

  Click bait.

  It wasn't "real world spy warfare", which makes me think of Hong Kong protests vs China. It's literally just players cheating at a massive scale in a real world game by (in some cases) stalking others and taking the game too seriously.

  A good read though, if you're into AR games.

• by heyitsguay on 10/7/19, 2:25 AM

  I was hoping this would be something like a nation state manipulating an AR app's reward locations to pick up images or audio from hacked phones. Has anyone tried that yet?

• by throwaway_bad on 10/6/19, 1:57 PM

  I love these gaming story. Reminds me of the EVE online stories which also have crazy espionage going on.