Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG)’s augmented reality, Ingress, which is a massively multiplayer online video game created by Niantic Labs, that will be also available at Apple iOS until 2014. The online game has a start up within Android have limited but passionate audience.
Brandon Badger, the product manager of the game has verified the news that the dame developer is looking forward to put their game also in iOS also. Since last November when the game was first launch, so far it has collected approximately one million activations, as well as on monthly basis the game has tens of thousands of active users through Android running handset. But the product manager noted it will certainly available till 2014 on iOS running handset.
Mr. Badger also stated added that the developer firm that provides two apps that is Ingress and Field Trip having startup within search giant operating system, and now the firm desires to create a platform for outside developers by using data from Ingress location-based video gaming platform.
The video gaming firm at the present is the only firm access to a special version of the search giant’s local data, in order to feed the players of its gaming platform like a custom map of the country locations that appear out of “The Matrix” as compare to Google Maps.
Through this gaming platform the firm gathered players throughout the globe by forming two teams that are The Resistance and The Enlightened; during the game both sides discover clues regarding some strange new technology while searching local landmarks from the real world form their respected teams. The contestants in the game, score points for their individual teams by searching meat-space and work together with entirety strangers, both offline and online.
The latest version of the game known as 13Magnus has started from this weekend, which has live-gaming options designed on the map of 38 cities starting from Los Angeles and San Jose, and completed in San Francisco on 14 December throughout the globe for coming 9 weeks duration. Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) shares rose 0.43% to $871.99 in last trading session.
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