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6Apr/17Off

‘Pokemon GO’ CEO Says VR is So Good It’s a “Problem for Society”

las-vegas-nv---january-05--quark-virtual-reality-headsets-are-on-display-during-ces-2017-at-the-laNiantic CEO John Hanke thinks VR is great. So great, in fact, that it might actually ruin our lives. Hanke, whose company debuted the wildly-successful Augmented Reality game Pokémon GO, sees virtual reality escapism as a potential issue for his children’s psychological health.

“My thing about VR is I’m afraid it can be too good, in the sense of being an experience that people want to spend a huge amount of time in,” Hanke said at the Mixed Reality Summit in London on Tuesday, according to a report by GamesIndustry.biz. “I mean, I already have concerns about my kids playing too much Minecraft, and that’s a wonderful game.”

The solution, Hanke says, is augmented reality, the technology that Pokémon GO uses.

“With AR, there’s a huge amount of potential to do things that really do have a positive impact on people,” he told the conference. “I think there’s a ton of good that can be done.”

See the full story here: https://www.inverse.com/article/29981-virtual-reality-vr-augmented-reality-ar-pokemon-go

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