'Pokémon Go' on augmented reality smart glasses is already (sort of) a thing

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'Pokémon Go' on augmented reality smart glasses is already (sort of) a thing
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While the first official Pokémon Go wearable is still several weeks away (http://mashable.com/2016/07/27/pokemon-go-plus-september/#v7Wv96Q4o8qw?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=), that hasn't stopped at least one enterprising developer from hacking together a wearable version of Nintendo's hit mobile game.

Patrick Cho, a developer at Intel, has succeeded in putting a very basic version of Pokémon Go onto his company's augmented reality glasses. Though still experimental, the app is one of a handful of u**fficial AR and VR-ready demos that promise to untether Nintendo's app from our smartphones.

SEE ALSO: Sorry Pokémon Go trainers, this guy has caught them all world-wide (http://mashable.com/2016/08/04/pokemon-go-all-caught/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)


Intel was showing off Pokémon Go on its Recon Jet (http://mashable.com/2015/04/16/recon-jet-review/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) smart glasses at its Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco this week. The glasses, which right **w are targeted at cyclists and runners, are powered by a modified version of Android. This allowed Cho to cobble together an u**fficial port of the app onto the glasses. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/18/pokemon-go-augmented-reality-glasses/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)

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