While I wait for an Ingress invite, I tried to figure out how to play. I found this video to be one of the better explanations.
As best as I understand it, Ingress is a geo location, augmented reality game from Google. Players of two factions, the Enlightenment and the Resistance fight to control Portals and collect the resources to do as such. Portals are typically at statues, works of art and other interesting areas and public locations. The idea is to get people out and explore their area, sort of like Geocaching and WhereIGo and other GPS based games, though tossing in a good bit of social networking and gaming to make it interesting than just a Check In via FourSquare. I'm sure it helps Google's location data as well...
I got interested in it the other day when looking at some of the XKCD strips I missed and saw one about
Location and being confused followed it with an
explanation of the strip. The
trailer for the game was already Sifted.
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RFlaggsays...Thought it would do it automatically since I linked it in the description... *related=http://videosift.com/video/Ingress-Its-time-to-Move
siftbotsays...Ingress - It's time to Move has been added as a related post - related requested by RFlagg.
Trancecoachsays...Got my invite a couple days ago!
This video is very helpful. Thanks!
Yogisays...I keep hearing how this is going live...don't worry it'll be line in two weeks...next week...tomorrow. Months go by and still no Ingress, I've about given up on going outside completely!
siftbotsays...Moving this video to RFlagg's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.
quietlyhardcoresays...Been playing for over a month now. Tons of fun.
dagsays...Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag.(show it anyway)
No iPhone? That's unpossible.
poolcleanersays...OC Resistance!! If you get in and you're in socal, hit me up. #Irvine Resistance #OC Resistance #OC Legends
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