In the waning days of October, at the Innovation Tokyo 2018 conference, attendees got their hands on some of the new augmented reality experiences that Niantic is working on through its Real World Platform.
Among the experiences available to the 12,000 attendees who visited the “AR Playground with Niantic” exhibit was the Pokémon AR Garden, where players searched the Mori Gardens for Pokémon based on spatial audio cues rather than visual indicators and climbed the stairs of virtual gyms in VR with haptic feedback.
The spatial audio AR experience was made possible via open-ear directional… more
