8 Stats That Sum Up What We Learned at Mobile World Congress

Including Pokemon Go, AI, VR and connected cars

BARCELONA, Spain—More than 108,000 people descended on Barcelona this week for Mobile World Congress, which wrapped up today. Here are eight stats that grabbed our attention.

1. Pokemon Go is far from dead
During the conference’s keynote with Ninantic CEO John Hanke, the company behind the game, it was revealed that the app has driven more than 500 million visits to 35,000 sponsored IRL locations.

Moreover, users have walked more than 8.7 billion kilometers and caught 88 billion Pokemon characters.

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