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HOW IT WORKS
Basically, the product combines Google maps, with GPS picture insertion. Cartoons emerge and can be seen if you are looking through a special camera with gps enabled. it becomes viral when a person uses social media t otell friends they've spotted one. Crowds gather as a result. modern Geo- Caching
why you hate it
Pokemon Go insanity has claimed lives, caused crowds, and generally been disruptive. The object is to find images of pokemon placed in random spots globally using a special app that utilizes camera, mapping and overlay technology. it is essentially Geo-Caching on a virtual and global scale.
Millenials are taken to it like opium. Some of us who haved lived through previous crazes are not so sanguine on the prospect of people suddenly rushing into our back yard to capture some lizard cartoon. You can read the rest here.- Soren K.
mechanism
Basically, the product combines Google maps with GPS picture insertion. Cartoons emerge and can be seen if you are looking through a special camera with gps enabled. It becomes viral when a person uses social media t otell friends they've spotted one. Crowds gather as a result. modern Geo- Caching. Hence store owners ban non paying customers from taking pictures. remember batman spying on the world via cell phones? this is easier
- nintendo places or SPAWNS pokemon in random places using a gps map set up like Google maps..
- if you can see it in your specially adapted camera and click on it, you have captured it.
- to avoid total pandemonium, the captured pokemon remains there for others to grab too for an unspecified amount of time.
- iit combines their 3DS product "insert your own background as playing field tech" with Google maps, and creates a geocaching game that way.
- if a child is in your home and spots one, he will text his friends and you could have a flash crowd at your home.
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Business owners are not happy with hit and run pokemon raids
15 year old Autumn Deiseroth was hit by a car crossing an intersection outside of Pittsburgh looking for a Pokemon. She blames Pokemon- We think she should read a little darwin
“Kids don’t just cross the highway for no reason,” her mom Tracy Nolan shared with reporters.-But they do look where their going we hope
OLD MAN UNIMPRESSED- tells pikachu to get off his lawn
Lunacy in central park
Maybe the hunters will lose weight too?
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