Pokemon Go Maker Niantic Working on AR Glasses
Niantic CEO John Hanke has shared a teaser image of the company’s first AR glasses. The company, known for developing Pokemon Go, has been working extensively on the augmented reality spectrum. The reveal only showed a portion of the augmented reality glasses but does not specify how the glasses will work. Niantic is best known for developing AR games like Pokemon Go, Ingress, and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. Niantic is also working with Nintendo to develop an AR-based mobile game for the popular puzzle game Pikmin.
In a recent cheep Joking about Niantic’s AR glasses, Hanke said, “It’s exciting to see the progress we’re making to enable new types of devices that take advantage of our platform. The image only showed the glasses’ temples along with a strap featuring the Niantic logo in orange. The pins appear thicker and appear to have a small speaker grille. The disclosure, however, does not specify further details about the glasses from the software developer.
Pokemon Go launched in July 2016 and has gained massive popularity ever since. It was unlike any other Pokémon game released before and had hordes of people trying to catch Pokémon placed in real-world locations. The game was hugely popular, raising $ 3.6 billion (roughly Rs. 26.3 billion rupees) in the first four years of its release, according to Sensor Tower data. Recently, due to the coronavirus outbreak, Pokemon Go adapted its gameplay to make it more stay-at-home friendly. The game now allows users to virtually meet up with friends for a Pokémon raid and the Adventure Sync feature now counts your steps even within the confines of your home.
Nintendo and Niantic announced their partnership to develop more AR-based titles in the future. The first of these will be a Pikmin-based game where users will guide Pikmin plant-like creatures to complete puzzles. Niantic launched its line of AR-based games with Ingress, a location-based game that allows users to interact with “portals” that are close to the user’s location in the real world. The game was first released in 2012 and received an update in 2018 with Ingress Prime which saw the game get better visuals and new features.
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