You asked 126 😱 questions for @brianrose.bsky.social in the Reddit thread Agents! I’m just narrowing them down, combining very similar ones in to one question etc., and then will ping them over to Brian early next week along with my own questions. After that, me and Brian will chat through it!

I like this introduction idea too. I’m PkmnTrainerJ (had the name long long before Pokémon GO) and I’ll be looking for new careers come 1st November. I’ve been doing the Ingress Insights podcast since October 2023 and now Ingress is my main mobile game.

The 117th episode is now available! spotify.link/pzgWxNRnMXb

Ah, just about to wrap up the podcast, record the last section and done! Oh…the +Beta Houston results just came out? Go on then. - Me about an hour ago

Right Agents, I think…think I’ve set up a light ring and camera fine to capture some videos that won’t have my face in but will have some other videos. I might even use Riverside on Spotify to sort out the video stuff.

Huzzah. Get reporting those Invalid Portals again Agents!

This was a good campaign, not too difficult to do within the time and it felt “worth it”. My only suggestions to the @ingress.com team are to incentivise the initial purchase with some items you get right away when you buy it. Maybe an avatar for the previous Anomalies could be the next one?

After having a very short nap, Machina has been reported as returning by Agents. I’ve blown some up today but remember it may be worth blocking some in and keeping it around for Second Sunday on 9th November!

At the Kingdom Digital Twin Summit 2025 in Riyadh, Tory Smith, Director of Product Management, shared how we’re advancing Spatial AI through 3 pillars: 🧩 Reconstruct, 📍Localize, and 🧠 Understand — powering the next evolution of digital twins and real-world intelligence.

Mapping the future of cities starts here. 🌍 SF Mayor Daniel Lurie visited the Niantic Spatial office, then joined CEO John Hanke for a walk through Fisherman’s Wharf to see how geospatial AI and Niantic VPS help robots & AR glasses understand the real world.

Though the most recent episode is 116, there’s actually 151 episodes of the podcast available! This includes Inverse Insights about games like Witcher: Monster Slayer & @nianticspatial.bsky.social’s Peridot as well as some festive specials and bonuses!

If you’re a Patreon subscriber, and you’re not sure how to listen to the paid episodes within your podcast app, you can tap the three dots and choose to open in a podcast app!

Episode 116 of Ingress Insights is now up wherever you ethically source your podcasts! You can listen for results on the XM Anomalies and other @ingress.com news! spotify.link/xfrx2JouAXb

I have to say, I was really conflicted about whether to even do a Patreon for the podcast. It seems most podcasts have one right away, episode 1. I don’t think episode 1 is worth $1, so wouldn’t feel good asking for it from the get go, but approaching 2 years doing it feels okay to me now.

Our first Patreon exclusive podcast has now been added. www.patreon.com/posts/ingres... You can listen to details about all the crossover events we have had in @ingress.com and whether I think they have been any good. You can join the Patreon for $1 or $5 and it all helps support the podcast!

@ingress.com This page for Recon mentions “Controlling your experience on *Wayfarer*” so needs amending at some point but will it actually be possible. nianticspatial.helpshift.com/hc/en/8-reco...

@ingress.com I’m having issues claiming this. I already did, then noticed the second part wasn’t counting my Links so restarted and now it won’t proceed. Can you manually push it?

Hey Agents, I didn’t share my list of topics for this week as it’s been a bit hasty applying for jobs, managing family life stuff and finding a bit of time to relax. Still, episode 115 will be up tomorrow at 7:30am UK time. I’m looking forward to chatting about the Sp1d3r Web campaign next week too

Today is World Mental Health Day and I’ve talked about how I became a Mental Health First Aider here - open.spotify.com/episode/5RET... through @mhfaengland.bsky.social

Did you know, one of the ways you can support the podcast (and me!), is by buying some merch? It’s over at TeePublic, and I just added the Halloween version of the logo as an option. I’m not sure it looks as good as it can on a shirt but think the mug is great! www.teepublic.com/mug/81435112...

Celebrate Spooktober with Spider-Van and a premium campaign to make your own sp1d3r webs or Link Stars: Assignment 1 > Earn 1 VRBB • Earn 120 Glyph Points • Deploy 20 Mods • Deploy 80 Resos Assignment 2 > Earn medal • Create 240 Links • Deploy 20 Mods • Deploy 80 Resos ingress.com/news/2025-ha...

Official update from @ingress.com! ingress.com/news/2025-ha... Timed Research like Agents have been asking for. Premium Campaign tasks like Agents have been asking for. Badge awarded for completing tasks like Agents have been asking for. Also Pumpkin Spiced XM! Very much a win, Ingress! 👏

Time to switch to Halloween theme!

The @ingress.com team have updated that there’s a Hallowe’en event on the way! This sounds like it’ll be completing a series of tasks and then getting a badge for doing so which some players have been asking for, for some time. Let’s see how it works out!

Morning Agents, episode 114 is now available! open.spotify.com/episode/5XFB... The podcast is 2 years old this month, so I’m thinking of some things to celebrate (besides chatting with Brian Rose)

Hey Agents, I didn’t share a list of topics before the podcast simply because the week has been…a lot. There’s episode 114 coming tomorrow though at the usual time, then a +Beta Bitesize on Wednesday and Friday about Stealth Ops & Urban Ops respectively.

"Report Invalid Portal" fix is in-progress but will need an app update; thank you for the heads up

the embedded Google Map in Portal Nominations should now be fixed; thank you for the heads up 🫡

Hey @ingress.com @brianrose.bsky.social did something break with nominations?

We were recently alerted to a security vulnerability in Unity (the game engine we use) that affects Agents on Android, and we have a patch for this CVE in Ingress 2.175.2. Please update to the latest version of Ingress.

And now a personal note. Hey Agents, I’ve been told I’ll be made redundant from my job at the end of the month. Doesn’t affect the podcast but I had lined up a few events to go to where @nianticspatial.bsky.social were attending to cover those via press passes so that won’t happen now.

First step towards an @ingress.com web store? The team are selling an “Experimental Load Out Passcode” for $20. Check it out here - ingressmerch.myshopify.com/products/exp...

@ingress.com @brianrose.bsky.social No pumpkin spiced XM for October? 😢

Hey Agents. I’m thinking about my festive episodes for this year where some aren’t Ingress related at all. So far I’m thinking of: • Progress across other mobile games (I’ve been tracking it all year) • TV shows I’ve been watching and would recommend (new and old) • 3DS & PS5 games (again)

Today is #InternationalPodcastDay If you ever wanted to start listening to Ingress Insights right from the very first episode, today would be a great day to do it! To celebrate, I’ll share the current top 10 most played episodes of the podcast. I wonder if Brian’s episode will best them all?

I know you’re still getting it ready @ingress.com @brianrose.bsky.social but “How to submit a Portal” goes to here - nianticspatial.helpshift.com/hc/en/8-reco... when it should go to a page like this - nianticspatial.helpshift.com/hc/en/5-ingr... Wayfarer has the same issue so I can see why this is

Almost a year ago today, I was at Episode 50 of the podcast, which talked about FitRep Rewards and what Agents would want from this teased feature. It remains in the top 10 most listened to episodes of the podcast. The people still want it @ingress.com team! open.spotify.com/episode/6Ckr...

I’m after a little feedback Agents! If you listen on Spotify, it will automatically assign chapters, splitting up the podcast and naming these chapters based on what Spotify’s AI thinks is in them. Are these useful to you? Should I edit them to be more clear on what’s in the chapter?

Hey Agents, the 113th episode of Ingress Insights is now available on all good (and I assume all bad?) podcast platforms! open.spotify.com/episode/4Rrj...

As there is so much to go through for +Beta, I have broken it down in to some smaller “+Beta Bitesize” episodes. These will be out every Wednesday and Friday in October, and will be roughly 5-10 minutes long, and focus on one element of +Beta. Please do give feedback on them!

Hey Agents. It’s 3 minutes to midnight for me, and I’m just done on tomorrows episode. There’s a lot to go through, so the episode is longer than usual at about 45 minutes!

Not unexpected given the split but the official @ingress.com Campfire group will close down on September 30th 2025. The only major thing we lose is the AMA that @brianrose.bsky.social and Thia did on there,which was on the forums, but they closed too community-archive.ingress.plus/en/discussio...

We held a live AMA at Niantic Park and a question was asked about connecting with the Ingress Team, like Agents used to do on G+. We’re here on Bluesky and link to our profile from the Ingress app because it’s an open platform. It also doesn’t feature an AI waifu; I was getting worried about you.

Many thanks to the Agent Zathras for asking these questions to @brianrose.bsky.social of @ingress.com at Niantic Park today and to @eng.ingressupdates.com for compiling them in to this Brian Rose approved©️ image. I wanted to break it down in the next few posts with some views.

Niantic Spatial have shared a trailer for their newly announced partnership with Kojima Productions. Could we see these things get used in @ingress.com? 🤔 youtu.be/oKyj6CDUH64?...

My first starred Portal. I wonder if the whole (English) Alphabet set of NL vans is available yet?

+Delta all done in Cambridge. Some reading for the train back, and I noticed the book is very ENL-coloured.

Hey Agents. This weeks episode is now available - open.spotify.com/episode/01Yt... A quick one going over some of the events in the history of OPR and Wayfarer. A sort of “How did we get here?” before Recon launches later this year.

Hello Agents! I’m thrilled to share some exciting Ingress and podcast news! In November, I’ll be speaking with @brianrose.bsky.social all about @ingress.com as we get in to the Year 13 celebrations of the game. He’s agreed to take community questions, drop them - www.reddit.com/r/Ingress/s/...

Good luck to all Agents in Bali starting their +Delta Anomaly battles today! I’ve been out & interviewed the cadre for Stealth Ops at Cambridge yesterday, and will try and get a few words from Agents attending. If the RES will let me enter their after party, then I’ll get good coverage of all.