Niantic Spatial, the brand new title for Pokemon GO developer Niantic after it offered off its video games to Savvy Video games’ Scopely and laid off some workers after raking in practically $4B, has introduced that it is going to be lending its augmented actuality tech to Kojima Productions to create an all-new AR recreation that sounds so much like Niantic’s previous MMOARG initiatives, together with Ingress and POGO.
Like most every little thing else Hideo Kojima initially publicizes, this new title is heavy on promise and lightweight on info. “I can’t actually talk about particulars but however, for those who’re climbing a mountain… there’s nonetheless leisure there,” Kojima teased within the new reveal. “It’s like the true Dying Stranding in the true world, and you may join with individuals, or you’ll be able to join with the precise atmosphere there in your metropolis.”
A follow-up press launch was equally obscure, remarking how this undertaking is “a daring growth into new types of media past conventional gaming” for Kojima Productions and a means for Niantic Spatial to increase on “the potential of geospatial AI know-how to remodel how individuals and machines perceive and work together with the bodily world” – which one might maybe take in as the corporate searching for extra participant knowledge to feed its AI ambitions.
Past the truth that this can be a factor and a flashy teaser trailer ready under, that’s all we’re getting about this undertaking – meaning there’s no title, no gameplay particulars, and no launch timing. However hey, Kojima is doing AR issues and that’s in all probability going to perk up some players’ ears.
