The surprising lessons of the "GeoGuessr" world championship
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- Опубликовано: 17 сен 2024
- Imagine landing nearly anywhere in the world without being told where you are - and still being able to pinpoint your exact location from just a few clues. A dedicated group of online players are competing at an international competition in Sweden this weekend and opened up to CBS News about how the game has changed the way they see the world.
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Didn’t think I see Geo Guesser featured on tv today
Neither did I lol!! Glad to see it getting recognition
They held their world cup in Stockholm City Hall where usually only stuff like Nobel prize events are hosted so yea they definitely made it. It's just enough real world mixed in the gaming that normal people can understand it :p
Ludwig's snowball
You would ?
Very respectful journalism on a pretty niche internet subculture. Glad geoguessr is getting some recognition!
Niche? Geoguessr has been played by 70 million people, attracts about 300k players a day. It's nowhere near "niche".
@@basapon7074 Walk outside and ask a stranger if they've heard of Geoguessr. Then ask if they've heard of Call of Duty. Or League of Legends. Or Fortnite. Repeat until you realize you're wrong
@@basapon7074 Really ? its great
Some people have never heard of football @@fullriptide, does that make it a niche sport ?
@@fullriptidebruh go easy on him. He doesn't go outside or even talk to people 😢
Wow, that's a really well prepared segment! Great to see all the guys on TV!
Exactly! I was expecting normie media to be trashy but this was very cool.
Shoutout to Geowizard the OG
my goat
Geowizard ran so that Rainbolt, blinky, zigzag could walk.
Is he recording?
Get in!
Cool story, the journalist did a good job covering a wide topic. They missed GeoWizard though and he's kind of necessary for telling the GeoGuessr story properly, though he's said recently he's turned down some opportunities involving GeoGuessr so maybe they tried to reach him.
The real OG
He’s also not American so that’s possibly a factor.
they really should've tried because I remember him making me interested about this game.
GeoGuessr just had Grand Final competition, Blinky from France vs MK from US. The Final was insane, locating points to as close as 17 meters.
wow
link?
@@Timtimzi just search geoguessr world championship. Doesnt take long.
@@Timtimzi GeoGuessr RUclips Channel
Very balanced and fair reporting on something niche and nerdy. A breath of fresh air from legacy media. Thank you.
Great to see Jake Lyons get some attention. His youtube channel has probably taken up more of my time on youtube than any other channel.
ahh yes Rainbolt - incredible detective, i love the things he does to help others locate places that mean alot to them
Finding the location of the photo gave me goosebumps, that's incredible!
GeoWizard also has a series of videos called "Geo detective" where he does it here on RUclips, it is a great watch
I find geoguesser absolutely amazing.
Same its so good!
Whoever edited this needs a raise
As a Tallinner, no - he was in fact not in Tallinn.
Was that Tartu? I've lived there for a while and that industrial area looked like the outer rim with alle the car shops and malls like the Lounakeskus.
Playing GeoGuesser had me researching Australian power companies, as the game landed me in the middle of nowhere however eventually I came across some big power lines only I had to learn which company used their configuration, as it would at least tell me what general area of Australia I was in.
Googling during the round is cheating
These guys all gonna be future CIA operatives lmao this is literally such a pool of specialized talent
Rainbolt did a test on that just for fun already. It was a pretty easy test tbf, but I think it shows they do genuinely have one of the necessary skills
“People play GeoGuessr from all over the world".
...are you expecting me to respond to that?
A true challenge is dropping them at the location IRL
They would still be good at that but they would lost some clues like the quality of the photo, watermarks, how high is the camera, or, if visible, what car is it on.
Some content creators have done that. The biggest issue is that you can't really drop them on the other side of the world or something.
For example, GeoWizard (the original Geoguessr content creator) has done it within his home country of England, while zi8gzag (the pro Geoguessr player with the biggest YT channel (Rainbolt doesn't count, he mostly promotes the game rather than playing pro himself)) did a single 'round' while visiting Germany, where a friend drove him for several hours, meaning they could reach a bunch of other countries in Europe.
Not sure if any others did it. But either way, the time they spent on the road is always a big giveaway, and things like noticing the direction of the sun while driving can also influence your thoughts.
At the end of the day, while you lose the camera quality (four generations), car meta (highly depends on country how useful it is) and a few other things, it's probably still significantly easier than the actual game itself. Also, some hints such as the car meta can be eliminated with specific zoom angles (when playing the game mode that doesn't allow moving the camera at all) or a script that integrates an overlay that hides the car entirely.
it's been done by several channels
True challenge? More like big hint.
Geowizard has a video like that
Meanwhile some NA high schoolers dont know where China is lol
Thanks to Rainbolt, I learned that my ability to recognise Mongolian grass and Christmas Island vibes isn't weird. 🙏
Those people who recognise Californian power poles and Indonesian bollards are definitely nerds though. 🤭
the closer you live to those regions the easier you can guess them, all southeast asian people should know the kind of bollards indo uses
Really love how respectful this whole segment is. They could easily have gone down the 90s "nerd" route of laughing at niche interests, but no, the reporter actually took the time to engage this topic in good faith.
"im not gonna tell you where this burger is at"
rainbolt : challenge accepted
*proceeds to get a burger menu with his name on it
fr, like what's even the point of keeping the location a secret? does the restaurant a massive disservice
@@polidon1577 it's an engagement trap and it worked. it got huge exposure to the point where it caught rainbolt's attention.
I didn't know it was his actual surname!
Compared to these guys I only skimmed the very surface of this game but I find it amazing that even I can now see one house and immediately say "Oh, right... Andorra!".
Love this game!!
thats crazy
1:05 I really love the accidental coolness of this shot where the californian pole can be seen for like a second before it switches to another perspective right as he's listing things
GEOGUESSR WC IS ON CBS!!! W!!!!!!
3 majors and 2 minors at northwestern is insane
Geo Guesser is an educational game. It's also impressive because the players are good at investigating and observing. It's not an easy game but it's fun to play and watch the players
GeoWizard and Rainbolt. The father and the son.
A certain pure pink virtual diva : **heavy breathing*
ANO QUE VEM É DO ORLANDO!! 🇧🇷🇧🇷
Kinda funny they talked about Rainbolt and CIA because that is a running joke in the community 😂
Honestly these people are such a great testament to what the human brain is capable of
I've only found one crazy thing in this game - a woman reaching to steal another woman's bag in Singapore.
That’s like the last country I’d expect that to happen
@@sambrown7673Why? There are thieves everywhere.
@@totally_not_a_bot yep even in japan, 1% is still a number that happens. no country has ever achieved 0% crime rates
@@totally_not_a_bot Higher stakes in Singapore, I imagine. You can't prevent crime entirely, but people living in fear of the authority does make a difference. The real challenge is getting that balance right.
@@zondor8123japan isnt even close to 1%. I suggest never trying to leave your bike outside
This is a good indicator of how good image based global positioning (without the need for an INS or GPS system) will get in the coming years. Things like the three stripes on lightpoles meaning it's almost certainly in CA would be learned by the model without any explicit instructions to learn it.
As of right now, pro Geoguessr players still beat general AIs such as ChatGPT. In fact, for a while there was even a dedicated Geoguessr bot which still didn't usually manage to rank above pro players in shared challenges, afaik.
But honestly, if you were to create a dedicated AI which also had database access, it could probably beat any human already. It's trivial for a database to contain ALL phone area codes in the entire world for example, something that even pro Geoguessr players tend to only know for certain areas because there are just so many. Also, just as an example, a professional botanist from the US can match up against a Geoguessr pro reasonably well in rural rounds based on the information from vegetation. There are already algorithms to recognize various forms of vegetation, all you have to do is compare them with a database of what species occur where.
What r u talking about?
@@matejnovosad9152 I'm talking about training a machine learning model to output estimated coordinates based on a whole bunch of various "street view" image datasets augmented with GPS coordinates and an estimated accuracy. It would likely only be useful for on road navigation, because there is a real lack of photo data from a "human perspective" (e.g. not satellite imagery from above).
Anyway, seems pretty doable with publicly available data without having to collect new data yourself (for a POC at least).
A similar (way simplier) system was built for cruise missiles back in the day (before GPS) that would use typographical images the missiles would take in flight and compare it to satellite or spyplane images taken previously to help augment the INS (inertial navigation system) and keep the missile following a predefined path to its target.
Hope that helps.
Why not use GPS though, it's made for positioning.
@@erik.... it is not always available or reliable in electronic interference/warfare heavy environments. I'm not talking about it being a useful thing for consumer applications. More just speculative thinking about what is quite possible to build with the tech and compute we have available today.
Did not know Jake was 24 and Rainbolt 25. I'm 23 and watch them every day, just assumed they were both in their early 30s.
I really like the covering here. Well done!
There is skill involved here and glad it helped people find lost history
I played this when it started in like 7th grade and then started playing it again with COVID and now we in the Rain bolt era
Its even more fun on VR ...where it is called Wooorld
6:45 - Westville, Durban! Not far from where I grew up. ❤
ive played this game, i highly recommend that you try it too, its fun and you can learn alot
they are big asset for law enforcement and detective cases.
MY GOAT JAKE
wow that reporter is so beautiful
Waiiit i've seen some Rainbolt geoguesser videos but didn't realize it's the same as the bagel guy
That speaker guy is literally Steve
Rainbolt is the goat
geoguessr pros now are celebs
Now I understand why Snowden doesnt take pictures near windows
Rainbolt not beating those CIA allegations XD
6:22 That's cool and all, but nothing beats a great sandwich.
Daddy rainbolt fills me up
Let this be your lesson to never post selfies from outside your actual home. The next town over is fine -- a few weeks after the fact. Watch the background, never show windows. Be careful with your online presence.
The natural career path would be an intelligence officer
we have hills -oscar
Lmao no way they showed rainbolt getting 1 point
Yeah I agree with others, a really great job with covering this! 😊
LMAO Jake Lyon. He is the best
JAKEYYYY
fungus NA news cameo, mashallah
rare W news story, hooly!! 👏
Normies when interviews Nerds in the nutshell
OMG THE CASTER SAID THE RAINBOLT IS CIA MEME XDDDD
nice story, thanks!
il parle aussi un français parfait !! GO TWOT
3:42 Launders??? on TV?
Great Big World
Bigly
Great Big World should interview him
5:05 wait what is this? This isn't on his youtube?? I'd kove to know what this is. Is he filming a show or something?
A little piece of it is on the channel Nathan Dellis, they were probably more focused on climbing than making a whole video out of it. He summited back in August 2023
Love geoguessr zi8gzag is the best channel btw
Wih, ada …
this is how Americans discovered the rest of the world lol
I had no idea this was a huge thing. But I can do this. Not nearly at the speed they can or accuracy. But there’s lots of clues as they mention. Regional clues. Things done only in certain places.
try rainbolt's daily challenges on his 2nd channel for free - the links are in his descriptions and you'll find they're more challenging than you think but still great fun!
What do you mean by "I can do this", then? If you hadn't even heard of Geoguessr before today, I assure you you can't do it the way the pros shown here can. Tens of thousands of people who have played for many many hours can't do it like that.
Maybe you're quite good with your geography or road marking and bollard identification, I don't doubt that, but do prepare to be humbled if you try, even the pros guess the wrong continent sometimes
the hard thing i when you need to guess the place in the mid of a jungle... geoguessr is very very difficult, i played and i got good at the game, but not even close to this guys, they are engines
@@HuckleberryHim Do you have issues with reading comprehension?
@@boskee He said "I can do this", which is super ambiguous and also just wrong, if he means he can do it anywhere near as well as they can. Nothing I didn't comprehend, it was a weird comment.
Is this just a result of the report or is the GeoGuesser community 100% men?
why? you wanna force some women to do something they dont have an interest in?
But we aren’t looking for any missing children?
If there was ever a case where their skills were useful in that sort of situation they'd offer to help.
rainbolt, and many other pros have done geolocation to help individuals before
As Rainbolt said himself there are people much better than him + much better equipped on top, who do this already. Besides, I'd be scared to do this. You never know, might accidently poke an "Esptein" island again and then suddenly you will get disappeared, just like what happens to people in China when they go against those "up there"
L comment. Stop implying that they are at fault for not doing something for missing children. You have positive intention but poor execution of words.
Ridiculous
@MisterCrainer @slogo clip on CBS NEWS