Thursday, 10 September 2015

Pokémon and Niantic collaborate to bring augmented pocket monsters to the real world

Pokémon Go and its wearable Pokémon Go Plus bring the familiar pocket monsters to an augmented reality universe, helped to market with the augmented reality strengths of game developer Niantic, Inc.

Pokémon announced today that it will be bringing Pikachus, Mudkips, and Bulbasaurs to an entirely new realm never inhabited by Pokémon before: real life. In collaboration with Niantic, developer of the augmented-reality sci-fi game Ingress, players can expect Pokémon Go to use physical locales as settings for the otherwise familiar collecting, battling, and trading. Aiding players is a new device called the Pokémon Go Plus, which will augment the mobile game available for Android and iOS devices.

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