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listopencil · 06-30-2016, 12:32 PM

To Be The Very Best: Pokémon Enters Into Augmented Reality

June 30, 20169:01 AM ET
Gabriel Rosenberg

Halfway through your walk to school, a wild Charmander appears. Just a few throws of a Pokéball, and it could be yours. Will you stop to catch it? Nintendo is betting you will. Not just that, they're betting that you've waited most of your life to see a Pokémon in the real world. Pokémon Go — the upcoming iOS and Android app from Nintendo, The Pokémon Co., and developer Niantic Labs — promises to let anyone with a smart phone "find" and train the diverse creatures of Pokémon all around them. For aspiring Trainers, it could be an entirely new way to interact with a now 20-year-old franchise. For these companies, though, Pokémon Go — which launches for free sometime in July — offers the biggest opportunity yet to bring augmented reality into the mainstream, a chance to prove not only that AR technology is ready for people, but that people are ready for AR.

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechc...-the-very-best

I thought it was an interesting idea, AR rather than VR. I've seen lots of apps that kind of do this already-mostly playing with pictures to add makeup or special effects. I'm not fond of the Pokemon craze but a Google Maps type of integration and ( I assume) a way of monetizing the app by opening it up to sponsored locations sounds intriguing.

Valiant · 07-13-2016, 04:46 PM

It is getting basement dwellers to exercise.

Will be interesting to see how they keep people hooked and playing though. Or micro transactions.

ThaVirus · 07-13-2016, 05:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Valiant

It is getting basement dwellers to exercise.

Will be interesting to see how they keep people hooked and playing though. Or micro transactions.

If they enable you to fight friends outside of a gym they could make a shit ton more money

Fish · 07-13-2016, 09:44 PM

Fish · 07-13-2016, 11:15 PM

BleedingRed · 07-14-2016, 07:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Fish

Lmao it is amazing that Pokemon GO is literally getting kids to go outside. This concept of AR should be applied to other games.

It's amazing how far Video Games have come. The old adage "Go outside and play instead of playing games inside" wont be the norm come the future.

seaofred · 07-14-2016, 03:37 PM

Something interesting about this game:

https://www.corbettreport.com/the-ci...riot-act-cant/

"The maker of the app? Niantic Labs. Never heard of them? That’s because until last year they were an internal start-up of none other than Google, the NSA-linked Big Brother company. Even now Google remains one of Niantic’s major backers. Niantic was founded by John Hanke, who also founded Keyhole, Inc., the mapping company which was created with seed money from In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital arm, and which was eventually rolled into Google Maps.

So yes, the Pokémon game currently taking the internet by storm (and scooping up all their data, including activities, movements and communications) was created by a CIA-linked businessman who gestated his company at Google.

Feeling safe yet?

As it turns out, the big, bad Big Brother Spies of the NSA and the DHS and the CIA don’t really need their Patriot Act powers, after all. All the powers-that-shouldn’t-be need to do is create a fun, shiny trinket for the people to play with and they will literally pay for their own surveillance.

Welcome to the “Matrix Economy,” where people pay to spy on themselves…and have fun doing it!"

Fish · 07-16-2016, 07:43 PM

Fish · 07-16-2016, 07:44 PM

Sully · 07-16-2016, 07:47 PM

KChiefs1 · 07-17-2016, 12:06 PM

I've seen people walking around blindly doing this. It's actually funny as hell to watch.

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listopencil · 07-17-2016, 08:23 PM

So I'm in Sacramento visiting my sister and my daughter. I tried firing up the app and I was surprised to see how many locations popped up. My daughter told me that several businesses are staying open later because of the increased foot traffic. A lot of them are running specials based on the game.

WhawhaWhat · 07-18-2016, 06:11 AM

ThaVirus · 07-18-2016, 06:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Fish

Not really. Some are much worse than others. Some apps like Facebook Messenger and Pokemon Go have considerably more access than other apps. Plus the way they go about their access is really shoddy and needs fixing.

Info: http://www.howtogeek.com/262402/poke...oogle-account/

So is this access allowance ended once you delete the app and all of its data?

Pasta Little Brioni · 07-18-2016, 08:24 AM

It's fun catching a 20ish girl obviously playing and the look of shame when caught is priceless

**loochy** · 07-18-2016, 08:58 AM

Someone needs to plant a pokeygym or pokeyman in the middle of a BLM rally

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