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06-30-2016, 12:32 PM | Topic Starter |
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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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06-30-2016, 06:42 PM | #2 |
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Will this thing ever come out?
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07-01-2016, 12:07 AM | #3 |
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07-01-2016, 12:19 AM | #4 |
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I'll probably try it out to fart around and see how far along AR has come on a simplistic scale.
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07-01-2016, 12:20 PM | #5 |
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Have you ever looked at Ingress? It is the same engine repurposed into something more easily marketed.
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07-01-2016, 01:11 PM | #6 |
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I have never heard of it. Checking it out now.
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07-02-2016, 08:31 PM | #7 |
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I was in the closed beta. This game sucks ass.
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07-06-2016, 07:52 PM | #8 |
What's up braj?
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Oh, it's on bitches
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07-07-2016, 01:49 PM | #9 |
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Imma wait till they polish it.
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07-07-2016, 02:13 PM | #10 |
Down with Nino Brown
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Severs keep going down...waste of time so far.
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07-07-2016, 02:15 PM | #11 |
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I tried it and can't get it to work at all. I'll revisit again later to see if they can deliver a functional app.
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07-07-2016, 07:18 PM | #12 |
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This has been all OVER social media the last few days. I wouldn't be surprised if they are partnered with Facebook and twitter to artificially feed people more 'stories' and posts about the game.
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07-08-2016, 09:09 AM | #13 |
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It's free and fun. My dog is enjoying her 15 miles of walks a day now lol.
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07-08-2016, 09:12 AM | #14 |
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There are about 15 gyms I can walk to and my Pidgeot is one of the highest levels possible and I've taken every single gym I've come across. I don't leave the Pidgeot at the gyms so I don't hold onto them, but I gain a shit lid of level stealing gyms from other teams. I went out at 6 am this morning and got back at 8 am and took 4 gyms along the way.
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07-08-2016, 11:17 AM | #15 | |
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