Pokémon Go

[bluaki]

Amazing revolution from Pokemon: giving everybody the ability to wander around the real world like gaming nerds lost in a foreign land

Not to be confused with a certain board game or a certain FPS game.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sj2iQyBTQs[/youtube]

It's a smartphone game that has GPS-dependent augmented reality, sorta like Ingress (who apparently helped develop it), which supposedly will link with the next (but still unannounced) main-series Pokémon game. It operates with a wearable device (worn on wrist or clipped to anything) which looks like a mix between a pokeball and Google Maps's location marker symbol. It vibrates and the center of the pokeball lights up different colors when stuff happens in the AR world. It connects to smartphones via Bluetooth.

I'm guessing the device might be bundled with retail copies of the next pokemon game, like pokewalker.

Interestingly, the video is filled with adults, with almost no kids, and they're so far showing nothing but Gen1 pokemon and ball types. It's like they're now specifically marketing pokemon toward older people. And I wonder if maybe they're making yet another remake of Red/Blue.

[Snowy]

I want that watch

[strongbad]

weird
i wonder what the AR actually looks like because there is no way it will be as crisp as the vid

[bluaki]

weird
i wonder what the AR actually looks like because there is no way it will be as crisp as the vid

I don't think it actually has camera-AR (or, at least, it's not confirmed yet). But it's not like Pokémon hasn't had that kind of augmented reality before: see Pokémon Dream Radar (3DS).

Unlocking events and having other stuff happen based on your coordinates is another type of AR.

[ME##]

the video reminds me of so many ads for generic phone games from silicon valley bleh


but at least 90+% of the pukémon featured were gen one

[Kalahari Inkantation]

ingress with a superficial pukémon overlay

does anybody even play ingress

[Mando Pandango]

field tests started yesterday in Japan

it's happening etc

[C.Mongler]

i still dont know what "it" is 

[ME##]

i still dont know what "it" is 

"it" is a boring phone game with zero content unless you pony up some dosh

[Hiro]

from what i can tell most of the paid stuff is just outfits and shit for our trainer and i don't really mind if the game doesn't demand much time or attention
does seem a bit rough right now but i'm gonna give it a shot still
it's just a silly vr pokemmon collection app but aside from the vr that's what neko atsume is

[C.Mongler]

so its just collect silly vr pogemens

can we even battle



can i come to arizona to get a moltres or something

[Mando Pandango]

from what i can tell most of the paid stuff is just outfits and shit for our trainer and i don't really mind if the game doesn't demand much time or attention
does seem a bit rough right now but i'm gonna give it a shot still
it's just a silly vr pokemmon collection app but aside from the vr that's what neko atsume is

ARE YOU TALKING SHIT ON NEKO ATSUME MY GUY?

[Mando Pandango]

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/4cgrwd/pokemon_go_comprehensive_field_test_megathread/

All the info from the field tests.

[Samus Aran]

this all sounds so complicated but also really cool

[squirrelfriend]

Is there anything to prevent a Pokemon from spawning in the middle of a road? That's a question I've been wondering about.