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Minecraft Earth's AR demo put a huge tower onstage

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The AR game puts Minecraft into the real world.

Following its announcement last month, Minecraft Earth has been shown off at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference. Mojang's upcoming augmented reality spin-off will let players play Minecraft in the real world, from building little dioramas on their desk to actually exploring their full-sized creations. 

In its first public demo, Mojang summoned a tower onto a table, which could then be built on. At this scale, you can also put your avatar into your diorama, and it can even mimic some basic movements through motion capture. 

At the larger scale, you can wander around, fight skeletons, break blocks and get murdered by overzealous creepers. The transformation was pretty dramatic, too. The stage became a massive, black pit, out of which the huge version of the tower appeared from, hurtling upwards. It gives me vertigo just watching the video (cheers, VentureBeat).