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Google Releases New AR Game for Both iOS and Android Platform

Google hasn't had a particularly noteworthy experience with gaming. Google has had several gaming missteps despite the Play Store having thousands of gaming apps. The most significant and recent one included Google Stadia

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Google hasn't had a particularly noteworthy experience with gaming. Google has had several gaming missteps despite the Play Store having thousands of gaming apps. The most significant and recent one included Google Stadia.

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The business, though, has nonetheless introduced a new augmented reality game. The developer of the classic game Space Invaders, TAITO, and Unit9 have teamed up with Google to use augmented reality (AR) to turn the globe into a playground in honor of the game's 45th anniversary, according to a blog post by Google senior product manager Stevan Silva.

What is this AR game all about?

According to Silva, SPACE INVADERS: World Defense," a mobile game on Android and iOS, welcomes players from around the world to get outside and shield the Earth. “Space Trespassers produce from structures and housetops, take cover behind structures, and drift overhead. Through worldwide vivid interactivity, players from everywhere the world need to cooperate to save the planet," he said in the blog entry.

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The versatile game is controlled by Google's ARCore and Geospatial APIs. It involves the player's quick environmental factors as well as adjacent structures, scenes, and other compositional components to configuration designs in levels in reality with AR and on the screen just with 3D. The vivid interactivity adjusts to the player's genuine world, including area, time, and nearby climate, Silva noted.

Silva likewise said that expanded reality (AR) is mixing the physical and advanced universes, changing the manner in which individuals shop, learn, play, and communicate with content. “In the blog post, he stated, "Brands and creators can use augmented reality to bring their content closer to people and assist them in experiencing the world in a whole new dimension." Beginning today, the game can be downloaded for both Android and iOS.

The video game series SPACE INVADERS was created, produced, and published by TAITO CORPORATION (TAITO) in 1978 and has since been played on a variety of platforms. Its titular characters, the "Invaders," have crossed over and turned into global pop culture icons.

TAITO has participated in a variety of licensing programmes for the corporate mascot throughout the world by collaborating with international companies and industry titans. As the exclusive proprietor of the worldwide intellectual property rights, including the copyrights and trademarks for SPACE INVADERS and its characters, TAITO will continue to actively grow the brand.

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