Augmented Reality Gaming Is About To Get Insane

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By Andrew Tarantola



Google's multi-million dollar investment in augmented reality startup Magic Leap appears to be paying off if this demo reel is any indication.

In it, the fledgling AR firm shows off what a year and half a billion dollars can accomplish. That includes productivity functions like being able to access both websites and desktop apps from airborne virtual icons. There's also the promise of an immersive shooter game using physical weapons as its controllers and the world around you as the environment. Do want.

It's like a scene straight out of Dennou Coil. "You can think of us as techno-biology," Magic Leap CE Rony Abovitz told a Reddit AMA last year. "We believe it is the future of computing." Now we just need to know when that future is actually going to arrive and how many arms/legs it will cost once it does.

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There's also the promise of an immersive shooter game using physical weapons as its controllers and the world around you as the environment.

That sounds incredibly interesting. I can instantly see it being training and something bad coming from it, but it would be very interesting to have a game with aliens or something and it's your home.

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Finally...an actual Holodeck app for your computer! I would imagine it would involve wearing the Google Glass, but still...

The line between playing a video game and actually being IN the game has been erased.