“We’re thinking about games in a different way, bringing technology to gaming to create some mechanics the game industry has ignored,” Khan said in an interview with GamesBeat. But in this case, Khan’s Atlas: Earth game is tied to real-world locations, and that is what Atlas Reality is going after.
He enjoyed gamifying fintech, and he saw a similar opportunity with finance-oriented games, such as the virtual real estate game genre, which has been around as long as companies have been creating virtual versions of Monopoly. Khan is a seasoned marketer who worked at the fintech startup Acorns, which lets people save money in their savings accounts with every purchase.
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Atlas Reality was able to easily integrate tech in part because NextNav last year released its Pinnacle software development kit (SDK) for the Unity engine. Atlas: Empires got more than 500,000 downloads, said CEO Sami Khan in an interview with GamesBeat. It introduces a model in which users can earn real income by selling virtual items that can only be purchased when a user is physically on-premise - which is verified by NextNav’s Pinnacle - at locations owned within the game’s universe.Ītlas Reality previously launched Atlas: Empires, a 2D location game that was like others of its ilk such as Niantic’s Pokémon Go. Players could even rent space in somebody’s virtual building.
Within the game, Pinnacle will deliver precise vertical location intelligence, enabling users to record visits to locations such as the top floor of the Empire State Building or the Skygarden in the San Francisco Federal Building. In games like Atlas: Earth, players will be able to spend real money to buy virtual property, and NextNav will verify the location of that virtual property.Ītlas: Earth will deliver a gaming experience built around the real environments of users, especially in densely populated areas and multistory buildings, marking the first time the vertical dimension will power gaming functionality.Ītlas: Earth launches October 18, and it is now available for “preregistration.” It will allow users to purchase virtual parcels of real estate that, when owned, operate as digital properties tethered to real locations. So players can buy the top floor of a luxury condo or something like that. If you think of Monopoly, it’s similar but only that the virtual buildings are overlaid on the real world. Atlas: Earth will leverage the 3D data for real-estate gameplay.
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