Seven years ago the mobile game 'Pokemon Go' took the world by storm, and now its creators are aiming to infuse the same 'real-world' appeal into their new basketball game.
John Hanke, the boss of Niantic, which produces both games, stresses that just as with Pokemon, players of the NBA game will also require only a mobile phone—no expensive VR headsets or goggles.
"Putting on a VR headset by yourself, to me it's a very lonely and scary future. I hope that humanity doesn't go in that direction." It launched "Harry Potter: Wizards Unite" in 2019, only to shut it down in January last year because of a lack of interest.
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