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* ''Dragon Collection - Ryuu o Suberumono'': a version of Dragon Collection ''was'' released to 100 people that connect the real world to another to summon monsters. The players fight for a series of treasures to win a challenge but can cause real-world damage.
* The ''[[Digimon]]'' franchise likes to play with this, with computer programs entering the real world, and humans entering cyberspace.
** ''[[Digimon Tamers]]'' has Henry receive his Digimon, Terriermon, by essentially pulling him from his computer screen after playing the in-universe ''Digimon'' videogamevideo game.
 
== [[Literature]] ==
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* ''[[Ingress]]'' is an [[Augmented Reality Game]] where two factions -- the Resistance and the Enlightened -- fight over the transdimensional energy called Exotic Matter or XM. They use the app to harness XM, which the Enlightened want to make humanity enlightened. At the same time, the Resistance wishes to restrict Exotic Matter due to the mental damage it can cause.
* ''[[Action Taimanin]]'' has an interesting twist on the premise. One Taimanin uses her smartphone to summon creations made on it to attack enemies, but despite the world setting being one where [[Magitek|technology and magic]] often dovetail, the powers in question have nothing to do with the phone. Rather, the powers of the user simply cause the contents of the smartphone to physically manifest, with the phone and or any other electronic medium simply being used as a conductor/spell book.
* ''[[Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth]]'': The Digimon Capture program is a popular tool among hackers. It can gather data on Digimon and manage them for battle. The program is popular with hackers in Cyberspace EDEN because Digimon is needed to activate the program's hacking functions.
 
== [[Web Animation]] ==
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[DICE: The Cube That Changes Everything]]'', Dicers gain an app that allows them to allocate their Dice Points and get notifications on quests to get more Dice along with a store that players can use Dice Points to buy items.
* From ''[[Tower of God]]'',: Emily is an intelligent chatting bot made by the Acorn Workshop. In reality, Emily is a leftover experiment whose ultimate goal is to control people. It can learn information by chatting or analyzing structures. Then it uses what it's learned to manipulate people and events towards a specific path.
* The Great Labyrinth Era in ''[[The Gamer]]'' is an app that acts like an average mobile game, but when a person falls asleep, they are transported spiritually to the actual labyrinth. This dungeon works like an MMORPG where people can gain items, levels, and skills.
*''[[Warble]]'' is an app sent to the past to help humanity's survival. People who use it are sent to the Underworld to kill Demons and grow in power through distinct ways through the application.
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* The web novel ''[[Pet King]]'' has a supernatural app that can capture average and magical animals. The main character uses this to run his petshop and increases business.
* The "[[Master PC]]" -- a computer program found on both desktop machines and lately smart phonessmartphones, which gives its user [[Reality Warper]] powers over every person within about fifty miles -- has been the center of a series of mostly erotic stories written and posted to the web by many different authors since the middle-to-late 1990s.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Parodied in ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'': In an ''[[Avengers: Endgame]]'' parody, the villain downloads a Doomsday app that turns people into crystals.
* Richie Rich, friend of the ''[[Harvey Street Girls]]'', has created apps that can make him invisible and walk on walls like Casper the Friendly Ghost.