The highly-successful "Pokemon Go" mobile game has pushed augmented reality to mainstream status and changed the trajectory of the world on a scale similar to Facebook and Google Search.
The Influence Of "Pokemon Go" Game On New Tech
According to Tech Crunch, "Pokemon Go" brings a revolution of great magnitude that will be felt in the coming years through all industries. The innovative mobile app appears like a very simple game but incorporates several compelling and unique features.
"Pokemon Go" has taken technologies from gaming communities and niche research and pushed them to mainstream status. Now everybody understands how an artificial digital world can be mapped onto the real world and knows what "augmented reality" (AR) means.
Until it appeared in a simple and compelling free mobile game, augmented reality was only for researches and gaming enthusiasts. Up to date, this technology has barely escaped these niche communities.
To most people creating entirely new and artificial information like PokeGyms and PokeStops is a revelation. Now they might come to wonder what else can be mapped into the real world.
The "Pokemon Go" game app displays Pokemon overlaid on the real world immediately in front of the player, floating on the phone's screen. This creates the perception that the physical and digital worlds are not really that separate and they can merge or interact in some way.
"Pokemon Go" Augmented Reality Game Alternatives For Kids
According to Fast Company, even if "Pokemon Go" proves to be a temporary craze, augmented reality apps and games are here to stay. In fact, the Osmo Monster iPad app comes with a combination of Google-style AI with Disney-style animation that aims to create kid-friendly fun.
A lovable shaggy-haired monster is the main character of the Osmo Monster game. The creature that lives in the iPad is friendly and fun, despite the fact that it has a pair of incisors jutting up from its jaw.
The creature named Mo offers players an encouraging smile and a wave, saying "nice to meet you." The complex software of the Osmo Monster app offers a very intuitive interaction between digital and physical worlds, for the delight of children.
Mo requests various drawings on a real-life whiteboard placed in front of the iPad. Players have to complete the requested drawings and the exact sketch appears on the screen.
Cofounder and CEO of Osmo startup, Pramod Sharma, describes the game experience as a way for kids who have grown up around screens to experience delightful "Walt Disney moments." While the popular "Pokemon Go" game has introduced many families to augmented reality for the first time, Osmo's approach to the physical-digital interaction focuses on geometry and spatial relationships.
