Pokémon Go is an augmented reality app that has became a very popular game over the past year. This app allows people to catch and train characters that are known as Pokémon. You are able to catch these characters by using Pokeballs. You are then able to use the characters you have captured to fight other Pokémon Go players in gyms. Depending on how well you do will determine how many experience points and rewards you receive. This game is an augmented reality app because it uses maps to track your locations which leads you to Pokémon as you travel around cities and other areas.
Pokémon Go is able to use rhetoric
in a few different ways. One way the app is able to use rhetoric is by the use
of GPS. With the use of GPS technology, the Pokémon Go app is able to generate
a map of your surroundings. The app can
entice you to go outside and catch the Pokémon by putting certain creatures in
your geographical area. This increases your
rewards and experience points.
In his online
paper, John Tinnell, describes the users of the Pokémon Go app perfectly with
one of his quotes, he says: “The user [of virtual
reality] is completely immersed in an artificial world and becomes divorced from
the real environment. The visual, and in some systems aural and proprioceptive,
senses are under control of the system. In contrast, an augmented reality
system is augmenting the real world scene necessitating that the user maintains
a sense of presence in that world. The virtual images are merged with the real
view to create the augmented display. Augmented reality lies near the real
world end of the line with the predominate perception being the real world
augmented by computer generated data”.
I believe this to be true because I remember when
the app first hit the market and literally everyone in a certain age
demographic had downloaded the app and seemed to forget about the real world. There were various news stories about people getting
injured or got in trouble trespassing while using the app because they
temporarily lost touch with reality.
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I don't remember the before and after of the release of Pokemon, so I think it's interesting that you brought up. Also there was no way that the company could have predicted the popularity and what people did to catch Pokemon. I think it was unexpected.
ReplyDeleteI find it interesting how rhetoric can cause people to lose touch with reality. It reminds me of my own experiences when reading books. I often immerse myself in the world, identify myself with a character, and lose touch with the world around me. Great Post.
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