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Yes! Another arbitrary metric that pokemon go passes an arbitrary company. We get it, Pokemon Go is popular. Seesh.

by Illniyar 10y ago

Kiro 10y ago
Why so snarky? Don't you think it's an interesting phenomena?
- Retr0spectrum 10y ago
  Not really, it seems just like any other fad. The technology involved has been around for a while, and nobody paid much attention to it before. I'd be interested to see articles detailing technical difficulties that they may have overcome, but I've seen way too many articles just saying "Pokemon GO now has more X than Y".
  - pantalaimon 10y ago
    I'm curious about the social consequences of mass adoption. I'm already seeing groups of random people gathering around gyms when they see they are taken by their team/in the process of being taken away. The meta-game that might develop is interesting, and only possible due to wide adoption.
    - jvolkman 10y ago
      https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/4stnx4/how_can_we_reduce_the_number_of_pokemon_go/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/4stnx4/how_can_we_...
  - sliverstorm 10y ago
    The technology involved has been around for a while, and nobody paid much attention to it before. Could that not be what's intriguing? I.e. everybody is paying attention to it now? We're wondering if this will be the first "killer app" for AR?
  - sushid 10y ago
    You can discount it as a fad but it's also a resurgence of Pokemania. People who grew up catching Pokemon in elementary school are doing it all over again, along with a new generation of kids. Whether you like it or not, it's become an overnight GLOBAL phenomenon and a unique one at that.
- 27182818284 10y ago
  Not really, no, because I had already been an Ingress player. So the wow-factor of walking around to various spots for a geo-based-AR game is like 3-years-old. I feel rather hipster about it, haha.
- Illniyar 10y ago
  On the contrary I think it's an extremely interesting phenomena, I just find the statements that it has more downloads than instagram, more daily users than, more miles walked then fitbit etc... stupid. It is not comparable to any of these, the metrics do not contribute to the conversation and these titles are nothing but clickbait.
KineticLensman 10y ago
Pokemon Go is arguably the first killer app for collaborative Augmented Reality. It shows app developers that there is serious public interest in the 'right' type of AR and will no doubt open the doors for serious monetization attempts. My prediction for the next big thing? The AR equivalent of snapchat filters that you superimpose over yourself, your friends or enemies, visible to people whose cameras are running the AR snapchat app. Unfortunately, adverts. Also: obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/1705/ http://xkcd.com/1705/
- epmaybe 10y ago
  To be honest, I used AR mode for the first few days but I turned it off eventually. It had bugs on my Nexus 5x where it would do some weird stuff to the live preview from the camera, like stretching the video and other artifacts. It also drained my battery significantly faster. Finally, it's just plain easier to catch Pokemon with AR mode turned off, which kind of sucks since that's the killer feature. I'd like to know how many users have AR mode turned off. Because while it is a fantastic part of the app, making it more immersive, if most users don't actually have it turned on it means that AR still isn't there yet for smartphones.
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  - stepanhruda 10y ago
    AR is imo a gimmick in the app and not a killer feature. It helps virality by people posting pictures of Pokemon on things.
  - karmelapple 10y ago
    Although there's a toggle in the game labeled AR that turns on/off the camera as the background while catching Pokemon, I think Pokemon Go has a broader AR implementation. My friends playing it have all discovered new things in a city they've lived in for years because of Pokemon Go. So even if they play the game with the camera turned off while catching a Pokemon, there's still a map always on showing how in-game places match up with the real world. This translates to a weird phenomenon: the other day when we were standing outside a gym by a church, my friends and I noticed on our phone screen that a battle was happening at this gym. Instinctually, me and a few others took our eyes off our phone and turned our head to look at the spires of the church, since gyms are shown in-game as tall structures. It sounds strange, perhaps even cheesy, but Pokemon is engaging our imaginations in a pretty interesting way.

Yes! Another arbitrary metric that pokemon go passes an arbitrary company. We get it, Pokemon Go is popular. Seesh.

Kiro 10y ago

Why so snarky? Don't you think it's an interesting phenomena?

Retr0spectrum 10y ago
Not really, it seems just like any other fad. The technology involved has been around for a while, and nobody paid much attention to it before. I'd be interested to see articles detailing technical difficulties that they may have overcome, but I've seen way too many articles just saying "Pokemon GO now has more X than Y".
- pantalaimon 10y ago
  I'm curious about the social consequences of mass adoption. I'm already seeing groups of random people gathering around gyms when they see they are taken by their team/in the process of being taken away. The meta-game that might develop is interesting, and only possible due to wide adoption.
  - jvolkman 10y ago
    https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/4stnx4/how_can_we_reduce_the_number_of_pokemon_go/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/4stnx4/how_can_we_...
- sliverstorm 10y ago
  The technology involved has been around for a while, and nobody paid much attention to it before. Could that not be what's intriguing? I.e. everybody is paying attention to it now? We're wondering if this will be the first "killer app" for AR?
- sushid 10y ago
  You can discount it as a fad but it's also a resurgence of Pokemania. People who grew up catching Pokemon in elementary school are doing it all over again, along with a new generation of kids. Whether you like it or not, it's become an overnight GLOBAL phenomenon and a unique one at that.
27182818284 10y ago
Not really, no, because I had already been an Ingress player. So the wow-factor of walking around to various spots for a geo-based-AR game is like 3-years-old. I feel rather hipster about it, haha.
Illniyar 10y ago
On the contrary I think it's an extremely interesting phenomena, I just find the statements that it has more downloads than instagram, more daily users than, more miles walked then fitbit etc... stupid. It is not comparable to any of these, the metrics do not contribute to the conversation and these titles are nothing but clickbait.

KineticLensman 10y ago

Pokemon Go is arguably the first killer app for collaborative Augmented Reality. It shows app developers that there is serious public interest in the 'right' type of AR and will no doubt open the doors for serious monetization attempts. My prediction for the next big thing? The AR equivalent of snapchat filters that you superimpose over yourself, your friends or enemies, visible to people whose cameras are running the AR snapchat app. Unfortunately, adverts. Also: obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/1705/ http://xkcd.com/1705/

epmaybe 10y ago
To be honest, I used AR mode for the first few days but I turned it off eventually. It had bugs on my Nexus 5x where it would do some weird stuff to the live preview from the camera, like stretching the video and other artifacts. It also drained my battery significantly faster. Finally, it's just plain easier to catch Pokemon with AR mode turned off, which kind of sucks since that's the killer feature. I'd like to know how many users have AR mode turned off. Because while it is a fantastic part of the app, making it more immersive, if most users don't actually have it turned on it means that AR still isn't there yet for smartphones.
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- stepanhruda 10y ago
  AR is imo a gimmick in the app and not a killer feature. It helps virality by people posting pictures of Pokemon on things.
- karmelapple 10y ago
  Although there's a toggle in the game labeled AR that turns on/off the camera as the background while catching Pokemon, I think Pokemon Go has a broader AR implementation. My friends playing it have all discovered new things in a city they've lived in for years because of Pokemon Go. So even if they play the game with the camera turned off while catching a Pokemon, there's still a map always on showing how in-game places match up with the real world. This translates to a weird phenomenon: the other day when we were standing outside a gym by a church, my friends and I noticed on our phone screen that a battle was happening at this gym. Instinctually, me and a few others took our eyes off our phone and turned our head to look at the spires of the church, since gyms are shown in-game as tall structures. It sounds strange, perhaps even cheesy, but Pokemon is engaging our imaginations in a pretty interesting way.