Niantic's hande CEO, "Metaverse is a dystopia. Let's build a better reality"

"Metaverse is a nightmare of dystopia."John Hanque CEO of Niantic, known for the AR (extensive reality) game such as "Pokemon GO", sounded like this on August 10 (local time) about meta spring that has been re -emerged.He explained the "real world meta spring" that Niantic thinks.

The term meta spring is derived from Neil Stevenson's science fiction novel "Snow Crash" published in 1992, and is a virtual world that appears as "Oasis" in the movie "Lady Player 1".By attaching a headset, etc., it is immersed in a virtual world that is far from reality and interacts with others."Atsumare Animal Crossing" can be said to be a metabers in a wide sense.

In July, Facebook announced that a new department for AR/VR projects, which has been working on several years ago, as "MetAVERSE PRODUCT GROUP for Metabers' realization"Related in the industry.

Hanke says, "Niantic will strive not to become a world where science fiction heroes will escape to the virtual world. You should be able to use technology to snuggle up to the" reality "of expansion reality."

He says that online behavior is allowed to be allowed by real human beings, and that algorithms are pushed into filter bubbles and society is divided.

The "real world meta spring" that Niantic aims is not a virtual world but a real world and the digital world.In March, Hanke brought Pikachu in the real world over HoloLens in Microsoft Ignite 2021, and performed a demonstration with other players.

The company is currently developing an AR smart glass in partnership with the US Qualcomm to realize this real world meta spring.The project is still in the company's research and development stage, but plans to make it an open platform in the future.

In May, the company has renamed the developers to participate in the AR platform, which was released in 2018 as "Niantic Real World Platform" as "Niantic Lightship".

Lightship aims to build a 3D map around the world.The company wants to use this 3D map for computers and location information and content anchoring to achieve real -time AR experience anywhere in the world.

"We spend time and energy to create the future we want to live and convey to the next generation," said Hanke, Mr. Hanke, and participated in the future of Niantic.We called on developers and companies to do so.

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