Collaborate Disseminate
Reports of Pokémon Go’s decline miss a key point: How the app economy actually works. The post Pokémon Go Is Doing Just Fine, With or Without You appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading Pokémon Go Is Doing Just Fine, With or Without You
Niantic issues ban to disabled player who was using an emulator to recreate walking around her local park. Continue reading ‘Pokémon Go’ Anti-Cheating Tactics Prevent Disabled People From Playing
[TJ Hunter] wanted to find some of the rarer Pokémon without draining his smartphone battery while staring on a screen. The handy ø 25 cm Pokéball he built to make the endless marches more tolerable detects nearby Pokémon and wiggles to alert its owner if there’s a rare catch in sight.
On the inside of the authentic looking, red-white painted styrofoam sphere sits a Particle Electron and a Particle Asset Tracker board, which give it the necessary GPS and 2G/3G connectivity. An RC servo with a little weight takes care of the shaking motion. Every minute, the ball sends its …read more
Particularly committed players used PokeAdvisor to track their stats and progress against others, but the site now appears to be blocked. Continue reading ‘Pokémon Go’ Stats Tracker PokeAdvisor Is Blocked, Fans Are Mad As Hell (Again)
The pokémon tracking site was hugely popular before ‘Pokémon Go’ developer Niantic took it down. Here’s what happened. Continue reading We Talked to the Creator of PokéVision About Losing 50 Million Users Overnight
Players are really not happy they can no longer track nearby pokémon. Continue reading Damn, ‘Pokémon Go’ Now Has Less Than 2 Stars in the App Store
Come on Niantic, don’t be a fun sponge. Continue reading Is Using Third Party Maps to Find Pokémon Really Cheating?
Twitter account of another high-profile CEO has been hacked!
This time, it’s Niantic CEO John Hanke, the developer behind the world’s most popular game Pokémon GO.
And it seems like Hanke is so busy with its newly launched game Pokémon GO that he hasn’t noticed or took any measures against it even after over 12 hours of the hack, as the tweets made by hackers are still displaying on his
Continue reading Pokémon GO Creator’s Twitter Account Hacked — Pika, Pikaaaa!
It’s one big augmented reality family. Continue reading Why ‘Ingress’ Players Held a ‘Pokémon Go’ Party
There’s something irresistible about throwing Pokeballs at unexpectedly appearing creatures. But wait. When did you actually, physically throw a Pokeball? Swiping over colored pixels wasn’t enough for [Trey Keown], so he built a real, throwable, Pokemon-catching Pokeball for Pokemon Go.
For his build, [Trey] acquired an off-the-shelf foam Pokeball, from which he removed the original “light and sound” guts and some of the foam filling to make space for actual, real Pokemon a TI SensorTag 2.0. This little, self-contained IoT development board comes with BLE and an accelerometer, so on the hardware side, there wasn’t much more to do than …read more
Continue reading Pokemon Go Physical Pokeball Catches ‘Em All
