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Pokémon GO Creator Niantic Releasing 'Peridot' Augmented Reality Pet Game

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Niantic, the company behind the popular Pokémon Go game for iOS devices, this week announced the upcoming launch of its next tile, a virtual pet game called "Peridot."

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In Peridot, users will care for, raise, and breed virtual pets, sort of like a modern day, iPhone version of a Tamagotchi. The pets are called "Peridots" or "Dots" for short, and players will raise them from birth.
After thousands of years of slumber, Peridots (or Dots for short) are waking to a world vastly different from the one in which they used to roam, and they'll need our help to protect them from extinction.

You'll foster your own Peridots as you embark on this experience. These are creatures who feel so real, you'll love every moment raising them from birth to adulthood. While you explore the world together, you'll get to learn more about your cute new friends, develop a bond as you nurture and play with them, and work with other players to diversify their species.
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Players will care for their Peridot, take them on walks, meet their desires, play games, explore places, discover hidden treasures around the world, take photos, and unlock new Peridot archetypes through breeding.


As with other Niantic games, there is a real world component to Peridot, with augmented reality versions of the pets able to be broadcast into the real world for walks and playing.

Niantic is soft launching Peridot in select markets in the near future, and the company plans to iterate on the gameplay experience during the testing period. Those who want to learn more can sign up for the email newsletter on the Niantic website.

Niantic is best known for its development of Pokémon Go, but the company also developed Ingress and the now defunct Harry Potter: Wizards Unite game that did not prove to be popular with users. Harry Potter: Wizards Unite was shuttered on January 31, 2022.

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How are we supposed to pronounce peridot? I've always pronounced it with a silent t, like depot. But does that make the pets doughs or does (not to be confused with does)?
 
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Jensend said:
How are we supposed to pronounce peridot? I've always pronounced it with a silent t, like depot. But does that make the pets doughs or does (not to be confused with does)?
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The dot under the o in the name implies "peri dot" to me, as well as the shortening to "dot" kind of giving it away
 
If this gets traction as an AR mobile app, I'd bet it will be a front-of-line demo when Apple finally shows off their AR glasses. That would be a much more natural platform for it!
 
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AstroRob said:
If this gets traction as an AR mobile app, I'd bet it will be a front-of-line demo when Apple finally shows off their AR glasses. That would be a much more natural platform for it!
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How can you be so sure? Apple has been kind of late and lame on their AR/VR attempts, all we have seen from them is a couple of 3D logos and Animojis. I really wish they would release the f glasses just to see what they come up with.
 
AstroRob said:
If this gets traction as an AR mobile app, I'd bet it will be a front-of-line demo when Apple finally shows off their AR glasses. That would be a much more natural platform for it!
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There's been a few high profile AR games lately. This, angry birds, and I think another. I wouldn't be surprised if these are all being developed in partnership with Apple so that they can show them off on Apple glasses at WWDC this year.
 
Like Pokemon Go before it, or Pikmin Bloom, I just never saw the appeal of the AR games. I guess it stems from the need to be holding the phone in my hands to actually partake of the fantasy, which for me completely shatters it.

The day augmented reality glasses are more commonplace, I can see games like this having more value, but for now, it's just a reason to stare at your phone instead of partaking of the world around you.
 
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I'm going into the more crypto version of this with dogami.com. Check it out. Seems identical but with virtual dogs.
 
Multi-billion dollar company that can't clean up the dumpster fire of long standing bugs that the PokemonGo app is _AND_ ignores their users: Let's make a new app! LMAO.
 
Kiriko2 said:
Multi-billion dollar company that can't clean up the dumpster fire of long standing bugs that the PokemonGo app is _AND_ ignores their users: Let's make a new app! LMAO.
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Could be that they are being strangled by the license so NEED to get their own product out?
 
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