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comment by War
War  ·  3426 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I played 'Minecraft' with Microsoft's HoloLens

I'm much more inclined to VR than AR, actually. The biggest reason is I don't really plan on doing the whole walking thing. The controller is a fine enough medium for me.

AR to me seems a bit hard to support game wise just because you are simply augmenting the area around yourself. How can I be taken to Tamriel or The Continent with AR? For me the tech is really cool and I could see applications of it outside of gaming, but I don't see it being big in the gaming industry.

What I'm curious about is: Is the loss of periphery screens the reason why everything can be done on-board? If they tried to extend the screens would they walk into the "problem" that VR has with the wires? If anything I'm just curious how it does all that on-board without all the wires. This seems like a bigger version of what google tried to do with google glass. so it might fair better because it isn't so small.