Pokémon GO and augmented reality games: what’s their future?
Currently, around the internet today is the Pokémon Go game, despite getting launched just a few years ago. Pokémon Go is one of the few games that has integrated augmented reality in its development. The gaming-industry is appreciating the new frontier Pokémon Go is taking the industry. The Niantic developed game is arguably one of the set pacers in the sector regarding tech and game. Pokémon is quite popular, and it’s estimated that the game attracts close to 20 million players each day. The integration of augmented reality into the Pokémon Go app works quite fine as most players use mobile phones that are super compatible with this technology.
Augmented reality has revolutionized and expanded the gaming-industry allowing an extra room to create more fields and characters for the gamers, such as enabling Augmented reality gamers freedom to add battlefield or playground. Such abilities are not available in games that have not embraced augmented reality in their game development.
When Pokémon Go got introduced with augmented reality at the center of its development, a few Pokemon Go Craze moments locked the world, including a few accidents with drivers playing games and pedestrians getting knocked out on the streets. Media highlights were discrediting the use of augmented reality as dangerous, particularly in the gaming industry. It is meant to give a negative public opinion on the safety of this technology. However, augmented reality is cementing its use in the gaming industry, and gamers are accepting the new trend quite well and term the few incidences as isolated.
The adoption of augmented reality got a big boost after the release of Pokemon Go in 2016 and subsequent conference hosted by Apple incorporation that encourages game developers to integrate this technology into their development. Apple highlights some of the immense benefits and opportunities augmented reality offers in the video gaming-industry as a whole. Balancing public perception is a journey Apple gets committed to traveling with developers in the augmented reality space.
The future of Pokémon Go is still solid, particularly with the massive global scale campaign the company and its associated partners have in redeeming the image associated with safety issues around augmented reality. The coming into this space but technology giants such as Google and Apple with wearable augmented reality apps has provided enough proof that this technology is safe to use.
It’s important to note that augmented reality is different from virtual reality that most people confuse to mean the same thing. Virtual reality immerses the gamer into the world of fantasy through headsets that shut the real world.
On the other hand, augmented reality uses inbuilt cameras, particularly on the mobile device that the gamer is using to play over objects and animate them into an existing virtual worldview.