Watch Microsoft's glorious, misleading HoloLens robot battle

Be cautious about trusting Microsoft's on-stage HoloLens demos. While the company has released videos that capture the augmented reality experience reasonably well, its events invariably show off whole rooms full of holograms — which is actually one of the the headset's weaker areas. So it's better to think of Project X-Ray, which Microsoft publicly unveiled today, as a vision of what augmented reality could look like. Robo-scorpions! They will burst from your walls! And you have to shoot them! With a wearable holographic vortex gun!

I played a version of Project X-Ray at E3 earlier this year, and although I have serious doubts about HoloLens' field of view, I love the idea behind the game. I'm sure I'd eventually get tired of shooting...

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