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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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Lmao everyone plays now!
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My daughter gets paid to play it for her job. Companies are trying to incorporate it into their social media and content marketing.
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I don't understand the Pokemon fascination. It's boring. I don't have those collector instincts.
That being said, I super don't care if people enjoy things. Especially things that get them outside, moving around, exploring their community and helping local economies. |
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Oh yeah. Poke-hook-ups are a thing. I was almost captured by a young Hmong lady in Sacramento last Sunday night.
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OK. You don't know what you're talking about because you don't have kids, so you're just mouthing those generalizations that older people use that pretty much only amount to: Get off my lawn!
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