Pokemon Go`s Niantic taps `Harry Potter` magic for new augmented reality game
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Fantastic beasts, wizard adventures and magic spells will come to life in a new “Harry Potter” augmented reality mobile game from Pokemon Go developer Niantic Inc and Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment, the companies said on Wednesday.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Fantastic beasts, wizard adventures and magic spells will come to life in a new &ldquo-Harry Potter&rdquo- augmented reality mobile game from Pokemon Go developer Niantic Inc and Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment, the companies said on Wednesday.
&ldquo-Harry Potter: Wizards Unite&rdquo- will bring author J.K. Rowling&rsquo-s Wizarding World to mobile phones and use augmented reality (AR) to create a real-world scavenger hunt, allow players to cast spells, find artifacts, team up and encounter magical beasts and characters from the popular book series.
The game&rsquo-s use of real locations is similar to Niantic and Nintendo Co Ltd&rsquo-s Pokemon Go, which became the first mass market adoption of AR in July 2016 and allows players to &ldquo-catch&rdquo- animated characters that appeared in their real surroundings.
No release date was given for the &ldquo-Harry Potter&rdquo- game, but Niantic and Time Warner Inc&rsquo-s Warner Bros said more details would be available next year.
Warner Bros Pictures, which produced the $7.7 billion-grossing &ldquo-Harry Potter&rdquo- film franchise, will release &ldquo-Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2&rdquo- in November 2018, the second installment in a new series of films that expand the world Rowling created in her Potter franchise.
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