We've seen Pokémon in VR before, but how about getting them about and playing with them in the real world? That's what Pokémon Go wants to achieve. It's a collaboration between Niantic Labs (the folks behind the GPS-based Ingress) and the Pokémon Company. From what we can tell, it's going to use Niantic's location-based backend to have you catching and fighting the pocket monsters in the streets all around you. Of course, there's a wearable involved dubbed the Pokemon Go Plus. It's a Bluetooth device shaped like one of the series' Pokeballs (capture gizmos that store monsters after defeating them) that pairs with both Android and iOS to flash and vibrate, giving you alerts when something is happening in the game in your vicinity. It goes a bit further than that though, and you can even use the Go Plus to capture a monster with it.
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