AR Meets AI, Thanks To Pokemon Go And IBM Watson

Pokémon Go has opened up the consumer world to augmented reality and some agencies have said this could be a good sign for future advertising opportunities. A developer has now added artificial intelligence to the mix, using IBM's Watson to find Pokémon for users. The Pokémon Go Smart Stop was created by San Francisco developer Michael Hsu and just won the Best Use of Watson challenge at the AT&T Shape Tech Expo Hackathon. "Ever since Pokémon Go came out last week, I've been playing it nonstop," Hsu said at the event. "The Hackathon just happened to be this weekend and I looked at the available sponsor APIs and saw the new Watson Visual Recognition API.