The game got a leg up from "Ingress" that was around in 2012. Then development on this game started in the beginning of 2014. Then it has "overnight success" in 2016.
Microvision will be an "overnight success" in 2016.
PicoP will also have the social benefit of AR. Instead of staring into a small screen in their own world, people will be able to much more easily share the media they view on their screens.
No one knows the PicoP is yet... soon, no one will need to explain it.
WBUR -- A Reading List
Boston Globe -- Just the beginning (and MicroVision has a great AR solution and a lot of AR patents.)
Recode
The game’s incredible, nearly overnight success now means that no one will ever need to explain what augmented reality is to almost anyone.
In ‘Pokémon Go,’ Pokémon are overlaid in your environment. PHOTO: NIANTIC
Plus, Pokémon Go is providing a number of other interesting and unexpected benefits to augmented reality, particularly around physical activity and social interaction. In an age where technology usage has led to people sitting and staring blankly into their smartphone screens as the sad new normal, the phenomenon of people moving around and talking to each other because of their tech devices is an incredibly refreshing change
