It was easy to understand: build your own fun toys on a table! It was crystal-clear. Walls became invisible, and inner structures revealed themselves, like an ant farm. The cameraman got closer, and we could look into the Minecraft castle. The crowd (always hard to judge at a press conference) hooted as a Minecraft building and hilltop were raised up, lowered, and spun around. Minecraft seems like Microsoft's way of making us believe in HoloLens. As the player pinched and zoomed, the Minecraft world expanded out, or swooped in to see tiny details in the massive construction. Suddenly, it was like someone dumped a box of Legos on a playmat. But then, it leaped onto a table and became an entire 3D Minecraft world, fully zoomable and able to be explored. At E3, Minecraft returned, and it looks even better at this demo.Īs a camera with a HoloLens attached to its lens watched someone on stage play a game, it projected onto a virtual TV screen. Minecraft, a the wildly popular game in which players build constructions out of textured cubes in a 3D world, played a role in a press event earlier this year in which the HoloLens technology was unveiled for the first time. Minecraft, owned by Microsoft, looks like it's just that. But Microsoft's onstage demo of HoloLens at E3 2015 was tremendously impressive.once again, because of Minecraft.Įvery technology needs a killer app. What games it will play - or even, how much it will cost - are still unknown.

Microsoft's new augmented-reality HoloLens head-mounted display is fascinating, but still a mystery. This isn't Lego: it's augmented-reality Minecraft. LOS ANGELES - Tumble some bricks on a table, and start playing.

Minecraft ant farm project