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Pokemon Go is getting reality-blending updates in June – CNET

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Pokemon will start hiding behind objects pretty soon.


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Pokemon Go game developer Niantic announced some updates to the mobile game, which has been around since 2016 and keeps going strong. Niantic is experimenting with some graphical enhancements that will enable Pokemon to run behind real world objects — a technology called occlusion. The first phones that will allow the experimental beta update to work will be the Samsung Galaxy S9, Samsung Galaxy S10 and Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 4, starting in June.

A demo video showing Pokemon Go characters running behind real objects was teased way back in 2018.

Pokemon Go is also getting a June update allowing Level 40 and higher players to scan their local Pokestops into the game, uploading data to improve the game’s world-mapping. It’s similar to an Ingress feature Niantic launched already, called Portal Scanning.

Niantic is working on a pair of AR smartglasses with Qualcomm, and recently acquired reality-mapping software company 6D.ai. Both of these updates seem like steps along the way to improving AR tools for future products, including glasses.

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