{"id":115189,"date":"2017-02-07T10:24:15","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T08:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=115189"},"modified":"2017-02-07T10:25:24","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T08:25:24","slug":"hololens-developer-creates-real-life-portal-video-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/115189-hololens-developer-creates-real-life-portal-video-game","title":{"rendered":"Hololens developer creates real-life Portal video game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Augmented reality game developer <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kennywdev\" target=\"_blank\">KennyW<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>has created\u00a0a YouTube video showing off an AR Portal demo for Microsoft\u2019s HoloLens.<\/p>\n<p>The demo does not feature any puzzles to solve, but players can use a rendered Portal Device to create portals on real-world surfaces.<\/p>\n<p>KennyW used the Unity engine to handle the portal physics, and the collision detection is possible due to the HoloLens\u2019s mapping of the wearer\u2019s surroundings.<\/p>\n<p>While players cannot pass through portals, AR objects such as the Companion Cube function the same as they do in the original game \u2013 colliding with real-world surfaces.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0video of the demo is posted below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aWRSCABrdR8\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/197569-watch-hololens-demo-lets-you-play-portal-in-real-life.html\" target=\"_blank\">MyBroadband <\/a><\/strong>and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/197213-adventure-game-in-post-apocalyptic-south-africa-almost-at-kickstarter-goal.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Adventure game in post-apocalyptic South Africa almost at Kickstarter goal<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Augmented reality game developer KennyW has created a YouTube video showing off an AR Portal demo for Microsoft\u2019s HoloLens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":78734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8585],"tags":[17402,2471],"class_list":["post-115189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-ar","tag-portal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}