Google Niantic’s Ingress augmented-reality game grows with real-time events

Google’s Niantic Labs has been experimenting with an augmented-reality mobile-only game called Ingress for nearly a year. And now Ingress is gathering momentum thanks to real-time events in cities across the globe, including an event that stretched across six cities last weekend.

Augmented-reality games overlay a fictional virtual environment atop the real world, and Ingress is a step into a future, where augmented reality is common and playable across wearable computing devices such as Google Glass.