OneWingedBird
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I'm forseeing a lot of upcoming 'sat nav disasters' type stuff with Pokemon GO, as people try to get in places they would be better off not to as part of the game.
It sounds a lot like the 'enhanced reality' from the anime Robotics;notes where objects in the virtual world are overlaid on the real world via phone/computer.
This lady got a bit more than she bargained for!
Didn't seem to occur to this lot it might be a bad idea to search inside a police station!
Independent
It sounds a lot like the 'enhanced reality' from the anime Robotics;notes where objects in the virtual world are overlaid on the real world via phone/computer.
This lady got a bit more than she bargained for!
A teenage girl who was attempting to find virtual reality Pokémon characters in a smartphone game instead found a dead body floating in a river near her home.
Shayla Wiggins, of Riverton, Wyoming, was using the augmented reality app Pokémon GO, in which players hunt down animated mutant characters in real-world locations while looking through their smartphone's camera.
Didn't seem to occur to this lot it might be a bad idea to search inside a police station!
Police in Australia were forced to make an official statement about the game on Friday after users kept trying to get into a Darwin police station to capture the character Sandshrew, who was apparently inside.
Independent