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Oct 6, 2015

Project X Lets You Fight HoloLens Aliens In Your Living Room, And It’s Freaking Unreal

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29xnzxgCx6I/PLx1XbvvfIlc529HjUBHFmOAowGqoWnrdh

Well, this is it. The day all my dreams came true. I started out playing 2D side-scrollers in mall arcades in the 1980s, but I’ll soon be able to fight holographic robots bursting through my living room walls using my handheld blaster that’s a wearable hologram. WTF.

Today at Microsoft’s October 2015 event in New York, the team kicked off their new products announcement with a live HoloLens demonstration that pitted one headset-wearing Microsoft employee against arachnid alien bots crawling through a living room situation in what the company is calling “mixed reality gaming.” The demoed gameplay, codenamed Project X, allows you to defend any room in your home (or any other building) against encroaching alien invasion.

Project X Lets You Fight HoloLens Aliens In Your Living Room, And It's Freaking Unreal

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