Interest in Pokemon GO has surged since its release last week.
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In the game, virtual creatures are superimposed into the real world using your camera and augmented reality.
The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum told The Associated Press that it will not allow people to play Pokemon Go on smartphones while visiting the former German death camp.
Of particular concern Tuesday was an issue related to “Pokemon GO” users who were on Apple’s iOS platform.
A spokesman for the museum which provides documentation for the study and interpretation of Holocaust history has come out to state that it is “extremely inappropriate” for members of the public to try catch the digital characters from Nintendo’s title at the memorial.
“It’s a place of peace and prayer and reflection and it’s just not appropriate to play the Pokemon game there, so we’re asking those Pokemon hunters to go elsewhere”, Kunich said. The locations, known as “Pokestops” and “Gyms”, are based on landmarks submitted by players of Niantic’s earlier game, “Ingress”.
The museum in southern Poland said it had asked the studio Niantic Labs, which developed the game, to remove Auschwitz from the application’s possible locations.
Hollinger says playing the game seems disrespectful, especially while visitors are inside the Hall of Remembrance.
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum told the Washington Post it was looking to be removed from the game.
Just download the Pokemon Go app, and let your smartphone Global Positioning System lead you to formerly dreary local landmarks where the nostalgic cartoon monsters love to lurk, waiting to be collected.
“We even sold a couple of student memberships because of the Pokemon Go game”, Renfrew said.
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While some Pokestop locations are banning access to “Pokemon Go” users, other businesses are profiting off of the latest gaming app. However Samara Hutman, executive director at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, stated the removal procedure appears to be speedy. The National Park Service – which oversees the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial – posted on its Facebook page to encourage selfie-taking with their favorite Pokemon creatures.
