Minecraft mobile game that lets you build in the real world teased by Microsoft

YOU could be able to see your Minecraft creations come to life in the real world very soon. A video from Microsoft shows a Minecraft game running on a mobile phone that uses the camera to show creatures and characters from the game wandering around a city street. In the teaser video, a young woman […]

YOU could be able to see your Minecraft creations come to life in the real world very soon.

A video from Microsoft shows a Minecraft game running on a mobile phone that uses the camera to show creatures and characters from the game wandering around a city street.

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In the teaser video, a young woman picks up a phone accidentally left on a bench, and finds that it is a running a version of Minecraft unlike any we’ve seen before.

The screen shows a pig from the game happily snuffling along the city street she is standing on — and what looks like an action bar for Minecraft objects at the bottom.

The app looks to be using augmented reality technology to bring Minecraft characters and creations to life, using the phone’s camera to realistically super-impose them on real-life objects in front of you.

The trailer goes on to show what the world might look like, with two villagers approaching the woman with the phone – and they’re just as puzzled by the new game as she is.

The original owner of the phone then returns to take it back, and the video ends without showing much more.

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More news on the game is promised next week, with a huge event planned for Minecraft’s tenth anniversary party on Friday May 17.

Pokémon Go is probably the best-known AR game at the moment, and is currently in the midst of an event promoting new Pokemon movie Detective Pikachu.

The Minecraft game could follow in Pokémon‘s footsteps like the upcoming Harry Potter AR game, Wizards Unite, where players have to interact with objects in different real world locations to play the game, and can find and interact with characters out and about.

However, the interface spotted on the phone suggests something a little different to that, hinting at a game that will let eager players create structures in the virtual world for other players to find.

Either way, more will be revealed next week, when the game’s birthday festivities will be be streamed online at Minecraft.net.

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