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A12 TECHNOLOGY
Tuesday 8 March 2022

Pokemon Go creator thinks metaverse

needs to keep it ‘real’

Maps, it's helping you to
eat with Yelp, it's helping
you find the hotel you are
going to stay in. It was that
kind of tech helping you as
a human do human stuff
better.
Q: So you think the meta-
verse should head more in
that direction?
A: When we think about the
real world metaverse, we
think about reality chan-
nels. The real world meta-
verse is rooted in what we
This photo provided by Niantic Labs in February 2022 shows the do today, but it's an evolu-
company’s CEO John Hanke.
Associated Press tionary step toward some
of the same ideas that
SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) with Pokemon Go, a pop- some people talk about
— Niantic Labs CEO John ular mobile phone game the metaverse. q
Hanke has been working that deploys AR to enable
on technology that helps people to chase digital
people navigate and en- creatures while roaming
joy places in the real world through neighborhoods,
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