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Minecraft Reality App Arrives For iOS, Brings Your Creations Into the Real World
An anonymous reader writes "Following the news that Minecraft has been ported to the Raspberry Pi, Mojang has announced a new augmented reality iOS app. The app uses your iOS device's camera to track your surroundings before projecting creations onto the landscape. Not only can you see the results on your screen, but you can change their size as you please, and also walk around them to view from different angles."
So, next is checking into 4Square from your Minecraft bunker.
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Has anyone managed to get Minecraft working on OSX Mountain Lion? - Apple removed the java plugin, and Oracle Java 7 doesn't appear to be compatible with OpenGL. The closest Ive managed is to get it running in Windows 7, under virtual box. But, its far from ideal.
I was wondering why Mojang took two months to update some serious bugs on Minecraft PE.
This doesn't bring anything into the real world. You just get to look at it on a different screen. I guess I'm impressed with the app's ability to track where you're standing and pointing the camera, but "brings... into the real world" should really be something more like a system to format your creations for use with a 3-D printer.
We seriously need King Kong with Biplanes placed on the Empire State building!
The reality is that the world is a huge place. If you start doing a Venn diagram of nerds that would be interested in this, people who use iOS (majority are not power users), kids that play minecraft...you suddenly realize there may be a few hundred or a few thousand little things scattered and probably only in densely populated areas (New York, LA). Most will probably be in random suburban houses.
It's a cool little proof of concept, but unless there is a map to find them or someone to show them to you then this thing is seriously niched out of existence. The app reviews that it is getting are not helping.
I just looked at their other project, Pointcloud Browser. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pointcloud-browser/id492142085
Similar concept, but slightly more likely to catch on as it's for news and junk. Pretty darn cool...it floats videos on top of your daily newspaper.
It'll be interesting to see if this spawns some new creative building options in Minecraft - specifically tailoring a construction to act as a facade for a building. Theoretically you could transform a street when viewed through your device, which could be an interesting building challenge or competition.
The AR tracking component is about what you'd expect - requires localised areas of high contrast to track from and doesn't work well on non-flat surfaces - but for what it is, it could be pretty neat. Perhaps it'll end up working with Google Glass or similar later.
They advertise that they're using the PointCloud library for the tracking component, which is apparently free if you wanted to build your own app.
You could put an exploding creeper in your school
In other news, Mojang's Notch was arrested today on suspicion of conspiracy to commit terrorism. Reportedly, he used augmented reality to design a 6' green creature containing an undetermined amount of explosives. The designs explained that when a student got near the creature, it would release a hiss. If the student was unaware and did not then leave, the creature would detonate leaving a crater full of loose brick, stone, and dirt.
Police are currently investigating this claim, as well as claims that tripwire-launched arrows and various other TNT-based traps were also designed and disseminated to the students via YouTube. At the time of publication, we have heard rumors of an other-worldly creature wandering the halls of the Mojang studio. It appears to be a sort of zombie, clad only in a pair of tight jeans and a dark turtleneck growling and murmuring something about a 'walled garden'.
If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits
Lowering resolution.... Wow...
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