entertainment What creates $7 billion in a week? And doesn't exist in the real world...

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A large digital gaming giant on the wane (Nintendo) joined forces with a new (ish) augmented reality company, a spin out from by Google, called Niantic who used their technology to create a real world of Pokemon catching and training.

The game is being used by people obsessively (think AngryBird’s on steroids) with more people using it / playing it daily than using Twitter daily in America. Whilst the in app usage is higher for time spent than Facebook clocking in at an amazing 33 minutes.

So with Pokémon Go, players traverse the physical world following a digital map, searching for cartoon creatures that surface at random. People look through their smart phone cameras to find Pokémon. When an animated creature appears, they toss Pokéballs at it until it is subdued...

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[Constantin S]

I was SO sure this will be about Pokemon GO :D

 

[nomen]

Impressive. Must say.

 

[Haris]

Soon people will get bored and will find something new.. I think.

 

[baseballworld]

Sad but impressive to say the least really.

 

[Tank]

very impressive of course but whatever happened to going fishing?