of course, Ingress is based on the exotic matter created at CERN which opened portals into an alternate dimension, Niantic Project discovered that this Exotic Matter (XM) is pooling at pieces of art and human historic sites, XM is thought to be evolving humans to the next stage of evolution (Enlightened) and some think XM is being used by aliens from the other dimension trying to control humans and so are fighting back (Resistance)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8dp8eBr2Tg
Biting the hand that feeds IT
