{"id":155511,"date":"2025-09-23T13:47:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T13:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/155511\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T13:47:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T13:47:06","slug":"kojima-productions-and-niantic-spatial-are-working-on-an-ar-walking-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/155511\/","title":{"rendered":"Kojima Productions and Niantic Spatial are working on an AR walking game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hideo Kojima has announced that Kojima Productions and Niantic Spatial are working on a new augmented reality game.<\/p>\n<p>The game was revealed at the end of a Beyond the Strand presentation celebrating <a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"Companies &gt; Kojima Productions [209 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/companies\/kojima-productions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kojima Productions<\/a>\u2018 10th anniversary, and was introduced with a live-action teaser trailer, showing a man wandering around various locations and interacting with the environment.<\/p>\n<p>While the project doesn\u2019t appear to have a confirmed title yet, the teaser trailer uses the tagline \u201cmove beyond the screen\u201d, to emphasise that this is a game played outdoors and in real life.<\/p>\n<p>The game will use <a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"Companies &gt; Niantic [75 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/companies\/niantic\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Niantic<\/a> Spatial\u2019s AI software which scans real-world objects and makes them interactive, and appears to show that the player can interact with either their phone or augmented reality glasses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re always creating games in the screen, even smartphones or whatever, and we want to liberate that, so your normal real life, [what] if there was art and entertainment in your everyday life?\u201d Kojima explained (via an interpreter).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought that was brilliant and I was always thinking about that. So looking at [Niantic\u2019s] technology I thought this was possible so we kind of teamed up here.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t really speak about details yet, but if you\u2019re climbing a mountain there\u2019s still entertainment there. To give a wild example, it\u2019s like the real <a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"Games &gt; Death Stranding [281 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/games\/death-stranding\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Death Stranding<\/a>, in the real world, where you can connect with people, or connect with the actual environment there in your city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPreviously it was like virtual reality, but this time I\u2019m thinking about connecting with the real environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Niantic Spatial CEO John Hanke added: \u201cAt Niantic Spatial, we\u2019re building a living model of the world that people and machines can talk to, creating a new canvas for real-world storytelling and interaction. We are delighted to be working with Kojima Productions to explore what our combined creativity and innovation can accomplish for new and existing fans.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hideo Kojima has announced that Kojima Productions and Niantic Spatial are working on a new augmented reality game.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[86,56,54,55,4297,4298,4299],"class_list":["post-155511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-virtual-reality","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-virtual-reality","tag-virtualreality","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}