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Pokemon Go: Augmented Reality (AR) Game For Your Smart Phone
To Be The Very Best: Pokémon Enters Into Augmented Reality
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. |
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07-08-2016, 11:36 AM | #16 |
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my kid and wife couldn't get it to download yesterday. kept on saying that the server was too busy.
i may look at this a bit later. storm damage from last night is screwing with my life......
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07-08-2016, 11:51 AM | #18 |
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My daughter wants to play it. But I haven't been able to create a Pokemon Training Club account.
The page says "We're currently in the process of making Pokemon.com an even better experience for Pokémon fans! Please check back in a little while. Thanks!"
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07-08-2016, 11:54 AM | #19 |
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I have no comprehension of what the **** this is even about. I guess I am old.
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07-08-2016, 07:07 PM | #21 |
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damn xavier woods for getting me hooked.
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07-08-2016, 10:32 PM | #23 |
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no wonder you been missing for days buck
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07-09-2016, 05:53 AM | #24 |
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How long until we see some dumbass walk off a cliff or into traffic?
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07-09-2016, 07:33 AM | #25 |
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07-09-2016, 08:42 AM | #26 |
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I don't know what Pokémon is. I've had younger relatives into it, but never learned it all myself. Downloaded this last night to look at with my daughter. Looks cool, but being completely ignorant to what the point of any of it is... it's gonna take some learning for us.
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07-09-2016, 09:06 AM | #27 |
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I downloaded it for old time's sake and caught a Charmander on the way to work. I don't really have much time to fiddle with it at the moment.
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So..........this is a thing now?
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07-09-2016, 12:33 PM | #29 |
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07-09-2016, 12:49 PM | #30 |
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I went out the other day and one of them was behind a 50 y/o woman. I really wanted Char Char so I moved her slightly out of the way. She was pissed.
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