{"id":649676,"date":"2013-03-29T22:06:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-30T02:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=403790"},"modified":"2013-03-29T22:06:47","modified_gmt":"2013-03-30T02:06:47","slug":"googles-augmented-reality-game-inspires-players-to-duel-one-other-in-braveheart-paint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/649676","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s augmented reality game inspires players to duel one other in \u2018Braveheart paint\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/29\/google-ingress-cult-following-403790\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/11\/ingress.jpg?w=650&amp;h=344&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Google Ingress Cult Following\" title=\"Ingress\" \/><\/a><\/center>Don&#8217;t get freaked out if you see people dressed up like William Wallace trying to zap each other with their Nexus 7 tablets \u2014 they&#8217;re just playing Ingress, <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/google\">Google&#8217;s<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=goog\">GOOG<\/a>) <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/11\/15\/google-launches-ingress\/\">experimental augmented reality game<\/a> that first launched last November. <a href=\"http:\/\/allthingsd.com\/20130329\/googles-mobile-game-ingress-finds-a-passionate-following\/\"><em>AllThingsD<\/em> reports<\/a> that since its debut last fall, Ingress has developed a small but loyal cult following around the world that has helped players build bonds with one another as they travel to real-life landmarks and engage in virtual fights with rival factions.\u00a0Ingress creator John Hanke tells <em>AllThingsD<\/em> that one recent outing involved roughly 100 Ingress players converging on the monument of William Wallace in Scotland with some showing up &#8220;in Braveheart paint with Nexus 7 tablets to play.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/29\/google-ingress-cult-following-403790\/?utm_source=more-link&#038;utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/81Upo-YwARY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t get freaked out if you see people dressed up like William Wallace trying to zap each other with their Nexus 7 tablets \u2014 they&#8217;re just playing Ingress, Google&#8217;s (GOOG) experimental augmented reality game that first launched last November. AllThingsD reports that since its debut last fall, Ingress has developed a small but loyal cult [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}