Final Project

Remediations of
Study goals and procrastination tendencies at different stages of the undergraduate degree

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Bryce
Emily

Augmented Reality in Pokemon Go

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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Emily