"New big event in Germany and other things on the horizon"

#PokemonGO: Dear travelers,Yesterday there was a small 5G conference in Berlin where (amongst others) Omar Téllez (vice president business development @niantic) and Michael Jones (Strategic Advisor @niantic) spoke. The conference was mainly about the implications of 5G (the new mobile internet standard - see https://ift.tt/1vXoSf1). A fellow redditor /u/thw31416 attended and shared notes (in German) in a local group and he gave me permission to share it here.Niantic will host a big event in Dortmund, Germany, this summer. They are expecting up to 100,000 players to attend. Apparently it wasn't specifically mentioned that it'd be about pokemon go, but overall it sounded like it.As before, they stressed the point that the development of new features for pokemon go has only recently begun, because the huge user base forced them to address a lot of other things for the first 1 1/2 years. They did mention a couple of concepts that are on the horizon:in-game communication. They are considering direct chats or "boards" for specific locations.‎ transferring items like potions in-game or via social media. Pokemon trading was NOT mentioned.‎personalized pokemon encounters: missing dex-entries could randomly spawn somewhere close to the player with a notification that it has spawned. The pokemon would then only be available for that specific player. If one continues to ignore such notifications, they will become rarer.‎spoofing: they will do everything in their power to ban spoofing and spoofers. They will be using algorithms and possibly include provider information (where legal).5G-location: in the very long term they'd like to be able to rely on 5G locations instead of GPS. This would also save battery, as phones have to connect to the transmitters anyway.Lastly, Niantic is planning to open an office in Germany and is starting to recruit for that and they will possibly add more events in Germany in the future.edit(1): added the info that the two speakers were working for niantic. And added a tiny explanation for 5G via /r/TheSilphRoad https://ift.tt/2GDTHzy