Pokémon Sleep: are games really the best way to get more rest?

The augmented-reality giant is promising to turn shuteye into entertainment but experts aren’t convinced about the gamification of sleep

Having swept the world of augmented reality with Pokémon Go, Pikachu et al are about to augment the reality of our pillows with the Pokémon Company’s new game. Due to launch next year, Pokémon Sleep will make use of a Fitbit-style sleep-tracking device on a wrist strap that communicates with your phone via Bluetooth. The game promises to “turn sleeping into entertainment”, rewarding players for maintaining “good sleep habits as part of a healthy lifestyle”.

The finer points of gameplay are not yet known, but it will connect with Pokémon Go, which is to say that those baffling obsessives who have kept up with the game since it launched in 2016, crashing into trees, buildings, cop cars and foreign borders in tens of thousands of recorded accidents, will now even be playing in their dreams.

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from Culture | The Guardian http://bit.ly/30UOPgD