Metaverse: Niantic wants it in augmented reality

Technology: The publisher of Pokémon Go is raising 300 million to develop one of these virtual universes that have proliferated lately, in word at least.

What if the real metaverse was on the Pokémon side? The publisher of Pokémon Go, Niantic, is raising 300 million to develop one of these virtual universes that have proliferated lately, in word at least.

The company wants to create an organizational alliance, in the first place to affirm the vision of a “real world metaverse”. Understand here that the augmented reality star, with his Pokémon Go game which uses a smartphone camera to place virtual objects in the physical environment, does not hear that the metaverse looks like a Second Life accessible via a reality headset Virtual.