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Niantic, developer of Pok\u00e9mon Go, has laid out its long-term plan for a “real-world” metaverse based on our global reality – rather than an entirely virtual one of the kind seen in Ready Player One.<\/p>\n

In an extended blog post<\/a> titled “The Metaverse is a Dystopian Nightmare, Let’s Build a Better Reality”, company founder John Hanke has discussed his vision for how technology can be harnessed to build a better version of our world which strengthens in-person interactions – while criticising the idea of technology designed to abandon our reality and instead play inside a computer simulation.<\/p>\n

This is all long-term future stuff, so there’s no direct reference to Pok\u00e9mon Go’s ongoing big debate around pandemic interaction distance changes<\/a>. (It also arrives alongside news of another Niantic company acquisition – this time of fancy 3D scanning app Scaniverse<\/a>.) But there are certainly comments here which reinforce Niantic’s long-term ethos for its games – and Pok\u00e9mon Go in particular – which touch on issues raised in that debate, and perhaps further illuminate Niantic’s own position in it.<\/p>\n

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Niantic, developer of Pok\u00e9mon Go, has laid out its long-term plan for a “real-world” metaverse based on our global reality – rather than an entirely virtual one of the kind seen in Ready Player One. In an extended blog post titled “The Metaverse is a Dystopian Nightmare, Let’s Build a Better Reality”, company founder John Hanke has discussed his vision for how technology can be harnessed to build a better version of our world which strengthens in-person interactions – while criticising the idea of technology designed to abandon our reality and instead play inside a computer simulation. This is all long-term future stuff, so there’s no direct reference to Pok\u00e9mon Go’s ongoing big debate around pandemic interaction distance changes. (It also arrives alongside news of…<\/p>\n

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