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Niantic Raises US$20 Million for Pokémon GO AR Game
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Entertainment news source Variety app. Variety added that the three investors will give Niantic another US$10 million upon meeting unspecified performance goals.
Pokémon GO will be available in 2016 for Android phones and iPhones. 2016 marks the 20th anniversary of the original Pokémon games.
Players will use the app to be able to find Pokémon in the real world using location-based technology. Nintendo also hopes to let players pay attention to their surroundings instead of just looking at their screens by offering the "Pokémon Go Plus" wristband device (pictured below). The device can also be used as a clip to be clipped onto suit jackets, etc.
The "Pokémon Go Plus" device will have LED and vibration functions that will alert players to something happening in the game. The device uses Bluetooth technology to connect to players' smartphones. Players can still play the game without the device.
Shigeru Miyamoto also compared the new app to Pokémon Snap in that players will feel as though they are in the same environment as Pokémon, but also mentioned that the difference is allowing players to go out into the real world to catch Pokémon.
The Pokémon Company previously streamed the entire press conference announcing Pokémon GO.
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