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I'm not a Minecraft player, but if the intent here really allows you to build your own virtual community together (to see what others are building around you an
by sailfast 7y ago
I'm not a Minecraft player, but if the intent here really allows you to build your own virtual community together (to see what others are building around you and contribute, etc) that would be pretty fun to play. If you want a bigger screen go to a tablet (spurring a new market for tablet easels I guess)?
Who wouldn't want to put a fortress around your house that everyone on the "inside" could see?
This could also be a pretty great starting application for AR goggles, Magic Leap, HoloLens, etc. Kinda pricey to play Minecraft but bootstrapping via phones isn't a terrible idea and would get the tech in the hands of more people.
All of this is clearly an optimistic interpretation of what could happen, but good on them for trying something ambitious. I hope it jumpstarts the AR future we've all been promised.
- Quenty 7y agoOf course since Microsoft owns hololens and and open source AR strategy, they’re motivated to do this well.
- AJ007 7y agoOne could certainly see Azure as a big beneficiary here. Skepticism is always applicable but it seems like Microsoft has the resources to pull this off. From the point of view of Augmented Reality layers being an important and large business in the future, getting something running at large scale now would be a good idea. Between Magic Leap and Microsoft, I would put my money on Microsoft. The big wildcard, as others have pointed out, are a bunch of penises everywhere. Very hard to actively moderate.
- egypturnash 7y agoI wonder what kind of rules it has for interacting with other people's work. "oh god steve dropped a giant penis on my front yard AGAIN, fuck it lemme drop a bunch of TNT on it"