[情報] 寶可夢GO開發商募資三億美元進軍元宇宙

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Niantic, the augmented reality platform that’s developing games like Poké
mon GO, raised $300 million from Coatue, valuing the company at $9 billion.
The San Fransisco-based startup, which initially spun out of Google, will usethis money to build what it calls the “real-world metaverse.”

Niantic 是開發 Pokémon GO 等遊戲的增強現實平台，從 Coatue 那裡籌集了 3 億美元，公司估值為 90 億美元。這家位於舊金山的初創公司最初是從Google分拆出來的，將用這筆錢建立所謂的“真實世界的元宇宙”。

As early as August, Niantic founder and CEO John Hanke has referred to the
metaverse — at least, the one that renders us bound to VR headsets, like in
“Ready Player One” — as a “dystopian nightmare.” Unlike Facebook, which
changed its company name to Meta to signal its investment in VR technology,
Niantic wants to develop technology that brings people closer to the outside
world. Earlier this month, Niantic unveiled its Lightship AR Developer Kit
(ARDK), which makes tools to develop AR games publicly available for free to
anyone who has a basic knowledge of the Unity game engine.

“At Niantic, we believe humans are the happiest when their virtual world
leads them to a physical one,” Hanke said at the time. “Unlike a sci-fi
metaverse, a real-world metaverse will use technology to improve our
experience of the world as we’ve known it for thousands of years.”

與 Facebook將公司名稱更改為 Meta以表明其對 VR 技術的投資不同，Niantic 希望開發能夠讓人們更接近外部世界的技術。本月早些時候，Niantic 推出了Lightship AR 開發工具包(ARDK)，該工具包向任何具有 Unity 遊戲引擎基礎知識的人免費公開提供開發
AR 遊戲的工具。

“在 Niantic，我們相信人類在虛擬世界將他們帶入實體世界時是最快樂的，”Hanke
說道。“與科幻虛擬世界不同，現實世界的虛擬世界將使用技術來改善我們對世界的體驗，正如我們幾千年來所知道的那樣。”

The funding will help expand the ARDK, which has already been used by
companies like Coachella, Historic Royal Palaces, Universal Pictures,
SoftBank, Warner Music Group and the PGA of America to create augmented
reality experiences. So, instead of using technology like VR headsets —
which are still inaccessible to much of the population — AR projects mostly
use smartphones to encourage people to explore their outside surroundings.
You might walk by the same mural every day, for example, but in Pokémon GO,
a user-generated Pokéstop description might tell you what that mural
actually represents. Niantic says that tens of millions of people play Niantic’s games each month, walking more than 10.9 billion miles in their games
since launch.

“Niantic is building a platform for AR based on a 3D map of the world that
we believe will play a critical role in the next transition in computing,”
said Matt Mazzeo, a general partner at Coatue. “We are excited to partner
with Niantic because we see this infrastructure supporting a metaverse for
the real world and helping to power the next evolution of the internet.”

The VR metaverse might be “dystopian” in Hanke’s eyes, but like any
technology, AR isn’t without its problems. Niantic’s newest game, Pikmin
Bloom, is designed around walking, which can be alienating to elderly or
disabled players. Pokémon GO has a community of disabled players, but they’
ve had to speak out about how certain small in-game tweaks can make the game
much more accessible for people with limited mobility.

Still, Niantic’s vision offers an alternative to Meta’s headset-dependent
plans. Pokémon GO remains a smash success — it earned over $1 billion in
2020 and is already on track to outpace that revenue this year, according to
app analytics firm Sensor Tower. Not all of its games are as beloved — the
company recently announced it will shut down Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
after in-app consumer spending and global installs dropped 57% year over
year. But as independent developers get their hands on Niantic’s Lightship
ARDK, we’ll see how far the concept of a “real-world metaverse” can
stretch.

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