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The AR in the video looks a bit more wobbly than the previous demonstrations but still looks better than most other examples I've seen for phone AR. Looking forward to trying this.
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Minecraft Earth Closed Beta Signup And Intro Video
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The AR in the video looks a bit more wobbly than the previous demonstrations but still looks better than most other examples I've seen for phone AR. Looking forward to trying this.
I know you are joking but it probably will be F2P
Great minds something something
It's f2p with monetization.
What kind of monetization hasn't been revealed yet.
Wow, that looks pretty impressive. Fell off the Minecraft hype some years ago now, used to be building a lot in the X360 era and the start of the X1 one, but this might pull me back a little bit, albeit the Pokémon GO formula is not really for me and it's probably not very ideal for small towns like mine.
Link redirects to youtube video.
Edit: Never mind. It asks you if you want to leave youtube. LOL.
I guess you signed up when they initially announced this? I had the same thing. I think we're already signed up
Not judging by that video, and I have to assume they'd make their promotional stuff look as good as possible.
I expected far more by now.
What they are selling here is, among other:
- the entire planet is a giant AR space where you can find objects
- any flat space can be used to start creating. Anywhere, with of course no AR marker needed.
- multiple player can interact with these creations, using different devices, in real time, while seeing each other with a good accuracy.
Did you have that in 2012? I mean the scale at which it is supposed to work is what's impressive.
is it supposed to remember exactly where you place things in the real world? So more accurate than just a GPS tag - wonder if its storing/sending some of the AR data to the cloud so you and others can see it properly
Also giant minecraft dicks in every major city
Also giant minecraft dicks in every major city
Other people (non-friends?) will only see your creations if they are approved.
Apparently, they're making it so collectables are not tied to how interesting your area is. Things can pop up anywhere and will essentially generate around you. So you don't get boring stuff just because you don't live in a city. For better or worse.
Woah what. No. You just saw 3 people interacting with the same virtual object hosted through an off site remote server that allowed them all to not only interact in the same world, but reliably enough to build blocks around each other. That's incredible. Some slight wobble doesn't detract from the fact that this actually works. We DID NOT have this back in 2012, especially not in the real world in production without specialized environments with markers.
Yea, it's using azure spatial anchors to remember and place things accurately where they are in the world. The same way HoloLens does it.
This looks pretty incredible. Very very excited to try it out. PoGo is getting a little stale after the years of playing.
That would be great. I wasn't into my Go but my fiancé was for a year or so. It was hilariously broken and unbalanced. Those living in big cities would get free pokeballs, nearly all creatures at their disposal, actual battles for gyms and whatnot. Meanwhile she lived on the very outside of a town next to a major road, so she'd get a whopping 2 kinds of Pokémon near her house, with no Pokéstops in sight. To get anywhere near a point of interest she would have had to take the car, so what this meant is that she either farmed those useless creatures to death or mainly played when she was away from home. If Minecraft Earth doesn't go down this route, that's automatically a win for me.
I've never been a Minecraft fan but I love this premise. It takes the social elements that make MMO's and share world games great and brings them into the real world. Brilliant.
Huh. I figured this was more of a gimmick when it was announced, but this actually could be pretty neat.
Update: it's live for people who signed up in Seattle and London, and I've been testing Minecraft Earth for five days in Seattle. My thoughts:
Tons more at the above link.
Tons more at the above link.
I messed around but the game needs a better tutorial. Why am I grabbing these items? What's the point of build plates?
Also building was a little janky but... I can't place the plates anymore. The camera does the sparkling shit but it doesn't come down. Anything im missing?
Also building was a little janky but... I can't place the plates anymore. The camera does the sparkling shit but it doesn't come down. Anything im missing?
Double post: I think building is a little bugged. Sometimes I can place the building plate, other times its blank. It's janky compared to PC/Console, obviously, but I honestly don't think it can ever be fixed just due to the nature of motion controls and trying to use camera data to fix virtual blocks onto the real world.
I have yet to do any coop building.
I'm also torn on the block gathering.
1. I think its way too slow right now.
2. I like the idea of exploring to gather blocks. Gives me the Pokemon Go vibes of walking around to gather them.. but it does limit the building which is the coolest aspect. But a full on creative mode would basically make the block gathering useless.
I think it could use some sort of coop features beyond manually inviting friends. Having player creations somehow appear in the world would be nice. Or perhaps something of a quest to reach the Nether or fight the Ender Dragon or something.
samred I hope we aren't the only ones on Era who have this lol
I have yet to do any coop building.
I'm also torn on the block gathering.
1. I think its way too slow right now.
2. I like the idea of exploring to gather blocks. Gives me the Pokemon Go vibes of walking around to gather them.. but it does limit the building which is the coolest aspect. But a full on creative mode would basically make the block gathering useless.
I think it could use some sort of coop features beyond manually inviting friends. Having player creations somehow appear in the world would be nice. Or perhaps something of a quest to reach the Nether or fight the Ender Dragon or something.
samred I hope we aren't the only ones on Era who have this lol
I could be wrong but I don't think there is any?
I mean Ars Technica basically wrote full on impressions with screenshot.
So if I build something in a certain location using the app, and someone else comes along with their phone using AR to that same location, they will automatically be able to see and interact with what I built?
I think my biggest most immediate complaint is that the map use is absolutely pointless.
Take my immediate area:
In Pokémon Go, there are a few spinny spot things in the area, which make it worth heading out there. In Minecraft, they've just gone and dumped a random generation of items over the whole area. The map might as well not exist, it's not using any aspect of it. There are trees in buildings there. Behind the camera is a stream on the map, but there's nothing watery in it to collect. Just more trees, rocks, cows, chickens, and chests. It doesn't feel like opening the game near a friend's house in another city will offer me any difference.
Take my immediate area:
In Pokémon Go, there are a few spinny spot things in the area, which make it worth heading out there. In Minecraft, they've just gone and dumped a random generation of items over the whole area. The map might as well not exist, it's not using any aspect of it. There are trees in buildings there. Behind the camera is a stream on the map, but there's nothing watery in it to collect. Just more trees, rocks, cows, chickens, and chests. It doesn't feel like opening the game near a friend's house in another city will offer me any difference.
I think my biggest most immediate complaint is that the map use is absolutely pointless.
Take my immediate area:
In Pokémon Go, there are a few spinny spot things in the area, which make it worth heading out there. In Minecraft, they've just gone and dumped a random generation of items over the whole area. The map might as well not exist, it's not using any aspect of it. There are trees in buildings there. Behind the camera is a stream on the map, but there's nothing watery in it to collect. Just more trees, rocks, cows, chickens, and chests. It doesn't feel like opening the game near a friend's house in another city will offer me any difference.
I agree but I think this was a response to people complaining Pokemon Go felt useless if you didn't live in a city.
I think they can keep the randomness, but maybe skew certain blocks more in certain areas.
The main thing they need is something of a gym or pokestop system. You are correct in that you need some direction to actually GO.
Maybe certain sites will have public builds or something.