{"id":90891,"date":"2019-05-17T14:02:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T21:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/new-minecraft-game-will-let-you-build-stuff-in-the-real-world"},"modified":"2019-05-17T14:02:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T21:02:52","slug":"new-minecraft-game-will-let-you-build-stuff-in-the-real-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/new-minecraft-game-will-let-you-build-stuff-in-the-real-world","title":{"rendered":"New \u201cMinecraft\u201d Game Will Let You Build Stuff in the Real World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-minecraft-game-will-let-you-build-stuff-in-the-real-world2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMinecraft Earth,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/5\/17\/18627341\/minecraft-earth-ios-android-free-ar-game-features-pokemon-go\">announced today<\/a>, will allow users to collect items, blocks, and creatures while roaming around in the real world with other real-world friends \u2014 think of it as a \u201cMinecraft\u201d-themed \u201cPok\u00e9mon Go\u201d experience, but with more fishing, building and resource management.<\/p>\n<p>While the extremely popular smartphone game \u201cPok\u00e9mon Go\u201d relied on augmented reality only minimally, the new \u201cMinecraft\u201d title will double down on the technology. A new feature called Azure Spatial Anchors will allow users to plop down objects in augmented reality \u2014 and persist indefinitely. Other users will also be able to interact with those same objects.<\/p>\n<p>The goal is to eventually have players build their own \u201cMinecraft\u201d worlds for others to experience in augmented reality through their phones.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/microsoft-minecraft-earth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMinecraft Earth,\u201d announced today, will allow users to collect items, blocks, and creatures while roaming around in the real world with other real-world friends \u2014 think of it as a \u201cMinecraft\u201d-themed \u201cPok\u00e9mon Go\u201d experience, but with more fishing, building and resource management. While the extremely popular smartphone game \u201cPok\u00e9mon Go\u201d relied on augmented reality only [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,1509,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-entertainment","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}