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With the new Niantic technology, you will not know if the Pikachu you are watching is real or virtual
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Niantic wants Pikachu and the rest of the Pokemon to be as real as possible.
Friday, the developer of the game Pokémon Go showed a glimpse of the Niantic Real World Platform, a technology of a mapping that allows virtual objects to recognize real objects and interact with them.
Niantic defines this platform as "an operating system that communicates the digital and physical world". The company says the development was facilitated by the Escher Reality and Matrix Mill technology, two augmented reality and computer vision signatures that Niantic recently purchased.
Due to the technicality behind Niantic Real World Platform, the best way to understand this technology is through a video that the company posted on YouTube:
In the video we see a first example of Pikachu virtual pokemon interacting in a real environment where there are people and pots with plants. In this first example, Pikachu moves without recognizing the objects around him and walking in a flat environment.
In the second example with the implemented technology, now Pikachu can know that there is a person close to him and even recognizes the pots and hides behind them, so the user loses the view of the Virtual object as it was real.
Niantic says the challenge in this technology is the models centered on a human world where there are parks, avenues, sidewalks and objects that require a lot of computing power and that can be processed on devices as well. small as a smartphone
"Imagine, for example, that our platform is able to identify and contextualize the presence of flowers," said Niantic in a statement. "Then we can know that a bee must appear there, or if augmented reality contextualizes a lake, it will show a duck."
The society that made augmented reality fashionable with Pokémon Go says that they are still at an early stage to talk about the arrival of this technology in their application and in other mobile video games, but is one of the goals
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