The new feature in Pokémon GO will reward users with more augmented reality scans of landmarks in their neighborhood. Lightship, its free augmented reality development kit, will be used to power the real-world metaverse.
In Pokémon GO, users can visit a variety of real-world places, from a mailbox to a historic site. Thanks to data submitted by players of Ingress, the game Niantic built back when it was a tiny side-project inside of Google, Pokémon GO's landmark database was already pretty huge at launch.
To conduct an augmented reality (augmented reality) Scan of a PokéStop, you need to tap a button and walk slowly around the area while your camera captures data about your surroundings. When players are connected to the internet, they have the option to wait until later. These scans are used to build out a 3D world map for the games.
There is little incentive for players to check out the Gyms and PokéStops in the game. If you visit the stop before the power-up wears off, you will get better in-game rewards. A powered-up Stop will give players more items to help them catch Pokémon, but Spinning a PokéStop always gives players items to help them catch Pokémon.
Level one at five scans, level two at 10 scans, and level three at 25 scans are the levels that will be seen at PokéStops. The more items it will reward, the longer the power-up will last. More scans will give higher fidelity data.
The company said in an announcement that it would help create exciting new augmented reality experiences for Trainers worldwide and create a Real-World Metaverse where people can explore the world with digital creations.
While all players will be able to spin a powered-up Stop, they will have to reach level 20 before they can Scan a landmark of their own.
The EC-1 is from Niantic.
