As a part of the Past the Strand occasion celebrating 10 years of Kojima Productions, the Japanese developer and the unique creator of Pokemon Go introduced a “new know-how partnership” that goals to “redefine immersive leisure.”
Like with Kojima’s Loss of life Stranding sequence, a lot stays shrouded in thriller about this new undertaking.
“For Kojima Productions, it is a daring growth into new types of media past conventional gaming. For Niantic Spatial, it underlines the potential of geospatial AI know-how to rework how folks and machines perceive and work together with the bodily world,” reads a line from the announcement.
Niantic Spatial is the brand new identify of the Pokemon Go creator, which is now focusing extra immediately on AI and geospacial know-how. The Pokemon Go growth crew and the sport itself, in the meantime, had been bought to Saudi Arabia.
Kojima stated his video games as we speak “exist on screens” however working with Niantic will permit the studio to “unleash these experiences into real-world experiences.”
“I am excited to collaborate on creating experiences the place you may climb actual mountains whereas discovering leisure there, and connecting with actual buddies. I am excited that we will create these new experiences collectively,” Kojima stated.
Throughout Past the Strand, Kojima stated (via VGC) that this new expertise shall be “like the true Loss of life Stranding, in the true world, the place you may join with folks or join with the precise setting there in your metropolis.”
Niantic boss John Hanke, in the meantime, stated the corporate is now engaged on a “dwelling mannequin of the world that folks and machines can speak to.” This might permit for a “new canvas for real-world storytelling and interplay,” Hanke stated.
To promote no matter this new expertise is, Kojima Productions commissioned a live-action video referred to as “A New Daybreak” that stars actor Zane Haney and was written and directed by Ei Uehara and Corey Finn.
Additionally through the Past the Strand occasion, Kojima Productions launched new teasers for the Xbox-published recreation OD and the Sony-published recreation Physint. Kojima additionally introduced a bank card.