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Minecraft Reality App Arrives For iOS, Brings Your Creations Into the Real World

Posted by samzenpus on from the because-you-can dept.

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."

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  1. Wait for it... by sixtyeight · · Score: 4, Funny

    So, next is checking into 4Square from your Minecraft bunker.

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    1. Re:Wait for it... by SeaFox · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well the most appropriate place to check into a social networking service called FourSquare would be a structure made entirely of cubes I would think.

  2. Minecraft on OSX by tonywestonuk · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

    1. Re:Minecraft on OSX by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      I believe when you try and run a Java app for the first time, it prompts to install, and does so. I'm running Minecraft using the .app launcher and I don't remember having to fight it on a brand new MacBook Air with Mountain Lion.

      I'm not sure about running it in-browser; I've never felt a need to.

  3. Not exactly real-world by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Not exactly real-world by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 5, Funny

      You wouldn't be very good in marketing.

      That's a compliment.

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  4. Whoops by MacGyver2210 · · Score: 2

    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'.

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