Google Inc.

Niantic, Inc.

Madoka Katayama

Erika Yamasaki

Taj J Campbell

John V Hanke

Tatsuo Nomura

Hiroki Asakawa

Motoki Yano

Chihiro Kanno

Yuki Sonoda

Kousuke Kawahira

Kentaro Morikawa

Shunsuke Uematsu

Bocong Cheng

A system provides an augmented reality (AR) experience in a parallel-reality application in which a geography of a virtual world parallels a geography of the real world. The system receives a connection request from a client device and receives a route that the client device traversed in the real world. The route comprises a plurality of locations in the real world. The system determines a plurality of virtual locations to place virtual elements at, where each virtual element corresponds to a location in the real world of the route. The system updates a global state of the AR experience to include the plurality of virtual elements at the plurality of virtual locations. The system provides, to a second client device, AR data including some of the virtual locations for display of some of the virtual elements at the corresponding locations in the real world.

Multi-user route tracking in an augmented reality environment

Display screen with animated graphical user interface

Mobile computing device with a graphical user interface with schematic representation of geographic locations

Display screen or portion thereof with a transitional graphical user interface component for identifying current location

Computer-implemented methods and systems of displaying location entity information associated with the current geographic location of a mobile device include obtaining data indicative of a current geographic location of the mobile device and providing map imagery of a geographic area associated with such current location. A first interface element is provided for display on the map imagery at a location indicative of the current geographic location of the mobile device. A location entity is determined as a best match from a list of nearby location entities and a second interface element providing information about the determined location entity is provided for display on the map imagery. Data indicative of user selection of one or more of the first and second interface elements can be received. Upon selection, a separate display area including information about the determined location entity is automatically provided for display.

Systems and methods of generating and displaying location entity information associated with the current geographic location of a mobile device

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Madoka Katayama