Of course since Microsoft owns hololens and and open source AR strategy, they’re motivated to do this well.
One 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.
Re:New Game: Minecraft Earth
by egypturnash on Friday May 17, 2019 @03:50PM
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I 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"
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.