1,000,000 People Were Playing a Game You Can’t See…Before Pokemon Go

This was way before the latest craze…

Did you even know about this one?  Apparently they were pioneers to some degree.  Gotta catch em all right 😉  There were players of this game that were using a virtual reality so to speak similar to the crazy that is happening right now.  The game however was very different.

Here is a bit of info about one story of this being played in the wide open:

Early last summer, at 3 a.m. in the South Bronx, an agent named D Skully was getting frustrated. Staring into a black-and-green grid on his smartphone, he attempted to secure a target for his team — but every time he thought he’d nabbed it, it’d get stripped away. He looked around; nobody else was out. 

Suddenly, D Skully spotted a girl’s face illuminated by the light of her phone screen in a small car parked down the street. As she remembers it, he went and knocked on her window to confront her, and as soon as she was caught, the car peeled off.

The two of them were playing Ingress, an alternate reality game (or ARG) run by a Google startup called Niantic Labs. Ingress is like a giant game of Risk or Capture the Flag, only the game board is the entire world. The goal is to capture as many “portals,” or in-game waypoints and locations, and hold them for your team for as long as possible.

What a trip.  Maybe they will be looked at as game pioneers?  And how long will the Pokemon Go craze last?

 

Let’s find out more about this mysterious game in the video on page 2

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