Pokemon Go Archives

Posted inin Business

Pokémon Go enlists Stephen Fry in spoof of nature documentaries

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 1, 2018
1 min

Nature documentaries have brought so much joy in the world, like David Attenborough’s god-tier voiceovers and Benedict Cumberbatch’s inability to say “penguin.” Today, Niantic and The...

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Posted inin Technology

Social play is transforming mobile gaming

Posted byby GamesBeat
January 29, 2018
4 min

Mobile gaming is a massive market with 2.6 billion players – and it’s about to get even bigger. Why? Major technology advancements and new...

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4 min

Posted inin Gameplay

AR glasses have learned from Glassholes

Posted byby GamesBeat
January 23, 2018
7 min

Despite the ambitious portrayals of the future in TV shows and movies predating it, few of the gadgets that imaginative writers dreamed of exist....

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Social VR’s success depends on humans, not headsets

Posted byby GamesBeat
January 16, 2018
5 min

The early success of social VR apps like Rec Room and Altspace show us that social VR ventures need to focus on key drivers...

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‘AR as a feature’ is the best use of AR tech right now, and Amazon gets it

Posted byby GamesBeat
January 9, 2018
5 min

ARKit’s release in 2017 unleashed a new category of mobile apps and created a greenfield for mobile app developers. The more than 1,000 AR...

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Digi-Capital: 2017 saw $3 billion invested in AR/VR, half in Q4 alone

Posted byby GamesBeat
January 8, 2018
3 min

AR/VR investment records fell last year as startups raised over $3 billion in 28 categories we track including over $1.5 billion in Q4 2017...

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Pokémon Go gets better augmented reality thanks to ARKit on iOS

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 20, 2017
4 min

Niantic has had crude augmented reality for its Pokémon Go mobile game from the outset. But soon it will launch an enhanced AR experience...

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4 min

Posted inin Gameplay

Pokémon Go will roll out 50 new creatures and weather effects

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 6, 2017
3 min

Niantic is adding 50 new creatures to Pokémon Go as well as dynamic weather in a major update for the mobile game. The dozens...

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3 min

Posted inin Gameplay

Ingress Prime: Niantic reboots its Pokémon Go precursor

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 4, 2017
2 min

Niantic has announced that it will reboot its first augmented reality game as Ingress Prime. The mobile AR update of the game, the Pokémon Go...

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Posted inin Gameplay

Socialization will make VR mainstream

Posted byby GamesBeat
November 28, 2017
4 min

Recent price drops in virtual reality headsets have created a wave of excitement in our community by signaling a significant and encouraging step toward mainstream...

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