- Kojima Productions and Niantic Spatial are collaborating on a brand new AR mission
- A brand new trailer teases the mission with the tagline, “Within the close to future, transfer past the display screen”
- Hideo Kojima mentioned the mission is “like the true Demise Stranding in the true world”
Kojima Productions has introduced a brand new AR mission in collaboration with Pokémon GO creator Niantic Spatial.
Niantic Spatial, which underwent restructuring after the studio was cut up into two earlier this 12 months, can be working alongside the Demise Stranding studio to provide an augmented actuality mission that can seemingly be a real-life strolling simulator.
Introduced through the Kojima Productions tenth anniversary “Past the Strand” livestream occasion, a primary have a look at the mission was proven with a live-action trailer exhibiting a person strolling by numerous areas, with the textual content, “Within the close to future, transfer past the display screen.”
At one level, the actor carrying AR glasses begins interacting with a sequence of digital fashions utilizing his telephone, suggesting the mission might be one thing much like Pokémon GO.
“I am unable to actually discuss particulars but however, in case you’re climbing a mountain… there’s nonetheless leisure there,” Hideo Kojima mentioned through the occasion (through IGN).
“It is like the true Demise Stranding in the true world, and you may join with folks, or you may join with the precise surroundings there in your metropolis. Beforehand it was like digital actuality, however this time I am serious about connecting with the true surroundings.”
Niantic Spatial boss John Hanke added, “I hope that it creates [an environment] that brings folks collectively to play. If there’s one factor want we now have in our society proper now, it is one thing that unifies us and does not pull us aside. And I believe that storytelling… has at all times been humanity’s approach of coming collectively. And know-how can help that. It could divide it too, however with an inspiring creator it may be an vital pressure on this planet.”
Through the tenth anniversary livestream, Kojima Productions additionally unveiled a brand new trailer for its Xbox Recreation Studios horror sport OD, in addition to a poster and solid checklist for its tactical espionage motion sport, Physint.
