How Google’s latest game gives a glimpse of our augmented-reality future

Google’s Niantic Labs is doing a transmedia project with novelist and discredited memoirist James Frey. It’s an intriguing partnership that, like Frey’s books, plays fast and loose with notions of what the “truth” is.

The difference is that Frey presented his first books as nonfiction accounts of his struggles with drug addiction. Niantic’s next project with Frey, by contrast, is a fictional battle between 12 ancient tribes and a race of malignant, manipulative aliens.