Pokemon Go

"Pokémon Go was a great example. It is a metaverse because you don't know how many Pokémon are there at any given stop and you see people tapping into these layers of intelligence walking the world."

"Was it true that Pokémon Go was that? They were basically gullible volunteers for mapping the street view of everything."

"They're like, 'We're here because of Pokémon Go.' And apparently that has turned into this thing where literally hundreds of people will all meet up at one place because there's a legendary Pokémon that you can battle together — it's like a group ..."

"When they were 14, they did an internship at Niantic working on Pokémon Go. They built a new first-time user experience. I was very proud of it."

This Week in Startups

mentioned

"I went to Europe with a friend and she's a big Pokémon Go fan and every time we went to a new place, like a new landmark, she'd have to pull up her phone and check what are the Pokémon Go things happening around here."

Tom Bilyeu

mentioned

"Pokemon Go was just an AR surveillance play the entire time. For collectors, people that have that bug, Pokemon Go was insanely brilliant. Just insane. So cool."

"Our company had an exit and got acquired by Niantic, the makers of Pokémon Go, which was the biggest user of AR back then."

"Pokémon Go players built a 30 billion photo map. That's how training robots to deliver your pizza"

Shaan Puri

mentioned

"Pokémon Go was like the hit game. You would take out your phone and your phone would just be on like kind of camera mode. You'd walk around a city and then you would like discover a Pokemon."